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Trick 'r Treat

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Trick 'r Treat	label	Trick 'r Treat
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Trick 'r Treat	comment	Trick 'r Treat is an anthology horror movie produced by Bryan Singer and directed by Michael Dougherty, and developed from Dougherty's 1996 animated short, Season's Greetings. The conceptual designer was Breehn Burns, co-creator of Dr. Tran. Trick 'r Treat was originally slated for a theatrical release in 2007, but was held up until a DVD release in 2009.Set over a single Halloween night (although there is a flashback set on a Halloween thirty years prior), Trick 'r Treat is less interested in plot than it is in the holiday itself: the fears, emotions, atmosphere, and the traditions that have coalesced into what people imagine Halloween is about.Trick 'r Treat has several subplots, loosely connected, that are the focus of this anthology: "Opening": A young couple (Tahmoh Penikett and Leslie Bibb) is divided by his love of and her hatred of Halloween. "The Principal": A school principal (Dylan Baker) carries out a double life as a Serial Killer. "Surprise Party": A group of college girls go to a Halloween party, where the sweet and virginal one (Anna Paquin), dressed as Little Red Riding Hood, is hoping to finally meet (and eat) the man of her dreams... "The School Bus Massacre Revisited": A group of kids, inspired by the town legend of the "Halloween Schoolbus Massacre", play a prank that goes horribly wrong... "Meet Sam": An elderly curmudgeon (Brian Cox) with a Dark and Troubled Past attempts to get through the night without acknowledging that it is Halloween.All these stories frequently overlap and share characters, particularly a mysterious trick 'r treater known as Sam (pictured).Not to be mistaken for the similarly named 1986 film Trick or Treat.A sequel has been in development since October 2013, and a comic book with four prequel stories called Days of the Dead was released in October 2015.
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Trick 'r Treat / int_1073963d	type	Psychosexual Horror
Trick 'r Treat / int_1073963d	comment	Psychosexual Horror: A group of flirtatious girls are shopping for Halloween costumes and picking up dates for a party that night. They have in tow Laurie, who is described by her eldest sister as "the runt of the litter". Laurie doesn't want her sister to help her hook up with someone because she wants her "first" to be "special". She is followed to the party in the woods by a man dressed as a vampire who had already killed a woman in an alley. He attacks Laurie, and there is a horrific noise that gets the attention of the girls at the party, only for a figure wrapped in Laurie's red cloak to fall from the trees. It's revealed to be Steven Wilkins, the school principal, who's already been shown as a murderer a few times over. He begs for help, as Laurie steps out of the woods snarking that the other girls told her to play hard to get and Wilkins had bitten her for it. It is then quickly revealed that Laurie, her sister, and their friends are all werewolves as they begin to strip down, first their clothes and then their flesh, and the men they'd enticed to join their party are their victims for the night. Rewatch Bonus comes into play as one realizes their earlier conversation at the costume shop was full of hidden clues about what was going on; see Foreshadowing, above.
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Trick 'r Treat / int_120a6a29	type	ArtisticLicenceHistory
Trick 'r Treat / int_120a6a29	comment	Sam is strongly implied to be short for Samhain, the Celtic harvest festival that is often linked to Halloween in pop culture (see Artistic Licence – History). Samhain is actually pronounced something akin to 'sah-win', but given that Rhonda uses the proper pronunciation, they most likely took Artistic License with the nickname.
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Trick 'r Treat / int_13bde1fb	type	Neurodiversity Is Supernatural
Trick 'r Treat / int_13bde1fb	comment	Neurodiversity Is Supernatural: Rhonda, who is autistic, seems to have a pretty good grasp of the supernatural rules of the movie's universe, although most of that seems to come from her encyclopedic knowledge of Halloween folklore. It's unclear whether she genuinely expects them to work, or is just going with what she knows in the face of what would otherwise be an Outside-Context Problem.
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Trick 'r Treat / int_1439161f	type	Heroic BSoD
Trick 'r Treat / int_1439161f	comment	Heroic BSoD: Rhonda survives what could have been a Deadly Prank, but is left almost catatonic from the trauma of the incident for the rest of the movie.
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Trick 'r Treat / int_146f4e0	type	Blind Without 'Em
Trick 'r Treat / int_146f4e0	comment	Blind Without 'Em: Rhonda can't see well without her glasses.
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Trick 'r Treat / int_18eea79e	type	Anthology
Trick 'r Treat / int_18eea79e	comment	Anthology: The film shows several different stories taking place on the same night. It doesn't have an EC Comics-style Framing Device, and the stories all interconnect, with occasional moments of Two Lines, No Waiting
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Trick 'r Treat / int_19a5d773	type	They Look Just Like Everyone Else!
Trick 'r Treat / int_19a5d773	comment	They Look Just Like Everyone Else!: Wilkins looks extremely normal throughout the film.
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Trick 'r Treat / int_1d18887f	type	Pay Evil unto Evil
Trick 'r Treat / int_1d18887f	comment	Pay Evil unto Evil: This is Zig-zagged when it comes to the vampire and his final victim. While Laurie knew the vampire was intending to kill her, she targeted him not out of any moral judgment, but because playing the victim was a means to lure him in, being not only oblivious, but potentially ambivalent to all the other atrocities he committed that night. In either case, the victim of this encounter will not missed.
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Trick 'r Treat / int_1f7c89f6	type	Nigh-Invulnerability
Trick 'r Treat / int_1f7c89f6	comment	Nigh-Invulnerability: Sam is too formidable to kill.
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Trick 'r Treat / int_2125be15	type	Literal Maneater
Trick 'r Treat / int_2125be15	comment	Literal Man Eater: The werewolves, although Maria made an exception once and ate a lady.
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Trick 'r Treat / int_214c0753	type	Angry Guard Dog
Trick 'r Treat / int_214c0753	comment	Angry Guard Dog: Mr. Kreeg's pit bull, Spite.
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Trick 'r Treat / int_21bf4878	type	Decapitation Presentation
Trick 'r Treat / int_21bf4878	comment	Decapitation Presentation: Sam cuts Emma's head off, sticks a lollipop in her mouth, and makes it into a Halloween decoration for her husband to find.
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Trick 'r Treat / int_222dc873	type	Black Comedy
Trick 'r Treat / int_222dc873	comment	Black Comedy: The film definitely has a dark sense of humor. A good example would be the scenes of Stephen trying to bury the bodies of his victims, which are paced like some kind of wacky sitcom shenanigans.
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Trick 'r Treat / int_22a27b19	type	Alpha Bitch
Trick 'r Treat / int_22a27b19	comment	Alpha Bitch: Macy and Danielle, (literally, in Danielle's case) though Danielle does genuinely care about her sister Laurie.
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Trick 'r Treat / int_22cf536c	type	Chekhov's Gun
Trick 'r Treat / int_22cf536c	comment	Chekhov's Gun: The candy bar Mr. Kreeg takes a single bite out of and tosses away. It later stops Sam from stabbing him and becomes an accidental offering to Sam. A more literal example, also from Mr. Kreeg, comes in an early scene when he tries to intimidate Steven Wilkins: "I have an NRA membership in my pocket and a shotgun over the fireplace!" That shotgun is indeed fired in the film's third act... not that it does much good.
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Trick 'r Treat / int_23473ae7	type	Adaptation Expansion
Trick 'r Treat / int_23473ae7	comment	Adaptation Expansion: This live-action film is loosely based on a four-minute animated short by having more characters and stories involved than just Sam.
