First-time watching Trick 'r Treat (2007) – the ultimate Halloween anthology horror-comedy – and sharing my raw first impressions! This cult classic from Michael Dougherty weaves four twisted tales on Halloween night: the school principal's dark secret, the virgin party gone wrong, the cranky couple, and the prankster teens who learn the hard way about Halloween rules. The interconnected stories, clever twists, practical effects, and perfect spooky-season vibe had me hooked from the start.But the real star? Sam – that adorable-yet-terrifying burlap-sack trick-or-treater in orange footie pajamas, with his lollipop and silent menace. He's everywhere in the film (and in Halloween merch/pop-ups), enforcing ancient traditions like "always give out candy" and "never blow out a jack-o'-lantern." My big question: Does Sam deserve true horror icon status alongside Freddy, Jason, Michael Myers, and Leatherface? Or is he more of a modern cult favorite/mascot for the 21st century?I react to the gore, the laughs, the clever anthology structure, the "School Bus" backstory chills, and why Sam feels both whimsical and deadly. From zero knowledge to instant Halloween essential – this movie nails the spirit of the holiday!No major spoilers in the intro, then full first-impression breakdown: highs (interconnected brilliance, Sam's design), lows (if any dated bits), and my verdict on Sam's icon potential (he's got the merch, the memes, the cultural staying power – but does he have the legacy?).
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00:00Hey, it's Joe from VKMTV Studios, and I love a good horror movie.
00:04I love them so much that when they become big franchises,
00:07I spend my time even watching fan films dedicated to them.
00:13So I thought this trick-or-treat movie might be the next big franchise?
00:19No.
00:20There's only one, and that's weird because Sam, the trick-or-treat character,
00:26is all over Halloween merchandising these days.
00:30If you go around these stores, like your spirit of Halloween,
00:33you see mugs and little chibi figures and stuffed animals and blankets,
00:40all dedicated to that image.
00:42They don't even have a second movie.
00:44How did trick-or-treat a movie that I'm pretty sure nobody around that time period
00:50was really talking about suddenly become this big thing?
00:54All right, so let's check it out, right?
00:57That's all I can do is give my honest opinion of a movie that
01:03I think is supposed to be a modern-day horror classic.
01:07Is it?
01:08And right off the bat, this film definitely looks like Halloween.
01:11I got a lot of respect for this woman.
01:13Instead of picking out the sexiest, sluttiest costume she could find,
01:17she went trick-or-treating as sex robot.
01:26Sorry, eh?
01:29Wait, wait, not yet.
01:30I don't buy it, lady.
01:32It takes a lot of effort to put up all of these Halloween decorations
01:36just for you to rip it down the very same night.
01:39Just relax, okay?
01:41Let the night finish.
01:43Let it roll over to November the 1st.
01:45Go inside.
01:46Have a Snickers.
01:47If you're watching your weight, just have a few minis.
01:50But leave it for the morning.
01:52This night's over.
01:54If this is like Wednesday and you've got to work tomorrow,
01:58don't burn out your energy.
01:59Though it does look like she wants to burn out her energy
02:02because I think her and her boyfriend or husband,
02:06I can't remember this current second,
02:08they're going to go upstairs and watch a nature special.
02:13Okay, sure.
02:14I hate Halloween.
02:19The lady doth protest too much.
02:22You don't have this much Halloween lighting
02:24and a bunch of six-foot-tall ghosts in your yard
02:29if you don't like Halloween even just a little.
02:32At this point, I was wondering,
02:33is Trick or Treat a PG-13 horror?
02:36A PG?
02:37Is that why it's so accessible?
02:39Because it's a PG horror
02:40and young kids got to see this early on
02:43and now they grew up with it?
02:45Oh, yeah!
02:47Oh, oh, baby!
02:49Oh, no, this is definitely not a PG film.
02:53That theory was way off.
02:55That's a real porn being played.
02:56You know, if this lady went inside
02:58to do a different type of ride in the sheets,
03:00she'd still be around, I think.
03:01I don't know.
03:02Maybe Sam would have gone inside
03:03taking care of both of them.
