NIGHT THIRTY-THREE: 🎃 BONUS #3 🎃 Trick or Treat (1986)
The '80s Satanic Panic was a hell of a time to be alive
RICK OR TREAT
(1986, dir. Charles Martin Smith, 97 min.)
Starring Marc Price, Tony Fields, Gene Simmons
The third and final of Cinemonster's "extra credit" picks for this year's challenge. Clearly this was picked due to Ozzy Osbourne's (RIP) brief cameo as an anti-rock fundamentalist preacher on TV. But it's also kind of a fun time capsule of the time when heavy metal (or at least the post-glam/pre-grunge "hair metal" version of it, ca. 1986) was still the subject of moral panics around lyrical content and supposed backward-masked messages.
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Review of ‘Trick or Treat’ (1986) ★★½
HOOPTOBER XII NIGHT THIRTY-TWO BONUS #3: The third and final of Cinemonster's "extra credit" picks for this year's challenge. Clearly this was picked due to Ozzy Osbourne's (RIP) brief cameo as an…
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