Trick
Movie Rating:
2.5
‘Tis the season for a deluge of horror films to his screens big and small. Don’t go writing them off as a whole. Plenty of the smaller ones, like the perfectly entertaining
Starting on Halloween 2015, a college costume party looks like your typical night of drinking and flirting. That is, if you consider playing “Spin the Giant Dagger” a typical substitute for “Spin the Bottle.” As quick as the game started, it pivots into a night of stabbings and bloodshed, but that’s just the beginning. The anonymous killer is injured and brought to the hospital, only to find that he’s untraceable and has no family. When he disappears out of the window a la Michael Meyers, it appears improbable anyone will ever see him again… until he reappears next Halloween.
For the next three years, on Halloween night, the killed named “Trick” comes back to this sleepy town in upstate New York to torment and kill. His motives are unknown and it seems impossible to stop him. When Halloween 2019 rolls in and detective Mike Denver (Omar Epps) is about to leave town, he finds that he just can’t escape without trying to trap Trick one last time.
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Overall, there are far worse ways to spend a chilly fall night than by popping some corn and indulging in the easily consumable