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tonight's feature: Trick or Treats (1982) on Shudder
Hot damn, Trick or Treats is a terrible movie. Just stunningly awful. Another movie trying to replicate the success of 1978's Halloween and tripping over its own ineptitude on repeat. Some of the worst acting, writing and dialogue ever put to film.
The premise: the world's shittiest adult aged babysitter is forced to watch the world's most annoying spoiled brat on Halloween night and things get deadly when the psychotic dad (who looks exactly like Meat Loaf) escapes the mental hospital hellbent on revenge. Luckily for the babysitter lady, Meat Loaf dad takes almost the entire film to travel to the house after his escape. The stupid kid keeps pranking the babysitter, to the point where you hate both of them after about 6 minutes. There are other pointless asides: phone calls from the dumb boyfriend, a random scene involving film editors who are working on the babysitter's latest movie, some unknown guy asking her to party as she gets in her car, Meat Loaf dad threatening homeless dudes for their soiled clothes at knifepoint. This movie even had David Carradine listed as the marquee star and he was only in it for 5 minutes at the beginning.
Another film I struggled to finish, Trick or Treats should only be viewed by archivists trying to find the world's shittiest film. My wife came in for the last 20 minutes and even she hated it. 1 short random montage of classic Vegas signs out of 10.
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