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Trick 'r Treat / int_237404cc	type	Ironic Echo
Trick 'r Treat / int_237404cc	comment	Ironic Echo: "Screw you." Mr. Kreeg says it to Principal Wilkins when he wishes him a Happy Halloween. Principal Wilkins later says the same phrase to Kreeg when he's begging for help. As well as "My my, what big eyes you have." First spoken by Principal Wilkins toward Laurie, then by Laurie toward Wilkins as she prepares to kill and eat him.
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Trick 'r Treat / int_23b059ec	type	Bedsheet Ghost
Trick 'r Treat / int_23b059ec	comment	Bedsheet Ghost: Sam wears a white bedsheet over his head to scare and kill Emma before he slits her throat and dismembers her.
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Trick 'r Treat / int_269e82c1	type	Death of a Child
Trick 'r Treat / int_269e82c1	comment	Death of a Child: The film has several blatant instances of children getting killed. There's a lot of speculation that it was the studio's squeamishness over this that led to the movie's underhyped, direct-to-DVD release.
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Trick 'r Treat / int_26e2cc1	type	The Schlub Pub Seduction Deduction
Trick 'r Treat / int_26e2cc1	comment	The Schlub Pub Seduction Deduction: How the werewolf girls lead unsuspecting men to their feast. Said men are the main course.
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Trick 'r Treat / int_2764d432	type	Bitch in Sheep's Clothing
Trick 'r Treat / int_2764d432	comment	Bitch in Sheep's Clothing: Macy. She pretends to befriend Rhonda, only to play a cruel prank on her. Although there are more literal examples elsewhere...
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Trick 'r Treat / int_27a42ebc	type	Spiritual Successor
Trick 'r Treat / int_27a42ebc	comment	Spiritual Successor: Krampus, which is also written and directed by Dougherty.
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Trick 'r Treat / int_27ab0123	type	Offing the Offspring
Trick 'r Treat / int_27ab0123	comment	Offing the Offspring: Subverted. For a while, it really looks like Steven is going to knife his son Billy to death. It turns out he was probably never planning to; he was just really excited about carving that "jack o' lantern"... Played straight in the story of the Halloween School Bus Massacre, where the parents of eight mentally disabled children hire the bus driver to drown them in the lake.
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Trick 'r Treat / int_281de59f	type	Extremely Short Timespan
Trick 'r Treat / int_281de59f	comment	Extremely Short Timespan: The events unfold over the course of several hours on Halloween night. There's a brief flashback to a Halloween thirty years prior, as well.
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Trick 'r Treat / int_28b08686	type	A Party, Also Known as an Orgy
Trick 'r Treat / int_28b08686	comment	A Party, Also Known as an Orgy: From the way Danielle and her friends discuss their Halloween party, it is very clear that it's that kind of party. Ultimately, however, it turns out to be a very different kind of party. We get a brief glimpse of the elementary school teachers having some kind of drunken Halloween party that seems to be minutes from descending into an orgy. If you pay careful attention to the costumes, there's a hint that one of the teachers - Coach Schneider - at some point ditched this party for Danielle's party.
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Trick 'r Treat / int_28c1812e	type	Cheated Death, Died Anyway
Trick 'r Treat / int_28c1812e	comment	Cheated Death, Died Anyway: Kreeg manages to survive the battle with Sam by pure luck, and is then shown giving children candy, with his Halloween decorations up. Sam walks by and gives a meaningful look, acknowledging the lesson learned. After that breather, however, he gets killed anyway by the zombie children, avenging their death.
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Trick 'r Treat / int_297170d3	type	Halloween Episode
Trick 'r Treat / int_297170d3	comment	Halloween Episode: Of course, this is a horror film taking place on Halloween.
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Trick 'r Treat / int_2b2d9e53	type	Once is Not Enough
Trick 'r Treat / int_2b2d9e53	comment	Once is Not Enough: Averted; Kreeg takes no chances against Sam. He gets back up anyway, but you have to to give Kreeg that much credit, at least.
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Trick 'r Treat / int_2bbe31c9	type	Nightmare Fuel Station Attendant
Trick 'r Treat / int_2bbe31c9	comment	Nightmare Fuel Station Attendant / Obliviously Evil: Billy Wilkins doesn't seem to realize that carving up a severed head into a jack-o'-lantern is a pretty messed-up thing to do. That's probably his dad's influence.
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Trick 'r Treat / int_2d5400a9	type	Evil Teacher
Trick 'r Treat / int_2d5400a9	comment	Evil Teacher: Steven Wilkins. School principal, serial killer, and wanna-be vampire.
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Trick 'r Treat / int_2e39af52	type	Girlish Pigtails
Trick 'r Treat / int_2e39af52	comment	Girlish Pigtails: Laurie wears her hair like this to emphasise her position as the virgin of the group.
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Trick 'r Treat / int_32c082ae	type	Bury Your Disabled
Trick 'r Treat / int_32c082ae	comment	Bury Your Disabled: The "disturbed" children were drowned on the school bus. Rhonda, who is implicitly somewhere on the autism spectrum (not considered a disability, but as the film shows, autism is often stigmatized with ableist language nonetheless), manages to subvert this trope, surviving what was set up to be a Deadly Prank.
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Trick 'r Treat / int_33029735	type	Dies Wide Open
Trick 'r Treat / int_33029735	comment	Dies Wide Open: The victim of the vampire (who's actually Steve Wilkins) dies with her eyes open.
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Trick 'r Treat / int_3b789458	type	Recurring Extra
Trick 'r Treat / int_3b789458	comment	Recurring Extra: The three kids dressed as clowns, who can be very helpful in establishing the film's Anachronic Order. Sam starts out as one of these, too, with a few seemingly-innocuous appearances throughout the film - although the opening montage, and the cover of the movie, will cue you in right away that he's going to be important.
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Trick 'r Treat / int_3c0a4666	type	Noodle Incident
Trick 'r Treat / int_3c0a4666	comment	Noodle Incident: On one of the werewolf pack's previous hunts, a chosen victim evidently turned out to be a woman. And got devoured anyway.
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Trick 'r Treat / int_3c0bf189	type	Adults Dressed as Children
Trick 'r Treat / int_3c0bf189	comment	Adults Dressed as Children: The guy Danielle has lined up to be Laurie's 'first' is an overweight guy dressed as a giant baby.
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Trick 'r Treat / int_3d699462	type	Curb-Stomp Battle
Trick 'r Treat / int_3d699462	comment	Curb-Stomp Battle: Wilkins is a pretty clever serial killer, but he’s no match for a pack of werewolves.
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Trick 'r Treat / int_413e6726	type	Deliberately Cute Child
Trick 'r Treat / int_413e6726	comment	Deliberately Cute Child: Billy Wilkins is absolutely adorable.
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Trick 'r Treat / int_41d5f145	type	Fluffy the Terrible
Trick 'r Treat / int_41d5f145	comment	Fluffy the Terrible: Sam isn't really the kind of name that invokes terror, yet he's really a pumpkin-headed monster representing Halloween who will kill whoever breaks the holiday's rules. It's implied that his name might be short for "Samhain", an ancient Celtic harvest festival, on which our modern Halloween is often thought to be based... though as the movie itself acknowledges, it's actually pronounced more like "Saw-wen".
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Trick 'r Treat / int_4637914d	type	Suburban Gothic
Trick 'r Treat / int_4637914d	comment	Suburban Gothic: Warren Valley, Ohio has many dark secrets to hide, including a high school principal who’s a serial killer, a pack of werewolves, and the zombies of a group of disabled children whose parents arranged their murders.
