I can't really share much behind-the-scenes stuff for this one, but I do have the pleasure of informing you just how much porn our man Gary directed. on top of that the reviews for this one are a mix between horrible shit show and hidden gem, so god only knows what this movie has in store.
Trick or Treats is a 1982 American slasher dark comedy film directed by Gary Graver and starring Jacqueline Giroux, Peter Jason, Chris Graver, David Carradine, Carrie Snodgress, and Steve Railsback. Five years after his wife, Joan, had him wrongfully and deliberately committed to a mental institution so she could live with her boyfriend, Malcolm escapes on Halloween night and arrives back at his old house to murder her, except Joan is not home but she's out with her boyfriend while babysitter Linda is looking after Malcolm's 10-year-old son Christopher, an equally psychotic and demented practical joker until, under cover of darkness, Malcolm shows up and begins a real terror game of attrition with Linda.
this movie would a good companion piece to the equal psycho-sexual BUTCHER, BAKER, NIGHTMARE MAKER, with only a little less mommy issues. On the service, this is a fairly forgettable attempt to cash in on the 80s slasher boom, but it's full of great concepts and themes that never really get explored properly. A great example of that is the way this movie opens, with an extended shot of Malcolm O'Keefe being foreced into a straight jacket and admitted to an asylum by his wife, Joan. The sheer amount of agony and confusion really makes this a disturbing opening, but they shit all over that darkness by having the credits play out to wacky comedy jazz music. this movie claims to be a comedy, but none of the comedy ever lands. perhaps it was an attempt to explain the fairly weak and extremely ridiculous plot, but calling this a comedy is just plain wrong.
Especially considering how many disgusting rapey men we have running around, and what a total nutcase bitch Joan has always quietly been. She values appearances above all else, and she really doesn't care what happens to anyone else but herself. When someone tells her things aren't as picture-perfect as she thinks they are, she completely ignores anyone who calls her out. She's the kind of monster that has convinced herself she isn't a monster at all, and she is easily the most disturbing part of this whole movie.
the rest of this shit show could be described as so weird it is almost interesting. a little kid straight out of THE SOPRANOS, a babysitter who clearly has no idea how to deal with shit head kids, Moms rapey as fuck new boyfriend, and of course daddy pulling a Micheal Myers in drag and busting out of the lowest security nut house since BLACK CHRISTMAS.
I wouldn't recommend that anyone watch this movie unless you really want a heaping tablespoon of what the fuck this Halloween.
3/10
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