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* AcclaimedFlop: The film received positive reviews from critics and has since grown into a beloved CultClassic that is often considered one of the prime examples of a movie that captures the essence of the Halloween spirit. However, it ended up getting passed around the film festival circuit before finally getting released DirectToVideo with a total profit of a mere $27,909 against a $12 million budget in its limited theatrical run. However, its long-lasting popularity has given it a new life in terms of merchandise and streaming sales, and it received a theatrical rerelease in October 2022.
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** As there is already a movie titled ''Film/TrickOrTreat'', they got around this by changing the 'or' to 'R'.
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* TheMerch: Sam has become a major staple of the seasonal retailer Spirit Halloween's line-up; rare is the branch that doesn't feature his face on at least some form of merchandise.
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* ExecutiveMeddling: Subverted. Earlier cuts of the movie removed the sequence of Wilkinson carrying Charlie's body inside, but Michael Dougherty "fought like a motherfucker" to get it restored. The studio didn't want it cut for its content, but for the BlackComedy - as they were toying with the idea of marketing it as a more straightforward horror.
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* FanNickname: For the film itself, it's "a more Halloween-y movie than Film/{{Halloween|1978}}", and for Sam it's "Film/{{Pumpkinhead}}".
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* SparedByTheCut: Inverted. A scene was shot confirming Spite the dog's survival, but it was cut, so he's implied to die.
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* ActorAllusion: C Ernst Harth cameos as a man dressed as a baby. He'd previously starred in ''Film/Thir13enGhosts'' as 'the Great Child', also a giant baby. Both films were distributed by Warner Bros.
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* {{Tuckerization}}: The chocolate bar that features heavily in the Mr Kreeg sequence is given the name LHOTKA, after the producer Peter Lhotka.
* UnintentionalPeriodPiece: Downplayed. The cell phones Laurie and Danielle use instantly date the movie to the 2000s, as does the conspicuous lack of smart phones being seen in the party scenes.
* UnintentionalPeriodPiece: Downplayed. The cell phones Laurie and Danielle use instantly date the movie to the 2000s, as does the conspicuous lack of smart phones being seen in the party scenes.
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** The title was going to be 'Season's Greetings', same as Michael Dougherty's short film that introduced the Sam character. Other potential titles included 'Halloween Terrors', 'Jack O' Lantern Tales' and 'October the 31st'.
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* WorkingTitle: The title was going to be 'Season's Greetings', same as Michael Dougherty's short film that introduced the Sam character. Other potential titles included 'Halloween Terrors', 'Jack O' Lantern Tales' and 'October the 31st'.
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* WorkingTitle: The title was going to be 'Season's Greetings', same as Michael Dougherty's short film that introduced the Sam character. Other potential titles included 'Halloween Terrors', 'Jack O' Lantern Tales' and 'October the 31st'.
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* FanNickname: For the film itself, it's "a more Halloween-y movie than Film/{{Halloween|1978}}", and for Sam it's "Film/{{Pumpkinhead}}"
* ScrewedByTheNetwork: Oh boy. Despite Michael Doughtery's [[Film/X2XMenUnited collaborations]] [[Film/SupermanReturns with]] Creator/BryanSinger, the film played at various festivals in 2007, missed its planned release date, and was later unceremoniously dumped [[DirectToDVD onto DVD]], perhaps due to Warner Bros. feeling skittish that the film would fail against ''Film/SawIV'' or the studio's disappointment with ''Film/SupermanReturns''. Despite this, the film wound up becoming a CultClassic with plans for a follow-up and Dougherty's SpiritualSuccessor ''Film/{{Krampus}}'' getting a theatrical release.[[note]] However with Universal distributing instead of WB. [[/note]]
** It's also probably notable that in 2015, with the film having garnered geek-cred for years, and with Krampus' release on the horizon, the film still has had exactly ONE DVD release. No special editions with loads of bonus features, just a fairly basic DVD. It's still in print, at least, and available on Amazon.
