Trick or Treats (1982)A baby sitter is stuck watching over a young brat on Halloween night who keeps playing vicious pranks on her. To add to her trouble the boy's deranged father has escaped from an asylum and is planning on making a visit. Director:Gary GraverWriter:Gary Graver (screenplay) |
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Jacqueline Giroux | ... |
Linda
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Malcolm O'Keefe
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Chris Graver | ... |
Christopher O'Keefe
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Richard Adams
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Joan O'Keefe Adams
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Bret
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Jillian Kesner | ... |
Andrea
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Dan Pastorini | ... |
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Tim Rossovich | ... |
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Bum
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Jean Clark | ... |
Bert
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John Blyth Barrymore | ... |
Mad Doctor
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Nurse Reeves
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Maria Dillon | ... |
TV Reporter
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Bum
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Five years after his wife, Joan, had him wrongfully and delibarately 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. Written by <pataygs@voicenet.com>
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...when Halloween night stopped being fun! See more »Genres:
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Country:
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29 October 1982 (USA) See more »Also Known As:
Halloween See more »Filming Locations:
Los Angeles, California, USACompany Credits
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Linda: Well, you're not. That's a stupid thing to do.
Christopher: It's Halloween!
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Christopher: You're cute. Are you the babysitter?Linda: Well, you're not. That's a stupid thing to do.
Christopher: It's Halloween!
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It is unlikely there has ever been a horror film less effective than Trick or Treats. The killer is more annoying than scary, and the final girl is unlikeable. The film has little suspense, gore, or plot. The shots are badly lit, and mainly focus on the final girl's ass. The story takes place in Los Angeles, where a man is taken to an asylum by his wife so she get his money. Seven years later he breaks free to get revenge. However, the wife's away at a party in Las Vegas with her new husband and has left their son with a babysitter. The son is an amateur magician, and he proceeds to play tricks on the babysitter, until eventually the father breaks in and the babysitter thinks the strange calls and noises are the son's doing. The film was directed by Gary Graver, a cinematographer who worked with Orson Welles on many films and was apparently good friends with him. Welles is credited in the film as "Magic Consultant".