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Stop with the trick R treat comparison

posted 7 years ago by OliverGbyrne
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This film is an anthology movie and trick R treat as good as it is did not invent the genre. Before Trick R treat there was Creepshow, tales from the crypt and tales from the Darkside. Trick R treat had stories that were all linked at the end, however tales from Halloween is straightforward with all tales unrelated to each other. So please people don't judge this film while comparing it to trick R treat as it is unfair. I like both films and I found that this had some good stories.

[–] dinoplaysbass-1 7 years ago

Don't forget BLACK SABBATH with Boris Karloff

[–] TheBeardedWonder 7 years ago

Agreed. Trick r treat is a modern classic, and is well on its way to cult status. This is a fun Halloween anthology film with more hits than misses in my opinion. Just because a shining example of the genre came out doesn't mean another one can't ever be made.

However some of the stories in this are connected. The girl that stabs the guy who answers the door walks by the characters in another story - the prank one with the little boy perhaps? Anyway, the movie night of the living dead is also playing on more than one TV in the movie as well. So there's some connection going on.

[–] KingCobra686 7 years ago

Yeah there were some minor connections between the stories. Don't forget the police in one of the last ones listing off all the things that had been happening in the other stories in their police report.

[–] Stovepipe99 7 years ago

So please people don't judge this film while comparing it to trick R treat as it is unfair.

I don't think it's unfair to compare two movies that are so similar: both are anthology horror films centered on Halloween night and taking place in the same "universe" (as in certain characters appear in more than one segment).

I watched half of this one last night and will probably finish it tonight. The comparison to Trick R Treat is immediate, obvious, and unavoidable. From what I've seen so far Tales of Halloween is not the superior of the two movies, but that doesn't mean it can't be a decent entry in the genre of anthology horror. I'm liking it more than Southbound, for example.

Trick R Treat might have had a better caliber of actors, but anthology movies live or die by the writing and the pacing of the shorts. I'd say that I'm moderately impressed with that writing in Tales of Halloween and I think that the direction is okay. I'm still waiting (again, I'm halfway through the movie) for an image that's really haunting (like the children on the school bus in their masks from Trick R Treat).

Obviously the conversation about this movie shouldn't begin and end with "Well, it isn't as good as Trick R Treat." But if I found out there was a new horror anthology taking place on Halloween, one of the first things I'd want to know is how it stacked up against Trick R Treat. I don't think that Trick R Treat is so great that it has set the bar impossibly high for other horror anthologies.

[–] captain_werewolf 7 years ago

Both were good. Both had their own charm.