** However, there is a Blu-ray release that features the film in high definition and all of the bonuses on the original DVD.
** Heck Shout Factory announced a Collectors Edition to be released in Blu-Ray. Solidifying itself as a big hitter in the market.
* ScrewedByTheNetwork: Oh boy. Despite Michael Doughtery's [[Film/X2XMenUnited collaborations]] [[Film/SupermanReturns with]] Creator/BryanSinger, the film played at various festivals in 2007, missed its planned release date, and was later unceremoniously dumped [[DirectToDVD onto DVD]], perhaps due to Warner Bros. feeling skittish that the film would fail against ''Film/SawIV'' or the studio's disappointment with ''Film/SupermanReturns''. Despite this, the film wound up becoming a CultClassic with plans for a follow-up and Dougherty's SpiritualSuccessor ''Film/{{Krampus}}'' getting a theatrical release.[[note]] However with Universal distributing instead of WB. [[/note]]
** It's also probably notable that in 2015, with the film having garnered geek-cred for years, and with Krampus' release on the horizon, the film still has had exactly ONE DVD release. No special editions with loads of bonus features, just a fairly basic DVD. It's still in print, at least, and available on Amazon.
** However, there is a Blu-ray release that features the film in high definition and all of the bonuses on the original DVD.
** Heck Shout Factory announced a Collectors Edition to be released in Blu-Ray. Solidifying itself as a big hitter in the market.
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* ActingForTwo: Quinn Lord plays both Sam and the boy spying on Laurie and her friends in the costume shop.
* ActorAllusion: C Ernst Harth cameos as a man dressed as a baby. He'd previously starred in ''Film/Thir13enGhosts'' as 'the Great Child', also a giant baby. Both films were distributed by Warner Bros.
* CaliforniaDoubling: The film's setting is Warren Valley, Ohio. It was shot in Vancouver, Canada.
* CastTheExpert: Most of the extras for the street party were members of Vancouver's Parade of Lost Souls - who do that every year for Halloween.
* DisabledCharacterDisabledActor: The performers playing the disabled children who died on the school bus all were either disabled or injured in some way themselves.
* EnforcedMethodActing: When Laurie is walking through the forest, Anna Paquin's scared reaction came from Michael Dougherty unexpectedly screaming off camera at her. Initially annoyed at this, she later admitted it made her performance more authentic.
* ExecutiveMeddling: Subverted. Earlier cuts of the movie removed the sequence of Wilkinson carrying Charlie's body inside, but Michael Dougherty "fought like a motherfucker" to get it restored. The studio didn't want it cut for its content, but for the BlackComedy - as they were toying with the idea of marketing it as a more straightforward horror.
* FakeAmerican: Well, with most of the movie being filmed in Canada, you can expect a lot of said Canadians playing Americans. But more obvious examples are Anna Paquin (New Zealand) and Brian Cox (Scottish).
* FanNickname: For the film itself, it's "a more Halloween-y movie than Film/{{Halloween|1978}}", and for Sam it's"Film/{{Pumpkinhead}}"
"Film/{{Pumpkinhead}}".
*ScrewedByTheNetwork: PlayingWithCharacterType: Anna Paquin as the TokenWholesome and potential FinalGirl of the group seems like a logical casting choice. [[spoiler: Then she's revealed to be a werewolf]].
* ScrewedByTheNetwork:
** Oh boy. Despite Michael Doughtery's [[Film/X2XMenUnited collaborations]] [[Film/SupermanReturns with]] Creator/BryanSinger, the film played at various festivals in 2007, missed its planned release date, and was later unceremoniously dumped [[DirectToDVD onto DVD]], perhaps due to Warner Bros. feeling skittish that the film would fail against ''Film/SawIV'' or the studio's disappointment with ''Film/SupermanReturns''. Despite this, the film wound up becoming a CultClassic with plans for a follow-up and Dougherty's SpiritualSuccessor ''Film/{{Krampus}}'' getting a theatrical release.[[note]] However with Universal distributing instead of WB. [[/note]]
** It's also probably notable that in 2015, with the film having garnered geek-cred for years, and with Krampus' release on the horizon, the film still has had exactly ONE DVD release. No special editions with loads of bonus features, just a fairly basic DVD.It's still in print, at least, It eventually got a Blu-Ray release, and available on Amazon.