03:04Let that be a lesson for you.
03:07Never stay on top of your chores.
03:09If she had just gone inside
03:11and watched porno with her boyfriend-husband,
03:13she'd still be alive.
03:15But no, she has to go outside,
03:18mess around with the laundry,
03:19and, well, then Sam gets her.
03:21Sam seems to be in all the stories at some point.
03:24And at first I'm thinking,
03:26does nobody notice this going on,
03:28like, right on Halloween night?
03:31There's not like a trick-or-treater
03:32who wanders by and is wondering,
03:34what's happening under that sheet?
03:35I would have wondered that longer,
03:37but then I started learning more about the neighbors.
03:40They got their own thing going on.
03:42So the name of this creature is Sam Hine,
03:45which makes me think of the creature
03:47from the real Ghostbusters
03:49from the Halloween Was Forever, Is Forever special.
03:53This guy, the pumpkin guy.
03:55Our film takes place
03:57in everybody online's favorite meme place,
04:01Ohio.
04:04Werewolves, zombies, and demons of every variety.
04:07They've all descended on the normally sleepy town
04:10of Warren Valley, Ohio.
04:12Too small.
04:14My tits keep popping out.
04:15That's the idea.
04:16Who is this kid?
04:17A young George McFly?
04:19This peeping Tom is trying to watch his neighbor change,
04:22and, well, at least he doesn't get hit by a car.
04:26We're introduced to some new characters.
04:29The big fat ginger kid.
04:31Yeah, I'm pretty sure he's going to die.
04:33Either from Sam or diabetes.
04:35That can't be good for your diabetes, Charlie.
04:40Don't waste a good lie on this.
04:42Then, the horror cliche of virgin girl.
04:45And if the cliche holds,
04:48she's going to live.
04:49It's simple.
04:50You always wait for them to come to you.
04:52If you just tried a little harder,
04:53you wouldn't be a virgin at 22.
04:56What?
04:57Excuse me?
04:58It's practically stapled to your forehead.
05:00Girls just want to party.
05:02Okay, I'm in.
05:03What hijinks are these girls going to get up to?
05:05So, this film has a really odd tone.
05:09The neighbor clearly despises this fat ginger kid,
05:15and he plays a Halloween prank on him.
05:17It's a trick or a treat.
05:19Well, this kid's going to get tricked.
05:23Always drink your candy.
05:30Trick or...
05:31Trick or...
05:35But then, he just kills the kid.
05:39Did he snap?
05:40Well, why did he do that?
05:41So, virgin girl has a mean sister,
05:44and they're going to go party together.
05:46Sam, after doing that killing across the street,
05:49he's going to do a little trick or treating.
05:51Kind of reminds me of the Child's Play series,
05:55Chucky,
05:57where Chucky would pretend to be a little kid in costume,
06:00just so, you know,
06:02he could go around and kill people and not be noticed,
06:04because they think he's just a little kid.
06:07So, this guy, who clearly just snapped,
06:10doesn't even have, like, a great plan
06:13for disposing of the fat kid's body.
06:15He's just going to bury him in the backyard.
06:18Daddy!
06:20I'm back from trick or treating!
06:22Billy, shh!
06:24Please, be quiet!
06:26Why?
06:27Because you'll bother the neighbors.
06:29And his son, I think,
06:30probably says the most iconic line from the movie.
06:34Now, go watch Charlie Brown,
06:36and I'll be in in a minute.
06:38Charlie Brown's an asshole!
06:40Charlie Brown is an asshole
06:41has to be the iconic line of this movie, right?
06:43So, this man, Wilkins,
06:46notices that the fat kid is now waking up
06:49as he's trying to bury him,
06:50and instead of being like,
06:52oh, shoot, alright, here's my get out of,
06:55well, I don't know if it's get out of jail,
06:56because the kid would totally squeal,
06:59but, you know, to not proceed further,
07:02maybe I just let the kid go,
07:03now that he woke up.
07:05No!
07:05He beats the kid with a shovel,
07:07and that alerts the attention of his neighbor,
07:10an old man who they say
07:12is a card-carrying NRA member type.