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Trick 'r Treat / int_4783acfa	type	Bait the Dog
Trick 'r Treat / int_4783acfa	comment	Bait the Dog: Wilkins seems like a nice enough guy at first, authoritative and worldly. He's sure to educate this chubby imbecile on proper Halloween etiquette, and not poison him to death and carve a pumpkin out of his severed head...
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Trick 'r Treat / int_479d4e5a	type	Would Hurt a Child
Trick 'r Treat / int_479d4e5a	comment	Would Hurt a Child: Resident Serial Killer Steven Wilkins seems to specialize in killing children. This is actually one of the few horror movies where young children are shown being killed.
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Trick 'r Treat / int_494d83c8	type	Helping Hands
Trick 'r Treat / int_494d83c8	comment	Helping Hands: Sam's hand continues to try to kill Mr. Kreeg after Kreeg has severed it from Sam's body.
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Trick 'r Treat / int_4a879f41	type	Did We Just Have Tea with Cthulhu?
Trick 'r Treat / int_4a879f41	comment	Did We Just Have Tea with Cthulhu?: Once Sam's true nature is revealed, every time in which a character interacts peacefully with him comes across as this.
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Trick 'r Treat / int_4ac8b81f	type	Humans Are the Real Monsters
Trick 'r Treat / int_4ac8b81f	comment	Humans Are the Real Monsters: Most semi-major non-supernatural characters aside from Rhonda, Emma and her husband, the recurring clown boys, and possibly Wilkins' son (although there is still the question of how much he understands of what he's being taught). Wilkins is a serial killer and one of the only characters supernatural or otherwise who kills more than one person in the movie, something Sam doesn't even do; all of the trick-or-treaters who prank Rhonda are jerks for doing so, but Macy takes the cake for not even feeling sorry for what she did, unlike the others; and Kreeg, who killed all the bus kids. Needless to say they each get a Karmic Death.
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Trick 'r Treat / int_4b9a8e96	type	"Scooby-Doo" Hoax
Trick 'r Treat / int_4b9a8e96	comment	The vampire's mask is removed to reveal that he's actually Steven, a mundane and non-supernatural Serial Killer.
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Trick 'r Treat / int_50b05d30	type	Disproportionate Retribution
Trick 'r Treat / int_50b05d30	comment	Disproportionate Retribution: Those who break the rules of Halloween get horribly killed by Sam. On the flip side, following the rules even by mistake will get you spared.
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Trick 'r Treat / int_53a7089a	type	Pint-Sized Powerhouse
Trick 'r Treat / int_53a7089a	comment	Pint-Sized Powerhouse: Sam, once again. He's a tiny little guy, portrayed by a child actor, but he is by far the strongest and most dangerous character in the movie.
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Trick 'r Treat / int_56515a39	type	Artistic License â€“ History
Trick 'r Treat / int_56515a39	comment	Artistic License – History: Rhonda repeats the common misconception that Halloween grew out of the pre-Christian Irish festival of Samhain, which makes for a cool spooky story but, sadly, isn't true. The real Samhain probably wasn't also as wild as Rhonda makes it out to be, either, and almost certainly didn't involve Human Sacrifice. She does get points for pronouncing "Samhain" correctly, though. "Saw-wen".
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Trick 'r Treat / int_59657f84	type	Trapped in a Sinking Car
Trick 'r Treat / int_59657f84	comment	Trapped in a Sinking Car: The Halloween School Bus Massacre had mentally disabled children drown in a bus.
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Trick 'r Treat / int_59907e4f	type	Police Are Useless
Trick 'r Treat / int_59907e4f	comment	Police Are Useless: When Mr. Kreeg calls the police, he’s put on hold long enough for Sam to cut the line. No one is ever sent out to check on the cause of the call.
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Trick 'r Treat / int_599f943f	type	Karma Houdini Warranty
Trick 'r Treat / int_599f943f	comment	Karma Houdini Warranty: Steven Wilkins gets away with his actions in his own segment, only to be lured and Eaten Alive by Laurie later on. Mr. Kreeg wasn't prosecuted for the school bus massacre and isn't killed by Sam either. He gets his comeuppance just before the closing credits when the zombified school bus kids show up on his doorstep and rip him apart.
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Trick 'r Treat / int_5b565147	type	Meaningful Background Event
Trick 'r Treat / int_5b565147	comment	Meaningful Background Event: Half the movie has significant things happening in the background to hint how most stories are happening simultaneously. Ceiling Cling: Sam approaches Mr. Kreeg across the ceiling. Wilkins is unknowingly spectator to Kreeg's fight. The werewolf girls can be seen as Wilkins has a little make-out session. Rhonda is walking in the background with her cart a few times. Sam can occasionally be seen walking somewhere in the background. The three clown teens can be seen on the regular, being the best display to figure out the order of events based on where they are when. The dead children can be seen at the very beginning, going to/coming from Kreeg. Henry and Emma pop up multiple times in the scenes in the town centre. Most notably, when the vampire's first victim begs them for help, and they think she's drunk.
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Trick 'r Treat / int_5c9fb18	type	Pumpkin Person
Trick 'r Treat / int_5c9fb18	comment	Pumpkin Person: Sam has a pumpkin-like head under his mask. Notably, the face also shares some features with a skull.
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Trick 'r Treat / int_5d68a369	type	Horror Hates a Rulebreaker
Trick 'r Treat / int_5d68a369	comment	Horror Hates a Rulebreaker: Sam's mere presence tends to give rise to a lot of supernatural events wherever he goes, giving him a wide variety of ways to kill people who break from Halloween tradition. But as long as people give out candy, stay in costume, don't blow out the jack-o lanterns, and otherwise adhere to the Halloween "rules" until midnight, he'll leave them be. However, he doesn't take kindly to anyone murdering trick or treaters (more specifically, kids), and will go out of his way to kill the culprit, even if they do adhere to the rules.
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Trick 'r Treat / int_5f91efd9	type	Creative Closing Credits
Trick 'r Treat / int_5f91efd9	comment	Creative Closing Credits: The closing credits depict the zombies getting revenge on Mr. Kreeg for drowning them.
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Trick 'r Treat / int_61b132a5	type	Sinister Schnoz
Trick 'r Treat / int_61b132a5	comment	Sinister Schnoz: Brian Cox wears a pointy prosthetic nose to play Grumpy Old Man Mr. Kreeg.
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Trick 'r Treat / int_627264e0	type	Death Glare
Trick 'r Treat / int_627264e0	comment	Death Glare: Danielle shoots one at two of her friends after Laurie shows up at the party, bringing the masked vampire that attacked her in worse shape than she’s in, and explains why she’s so battered and bloodied.
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Trick 'r Treat / int_62f9d08e	type	Freeze-Frame Bonus
Trick 'r Treat / int_62f9d08e	comment	Freeze-Frame Bonus: If you pause at the exact end of the title montage, you'll see Sam's real face.
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Trick 'r Treat / int_63389b0b	type	Kids Are Cruel
Trick 'r Treat / int_63389b0b	comment	Kids Are Cruel: Macy and her friends aren't very nice. Charlie also fits, being a pumpkin-smashing vandal who steals candy.
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Trick 'r Treat / int_63d861f8	type	Even Evil Has Loved Ones
Trick 'r Treat / int_63d861f8	comment	Even Evil Has Loved Ones: The werewolves appear to genuinely care about each other and tend to stick together. Notably, they're all genuinely concerned for Laurie when they find out Wilkins tried to attack her. Surprisingly, Wilkins' threatening comments towards his son were just talk and the two manage to qualify as evil people who care about each other. Spite, Mr. Kreeg's dog.
