Trick (2019)

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Release Date: Oct 18, 2019
Rated: N/A | Runtime: 106 Mins | Language: English
Director: Patrick Lussier
Stars: Omar Epps, Kristina Reyes, Ellen Adair, Tom Atkins, Jamie Kennedy

Summary

The story centers on an elusive serial killer, who descends upon a small town annually. He is responsible for gruesome murders year after year, each seemingly unrelated. No one believes this could be the same killer. Detective Denver has faced Trick once before, having shot and killed him. Or so everyone keeps telling him. However, Denver knows Trick is still out there, and he’s coming back for revenge.

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What to Expect

Trick, which has been playing in a small selection of theaters across the US, has been very polarizing. Some love it, some hate it. It’s a Halloween slasher, telling the story of Patrick, known as Trick, who is a quiet high school student whose face no one seems to be able to put their finger on. This plays a part later - Trick has been overlooked, and he uses this as fuel for his sinister agenda. When Detective Denver (Epps) tries to look into his background, he finds it impossible to find anything about Trick. Denver has a run-in with Trick and everyone assumes Trick has died, but Denver suspects that he may still be out there.
When a massacre of a similar nature occurs the next Halloween and the next, Denver becomes more and more sure that Trick is alive and taunting the town. But with no leads on who Trick really is, the only way to find him - or his copycat? - is to wait for the next Halloween and get to him before he strikes again.

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Critic Reviews:

With so much horror that seems designed to work psychologically, I believe the time is right for another resurgence in the physical, blunt world of the slasher genre, but “Trick” seems intent to prove me wrong.

– Roger Ebert

Trick is, every bit, a contrived and familiar slasher framework that doesn’t earn points for breaking the mold.

– Flickering Myth

Hardcore gorehounds will be disappointed by the lukewarm scares. Fans of throwback films will groan at the lack of tongue-in-cheek references. Anyone who’s seen a film will groan at the stupidity of it all.

– Film Threat