07:16I got an NRA membership in my pocket!
07:19And a shotgun over the fireplace!
07:21So, get out of here, my boy!
07:22Mr. Kree,
07:24Stephen,
07:25Stephen Wilkins.
07:26This is a dark comedy, isn't it?
07:29What in God's name are you doing down there, Wilkins?
07:31Hiding bodies?
07:34What did you say?
07:37Nothing.
07:38What caused this guy to just straight-up lose it?
07:42He doesn't even seem to like his kid.
07:44How about if we make some caramel apples,
07:48just like Grandpa used to?
07:49How about that?
07:51When?
07:52After we carve the jack-o-lan.
07:55I bet if this kid kept bugging him,
07:57he'd be tossed in the pit, too.
07:59Oh, he is gonna stab his son.
08:02No, it's just a fake-out.
08:03They're gonna carve a pumpkin together.
08:05Or carve a child.
08:07I'm thinking insanity runs in the Wilkins family.
08:10Why is the son not freaked out here?
08:13I would think this son would have a little bit more of a reaction than,
08:17Oh, we're gonna carve a pumpkin?
08:19Oh, I hate Charlie Brown!
08:22What a dense moron.
08:24I thought Wilkins was a weirdo?
08:26But it turns out every adult in this trick-or-treat town is a weirdo.
08:31Maybe it's just Ohio.
08:33Offering booze to the children.
08:35Yep, that's the lady I want teaching the kids.
08:39You want a drink or something?
08:41Maybe our little secret?
08:43Sure!
08:44Leave a comment below if you're from Ohio and you're just as crazy as these people.
08:48So now our story is gonna focus on a new group of kids.
08:52Damn!
08:53This house went all out with their pumpkin carving.
08:56There are so many lit-up jack-o-lanterns everywhere.
08:59And part of me is thinking, okay, did they go around individually lighting each one or did they at least
09:06save themselves the headache and buy those lights that you can place inside of it and you just click a
09:11button and you turn the battery light off?
09:13Because they'll do the same thing.
09:15I mean, okay, the battery one is a little less classy.
09:18I prefer the old school lighting.
09:20But this just seems like a fire hazard and you end up losing this entire house if one of those
09:25pumpkins tips over.
09:26And that house belongs to Rhonda, who's a member of the gang we just got introduced to.
09:31She also goes by a different, less PG nickname.
09:35Is that Rhonda the retard?
09:37She's not a retard.
09:38She's an idiot savant.
09:39Her name is Rhonda the retard.
09:42Okay, uh, when did this film come out?
09:46Yeah, that would be right around the time, like, when Hangover came out.
09:50And when they threw in these politically incorrect terms, then you're kind of like, oh boy, you're just getting it
09:57in under the wire.
09:58So, apparently this movie also has vampires.
10:02Honestly, for me, at this point, there's so many things going on that I'm wondering, am I just, like, blacking
10:09out at certain points and missing critical details of what's happening in this story?
10:14Little did I know this was an anthology and it just was going to jump around and, you know, take
10:19multiple rewatches to really connect this all together.
10:23I just thought I was ADDing out of control.
10:26Hey, I spotted Peyton Manning's jersey.
10:28So, I think this is Sam's origin story.
10:32They had something called the Halloween School Bus Massacre, where a school bus went off the road and into the
10:39water, drowning eight special needs kids, including one whose only crime, as far as I could tell, was dressing up
10:48like Big Chungus.
10:49And it's kind of sus, because it's implied that the parents paid for this bus driver to take out their
10:59special needs children.
11:01What the kids didn't know was that over the years, their parents had become exhausted, embarrassed.
11:13And they were willing to do anything to ease their burden.
11:16And they went there.
11:17The kids are all goners.
11:20And the bus driver is going to take the bribe.
11:22He'll do it.
11:23He's even going to take out the one kid who looks like Bigot Junga.
11:27The Dracula kid, as I'm going to call him.
11:29He's actually able to escape.
11:31Does he get the kids to freedom?
