Such a frustrating disappointment

Instant Favorite.

As somebody who had not heard any of this before, it became a curious phenomenon to sit and watch a film and slowly have the realities begin to click into place.

It is an exhilarating, distressing, funny and profound film, with one of the more memorable film scores in years,

Marc Price plays Eddie Weinbauer, a hopeless heavy metal dork who gets sucked into the world of the occult when his shock-rock idol, Sammy Curr (Tony Fields, playing an off-brand Alice Cooper) dies in a mysterious fire. A local rock-radio DJ (Gene Simmons) takes pity on Eddie's plight and bestows upon him the only copy of Curr's last recording. To say the production of this recording leaves much to be desired would be an understatement, which is to say nothing of its shoddy song-writing. Perhaps growing tired of its lack of melody or any discernible hooks, Eddie is inspired to start playing the record backwards, and soon discovers that there are Satanic messages/directives back-masked throughout. Soon, he's putting the archetypal school jocks (who feel imported from a "Karate Kid" film) in their place and somehow winning the affections of his cute schoolmate Leslie (Lisa Orgolini). There's also some business about a slobbering demon and ear-melting headphones, but pay no mind."Trick Or Treat" is the sort of film that existed only in obscurity until sometime in the early 2000s when it started cropping up in $5 bargain bins everywhere. Its promise of heavy metal/horror movie debauchery with Gene Simmons and Ozzy Osbourne (who appears in but a cameo) front and center too much to resist, the film is ultimately the best kind of bait and switch. The film's main focus is on its dweebish but painfully relatable protagonist. Produced amidst the great slasher boom of the mid-'80s, "Trick Or Treat" is refreshing if not utterly silly. Its plot and tone feels like "The Breakfast Club" filtered through John Carpenter's "Christine" and even at its most cringe-inducing, doesn't fail to entertain. Punctuating the action is a rather rad heavy metal soundtrack, mostly provided by the obscure yet apt Fastlane.The special effects by Kevin Yagher ("Child's Play") are none too shabby for their time, and likewise, the acting from the kids is about on par with other films of its era. Its concept is admittedly thin and sometimes stretched too thin, but the film has more than enough charm and delivers enough laughs (unintentional or otherwise) that any flaws are ultimately forgiven. Fans of '80s schlock won't want to pass this one up, even if its DVD currently features a pretty hefty price tag. Who knew raiding the $5 bin at your local big box store 15 years ago could've been a worthy investment?

Fun little flick! Fans of 80's horror and metal will cherish it. Unfortunately, its releases so far are hugely inadequate. This cult favorite desperately needs a properly restored DVD/Blu-ray with remastered picture and sound! And if possible, commentary, trailers, TV spots, featurettes, music videos, original theatrical artwork poster cover, etc.So I ask- what can be done to expedite the process of music and movie licensing nonsense in order to get Anchor Bay or whoever to out a proper release? Should we write to Fastway's label or whoever owns DEG movies? Come on Anchor Bay or Blue Underground, get on this! Maybe we should write to Mark Price? Any suggestions would be welcomed.

I believe the soundtrack had the rocker band called "Fastway"? They rocked the sounds. with guest stars Ozy, and others, it was worth watching. Fastway is an under rated band of the 80s. Had some good moving the record backwards to hear the devils warning. basic kid is not understood by parents, puts music and rock n roll above all else, has his room decorated to the max in rock n roll, the movie was alright, the stars were better, and the music, soundtrack was perfect. well worth checking out, and if you haven't heard of fastway, and you like heavy metal of the 80's, your missing out on an important part of the 80's.

Actually, I never bought into the metal was satanic and stuff, but this movie kind of played on that idea. Though certainly not a movie to take seriously or to rate really high, it does serve its purpose in that it entertains while it is playing. The story has a metal band burned to death in their hotel, one of their fans has a dream to this effect and said band starts to go on a kill spree from beyond the grave. So yes, a bit of "Nightmare on Elm Street" plot going on here. Granted Freddy never molested a girl in a car before. There was another movie featuring a heavy metal band in it, but it was very different in how it played out as it had a band that kind of took over a town of kids and made them crazy. This one simply has the one fan of the band kind of helping the killer spirit at first then trying to stop him. Nothing to gruesome in it as I do not remember all that many gory kills. Quite frankly, the scene I do remember most is the scene of the girl wearing the headphones and then being molested by some creature incarnation of the band. Nothing great, but a nice time filler.