In praise of 'Trick 'r Treat,' the ultimate Halloween Night movie: Halloween horror HorrorMovies
But none of those films has ever felt so distinctly “Halloween” to me asdoes. Of all the horror films that are implicitly related to the holiday, or happen to take place on the date, none of them venerates the idea of Halloween—the nostalgic power of it—in a way that is simultaneously so effective and surprisingly sincere. The moment I watched it for the first time, I felt like I had met an old friend—one who reassured me that I wasn’t strange for loving this ghoulish holiday as much as I do.
can say the same. It would ostensibly be an obvious pick for Halloween night, right? It’s right there in the title. But think about the film for a moment—yes, it takes place on Halloween, but it doesn’t truly revolve around the conventions of the holiday. It’s a story about Michael Myers and Laurie Strode, and the holiday itself is almost inconsequential, in the sense that the events could take place at any time.
The film is at once supernatural and practical. It presents a world with both mundane evils, such as a sadistic school principal, as well as classical movie monsters straight out of the world of Universal Horror. Rarely do such concepts tend to live side by side, which givesan all-encompassing quality. It evokes classical horror films from the 1930s at the same time as it does the latest indie features.
One would hope that the slow but steady ascendance of the film’s reputation into a yearly October/Halloween staple, coupled with Dougherty’s increasingly visible status as a major Hollywood director, would help such a passion project get made. Because as the years go by, more people become aware of what some of us already know: thatis one of the most purely entertaining horror films of the 2000s, and certainly the most “Halloweeny” of the bunch.
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