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Trick 'r Treat / int_6411dac8	type	BadassNormal
Trick 'r Treat / int_6411dac8	comment	Badass Normal: Mr. Kreeg is armed only with a shotgun, but manages to fight off Sam quite effectively throughout his segment. When the gun runs out of bullets, he resorts to breaking a nearby bottle to fend him off. He only survives because he unintentionally gives Sam a piece of candy, thus appeasing him.
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Trick 'r Treat / int_6562d25c	type	Stingy Jack
Trick 'r Treat / int_6562d25c	comment	Stingy Jack: Sam's appearance hints at this, with his pumpkin-like head.
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Trick 'r Treat / int_67792344	type	Grievous Bottley Harm
Trick 'r Treat / int_67792344	comment	Grievous Bottley Harm: Kreeg attempts to kill Sam with a shattered booze bottle.
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Trick 'r Treat / int_6941e30b	type	Room Full of Crazy
Trick 'r Treat / int_6941e30b	comment	Room Full of Crazy: Sam plasters Mr. Kreeg's room with the lyrics of the Ironic Nursery Tune in absolutely record time, and festoons his lawn with elaborate jack-o'-lanterns.
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Trick 'r Treat / int_6a2ae11f	type	Improbable Weapon User
Trick 'r Treat / int_6a2ae11f	comment	Improbable Weapon User: Sam's weapons of choice are a sharpened lollipop and a candy bar with a razor blade.
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Trick 'r Treat / int_6bda9a30	type	Meaningful Name
Trick 'r Treat / int_6bda9a30	comment	Meaningful Name: Sam is strongly implied to be short for Samhain, the Celtic harvest festival that is often linked to Halloween in pop culture (see Artistic Licence – History). Samhain is actually pronounced something akin to 'sah-win', but given that Rhonda uses the proper pronunciation, they most likely took Artistic License with the nickname. Kreeg is an obvious homonym for "Krieg", the German word for war or conflict. It's of course Mr. Kreeg that battles with Sam. And his dog is named Spite. Laurie, the modest virgin of the group of college girls, is named after the archetypal Final Girl from Halloween (1978). And while the situation is not as it appears, she does technically fight off a masked serial killer.
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Trick 'r Treat / int_6ec4232f	type	Casting Gag
Trick 'r Treat / int_6ec4232f	comment	Casting Gag: Tahmoh Penikett's wife is wearing a silver robot costume.
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Trick 'r Treat / int_6eeaa3c4	type	Bus Full of Innocents
Trick 'r Treat / int_6eeaa3c4	comment	Bus Full of Innocents: In "Halloween School Bus Massacre", a group of trick-or-treaters travels to a local flooded quarry where Macy recalls the urban legend of the "Halloween School Bus Massacre," which claimed the lives of eight children with disabilities in a school bus on Halloween. The driver, who had been paid by their worn-out parents to dispose of them, drove them to that place to kill them. One of them broke free and attempted to escape, but instead wound up sending the bus over the quarry edge with the children shackled inside. The children all perished and the driver was never heard from again.
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Trick 'r Treat / int_6fc8bf2b	type	Corruption of a Minor
Trick 'r Treat / int_6fc8bf2b	comment	Corruption of a Minor: Steven Wilkins is raising Billy to be a Serial Killer like him, and a few comments about Steven's own father suggest that this is a longstanding family tradition.
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Trick 'r Treat / int_714667be	type	Murderer P.O.V.
Trick 'r Treat / int_714667be	comment	Murderer P.O.V.: The opening and Mr. Kreeg sections have many shots set from Sam's P.O.V., underneath his mask.
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Trick 'r Treat / int_7276d0de	type	Mugging the Monster
Trick 'r Treat / int_7276d0de	comment	Mugging the Monster: Principal Wilkins trying to kill Laurie, a werewolf.
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Trick 'r Treat / int_72cdfc33	type	Big Bad Ensemble
Trick 'r Treat / int_72cdfc33	comment	Big Bad Ensemble: There are several antagonists in the film. Sam, the spirit of Halloween enforcing its rules. Mr. Kreeg, a Halloween-hating cranky old man who is responsible for the deaths of a number of children. And Steven Wilkins, a Serial Killer who was terrorizing trick-or-treaters throughout the film.
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Trick 'r Treat / int_7301ae04	type	Serial Killer
Trick 'r Treat / int_7301ae04	comment	Naming a Serial Killer "Steven" may also be an Alice Cooper reference.
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Trick 'r Treat / int_7315fd38	type	Covers Always Lie
Trick 'r Treat / int_7315fd38	comment	Covers Always Lie: Inverted with the Blu-ray release as it clearly shows Sam's true face.
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Trick 'r Treat / int_7374ab13	type	Once More, with Clarity
Trick 'r Treat / int_7374ab13	comment	Once More, with Clarity: The opening sequence is shown again at the end of the movie, and the scenes now make a lot more sense. During Steven's story he briefly sees Mr. Kreeg pounding on his window trying to get his attention, only to mutter "Screw you" and ignore him. In Mr. Kreeg's story we learn why he was doing so.
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Trick 'r Treat / int_7426582d	type	Token Minority
Trick 'r Treat / int_7426582d	comment	Token Minority: Maria, a friend of Laurie and Danielle, is the only prominent person of colour in the film.
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Trick 'r Treat / int_77ed6b7d	type	Troubling Unchildlike Behavior
Trick 'r Treat / int_77ed6b7d	comment	Troubling Unchildlike Behavior: In the Halloween School Bus Massacre flashback, Sam is seen on the outskirts of town, poking at a dead crow with a stick. This is our first real indication that he's not an ordinary kid, especially since this scene is set thirty years prior to the main events of the film.
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Trick 'r Treat / int_790b1e6	type	Nasty Party
Trick 'r Treat / int_790b1e6	comment	From the way Danielle and her friends discuss their Halloween party, it is very clear that it's that kind of party. Ultimately, however, it turns out to be a very different kind of party.
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Trick 'r Treat / int_79a0e313	type	Bolivian Army Ending
Trick 'r Treat / int_79a0e313	comment	Bolivian Army Ending: Macy, Schrader, and Chip aren't actually seen or explicitly heard being killed after being surrounded by zombies at the bottom of the quarry, and might have been able to somehow escape from or placate the zombies (especially if they were only after Macy). That being said, their odds for this aren't that good, especially considering the later presence of the zombies at Mr. Kreeg's house.
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Trick 'r Treat / int_79ba6777	type	Pocket Protector
Trick 'r Treat / int_79ba6777	comment	Pocket Protector: When Sam tries to stab Mr. Kreeg with a sharpened lollipop, the lollipop impales a particularly chewy candy bar that had fallen on his chest. Sam accepts that, technically, Kreeg has now given out some candy, and leaves him alive.
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Trick 'r Treat / int_7ade0c2	type	Not in Front of the Kid
Trick 'r Treat / int_7ade0c2	comment	Not in Front of the Kid: The conversation recounted above under Foreshadowing, when the college girls are apparently reminiscing about their past sexual exploits, is interrupted by an indignant mom telling them "There are children out here!" and covering up her son's ears.
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Trick 'r Treat / int_7c4f6612	type	Comic-Book Adaptation
Trick 'r Treat / int_7c4f6612	comment	Comic-Book Adaptation: There are two comic book tie-ins to this film. A four-issue miniseries by WildStorm that was originally planned to be released weekly in October 2007 to coincide with the film's original theatrical release before being released as a graphic novel in 2009. Trick 'r Treat: Days of the Dead, a graphic novel published by Legendary Comics that tells new stories.