** However, therea collector's edition.
* SparedByTheCut: Inverted. A scene was shot confirming Spite the dog's survival, but it was cut, so he's implied to die.
* ThrowItIn: Brian Cox improvised the wheezing that Kreeg does in his segment. Michael Dougherty then added it into [[spoiler: the flashback as an extra RewatchBonus that Kreeg isa Blu-ray release the bus driver]].
* {{Tuckerization}}: The chocolate bar that features heavily in the Mr Kreeg sequence is given the name LHOTKA, after the producer Peter Lhotka.
* UnintentionalPeriodPiece: Downplayed. The cell phones Laurie and Danielle use instantly date the movie to the 2000s, as does the conspicuous lack of smart phones being seen in the party scenes.
* WhatCouldHaveBeen:
** The title was going to be 'Season's Greetings', same as Michael Dougherty's short filmin high definition that introduced the Sam character. Other potential titles included 'Halloween Terrors', 'Jack O' Lantern Tales' and all 'October the 31st'.
** The rock quarry scene was initially written to take place in a pumpkin patch.
** The black and white educational film that's part of thebonuses on opening was originally just shot for the trailer. The director liked it so much, he added it in.
** Michael Dougherty expressed an interest in doing "a super special edition which allowed you to watch the stories by themselves."
** The [[spoiler: werewolf orgy]] in the forest was going to be set to Peggy Lee's "Fever". They then decided it needed to have something edgier and more aggressive - so they went with Marilyn Manson's cover of "Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This)".
** An early idea was for Ronda to turn out to be DeadAllAlong, but Michael Dougherty changed it after seeing it used in several other films.
* WritingAroundTrademarks:
** As there is already a movie titled ''Film/TrickOrTreat'', they got around this by changing the 'or' to 'R'.
** The filmmakers likewise had to come up with originalDVD.
** Heck Shout Factory announced a Collectors Edition to be releasedcandy names, as they couldn't use recognisable brands ("because all of our candy in Blu-Ray. Solidifying itself as a big hitter in the market.this film is either poisoned or filled with razor blades").
* ActorAllusion: C Ernst Harth cameos as a man dressed as a baby. He'd previously starred in ''Film/Thir13enGhosts'' as 'the Great Child', also a giant baby. Both films were distributed by Warner Bros.
* CaliforniaDoubling: The film's setting is Warren Valley, Ohio. It was shot in Vancouver, Canada.
* CastTheExpert: Most of the extras for the street party were members of Vancouver's Parade of Lost Souls - who do that every year for Halloween.
* DisabledCharacterDisabledActor: The performers playing the disabled children who died on the school bus all were either disabled or injured in some way themselves.
* EnforcedMethodActing: When Laurie is walking through the forest, Anna Paquin's scared reaction came from Michael Dougherty unexpectedly screaming off camera at her. Initially annoyed at this, she later admitted it made her performance more authentic.
* ExecutiveMeddling: Subverted. Earlier cuts of the movie removed the sequence of Wilkinson carrying Charlie's body inside, but Michael Dougherty "fought like a motherfucker" to get it restored. The studio didn't want it cut for its content, but for the BlackComedy - as they were toying with the idea of marketing it as a more straightforward horror.
* FakeAmerican: Well, with most of the movie being filmed in Canada, you can expect a lot of said Canadians playing Americans. But more obvious examples are Anna Paquin (New Zealand) and Brian Cox (Scottish).
