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'Trick 'r Treat' Review MADNESS, Should WB Be Red in the Face?
Sunday, November 9, 2008


By: MrDisgusting
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After a sold out screening at the Screamfest Horror Film Festival, Aint it Cool News hosted a special free screening of Michael Dougherty's long-delayed horror anthology, Trick 'r Treat, which has received nothing but rave reviews since the screening (read our review). This evening, AICN posted literally dozens of reviews from fans who attended the screening last month, you can read 'em all here. Warner Bros. Pictures owns the rights to the film and has yet to announce the film's release. Will it hit theaters or go straight to video? Only time will tell, but I think it's safe to say that WB should be red in the face at this very moment. Fingers crossed this lights a fire under someone's ass. If you're one of the lucky few to see the movie, be the first to write your own review and tell other B-D readers what you thought.



Source: AICN

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Arsenic_slosh
9:00pm, November 9, 2008

WTF? I want to see this NOW! Ever since I saw the first trailer they had me hooked and then it totally fell off the radar. What gives?


djblack1313
9:45pm, November 9, 2008

me too! this is one movie i will gladly pay full price $ to see in the theater (and i think i'm not alone in that). doesn't WB realize they will make big $ by releasing this in theaters? most of us on this site are foaming at the mouth, wanting to see it!!


Melchizedek
9:55pm, November 9, 2008

But WE are not most company's target audience, saldy


Hellen Cellar
9:56pm, November 9, 2008

I've said it before and I'll say it again: WB should have released in October 10th, instead of Body of Lies. It would have crushed Quarantine, and had terrific holds from week to week. I was lucky enough to catch it in NYC at the Two Boots theater, and the crowd ate it up. It's a total audience movie, and deserves to be experienced in a theater for the first time, not on dvd.


Stinger839
10:15pm, November 9, 2008

the worst distribution execs are assigned to horror genre films because they're considered a trash genre. that's my theory. we horror fans have THE worst possible people packaging, funding, and underestimating most of our genre's films; this is just another incident.


Jonny Horror
10:24pm, November 9, 2008

Trick 'r Treat and The Poughkeepsie Tapes are 2 movies I have really been waiting to see. Get off your ass studios and give the people what they want ??? It's a great concept, see, you release a movie and people will go out and spend money to see it !! Crazy Huh !!


HorrorMaven
11:19pm, November 9, 2008

Trick R Treat is a brilliant film and I really want to see it again. The Herbert West homage sold me, but I loved all the stories. I reeeally hope H'wood gets its head out of its ass and releases this (and Repo!) wider soon.


rusted31
11:23pm, November 9, 2008

Wow! All those reviews on AICN were 10/10, so that leaves only one question, when the fuck is it getting a proper widespread release??? Why do stoopid studios keep these goldmine films from being released while churning out shit like Saw 5, oh that's right cause their stoopid!!


horror kitty
12:56am, November 10, 2008

I want to see this film soooo bad! Come on WB, stop being douchebags and release it already!


djblack1313
1:05am, November 10, 2008

what i (and i guess most of us) don't get is WHY? don't WB (even one person who works there) read any of the reviews (linked in this article) or any of the posts on ANY website (horror or otherwise) from folks like us who are dying to see this?


JahSoldier
1:44am, November 10, 2008

@djblack1313 The film needs to appeal to more people than simply "folks like us" in order for it to be released nationwide. It is always about money. I am looking forward to seeing this but this has been coming out for such a long now. Hope the final product will be worth it.


korollocke
1:51am, November 10, 2008

With any luck Fear Net.Com will score this and show it free online like they did with Midnight Meat Train last week!


zombiefan09
2:45am, November 10, 2008

Stop telling us how fu#*in' great the movie is and release it on DVD already!!!


horrorchick81
6:34am, November 10, 2008

ya really i agree with ya zombie! been waiting forever to see this mvie since it was first announced on here few years ago. ihope this makes alot of money either movie theatres or dvd


BloodyCape
9:13am, November 10, 2008

red in the face? WB should be fucked in the ass!!


DBlock
11:50am, November 10, 2008

I agree with bloodycape, no lube and no kiss after!


coldblood
2:39pm, November 10, 2008

Warner Brothers is actually making Lionsgate seem intelligent with this whole Trick r' Treat dog and pony show. At least Lionsgate released Midnight Meat Train in some way, albeit a fucked up way, but they still released it. The guys at Warner Brothers think they can ride The Dark Knights coat tail into the horizon forever. They are sitting on top of a small gold mine with this film too. Let me put it this way to Warner Brothers; the Saw franchise has just died (just accept it) - whose got the balls to be the next big thing? It will either be Trick r' Treat, Paranormal Activity, or The Poughkeepsie Tapes. Whose got what it takes to pull the trigger first.......


stewietantrum
6:15pm, November 10, 2008

I am getting seriously annoyed at the fact that this film hasn't been made available to the public yet. I've been dying to see it for at least a couple years... and nothing. Fuck you, Warner Brothers.


djblack1313
6:29pm, November 10, 2008

it just seems as if WB is deliberately baiting us (who WANT to see it) and then saying "na na sucks to be you!". if they are trying to piss us off, they are doing an AWESOME job!


The Dark One
4:33am, November 12, 2008

Anybody think they're waiting for next Halloween for this flick? I haven't seen much on it but heard only good stuff about it! It's a shame studios fund such shit horror movies sometimes because they give decent horror films (i'm assuming) like this a bad name. When Horror is done right there is nothing better and people eat it up, but there's so much shit in our beloved genre that people (general public and movie execs) tend to look past the good stuff as "Just another horror film!"


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