Trick 'r Treat is actually four different stories that overlap each other, as things often will. Just be forewarned that all the scenes are not always played in chronological order. Since they're not really in order by time, I'm just going to tell you a bit about each group of people in a random order. First, I'll start with the group of college girls looking for a good time on Halloween. We first see them in the costume store where the three older ones are dressed as very busty Disney princesses. The younger sister, Laurie (Anna Paquin), is dressed as Little Red Riding Hood. She complains that she feels like a kid, and she really does look quite a bit different from the other three. As they go around the town searching for dates to bring to the party, we find out that little Laurie is a virgin and is looking for that special man for her first time. Laurie is going to have to search high and low, hoping to find just the right guy to be with her on this Halloween night! But, are things ever really as they seem?
The next group includes some teenage kids looking for fun on Halloween (not the same kind of fun as the college girls!). They are trick or treating like normal, but while they do so, they are collecting pumpkins from people who will give them to them, supposedly for UNICEF. When they are done and have enough pumpkins, they pick up a 5th girl and head outside of town. They head to an abandoned quarry where 30 years ago, a group of mentally handicapped kids all died in a school bus crash where the driver was never heard from again. This group is going to learn the hard way why you don't dig up the past!
Then there's the grumpy old man, Mr. Kreeg (Brian Cox). Every neighborhood has someone like him. He's the guy that complains about all the neighbor's kids being too loud, the one whose dog scares all the kids, the one that always has something bad to say and never does anything nice. Well, you can imagine that he's not going to respect the Halloween traditions! This year though, he will learn his lesson about being so horrible all the time. Will he survive the night, even if he can manage to change his ways?
Finally, there's the high school principal. Now, I'm sure almost no one out there ever liked their principal. Although they always said they were your friend or just trying to help you, sometimes there's just something creepy or wrong about them. Well this principal, Steven (Dylan Baker), really has creepy covered! By night, he's a serial killer preying on anyone in his path. How he's managed to not get caught by the grumpy old man next door I'll never know, but so far he's stayed hidden and undiscovered, if he can make it through this Halloween night, that is!
Individually, these stories are creepy enough on their own, but when they overlap each other with all the plot twists, they're just made even better! This is one that you're going to want to watch over and over to catch all the little details that you might have missed in the first viewing. I highly recommend that you go buy Trick 'R Treat today!