* FanNickname: For the film itself, it's "a more Halloween-y movie than Film/{{Halloween|1978}}", and for Sam it's
*
* ScrewedByTheNetwork:
** Oh boy. Despite Michael Doughtery's [[Film/X2XMenUnited collaborations]] [[Film/SupermanReturns with]] Creator/BryanSinger, the film played at various festivals in 2007, missed its planned release date, and was later unceremoniously dumped [[DirectToDVD onto DVD]], perhaps due to Warner Bros. feeling skittish that the film would fail against ''Film/SawIV'' or the studio's disappointment with ''Film/SupermanReturns''. Despite this, the film wound up becoming a CultClassic with plans for a follow-up and Dougherty's SpiritualSuccessor ''Film/{{Krampus}}'' getting a theatrical release.[[note]] However with Universal distributing instead of WB. [[/note]]
** It's also probably notable that in 2015, with the film having garnered geek-cred for years, and with Krampus' release on the horizon, the film still has had exactly ONE DVD release. No special editions with loads of bonus features, just a fairly basic DVD.
** However, there
* SparedByTheCut: Inverted. A scene was shot confirming Spite the dog's survival, but it was cut, so he's implied to die.
* ThrowItIn: Brian Cox improvised the wheezing that Kreeg does in his segment. Michael Dougherty then added it into [[spoiler: the flashback as an extra RewatchBonus that Kreeg is
* {{Tuckerization}}: The chocolate bar that features heavily in the Mr Kreeg sequence is given the name LHOTKA, after the producer Peter Lhotka.
* UnintentionalPeriodPiece: Downplayed. The cell phones Laurie and Danielle use instantly date the movie to the 2000s, as does the conspicuous lack of smart phones being seen in the party scenes.
* WhatCouldHaveBeen:
** The title was going to be 'Season's Greetings', same as Michael Dougherty's short film
** The rock quarry scene was initially written to take place in a pumpkin patch.
** The black and white educational film that's part of the
** Michael Dougherty expressed an interest in doing "a super special edition which allowed you to watch the stories by themselves."
** The [[spoiler: werewolf orgy]] in the forest was going to be set to Peggy Lee's "Fever". They then decided it needed to have something edgier and more aggressive - so they went with Marilyn Manson's cover of "Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This)".
** An early idea was for Ronda to turn out to be DeadAllAlong, but Michael Dougherty changed it after seeing it used in several other films.
* WritingAroundTrademarks:
** As there is already a movie titled ''Film/TrickOrTreat'', they got around this by changing the 'or' to 'R'.
** The filmmakers likewise had to come up with original
** Heck Shout Factory announced a Collectors Edition to be released
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* [[ScrewedByTheNetwork Screwed By The Studio]]: Oh boy. Despite Michael Doughtery's [[Film/X2XMenUnited collaborations]] [[Film/SupermanReturns with]] Creator/BryanSinger, the film played at various festivals in 2007, missed its planned release date, and was later unceremoniously dumped [[DirectToDVD onto DVD]], perhaps due to Warner Bros. feeling skittish that the film would fail against ''Film/SawIV'' or the studio's disappointment with ''Film/SupermanReturns''. Despite this, the film wound up becoming a CultClassic with plans for a follow-up and Dougherty's SpiritualSuccessor ''Film/{{Krampus}}'' getting a theatrical release.[[note]] However with Universal distributing instead of WB. [[/note]]
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* CastingGag: Tahmoh Penikett's wife is wearing a [[Series/BattlestarGalactica2003 silver robot costume]].
* [[ScrewedByTheNetwork Screwed By The Studio]]:ScrewedByTheNetwork: Oh boy. Despite Michael Doughtery's [[Film/X2XMenUnited collaborations]] [[Film/SupermanReturns with]] Creator/BryanSinger, the film played at various festivals in 2007, missed its planned release date, and was later unceremoniously dumped [[DirectToDVD onto DVD]], perhaps due to Warner Bros. feeling skittish that the film would fail against ''Film/SawIV'' or the studio's disappointment with ''Film/SupermanReturns''. Despite this, the film wound up becoming a CultClassic with plans for a follow-up and Dougherty's SpiritualSuccessor ''Film/{{Krampus}}'' getting a theatrical release.[[note]] However with Universal distributing instead of WB. [[/note]]
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* HeyItsThatGuy :This film feels a bit like an ''Film/X2XMenUnited'' reunion: Bryan Singer, Michael Dougherty, Brian Cox, and Anna Paquin were all involved in both movies.