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Trick 'r Treat / int_7cbe4363	type	Brown Bag Mask
Trick 'r Treat / int_7cbe4363	comment	Brown Bag Mask: One of the kids killed in the 'Schoolbus Massacre' is wearing an incredibly creepy paper bag mask. Thirty years at the bottom of the pond does nothing to diminish its creepiness.
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Trick 'r Treat / int_817e24b7	type	Fur Against Fang
Trick 'r Treat / int_817e24b7	comment	Fur Against Fang: Sort of. The "vampire" who gets killed by the werewolves was just Principal Wilkins wearing false fangs.
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Trick 'r Treat / int_85cc4dbc	type	Sex as Rite-of-Passage
Trick 'r Treat / int_85cc4dbc	comment	Sex as Rite-of-Passage: Laurie is teased by her friends and sister for being a virgin at 22 and wanting her first time to be special. It turns out that they're not referring to sex at all, but the killing and eating of men.
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Trick 'r Treat / int_863fa679	type	What Happened to the Mouse?
Trick 'r Treat / int_863fa679	comment	What Happened to the Mouse?: Mr. Kreeg's dog Spite isn't seen again after being attacked by Sam.
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Trick 'r Treat / int_8797239c	type	Bait-and-Switch
Trick 'r Treat / int_8797239c	comment	Bait-and-Switch: Many. Best used for a humorous effect in the opening when Emma sees a masked man dressed like Michael Myers across the street just standing there watching, and it turns out just to be a guy waiting for his ride.
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Trick 'r Treat / int_88ebc539	type	Always a Bigger Fish
Trick 'r Treat / int_88ebc539	comment	Always a Bigger Fish: The vampire, revealed to be a mundane Serial Killer, is nothing more than a whimpering victim before a pack of werewolves.
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Trick 'r Treat / int_8a16409a	type	Shovel Strike
Trick 'r Treat / int_8a16409a	comment	Shovel Strike: When Wilkins realises the body he is burying is Not Quite Dead, he pounds it several times with his shovel to finish the job. All the while, he is trying not to attract Mr. Kreeg's attention.
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Trick 'r Treat / int_8a3c406e	type	Hair-Raising Hare
Trick 'r Treat / int_8a3c406e	comment	Hair-Raising Hare: During the flashback of the Halloween School Bus Massacre, one of the children evokes this effect by wearing a creepy bunny mask. And is still wearing it 30 years later, rotted and blackened, when they come out of the lake with the other children to get revenge on the bus driver.
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Trick 'r Treat / int_8af45dbd	type	Wild Teen Party
Trick 'r Treat / int_8af45dbd	comment	Wild Teen Party: Danielle and her friends throw a wild college-age party out in the woods, although it goes from merely "wild" to "feral". Many are killed.
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Trick 'r Treat / int_8b6e8d7	type	Anachronic Order
Trick 'r Treat / int_8b6e8d7	comment	Anachronic Order: The opening scene is, chronologically, the very last event in the film. After this scene, it tells three stories that are more or less set simultaneously, before backing up to the beginning with another story, set during a time skip. It ends just before the opening scene.
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Trick 'r Treat / int_8ec0abf	type	The Voiceless
Trick 'r Treat / int_8ec0abf	comment	The Voiceless: Sam never speaks onscreen, although he makes a sort of hissing noise toward the end, and giggles a little.
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Trick 'r Treat / int_8ed5c6e4	type	Asshole Victim
Trick 'r Treat / int_8ed5c6e4	comment	Asshole Victim: Almost everyone who gets killed in this film was asking for their death besides Emma, who wasn't an asshole—she just didn't like Halloween. Charlie is probably the most standard example, though, since he was smashing pumpkins and stealing candy before he got killed by Principal Wilkins. Schrader is a borderline example; he did play a mean-spirited prank on Rhonda, but he was clearly sorry for it. The movie does not forgive him.
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Trick 'r Treat / int_90e31482	type	Laser-Guided Karma
Trick 'r Treat / int_90e31482	comment	Laser-Guided Karma: The child-killing principal is devoured by werewolves.
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Trick 'r Treat / int_912714cc	type	Edible Bludgeon
Trick 'r Treat / int_912714cc	comment	Edible Bludgeon: Sam attempts to stab Mr. Kreeg with a sharpened lollipop. He later (or, from our perspective, earlier, due to the Anachronic Order) uses it to murder Emma.
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Trick 'r Treat / int_91672d3e	type	Children Are Innocent
Trick 'r Treat / int_91672d3e	comment	Children Are Innocent: Only a handful of the children in this film avert the trope of children being devoid of malice and spite. Rather disturbingly played with Billy Wilkins, who has a childlike sense of innocence about some truly horrifying things. The nerdy, naive Rhonda is probably the closest thing to a straight example, and she’s portrayed very much as an outlier.
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Trick 'r Treat / int_94e4b975	type	Vomit Indiscretion Shot
Trick 'r Treat / int_94e4b975	comment	Vomit Indiscretion Shot: Some poisoned candy provokes a massive display of Charlie vomiting onscreen.
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Trick 'r Treat / int_9521acf7	type	The Scourge of God
Trick 'r Treat / int_9521acf7	comment	The Scourge of God: Well, a god... Sam is killing unpleasant people on Halloween because he's the personification of the holiday.
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Trick 'r Treat / int_952f8f26	type	Deadly Prank
Trick 'r Treat / int_952f8f26	comment	Deadly Prank: Macy and her friends pretend to be the undead schoolbus kids to scare Rhonda, who panics and cracks her head against a rock. The trope is subverted when it turns out that Rhonda is still alive, and subsequently inverted, when the real school bus kids show up and kill the pranksters.
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Trick 'r Treat / int_97914ed	type	Idiot Savant
Trick 'r Treat / int_97914ed	comment	Idiot Savant: Rhonda is stated as such by one of the characters, pointing out she knows a lot about the history of Halloween, but not much about anything else.
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Trick 'r Treat / int_97926168	type	Rewatch Bonus
Trick 'r Treat / int_97926168	comment	Rewatch Bonus: On a rewatch, those who pay attention to the dialogue of Laurie's sister and friends will notice that it’s filled with foreshadowing that they’re all werewolves. On a rewatch, it feels almost too obvious that Mr. Kreeg was the murderous bus driver, though the first time you watch it, the significance of his wheezing cough and distinctive ring are very easy to miss. Another would be Sam's razor-embedded chocolate bar; it's the same one he snatched from Mr. Wilkins' pail when he went to his house earlier on in the film. See Razor Apples, above.
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Trick 'r Treat / int_99c36bb5	type	Ironic Nursery Tune
Trick 'r Treat / int_99c36bb5	comment	Ironic Nursery Tune: ...give me something good to eat...
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Trick 'r Treat / int_99db72ee	type	Immune to Bullets
Trick 'r Treat / int_99db72ee	comment	A more literal example, also from Mr. Kreeg, comes in an early scene when he tries to intimidate Steven Wilkins: "I have an NRA membership in my pocket and a shotgun over the fireplace!" That shotgun is indeed fired in the film's third act... not that it does much good.
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Trick 'r Treat / int_9cb5e4bb	type	Evil Costume Switch
Trick 'r Treat / int_9cb5e4bb	comment	Evil Costume Switch: Macy, Schrader, and Sara ditch their Halloween costumes for those of rather more scary chained ghouls to scare the living daylights out of Rhonda. Chip simply spruces his pirate costume up with fake gore.
