Trick or Treat

Trick or Treat (1986)

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Character actor Charles Martin Smith directed this quirky horror film about a dead rock star who wreaks vengeance on a small town. When a rock musician is banned from performing at a high school Halloween dance and ends up perishing in a hotel fire, he vows vengeance on the town and comes back from… More

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Oct 24, 1986 Wide
Lorimar Home Video

Critic Reviews

  • Tim Brayton, Antagony & Ecstasy

    It manages to be a sort of dumbly charming.

  • Clint Morris, Moviehole

    Trick or Treat" is reasonable. It shares many unfortunate similarities with Robert Englund's dire "976-Evil" but also some of the finer films of the genre, notably "Carrie".

  • Alex Sandell, Juicy Cerebellum

    I loved metal music when this came out, hence I loved the film. Yes, it's trash, but it's special trash to me.

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Featured Audience Ratings

  • Cory T


    'Trick or Treat' is the prime example of a sleeper: a film that was overlooked upon its release and is actually a kitschy, supremely fun picture in its own right. I love the anti-glorification of the self-destructive rockstar lifestyle and how impressionable teenagers would… More

  • AJ V


    A horror movie where the spirit of a dead heavy metal star is haunting teens! I loved it, it's a fun awesome heavy metal horror movie.

  • Emily A


    It's obscene how much fun this movie is. I speak as a metalhead and a horror nerd, but this movie is just endlessly amusing. I really like the premise too: some high school metalhead is able to hear his dead rock hero speak to him when he spins a rare record backwards. This is… More

  • Dr Blood  


    If nothing else, this should be a warning to heavy metal freaks to stop playing their music backwards.

  • Lee K


    Now this is a good movie that I think a whole lot of people either haven't seen or never knew existed. but if you get the chance to see it i suggest go for it. Marc Price from tv's Family Ties stars as the nerd who is being bullied in school and only has his rock n roll god… More

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