How's this for some fantastic news just in time for Halloween?
A sequel to the utterly fantastic Trick 'r Treat has been confirmed by Michael Dougherty.
The first film had a very troubled journey - initially planned for a cinema release in 2007, the movie finally arrived straight-to-DVD in 2009. It was supposed to be the start of a franchise, but the sheer lack of support it received from the studio seemed to have killed any hope of that.
But the movie gained a lot of praise from horror fans, who loved it's anthology nature, consisting of several small, loosely linked tales set on one Halloween night - sort of a spooky horror version of Love Actually, and now a sequel has finally been announced.
Speaking to Entertainment Weekly, Dougherty said: "It’s funny because when I first dreamt up the idea of making the first
film, I thought, “How neat would it be if we made them a series?” I’m a
firm believer that October should be filled with Halloween movies, or
horror movies. That’s something I remember from childhood. Horror movies
and Halloween, they go hand-in-hand. And so the idea was, “Well we
could probably do a Trick ‘r Treat movie every year or every
other year, and that it would sort of just be a new batch of stories and
characters. And the common link between all of them would be Sam [the cloth-headed, child-like creature that linked all the stories: implied to possibly be the literal spirit of Samhain, or Halloween].”
Initially that was the plan, and then things changed as the first film
had a very delayed, strange journey. I put those dreams on hold for a
little while, so it feels good to go back to that initial plan."
While Dougherty said that there is still not a script for the sequel, he did tease that "I can definitely say that we’ll be exploring Sam more and maybe getting into some back story of who and what he actually is."
Personally, I can't wait.
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