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Trick 'r Treat / int_9d12bbc1	type	Foreshadowing
Trick 'r Treat / int_9d12bbc1	comment	Foreshadowing: Go back and listen to the conversation of Laurie, Danielle, Maria, and Janet as they're trying on their costumes for the first time, and now with the knowledge that they're werewolves and their conversation takes on whole new meaning. Also, when Laurie refuses to come out of the dressing room because she's embarrassed of her costume. Another example is this exchange between Janet and Danielle while they're at their party and wait for Laurie, who hasn't shown up yet: And what costume is Laurie wearing? Little Red Riding Hood. The news report at the beginning makes specific reference to werewolves, zombies, and demons; accurately describing Laurie and her friends, the schoolbus kids, and Sam respectively.
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Trick 'r Treat / int_9e4ed124	type	Mundanger
Trick 'r Treat / int_9e4ed124	comment	Mundanger: Amongst all the scares in the movie, one moment sticks out as this: the fact that a group of parents grew so sick and tired of taking care of their mentally disabled children that they paid the school bus driver to drive them off a cliff. And unlike Kreeg, who is eventually torn apart by the now-zombified children, there's no indication that the parents were punished for doing this outside of their cruelty becoming the stuff of local legend. Though the movie ends just after Kreeg was attacked, so they might have gone after their parents after they finished with him
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Trick 'r Treat / int_9ee065ab	type	Horror Doesn't Settle for Simple Tuesday
Trick 'r Treat / int_9ee065ab	comment	Horror Doesn't Settle for Simple Tuesday: The events take place over Halloween, naturally.
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Trick 'r Treat / int_9f63d4f1	type	Our Vampires Are Different
Trick 'r Treat / int_9f63d4f1	comment	Our Vampires Are Different: They're not real vampires, for one thing...
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Trick 'r Treat / int_a1154544	type	Grumpy Old Man
Trick 'r Treat / int_a1154544	comment	Grumpy Old Man: Mr. Kreeg, who spends his days yelling at people and scares trick-or-treaters off to steal their candy because he hates Halloween.
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Trick 'r Treat / int_a1a1491e	type	Homage
Trick 'r Treat / int_a1a1491e	comment	Homage: Sam spying on Emma and Henry, via a Murderer P.O.V., from across the street is one to the opening of Halloween. Both sequences even end with a grizzly murder. Wilkins' date running down an alley and screaming for help, only to be drowned out by the sounds of the parade, is nearly identical to a scene from I Know What You Did Last Summer.
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Trick 'r Treat / int_a5ad0aa4	type	Little Red Fighting Hood
Trick 'r Treat / int_a5ad0aa4	comment	Little Red Fighting Hood: Laurie totally wrecks Principal Wilkins, even before she and her friends eat him.
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Trick 'r Treat / int_a61fc28e	type	Desperate Plea for Home
Trick 'r Treat / int_a61fc28e	comment	Desperate Plea for Home: In the "Halloween School Bus Massacre" vignette, one of the kids wearing a vampire costume becomes scared when the school bus driver restrains him and the other special needs kids with the intention of sending them to their deaths, he breaks out of his restraints and cries "wanna go home".
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Trick 'r Treat / int_a70223	type	Karma Houdini
Trick 'r Treat / int_a70223	comment	Karma Houdini: Sam and the werewolves, assuming their other victims weren't assholes. Also, there's no indication the parents of the school bus kids were punished for orchestrating their deaths, unless the kids came for them after killing Kreeg.
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Trick 'r Treat / int_a8c1433e	type	Dead Star Walking
Trick 'r Treat / int_a8c1433e	comment	Dead Star Walking: Leslie Bibb dies very early on in the film. She does appear a couple more times, thanks to the film's structure, but it's still quite a small role.
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Trick 'r Treat / int_abcb9af1	type	Eaten Alive
Trick 'r Treat / int_abcb9af1	comment	Steven Wilkins gets away with his actions in his own segment, only to be lured and Eaten Alive by Laurie later on.
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Trick 'r Treat / int_ac09dc0f	type	Alas, Poor Villain
Trick 'r Treat / int_ac09dc0f	comment	Alas, Poor Villain: Macy shows some decency before she dies, wanting to try and save Sara when she's dragged off.
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Trick 'r Treat / int_ad4c74ed	type	Final Girl
Trick 'r Treat / int_ad4c74ed	comment	Laurie, the modest virgin of the group of college girls, is named after the archetypal Final Girl from Halloween (1978). And while the situation is not as it appears, she does technically fight off a masked serial killer.
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Trick 'r Treat / int_ae0b7462	type	Ghost Butler
Trick 'r Treat / int_ae0b7462	comment	Ghost Butler: One of them opens and shuts a door for Sam. Or maybe he's just telekinetic.
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Trick 'r Treat / int_b97f8642	type	Razor Apples
Trick 'r Treat / int_b97f8642	comment	Another would be Sam's razor-embedded chocolate bar; it's the same one he snatched from Mr. Wilkins' pail when he went to his house earlier on in the film. See Razor Apples, above.
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Trick 'r Treat / int_bc00493f	type	Precision F-Strike
Trick 'r Treat / int_bc00493f	comment	Precision F-Strike: Used to hilarious effect by Principal Wilkins' young son Billy.
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Trick 'r Treat / int_bd2de2d7	type	Kiss of the Vampire
Trick 'r Treat / int_bd2de2d7	comment	Kiss of the Vampire: The victim of the "vampire" is so pleasured that she doesn't even realize it's happening until she notices her own blood dripping down her arms.
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Trick 'r Treat / int_bef00ce9	type	Whispering Ghosts
Trick 'r Treat / int_bef00ce9	comment	Whispering Ghosts: Starts up the moment Macy extinguishes the last nearby jack-o-lantern.
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Trick 'r Treat / int_c0f6b6c4	type	Adrenaline Makeover
Trick 'r Treat / int_c0f6b6c4	comment	Adrenaline Makeover: Laurie's costume gets significantly sexier after her encounter with Principal Wilkins; her hair comes out of its pigtails, her neckline falls to expose her shoulders and cleavage (no doubt helped by the corset), and part of her skirt rips open.
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Trick 'r Treat / int_c5835f29	type	Ghostly Goals
Trick 'r Treat / int_c5835f29	comment	Ghostly Goals: The schoolbus kids Kreeg killed want to avenge their own deaths.
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Trick 'r Treat / int_c660bc15	type	Fan Disservice
Trick 'r Treat / int_c660bc15	comment	Fan Disservice: A woman in a sexy spandex cat costume with cleavage and a see-through midriff? Hot. A heavyset, middle-aged woman wearing that costume? Not so much. When the trick-or-treaters knock on Mrs. Henderson's door and not only see her in that costume but also see a wild sex party going on in the other room, they practically have a Primal Scene reaction. Laurie's friends disrobe before... removing their skin and sprouting hair.
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Trick 'r Treat / int_c75df49a	type	Shout-Out
Trick 'r Treat / int_c75df49a	comment	Shout-Out: There's a trick 'r treater dressed as Michael Myers from the Halloween movies. Also, the character set up as an obvious Final Girl, as noted above, is named Laurie. Also, a colourized version of the original House on Haunted Hill (1959) is playing on TV in one scene, along with Scooby-Doo on Zombie Island. Naming a Serial Killer "Steven" may also be an Alice Cooper reference. Mr. Kreeg says "You gotta be fuckin' kidding," while Sam's severed hand skitters across the floor, much the same way as Palmer said the exact line in The Thing (1982) while Norris' head ran around the lab on spider legs. The same director would homage the scene from The Thing again in Godzilla: King of the Monsters (2019).
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Trick 'r Treat / int_c8ba12ee	type	Interplay of Sex and Violence
Trick 'r Treat / int_c8ba12ee	comment	Interplay of Sex and Violence: Those guys the girls are picking up for the party? Yeah, about that...
