![]() ![]() In some circles, the little guy's just as cherished as Leatherface, Freddy, Jason, Ghostface and Chucky. "How it gets out there is kind of irrelevant."Įven though the movie never won an Academy Award, having Sam rise to icon status might as well be a horror Oscar for Dougherty. "It just goes to show that if you make something good, it will find its audience," he says. It finally debuted on Blu-ray and DVD in October 2009, and it became part of a new generation of films, horror and otherwise, that went the on-demand or home-video route and showed they weren't completely reliant upon the traditional theatrical distribution model, according to Dougherty. Legendary found the project initially and co-financed it, and the company snuck Trick 'r Treat into several film festivals so it "became this very unconventional slow burn," the director says. ![]() And this was just a really weird creature for them." "At the time, everybody was making torture porn - it was all about Hostel and Saw 1 through a million, and most studios follow horror trends, they don't make them. was slated to release Trick 'r Treat theatrically in October 2007 but pulled it right before because "they didn't know what to make of it," Dougherty says. (Of course, he is something far more sinister.) There's also a tale of young women, including a virgin (Anna Paquin), being stalked by a guy on Halloween night - with a twist - and the movie's wrapped up with a crotchety man (Cox) who hates the holiday and runs afoul of the devious Sam, seemingly a trick-or-treater with a costume or orange pajamas and a burlap sack over his head. put the kibosh on that really quick," Dougherty says. "The kids in that story originally were all named after Peanuts characters - there was Sally, Lucy, what have you - but Warner Bros. That shares screen time with another short about kids journeying to a rock quarry to investigate the urban legend of a schoolbus massacre, which was an homage to both The Goonies and Charlie Brown comic strips. One story features a murderous school principal (Baker) who buries his victims in his back yard in what Dougherty calls his mini-Hitchcock film - "Norman Bates meets Norman Rockwell," he says. ![]() Like anthology movies of the 1980s such as Creepshow and Tales from the Crypt, Trick 'r Treat weaves together four interconnected stories of Halloween, two of which Dougherty wrote in film school, that capture different aspects of the holiday. "Making a film that people truly love where they're watching it over and over again every year, they're dressing up as your character, they're tattooing the character on their arm, that doesn't happen with most movies. ![]() "Even the biggest movies, the tentpoles or the award films, they tend to just start to fade away," Dougherty says. ET/7 PT Monday, the Legendary Facebook page hosts an online screening of Trick 'r Treat plus a live Q&A from Los Angeles' Egyptian Theatre that includes Dougherty as well as cast members Brian Cox and Dylan Baker. The film closes Beyond Fest, but Legendary Entertainment is giving out a treat for the movie's fans - and those who haven't yet had the pleasure. He may not have the psycho theatricality of Freddy Krueger or the unstoppable homicidal streak of Jason Voorhees, yet Sam, the masked mischief-maker from Trick 'r Treat, has found his way into the Halloween hall of fame.Īnd Trick 'r Treat itself, the 2009 horror comedy anthology written and directed by Michael Dougherty, has found a way into the pantheon of scary movies, too - impressive for an underdog of a film that had little studio support and didn't even make it to the big screen for a proper release. ![]()
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