{"id":97,"date":"2010-01-23T20:33:41","date_gmt":"2010-01-24T02:33:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/arcanasphere.com\/blog\/?p=97"},"modified":"2010-01-23T20:33:41","modified_gmt":"2010-01-24T02:33:41","slug":"trick-r-treat-a-trying-journey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arcanasphere.com\/blog\/2010\/01\/trick-r-treat-a-trying-journey\/","title":{"rendered":"Trick R Treat – A Trying Journey"},"content":{"rendered":"

Let me start with the movie. \u00a0The movie was good. \u00a0It was clever. \u00a0It was fun. \u00a0It deserves to become a regular Halloween time event among horror fans.<\/p>\n

This is not about the movie. \u00a0This is the journey to viewing the movie.<\/p>\n

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Trick R Treat Slipcase, Front Cover<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n

This movie has a copyright date of 2008. \u00a0The first review at the Internet Movie Database was dated October 11, 2008. \u00a0Even before the first lucky filmgoers got to see the movie, it was being talked about at the usual horror sites. \u00a0(I have been a member of the forums at www.upcominghorrormovies.com for many, many years now.) \u00a0Posters, photographs, artwork, and stills of the mysterious little boy Sam had created a lot of interest.<\/p>\n

The DVD was not released until October 6, 2009.<\/p>\n

When the dvd was finally released, I ordered it from Amazon in time for Halloween. \u00a0Sadly, some chump in shipping forgot to actually ship it out. \u00a0I love Amazon as well, but this experience was painful. \u00a0I emailed customer service a week after the movie was supposed to arrive, and they replied with a message that told me what I did not need to know about their shipping practices, and to please wait another week for the movie to arrive, because sometimes things are late. \u00a0I continued checking the shipping status of my order, and saw that it had shipped the day I wrote to them with the issue.<\/p>\n

I work for a small internet retail company. \u00a0I would have been quite satisfied to hear the truth, no matter how stupid it made anyone look. \u00a0The reason for this is that they look twice as stupid and practically called me stupid with that chain of events. \u00a0(I still love Amazon, and did a great deal of my Christmas shopping there. \u00a0 As I said, this was the only bad experience with them to date.)<\/p>\n

The worst of it was yet to come, however. Horror movies work on the basis of surprise. Some terrible and unexpected image grabs your attention, and stirs an emotion based on the horrific nature of the event and the surprise of encountering the unexpected.<\/p>\n

The movie would have to wait until both kids were in bed. \u00a0I was still eager to finally watch the movie, and began reading the synopsis on the back of the package. \u00a0The synopsis began telling more about the movie than it should have. \u00a0The information being offered bordered on movie spoilers.<\/p>\n

In favor of the packaging, the front of the cardboard slipcase is really nicely put together. \u00a0It hints at things to come without giving away any of the story.<\/p>\n

This is the last nice thing I will say about the packaging. \u00a0In fact, my children almost learned a few new epitaphs when I pulled the plastic case out of this slip cover.<\/p>\n

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Trick R Treat, Plastic Case, Full-Cover Spoiler<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n

See, I was still feeling eager. \u00a0I was also feeling rather trusting for some insane reason. \u00a0So I decided to pull the movie out of its cardboard sleeve and make sure it was ready as soon as my kids’ heads hit their pillows.<\/p>\n

I do not wish ill to anyone. \u00a0 Whoever did this, however, needs to never work on designing art for another horror movie again. \u00a0Send him back to comping oversized heads on under-sized models to market romantic comedies.<\/p>\n

I will also not repeat the words I wanted to scream when seeing this image. \u00a0There are plenty of blogs and review sites using that kind of language for shock value.<\/p>\n

Roughly 7\/8 of the plastic cover were taken up by the largest, most egregious and unnecessary giveaway that I have ever seen on a horror movie. \u00a0It would be like putting cover art on Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince<\/em> wherein the title character was shown doing the thing he instantly became famous for.<\/p>\n

After the extended wait and non-truth endured just to have the movie shipped out, this cove was absolutely infuriating<\/p>\n

I have posted an altered image of that cover here, with the spoiler blurred out then given a good touch of the whirl tool. \u00a0This is the size of that image relative to the size of the box. \u00a0There is no way to avoid seeing it.<\/p>\n

As I said, the movie was very good. \u00a0It was worth the wait and will no doubt provide a lot of fun for many Halloween seasons to come. \u00a0However, I would have enjoyed it much more by reading a synopsis instead of a low-grade book report on the slipcase. \u00a0I would have also enjoyed the surprise of discovering the information on the plastic cover for myself as well.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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