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Trick 'r Treat / int_c8c00dc9	type	Obvious Stunt Double
Trick 'r Treat / int_c8c00dc9	comment	Obvious Stunt Double: Sam goes from an actual child in a costume to a very obvious adult stunt double when brawling with Mr. Kreeg. They use quick cuts to disguise this as much as they can, but it's pretty obvious if you look for it.
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Trick 'r Treat / int_c92cf19a	type	Undead Child
Trick 'r Treat / int_c92cf19a	comment	Undead Child: The school bus kids that drowned come back as zombies to enact their revenge on Mr. Kreeg.
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Trick 'r Treat / int_c99045f3	type	Halloween Costume Characterization
Trick 'r Treat / int_c99045f3	comment	Halloween Costume Characterization: In several of the stories. Based on their conversation in the costume shop, the Four-Girl Ensemble always dress to a specific theme. This year they are fairytale characters, with Laurie as Little Red Riding Hood (as is apparently tradition for a werewolf getting her first kill, seemingly for the irony). Rhonda, who has near-encyclopedic knowledge on the origins of Samhain and is implied to know who or what Sam really is, is dressed as a witch. Billy Wilkins is dressed as his dad.
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Trick 'r Treat / int_ccfc0535	type	Letting Her Hair Down
Trick 'r Treat / int_ccfc0535	comment	Letting Her Hair Down: Laurie's hair comes out of its pigtails around the time we discover she's a werewolf who fought off a serial killer.
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Trick 'r Treat / int_d0347bf0	type	Four-Girl Ensemble
Trick 'r Treat / int_d0347bf0	comment	Based on their conversation in the costume shop, the Four-Girl Ensemble always dress to a specific theme. This year they are fairytale characters, with Laurie as Little Red Riding Hood (as is apparently tradition for a werewolf getting her first kill, seemingly for the irony).
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Trick 'r Treat / int_d1c3f8dd	type	Sexy Whatever Outfit
Trick 'r Treat / int_d1c3f8dd	comment	Sexy Whatever Outfit: All of Laurie's friends go out for Halloween dressed in sexy fairytale-inspired costumes. They make fun of Laurie for her comparatively conservative Little Red Riding Hood costume. Rochelle Aytes' character, Maria, is dressed as Snow White. Rochelle Aytes is black. It looks great on her, though.
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Trick 'r Treat / int_d4bf11d1	type	Dramatic Unmask
Trick 'r Treat / int_d4bf11d1	comment	Dramatic Unmask The vampire's mask is removed to reveal that he's actually Steven, a mundane and non-supernatural Serial Killer. At the climax of the movie, Mr. Kreeg pulls off Sam's mask to reveal that he's a Pumpkin Person!
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Trick 'r Treat / int_d53ad027	type	Cheerful Child
Trick 'r Treat / int_d53ad027	comment	Cheerful Child: Principal Wilkins' son is very happy. "Let's carve a scaaaary pumpkin this time, Daddy!"
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Trick 'r Treat / int_d7abaf48	type	One Crazy Night
Trick 'r Treat / int_d7abaf48	comment	One Crazy Night: The entire movie takes place on one Halloween night, during which the protagonists encounter werewolves, zombies, serial killers, and other menacing entities.
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Trick 'r Treat / int_db88b941	type	Malevolent Masked Men
Trick 'r Treat / int_db88b941	comment	Malevolent Masked Men: Just about everyone wears a mask at some point for obvious reasons, but particular examples include Sam, the vampire, and the schoolbus kids.
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Trick 'r Treat / int_dd608502	type	HellHound
Trick 'r Treat / int_dd608502	comment	Hell Hound: Invoked by Kreeg, who dresses his rather petite dog, Spite, in black with glowing eyespots and sics him on trick-or-treaters.
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Trick 'r Treat / int_ddf4698	type	Pulling Themselves Together
Trick 'r Treat / int_ddf4698	comment	Pulling Themselves Together: Sam, after Kreeg dismembers him with buckshot, reattaches his severed hand.
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Trick 'r Treat / int_dfb71617	type	Male Gaze
Trick 'r Treat / int_dfb71617	comment	Male Gaze: The introductions of Laurie's friends have generous shots of cleavage, which play again for Fan Disservice in the werewolf massacre.
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Trick 'r Treat / int_e3c36782	type	Call-Forward
Trick 'r Treat / int_e3c36782	comment	Call-Forward: When the clock rewinds to Mr. Kreeg's misadventure, one of the trick-or-treaters is wearing the same costume as the boy Wilkins beats to death with a shovel near the start of the movie.
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Trick 'r Treat / int_e47e0eb	type	Scary Scarecrows
Trick 'r Treat / int_e47e0eb	comment	Scary Scarecrows: Sam's mask, as well as the ornaments on Henry and Emma's lawn. During the Halloween School Bus Massacre flashback, a quick but atmospheric establishing shot shows a scarecrow in a field of pumpkins on the outskirts of town, as well.
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Trick 'r Treat / int_e4c0b2b6	type	Primal Scene
Trick 'r Treat / int_e4c0b2b6	comment	A woman in a sexy spandex cat costume with cleavage and a see-through midriff? Hot. A heavyset, middle-aged woman wearing that costume? Not so much. When the trick-or-treaters knock on Mrs. Henderson's door and not only see her in that costume but also see a wild sex party going on in the other room, they practically have a Primal Scene reaction.
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Trick 'r Treat / int_e567510d	type	Determinator
Trick 'r Treat / int_e567510d	comment	Determinator: Sam is a supernatural example; a relentless force of nature who will not stop coming at you for the crime of disrespecting Halloween until either you've appeased him or he's killed you. Kreeg is a mundane example; a cantankerous old grouch with a bad attitude, a legally-owned shotgun, and enough steel in his balls to fight tooth and nail against the first thing.
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Trick 'r Treat / int_e63228a7	type	InfoDump
Trick 'r Treat / int_e63228a7	comment	Info Dump: Rhonda at one point delivers a lot of exposition on the origins of Halloween/Samhain. The info she gives, however, is Sadly Mythtaken.
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Trick 'r Treat / int_e78247ba	type	Transformation Exhilaration
Trick 'r Treat / int_e78247ba	comment	Transformation Exhilaration: A surprise party of nubile young women turns out to be a gathering for werewolves. They all look beyond ecstatic and moan pleasurably as they sprout fangs, peel off their skins, and reveal the beasts beneath.
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Trick 'r Treat / int_e8e56799	type	Blue-and-Orange Morality
Trick 'r Treat / int_e8e56799	comment	Blue-and-Orange Morality: Sam enforces the rules of Halloween, silently observing those who obey them and targeting those who don't. Kreeg is spared for accidentally complying to the same rule he broke.
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Trick 'r Treat / int_e9396c59	type	Braces of Orthodontic Overkill
Trick 'r Treat / int_e9396c59	comment	Braces of Orthodontic Overkill: Sara, one of the four trick-or-treaters, has braces that look ridiculous.
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Trick 'r Treat / int_eb8ec7c8	type	Jerkass
Trick 'r Treat / int_eb8ec7c8	comment	Jerkass: Mr. Kreeg has his dog scare away trick-or-treaters so he can steal their candy. And that's not even getting into how he killed a busload of schoolchildren.
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Trick 'r Treat / int_eec07b6f	type	Sackhead Slasher
Trick 'r Treat / int_eec07b6f	comment	Sackhead Slasher: Sam wears a burlap sack with buttons sewn on for eyes and a stitched-on mouth as a trick-or-treater mask.
