Over two years ago a little film was produced to great acclaim at film festivals and screenings for those lucky enough to see the film. This film would then go on to sit on a studio shelf with no release date on the nearby horizon. The film in question is TRICK ‘R TREAT. Written & directed by Michael Dougherty the film is a Halloween anthology in the same vein as CREEPSHOW and as such Dougherty wanted to craft a graphic novel that depicted the film in all its gory detail and thus there is now this adaptation by Marc Andreyko with artwork supplied by Mike Huddleston (chapter 1), Grant Bond (chapter 2), Christopher Gugliotti (chapter 3), and Fiona Staples (chapter 4).
The graphic novel follows the film pretty faithfully considering how much has to be trimmed in order to accommodate the format and the four artists do a great job in giving each chapter a unique identity of their own. The who thing comes off as a nice little gift for the Halloween season.
For those of you not familiar with TRICK ‘R TREAT it is the story of several groups of people celebrating the traditions of Halloween and what happens when those traditions are not honored. To make sure that everything goes off as befitting those traditions is the enigmatic Sam, a small child-like person who wears a burlap sack over his head. He is the window through which all the stories are connected.
Although a brief and very fun read, this graphic novel doesn’t have the punch of the CREEPSHOW graphic novel which is partially due to the fact that all the stories interconnect in one way or another, so, each individual story cannot be viewed as such (even though a different artist focuses on each chapter). As a whole the project is not so bad and it may become another great addition to the CREEPSHOW, CREEPY, EERIE, or TALES FROM THE CRYPT mode.
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On the set of the short film "A Gift"
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