11:33No.
11:34He immediately botches it, and that car goes flying into the water.
11:38And everybody died.
11:40Except the bus driver, who, I guess, is now not a murderer, but an accessory to murder, I think?
11:47Or is he still going to get charged?
11:48Because, I mean, he got the kids there, I think?
11:51I don't know if he chained him, or the parents just betrayed him, chained him, and he was just going
11:55to finish him off.
11:56I don't know how that works.
11:59Also, look at all the Ben Cooper masks here.
12:01Did somebody die here?
12:03Wait.
12:05Is this where...
12:06It is, isn't it?
12:08This is where that school...
12:09Shut up, Sarah.
12:10That story was a little bit too depressing for this group of kids.
12:13Meanwhile, back at the party, the mean sister goes up to the virgin sister and is like,
12:19Hey, I found you a date.
12:22It's this guy in a diaper.
12:24Which is kind of odd, because the virgin sister is very attractive.
12:29I don't think she needs, like, diaper guy to pity her and go on a date with her.
12:34She probably can find something way better than diaper guy.
12:38He's really, really nice.
12:41So he's hideous.
12:43Just get your ass over here.
12:44Beggars can't be choosers.
12:46To quote my man OJ Simpson, I'm just saying.
12:50Part of me is enjoying the vibe of the movie, but at this point, there's a lot of plots going
12:57on, and I'm not sure if this is supposed to be, like, an anthology, if all this stuff is
13:03supposed to connect, if I'm just not paying close enough attention, as when I did watch
13:09this, I was in the middle of eating McDonald's, so maybe I was focusing too much on my burger
13:14and not enough on Sam and the drowning kids and the vampires and the random neighbor burying
13:22the kid, see, even right there, like, did all this stuff match?
13:28It does match.
13:30I mean, kind of.
13:31So now we have this other group of kids who are going to explore the place where the kids
13:39were driven into the water and drowned.
13:41But it's just to prank two of their classmates, the two kind of reject nerds, special needs
13:50kids in their grade.
13:52It's like, every time we hang with this girl, she's making us do weird things.
13:57You know, like making sacrifices to the undead.
14:01And that's making some of these kids start to feel bad, like they're developing a conscience.
14:07Maybe that would have happened sooner had they watched a few more anti-bully PSAs, but,
14:12well, things are going to go south pretty quick at this point.
14:15And I know I should have more patience, but 46 minutes into the movie, we haven't really
14:22seen a lot of Sam.
14:24And that's the whole reason I'm checking out this movie.
14:27Where is it?
14:29Well, it turns out the dead children from that bus crash are actually out for revenge.
14:36As the dead kids are chasing the living kids, Rhonda is way off into the distance, and as
14:44the kids are coming towards her, she's like, uh, you know what?
14:48You guys are assholes.
14:49I'm not going to unlock this.
14:51Good luck dealing with all that.
14:53You're going to get captured, caught, and killed.
14:55You see, had they had been nice to Rhonda, when they run up to the gate trying to escape
15:00all these undead children, Rhonda would have been like, oh, I'll help you out.
15:05But instead, our Daniel Harris knockoff here decides, yeah, I'm just going to chill with
15:11Sam here.
15:13Good luck with all that.
15:15Ah, finally, Sam.
15:18Good.
15:18A good, solid Sam scene.
15:19And it kind of reminded me of that scene in Until Dawn, where when the Wendigoon is chasing
15:25you, if you have a good relationship with your girlfriend, or is it the girlfriend's
15:30friend, she can decide to open the door or keep it closed, and you get caught by the Wendigoon.
15:36And then we get back to the vampire stuff.
15:39So this vampire attacks the virgin girl, bites her.
15:44So I guess she's going to be undead, or is she just going to be dead dead?
15:52What did he do to you?
15:54I listened to their advice and played hard to get.
15:58He bit me.
15:59And also, she's the virgin girl.
16:01She should live, right?
16:02She will live, because that's not a real vampire.
16:05The bite was just to pretend?
16:09I don't know.
16:10If somebody bit me and drew blood, I would not be too happy.
