Trick may not have the biggest budget in the world but it allows a new horror icon to move fourth the ranks into stardom. Check out our Trick review below!
A detective tries to track down a masked killer who reappears every Halloween to wreak bloody havoc.
Trick Review
This Halloween slasher coming to digital download March 30th oozes classics such as Trick R Treat, Scream, Halloween and more.
Starring Omar Epps, Jamie Kennedy, Patrick Lussier and Todd Farmer there’s no lack of talent in this independent horror flick.
The opening of the movie starts out at a party that quickly goes downhill as our pumpkin masked friend goes on a killing spree laying waste to gobby teens.
What Trick brings to the tables is the fact that the killer is unmasked immediately. We see his face, we see his lack of remorse. What lies behind the mask but it doesn’t stop him from being any less scary.
If anything, the movie is scarier as it brings a human touch to the role. Known as Trick, Patrick is a quiet student who is constantly overlooked and under-appreciated. He uses this invisibility in society to channel his sinister sprees.
He could be anyone among us and that thought alone is terrifying…
It’s when a horror movie has us reflecting on our own society. Things in the news. That neighbor that you hear about that did that dastardly crime.
That’s when, for me at least, these horror films become all the more creepy. When the horror transcends the screen and starts to reflect the rather messed up society that we currently live.
With the first showdown ending in Trick being killed, Detective Denver suspects he’s still alive when similar crimes occur in the town next Halloween. Is it a copycat or the real deal?
Whilst the story is nothing new (bullied kid turns into the bully) in fact it’s almost a carbon copy replica of Halloween we do however get some incredible kill scenes.
Ever so violent and graphic and definitely up there with some top quality slashers.
The special effects team comes into a class of their own as there’s not one kill that doesn’t involve guts or a rolling head of some kind making its grisly appearance.
It’s more human in how the kills are performed it’s not a calculated stalk it’s just a human frenzied stabathon.
Overall
Ignore the plot holes (there are a few) and some shaky camera work at times and you’ll have a great time.
Social Media warriors and other social online cultures is a social commentary referenced throughout the movie. The film has very real undertones that make Trick all the scarier.
If you engage your brain too much you’ll end up with reviews like this one on Roger Ebert but if you switch off, enjoy classic slasher goodness in modern times and you’ll come out modestly satisfied.
What the movie lacks in script more than makes up for in scares. This Halloween wannabe flick will never touch the heights of Michael Myers fame.
But Fright has birthed the dawn of a new horror slasher icon to add to the roster.
Trick review by Sean Evans
Trick
Summary
Trick could be anyone, at any place, at any time.
When horror movies make these killers more human it makes it all the more scary.
Director Patrick Lussier has created a horror icon.
