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Trick (2019)

It’s that time of the year when the slashers come out, and Trick keeps on coming up with new, well, ideas. 100min imdb

Movie 96min

Trailer

Recap:

So there’s this guy whose name is Patrick “Trick” Weaver or maybe not, because it may very well be that he casually switches identities whenever he sees fit. One evening he poops a Halloween party by killing pretty much every guest before he gets hit himself. He gets emergency surgery and survives, escapes, falls out of the window, survives and disappears, probably by jumping into the river, which of course means certain death, doesn’t it? Everybody except for one single cop believes that he’s dead, and that’s why everybody except for one cop is surprised that there are more Halloween party massacres in the following years. However, the slasher seems to think that his strategy does not draw enough attention, so one year he starts cop killing during the week before Halloween.

I say that the first Halloween party massacre was a good way to start the slasher movie, the bit with the cop who is the only one who believes in his theory is not new, but good enough to work for this movie, and some of the the cop killings are quite innovative. Then however, there is the Finale, and I think that it is not as good as it is long, and when there is the surprising plot twist, I did not foresee it, but at that point I just didn’t care anymore.

This movie sure is okay. Not really good, but I have seen much worse, and it surely is an adequate choice for a holiday related movie night.

Trick Or Treat (1986)

Halloween teenie movie about a high school boy whose favorite metal singer talks to him from beyond the grave. 98min imdb

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Review:

So there is Eddie, a high school boy whose favorite metal singer has died. A radio DJ gives him the only vinyl copy of Sammi Curr’s final album and tells him that he will broadcast a tape recording of the album on Halloween. Eddie starts experimenting with playing records backwards and indeed makes contact with Sammi. This seems like a good thing because now Eddie can stand his ground against his bullies. But while Eddie is a true metalhead and thus a truly gentle man, Sammi is up to no good and plans to return from the grave .

Yes, those were the eighties. Technology has improved since then, high school bullies and lying pastors are basically the same today, and to be honest, things have gone a little downhill for fashion, music and movies. This is an 80s movie. Sure, it’s not Back To The Future, and when they tried to get a sitcom star they had to go with Marc Price instead of Michael J. Fox. But still this movie is a carefree piece of fun. Imdb lists it as horror and comedy and music movie. The latter is not entirely correct. There is not that much music in it, for a big part of the movie the music is played backwards, and the soundtrack was provided mostly by Fastway. While it is true that Fast Eddie Clarke has been the first guitarist of Motörhead, getting rid of him was a giant leap in the right direction for Lemmy.

By the way way, small parts in this movie are played by Gene Simmons and Ozzy Ozbourne. Not everybody will remember, but Ozzy has not always been an obnoxious TV celeb like Donald Trump or Bruce Jenner. Back in his days he was a legend, in a way even bigger than Gene Simmons, and I guess for many people he still is today.

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Bunni (2013)

Entertaining slasher for the Halloween season. 71min imdb

(VPN:D) this is the 71min version. The 73min version cannot be embedded, so there is a direct link in the picture to the left.

Review:

It’s Helloween, and two couples of twenty somethings are loitering in front of the old, abandoned novelty shop. An old man warns them that this place is haunted, so they burgle it right away. The first jumpscare, of course, is just a joke, the slashing doesn’t start before a few minutes later.


The first half our is dedicated to the exposition, the shorter part is about the slasher’s origin, the longer part is about the characterisation of Rick The Prick. Why? Because! He definitely is not the center of the movie, but his part is played by the writer/editor/director of the movie who obviously enjoyed being the dude with the infinite amount of girlfriends. I think that with half an hour this is a pretty long exposition, especially since the movie has according to imdb and filmstarts.de an official runtime of 60min. Which makes me wonder because the youtube edit has a lengthy mid credit scene.

Anyway, is it good or not so? I’ll say it’s okay. It’s got no surprising plot twists, and it’s not new or special or anything, but it’s very decent holiday related binge material.

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