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Trick 'r Treat / int_efd95d99	type	Poking Dead Things with a Stick
Trick 'r Treat / int_efd95d99	comment	Poking Dead Things with a Stick: In the flashback to the "Halloween School Bus Massacre," Sam is seen on the outskirts of town, poking at a dead crow with a stick. This is our first indication that Sam is not just a kid in a weird costume, since this scene is set thirty years before the rest of the movie.
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Trick 'r Treat / int_f1492605	type	Redemption Equals Death
Trick 'r Treat / int_f1492605	comment	Redemption Equals Death: After Mr. Kreeg appeases Sam by giving him a chocolate bar, he’s seen giving out candy to other trick 'r treaters and basically doing Halloween right. However, at the end of the night, the schoolbus kids still come for him, since the final scene reveals he was the school bus driver who killed them.
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Trick 'r Treat / int_f3d5d15f	type	Creepy Child
Trick 'r Treat / int_f3d5d15f	comment	Billy Wilkins is dressed as his dad.
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Trick 'r Treat / int_f4a5b281	type	Ceiling Cling
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Trick 'r Treat / int_f6c36157	type	Stab the Salad
Trick 'r Treat / int_f6c36157	comment	Stab the Salad: A rare example where the "innocent" reveal isn't really much better than the initial assumption.
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Trick 'r Treat / int_f76b8969	type	Anthropomorphic Personification
Trick 'r Treat / int_f76b8969	comment	Anthropomorphic Personification: Sam is heavily implied to be the physical embodiment of Halloween.
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Trick 'r Treat / int_f8b3fa5d	type	Our Werewolves Are Different
Trick 'r Treat / int_f8b3fa5d	comment	Our Werewolves Are Different: They're all female, for one, and transform by the rarely-seen, but definitely folkloric, method of tearing off their human skin.
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Trick 'r Treat / int_f93d8d52	type	Girlfriend in Canada
Trick 'r Treat / int_f93d8d52	comment	Girlfriend in Canada: In a deleted scene, Laurie claims she’s not a virgin; citing an incident with Dave, an attorney at the law firm in Toronto where she interned. The other girls don't believe it for a moment. Of course, 'virgin' has a different meaning in this context.
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Trick 'r Treat / int_fccd06b6	type	Beware the Nice Ones
Trick 'r Treat / int_fccd06b6	comment	Beware the Nice Ones: Remember to always be nice to your classmates or else they'll leave you to die.
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Trick 'r Treat	hasFeature	Adults Dressed as Children / int_69318c41
Trick 'r Treat	hasFeature	Anachronic Order / int_69318c41
Trick 'r Treat	hasFeature	Anthology / int_69318c41
Trick 'r Treat	hasFeature	Brown Bag Mask / int_69318c41
Trick 'r Treat	hasFeature	Bury Your Disabled / int_69318c41
Trick 'r Treat	hasFeature	Bus Full of Innocents / int_69318c41
Trick 'r Treat	hasFeature	Ceiling Cling / int_69318c41
Trick 'r Treat	hasFeature	Cheated Death, Died Anyway / int_69318c41
Trick 'r Treat	hasFeature	Comic-Book Adaptation / int_69318c41
Trick 'r Treat	hasFeature	Consuming Passion / int_69318c41
Trick 'r Treat	hasFeature	Contrasting Sequel Setting / int_69318c41
Trick 'r Treat	hasFeature	Deadly Prank / int_69318c41
Trick 'r Treat	hasFeature	Desperate Plea for Home / int_69318c41
Trick 'r Treat	hasFeature	Dramatic Unmask / int_69318c41
Trick 'r Treat	hasFeature	Edible Bludgeon / int_69318c41
Trick 'r Treat	hasFeature	Extremely Short Timespan / int_69318c41
Trick 'r Treat	hasFeature	Flashback Effects / int_69318c41
Trick 'r Treat	hasFeature	Folk Horror / int_69318c41
Trick 'r Treat	hasFeature	Full-Body Disguise / int_69318c41
Trick 'r Treat	hasFeature	Fur Against Fang / int_69318c41
Trick 'r Treat	hasFeature	Genre Anthology / int_69318c41
Trick 'r Treat	hasFeature	Ghost Butler / int_69318c41
Trick 'r Treat	hasFeature	Girlfriend in Canada / int_69318c41
Trick 'r Treat	hasFeature	Halloween Trickery / int_69318c41
Trick 'r Treat	hasFeature	Helping Hands / int_69318c41
Trick 'r Treat	hasFeature	Horror Doesn't Settle for Simple Tuesday / int_69318c41
Trick 'r Treat	hasFeature	Horror Hates a Rulebreaker / int_69318c41
Trick 'r Treat	hasFeature	Human Jack-O-Lantern / int_69318c41
Trick 'r Treat	hasFeature	I Miss Mom / int_69318c41
Trick 'r Treat	hasFeature	Literal Maneater / int_69318c41
Trick 'r Treat	hasFeature	Little Dead Riding Hood / int_69318c41
Trick 'r Treat	hasFeature	Little Red Fighting Hood / int_69318c41
Trick 'r Treat	hasFeature	Make Sure He's Dead / int_69318c41
Trick 'r Treat	hasFeature	Meaningful Background Event / int_69318c41
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Trick 'r Treat	hasFeature	Nasty Party / int_69318c41
Trick 'r Treat	hasFeature	Object-Tracking Shot / int_69318c41
Trick 'r Treat	hasFeature	Once is Not Enough / int_69318c41
Trick 'r Treat	hasFeature	One Crazy Night / int_69318c41
Trick 'r Treat	hasFeature	Pocket Protector / int_69318c41
Trick 'r Treat	hasFeature	Poking Dead Things with a Stick / int_69318c41
Trick 'r Treat	hasFeature	Psychosexual Horror / int_69318c41
Trick 'r Treat	hasFeature	Pulling Themselves Together / int_69318c41
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Trick 'r Treat	hasFeature	Razor Apples / int_69318c41
Trick 'r Treat	hasFeature	Recurring Extra / int_69318c41
Trick 'r Treat	hasFeature	Resentful Guardian / int_69318c41
Trick 'r Treat	hasFeature	Room Full of Crazy / int_69318c41
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Trick 'r Treat	hasFeature	Scary Stitches / int_69318c41
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Trick 'r Treat	hasFeature	Sexy Whatever Outfit / int_69318c41
Trick 'r Treat	hasFeature	Shovel Strike / int_69318c41
Trick 'r Treat	hasFeature	Spirit of Halloween / int_69318c41
Trick 'r Treat	hasFeature	Stab the Salad / int_69318c41
Trick 'r Treat	hasFeature	Stingy Jack / int_69318c41
Trick 'r Treat	hasFeature	Suburban Gothic / int_69318c41
Trick 'r Treat	hasFeature	The Schlub Pub Seduction Deduction / int_69318c41
Trick 'r Treat	hasFeature	The Scourge of God / int_69318c41
Trick 'r Treat	hasFeature	Token Black Friend / int_69318c41
Trick 'r Treat	hasFeature	Transformation Exhilaration / int_69318c41
Trick 'r Treat	hasFeature	Transformation Horror / int_69318c41
Trick 'r Treat	hasFeature	Trapped in a Sinking Car / int_69318c41
Trick 'r Treat	hasFeature	Troubling Unchildlike Behavior / int_69318c41
Trick 'r Treat	hasFeature	Undead Child / int_69318c41
Trick 'r Treat	hasFeature	Whispering Ghosts / int_69318c41
Trick 'r Treat	hasFeature	You Have GOT to Be Kidding Me! / int_69318c41

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