Trick 'r Treat (2007)
Directed by Michael Dougherty
Four interwoven stories that occur on Halloween: an everyday high school principal has a secret life as a serial killer; a college virgin might have just met the one guy for her; a group of teenagers pull a mean prank, and a bitter old recluse receives an uninvited guest.
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Dougherty made waves with his acclaimed 2008 Halloween anthology film Trick ‘r Treat , and he transfers his focus to the yuletide season with less impressive results in Krampus .
Director-cowriter Michael Dougherty made the well-regarded (by horror fans) Halloween anthology Trick 'r Treat.
Nonetheless, director Michael Dougherty (who made the Halloween-themed "Trick 'r Treat" several years back) revels in the tension and excitement provided by a supernatural home invasion, and he keeps things moving fast enough that we don't have much time to ponder the details, or to notice that the dialogue tends to be flat.
Like he did with his Halloween-themed horror anthology Trick 'r Treat, co-writer/director Michael Dougherty infuses the film with a rich sense of mythology.
Directed by Michael Dougherty with the same eye for lovingly detailed genre re-creation that shaped his 2009 indie-horror anthology, “Trick ’r Treat” (with 1984’s “Gremlins” as the obvious touchstone here), “Krampus” isn’t especially scary, but it generates goodwill nonetheless for treating its home-invasion-for-the-holidays setup with an appreciably straight face.
In 2009, after two years of senseless delays courtesy of a woefully misguided Warner Bros. Pictures, writer-director Michael Dougherty finally saw the release of his acclaimed interwoven anthology " Trick 'r Treat ."
From Tales in the Hood to Trick ’r Treat, anthologies are a perfect vehicle for delivering a feeling and a vibe without allowing the scares to be bogged down.