** Anna Paquin getting [[TrueBlood stalked by a vampire]], no less.
** On a more obscure note, Thurman Merman of ''BadSanta'' plays Charlie, the trick-or-treater poisoned by Steven.
** Who knew [[WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic Princess Cadance]] and [[Series/KyleXY Josh Trager]] could do something so cruel?
** Man, [[Series/DeadLikeMe Reggie]] is such a little bitch, and [[Series/DeadLikeMe Delores Herbig]] throws a pretty creepy party...
** [[Film/SpiderManTrilogy Dr. Curt Connors]] is now a principal. As well as a murderer.
** Anna Paquin getting [[TrueBlood stalked by a vampire]], no less.
** On a more obscure note, Thurman Merman of ''BadSanta'' plays Charlie, the trick-or-treater poisoned by Steven.
** Who knew [[WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic Princess Cadance]] and [[Series/KyleXY Josh Trager]] could do something so cruel?
** Man, [[Series/DeadLikeMe Reggie]] is such a little bitch, and [[Series/DeadLikeMe Delores Herbig]] throws a pretty creepy party...
** [[Film/SpiderManTrilogy Dr. Curt Connors]] is now a principal. As well as a murderer.
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** It's also probably notable that in 2015, with the film having garnered geek-cred for years, and with Krampus' release on the horizon, the film still has had exactly ONE DVD release. No special editions with loads of bonus features, just a fairly basic DVD. It's still in print, at least, and available on Amazon.
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** It's also probably notable that in 2015, with the film having garnered geek-cred for years, and with Krampus' release on the horizon, the film still has had exactly ONE DVD release. No special editions with loads of bonus features, just a fairly basic DVD.
** It's also probably notable that in 2015, with the film having garnered geek-cred for years, and with Krampus' release on the horizon, the film still has had exactly ONE DVD release. No special editions with loads of bonus features, just a fairly basic DVD.
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** Who knew [[KyleXY Josh Trager]] could do something so cruel?
** Man, [[DeadLikeMe Reggie]] is such a little bitch, and [[DeadLikeMe Delores Herbig]] throws a pretty creepy party...
** Man, [[DeadLikeMe Reggie]] is such a little bitch, and [[DeadLikeMe Delores Herbig]] throws a pretty creepy party...
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** Who knew [[KyleXY [[Series/KyleXY Josh Trager]] could do something so cruel?
** Man,[[DeadLikeMe [[Series/DeadLikeMe Reggie]] is such a little bitch, and [[DeadLikeMe [[Series/DeadLikeMe Delores Herbig]] throws a pretty creepy party...
** Man,
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* HeyItsThatGuy :This film feels a bit like an ''Film/X2XMenUnited'' reunion: Bryan Singer, Michael Dougherty, Brian Cox, and Anna Paquin were all involved in both movies.
** Anna Paquin getting [[TrueBlood stalked by a vampire]], no less.
** On a more obscure note, Thurman Merman of ''BadSanta'' plays Charlie, the trick-or-treater poisoned by Steven.
** Who knew [[KyleXY Josh Trager]] could do something so cruel?
** Man, [[DeadLikeMe Reggie]] is such a little bitch, and [[DeadLikeMe Delores Herbig]] throws a pretty creepy party...
** Anna Paquin getting [[TrueBlood stalked by a vampire]], no less.
** On a more obscure note, Thurman Merman of ''BadSanta'' plays Charlie, the trick-or-treater poisoned by Steven.
** Who knew [[KyleXY Josh Trager]] could do something so cruel?
** Man, [[DeadLikeMe Reggie]] is such a little bitch, and [[DeadLikeMe Delores Herbig]] throws a pretty creepy party...