16:13Oh, actually, there are no vampires.
16:16That was just Wilkins in costume.
16:20So are you telling me that Wilkins hid the kid after him and his son carved the kid's head,
16:27and then put on a Dracula costume and went out to hit on young girls?
16:33You know, I think Wilkins might be a little bit of a creep.
16:35And in a twist, it turns out he wasn't the vampire.
16:40All these women were.
16:41The mean sister, the other one, they were all vampires.
16:46And apparently, they're sacrificing all these men.
16:49So the way these men are going to go out is death by snoo-snoo?
16:53I really don't know what this movie is anymore.
16:56What did Sam have to do with this part?
16:58Was this just a twist for the sake of being a twist?
17:00It's my first time, so just bear with me.
17:07I do enjoy the cover of Sweet Dreams that they're playing.
17:10Some of them won't see you, dear.
17:15So this movie had a little bit of foreshadowing.
17:18You know the virgin girl who was going around in the Little Red Riding Hood costume?
17:23Uh, yeah, she wasn't so innocent.
17:25She was actually a lot like her sister and her sister's friends.
17:29And they all had one place that they were going to go.
17:31And was that to go drink in the woods in the middle of Ohio?
17:37No.
17:37It was for them to go turn into werewolves.
17:40Yes, werewolves.
17:41And devour a bunch of victims.
17:44And Sam Hine must have been on game time because he's got great seats.
17:49He's watching this all up close.
17:52You know, it's the kind of messed up thing that he can get into.
17:54He's been a busy boy tonight.
17:56You remember that old man from earlier?
18:00Well, Sam was over at the NRA old man's house.
18:04Am I wrong?
18:05Or does the old man have a humongous sized remote?
18:09And I'm going to give Sam credit.
18:11Even though he's spending his time trying to torture an old man,
18:15he does have an eye for detail.
18:17If I'm going to get murdered,
18:20at least put some effort into it.
18:22With a beautiful lit up pumpkin display.
18:24It took a while,
18:25but we finally used Halloween to have a Halloween style kill.
18:31Anyone can stab somebody while hiding behind curtains.
18:34But to make an old man slip and kill himself on candy,
18:39that's Halloween.
18:46So are we still holding on to that theory that Jigsaw from the Saw movies is just a grown-up
18:51Kevin McAllister?
18:53Because honestly, after what I just watched,
18:56what if Sam Hine was Kevin McAllister?
18:59I wouldn't have thought in the very first movie you'd already blow the payoff of what your main killer looks
19:07like behind the mask.
19:09I didn't think it would only take 70 minutes into his first movie to show his actual face.
19:16And now it just became a comic book.
19:21Wow, he went flying after that shotgun blast.
19:25I don't know.
19:25I don't know if I'm feeling this as much as I want to.
19:28Sam didn't even finish off the job.
19:30You don't know if this guy's going to survive or not.
19:33And I would imagine Sam doesn't want this guy to survive.
19:37Because I'm pretty sure, according to this part,
19:41that old man was the guy who drove the bus into the water,
19:46killing the class of disabled children,
19:49which I'm pretty sure included Sam.
19:53Um, okay.
19:56Did I black out during part of this movie?
19:59Did those kids get killed by the ghost kids?
20:03I'm reading online that someday there might be a trick-or-treat too.
20:08Will that also be an anthology?
20:10Or will they give me some answers of what I watched?
20:13Like, there's stuff in there where I was vibing with it.
20:16I like this, like, Halloween environment that they put together
20:21with all the sort of traditional coloring
20:25and the layout of the town
20:27and have ghost story kind of appeal.
20:31And Sam's an interesting-looking character.
20:35I feel like it falls in the Chucky realm
20:37where if he was coming after me, I'd just freaking boot him.
20:41And he'd go far,
20:42because you saw how far he went after the shotgun blast.
20:45But it just kind of left me confused.
20:47And I don't know if it's a great horror movie
20:50if after I'm done,
20:52I gotta go on Wikipedia
20:53and read what the hell happened in the plot.
20:57Because I watched what happened in the plot.
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