Trick or Treat (1986 film)

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Trick or Treat
Directed by	Charles Martin Smith
Produced by	Michael S. Murphey, Joel Soisson
Written by	Rhet Topham (story), Joel Soisson, Michael S. Murphey
Starring	Marc Price, Tony Fields, Lisa Orgolini, Doug Savant
Music by	Fast Eddie Clarke, Dave King Fastway, Christopher Young
Cinematography	Robert Elswit
Editing by	Jane Schwartz Jaffe
Distributed by	DeLaurentiis Entertainment Group
Release date(s)	October 24, 1986
Running time	98 min
Country	USA
Language	English
IMDb profile

Trick or Treat is a 1986 horror film by DeLaurentiis Entertainment Group, starring Marc Price (of “Family Ties”), Tony Fields, and Lisa Orgolini, with special appearances by Gene Simmons and Ozzy Osbourne. All Sammi Curr music done by the band Fastway.

[edit] Plot

High school outcast Eddie Weinbauer is writing a letter to his hero, metal musician Sammi Curr. He puts the letter in an envelope and starts doing his chores. He watches the news at the same time when he hears the worst words to ever reach his mind: Sammi Curr has died in a mysterious hotel fire. He is completely devastated. He goes to his friend "Nuke" (Gene Simmons), a deejay who knew Sammi Curr personally. To take Eddie's mind off the death of his idol, Nuke gives Eddie the only copy of Curr's last and only unreleased album on an acetate disc.

Once back home, Eddie fell asleep while listening to the record and has a strange dream about the fire that killed Sammi Curr. When he wakes up he finds that the record is skipping and after listening to it for a few seconds he comes to realize that there is something not right about the words the record is stuck on. Having previous experience with hidden lyrics, Eddie plays the record backwards but receives more than he imagined: Sammi Curr speaking to him from beyond the grave.

Sammi instructs him on how to go about getting revenge on a group of bullies that like to torment Eddie. At first the revenge is innocent enough, but after a while the plans start to become more sinister until Eddie finally tries cutting ties with the dead rocker, but Sammi won't let him. Eddie accidentally spills some soda on the record which causes an electrical surge that gives Sammi just the amount of energy he needs to get out of the record and become able to carry out his sinister plans without the help of another; the only set back is that Sammi can only travel through radios or anything else electronic, so, no radios, no way for Sammi to carry out his plans. Eddie goes on a path to destroying every radio he sees to prevent Sammi from carrying out his plans.This leads to a final confrontation between Eddie and Sammi. Eddie finally lures Sammi (in a cassette tape) to a police car and starts dissing and insulting him until he breaks out and tries to attack Eddie from behind a gate in the car. Eddie drives the police car off an unfinished bridge, short-circuiting the tape, thus, destroying Sammi.

Blackie Lawless of W.A.S.P was to originally play Sammi Curr. Ozzy Osbourne plays a televangelist decrying the evils of heavy metal music.

[edit] Trivia

"Lunch Of The Dead" is displayed on a cinema marquee. According to The Internet Movie Database, no such film exists. It was probably made up by Trick Or Treat's film company to avoid infringement.
In the stack of records the mother looks at, the last LP is a copy of Megadeth's Killing Is My Business... And Business Is Good!, with a cut corner. Normally a record with cut corners denotes that it was a radio promo, or was for discounted sale only.
The other records in the stack were also real releases. Included was a 4 song E.P. by U.S. heavy metal/horror rock band Impaler, Rise of the Mutants, and Canadian Thrash Metal band Exciter's 1986 LP Unveiling the Wicked and Savatage's 1984 release The Dungeons Are Calling.
On the walls in Eddies room there are posters of Judas Priest, Anthrax, Raven, Twisted Sister, Mötley Crüe, Ozzy Osbourne and Kiss. On his locker door in school there is also a sticker with Lizzy Borden.
Director/Actor Charles Martin Smith (The Untouchables) plays the high school principal.
Co-Composer Christopher Young went on to compose music for the films "The Gift", "Urban Legend", "Ghost Rider", and "Spider-man 3"
Anchor Bay Entertainment was all set to release a 20th Anniversary DVD in 2006, but due to music copyrights, the release was cancelled. Anchor Bay so far has no plans to release any kind of DVD, as the only known DVD is a bargain DVD from Platinum Disc Corporation, which is now Echo Bridge Entertainment
In a scene when the mother is about to go out with her boyfriend, who is dressed up like a Vietnam G.I., a microphone is highly visible above her
Some people believe the cover to be misleading because it shows Gene Simmons and Ozzy Osbourne starring in the movie, when actually they only make very brief cameo appearances.