trick r treat

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Oh geez… how did this one slip under my radar?

I’m going to always think of myself as one lucky son of a gun for having the extremely rare opportunity of enjoying Michael Dougherty’s Trick ‘R Treat the way it was meant to be seen: on a big screen with a huge crowd of fellow film fans (it was at Butt-Numb-A-Thon 9 two years ago). And we were told then that Trick ‘R Treat was supposed to have been released last year in time for Halloween… but for whatever reason the suits at Warners quashed what would have been a fall box-office bonanza.

But at last, however it came to be, Trick ‘R Treat can be enjoyed by the wide audience it deserves.

Slash here for the link to Amazon.com where you can purchase the DVD of Trick ‘R Treat. I’m not earning any coin from this pitch. ...

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Last December I attended Butt-Numb-A-Thon 9. For those who don’t know, Butt-Numb-A-Thon is an annual film festival/geek pow-wow that Harry Knowles of the Ain’t It Cool News website hosts at one of the Alamo Drafthouse theaters in Austin, Texas. For twenty-four straight hours, the invited are treated (and sometimes assaulted) with some of the best examples of the motion picture medium, hand-picked by Knowles. Almost a year later and I still can’t help but giggle madly whenever I think of Feels So Good (the urethroplasty documentary that we watched during breakfast) and no doubt a lot of people who were there have tried to explain “BECAUSE YOU ARE WHITE!!!” to their friends. But anyhoo…

The final movie of last year’s Butt-Numb-A-Thon – the one holding the coveted slot of “best unreleased film you had no idea was coming” – was Trick ‘R Treat, a horror anthology by writer/director ...

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