People are voting emotionally.

Good concept, poorly executed.

A Disappointing Continuation

The acting in this movie is really good.

A 1986 movie starring Marc "Skippy from Family Ties" Price, and Tony Fields and featuring guest appearances by Ozzy Osbourne, and Gene Simmons. With a soundtrack by the band Fastway which featured "Fast" Eddie Clarke formerly of Motorhead, and Dave King who is now in Flogging Molly (and refuses to acknowledge his past in metal music). The plot of the movie being a boy by the name of Eddie "Ragman" Weinbauer (Marc Price) is a metal head who is constantly picked on in school because he loves heavy metal music. One day he is writing to his idol Sammi Curr (Tony Fields) telling him about how he hates his life in the high school he goes to which Sammi Curr is a alumnus of and how Sammi inspires him to rise above the hell of being there. He mails the letter and goes to wash some laundry and finds out that his idol has died in a hotel fire and he is crushed.He goes to the local radio station and talks to his friend the local DJ Nuke (Gene Simmons) and finds out that before his death Sammi recorded one last album and that he is going to play it on Halloween night and that Nuke wants to give him the copy of the original vinyl pressing as a present knowing he is the biggest Sammi Curr fan he knows. He lets Eddie know he recorded it to play on Halloween as that was Sammi's request and that he could have that copy. Eddie is elated. Once back home Eddie falls asleep listening to the album and has a dream about Sammi burning in the hotel fire doing a satanic ritual. He wakes up to find the record skipping and he hears something weird and decides to play the record backwards and Sammi starts speaking to him from beyond the grave. Sammi then instructs Eddie on how he can get revenge on his tormentors. Eddie then explains the situation to his best friend Roger (Glen Morgan) who is highly skeptical of the whole thing. At first the revenge is light-hearted and non-violent, then things start to go awry. With the plans getting out of hand Eddie has to make a decision on what to do. I will not ruin the rest of the film for everyone else but to say it is epic is an understatement.I relate to this movie a lot because I am a lot like the Eddie character as I was constantly bullied in school for loving heavy metal music and being different. So much so I now have post traumatic stress disorder because of it and to see a movie where the lead character refuses to put up with the bullies anymore is inspiring. The way he goes about it though is ludicrous and I understand that but it gave me hope when I first saw it in high school that everything would be OK.

When I first saw the movie, I still in Grade 5 or 6. There are several scenes that I still remember to this day, even though I never new what the title of the movie was. I was pleasantly surprised when I watched Trick or Treat, and realized it was the movie I had been searching for a long time. The memorable scene from my childhood(spoiler alert) was the toilet scene. Despite its age, it was fun to watch even now. Who would not want to see a metal listening nerd get revenge, and also get the girl? Who would have thought an evil rock star could be so bad ass? Who would imagine a rock star playing a priest bashing the music? Other strong points of the movie is the relatable characters such as Eddie, and his friend. The special effects were cool too. And the music before the climax literally rocked. In short, it was a great movie for Halloween.

I've heard about 1986' "Trick or Treat" for years, but didn't get around to seeing it until last night. It's a teen dramedy/horror flick mixing elements of "Christine," "Carrie" and the Freddy Krueger movies, but it strangely never attained the popularity of those films, which explains why there was never a sequel. Like "Christine" and "Carrie," the plot revolves around a semi-outcast in high school being persecuted by the popular crowd and the compulsion to get revenge. In this case, metalhead Eddie Weinbauer (Marc Price) enlists the aid of a dead satanic rock star, Sammi Curr, through the backmasking on a special edition of one of Curr's albums.Gene Simmons of KISS appears as a DJ for a few minutes and Ozzy Osbourne has two scenes as a conservative preacher denouncing rock/metal for a total of a minute.Lisa Orgolini and Elise Richards, both beautiful, stand out as the two main girls in the story, although they shoulda done more with both.The songs on the soundtrack are by Fastway and are reminiscent of mid-80's bands like AC/DC, KISS and Motley Crue. They're simple-yet-catchy hair metal ditties with the corresponding hanging chords and anthemic choruses. BOTTOM LINE: While "Trick or Treat" isn't technically as good as "Christine" or "Carrie," it's not far off and it's on par with the Freddy Krueger movies I've seen. The villain — the semi-resurrected Sammi Curr — is great; he looks and behaves like a mixture of Gene Simmons, Dee Snyder, Blackie Lawless, Nikki Sixx and King Diamond. Too bad the movie didn't become a franchise because Sammi Curr has the ee-vil charisma to give Freddy Krueger a run for his money. While the set-up of the story is compelling, the second half fumbles a bit, but this is made up by the two girls and the rockin' mid-80's soundtrack.The film runs 98 minutes and was shot in Wilmington, NC.GRADE: B+

Oh the fun of playing records backwards to pick up on some sort of cryptic message… and there's a reason to why it's cryptic. This time it's used as a medium to the dead. Forget about seeing the names Gene Simmons and Ozzy Osbourne, as they have nothing more than small guest appearances in this 80s heavy metal horror opus. "Trick or Treat" is your by-the-numbers heavy metal teenager Eddie finds himself an outcast at school, as he's picked on by the high school jocks. To make things worse his music idol Sammi Curr had just died in a hotel fire, but the local radio DJ (Simmons) gives him an only copy of Curr's unreleased album. Upon listening to it, he plays it backwards where Curr sends a message directly to Eddie from beyond the grave. Through this he scares those you picked on him, but then he finds out that he can't control the malevolent spirit of Curr. What starts off like something that would have some sort of social commentary on the unfair image that's garnished from the hard rock scene (like the laughable phrase "rock pornography") or the obsessive nature of idolism or the freedom of expression in what you feel comfortable, but it goes on to settle for a simple junky revenge gone astray angle where it's a race against clock with some basic thrills peppered in. Nothing new, but enjoyable enough in its cheesy gimmicks where its dark edge is never sustained as it seems to have fun at its own expense. The most amusing thing happened to be Ozzy Osbourne's ironically funny cameo, in which he appears on a TV show as a reverend opposed to this sort of music. Nice little in-joke. Simmons is more so sombre in his role. Tony Fields brings a foreboding exuberance to his heavy metal star Curr, but I got more from it before he actually materialises to cause havoc. Still he crafts out a booming presence. Marc Price in the lead as Eddie is affably confident and there are likable turns by Lisa Orgolini and Glen Morgan as his friends. Doug Savant is suitably hateable and Elaine Joyce is a treat as Eddie's always concerned mother. And what is it without thrashing out the hard rock tunes --- it's a scorching soundtrack to boot with former Motorhead Eddie Clarke attached. Director Charles Martin Smith projects a crisp looking production, despite some kitschy optical work and elastically eccentric special effects. Stereotypical, but nonsensical fun.