Oct 31, 2026 · 51 min · 10 segments
It's Halloween and we wanted to have some fun, so we're talking about the new cult classic, 2007's *Trick 'r Treat*. Sure, we discuss the history of horror anthologies and manifestations of modern…
So this movie came out in 2007.
And Michael Doherty, who did Godzilla and a few other things, I believe wrote and directed it.
He did write it.
He wrote and directed it.
Yeah.
But so I went into this thinking it was going to be more like we talked earlier about Tales of the Crypt.
And I thought that it was going to be more like that, where it's episodic or like Twilight Zone-y, where things are very compartmentalized.
And then I saw that it was going to be interwoven, and I was like, okay, so all of these characters are going to interact.
And it's not that heavy-handed.
It's much more subtle.
But we get some really kind of cool history of the town.
We get some, like, urban legends.
I just, I feel like they did a really, I mean, it takes a group effort, but they did a really good job of just creating a very interconnected story that you could follow while also having this anthology of stories, of like short horror stories.
I just liked it.
I thought it was great.
I love this film.
It's a bit of a tradition because it's just so much fun.
And it really does, to me, like this is going to sound super cheesy.
I don't know how else to phrase it, at least in the beginning.
But like this is the spirit of Halloween where it's about having scary stories and And all these different sort of tropes that we're familiar with, but they're being used in different ways.
So it's like retelling.
So this movie came out in 2007.
And Michael Doherty, who did Godzilla and a few other things, I believe wrote and directed it.
He did write it.
He wrote and directed it.
Yeah.
But so I went into this thinking it was going to be more like we talked earlier about Tales of the Crypt.
And I thought that it was going to be more like that, where it's episodic or like Twilight Zone-y, where things are very compartmentalized.
And then I saw that it was going to be interwoven, and I was like, okay, so all of these characters are going to interact.
And it's not that heavy-handed.
It's much more subtle.
But we get some really kind of cool history of the town.
We get some, like, urban legends.
I just, I feel like they did a really, I mean, it takes a group effort, but they did a really good job of just creating a very interconnected story that you could follow while also having this anthology of stories, of like short horror stories.
I just liked it.
I thought it was great.
I love this film.
It's a bit of a tradition because it's just so much fun.
And it really does, to me, like this is going to sound super cheesy.
I don't know how else to phrase it, at least in the beginning.
But like this is the spirit of Halloween where it's about having scary stories and And all these different sort of tropes that we're familiar with, but they're being used in different ways.
So it's like retelling.
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