10 Horror Movies Where NO ONE Is Safe

Michael Dougherty’s directorial debut, Trick R Treat, is about as good a picture as any horror director can hope to make on their first outing, and it doesn’t hold back. The anthology film is knitted together by Sam, a pint-size creature guising in the fictional town of Warren Valley wearing an orange jumpsuit and burlap sack, who is something approximating the deity of Halloween.

Trick R Treat offers no sacred characters, no matter their age, status or seeming centrality to the plot. Indeed, the film opens on Emma (Leslie Bibb), our presumed protagonist, but she is dead by the end of the first segment. She arrives home from a party and seeks to take the Halloween decorations down, before the night is over, and is murdered and mutilated, strung up like a scarecrow on one of her elaborate wooden crosses.

With any conception of main characters out of the way, Trick R treat barrels into its following segments, as we come to understand that there are certain rules one must follow on Halloween if one wants to survive. And those who don’t? Parents, children, teenagers, pensioners, you name it; the cute little god of Halloween sees and smites all equally.