"Trick" is the nickname of Patrick Weaver (Thom Niemann) a semi-creepy 2015 high school senior whose character could have been developed better. At a Halloween party with fellow seniors, Trick stabs a room full of people before getting a poker to the chest. He has a miraculous escape at the hospital and is presumed dead, although the body is never found. Each subsequent Halloween a mass stabbing occurs in a small town along the unnamed New York river. Detective Mike Denver (Omar Epps ) and Sheriff Lisa Jayne (Ellen Adair) are the main investigators. Cheryl Winston (Kristina Reyes),the first girl on the screen, is clearly set up to be the "final girl."

This is a slightly different kind of bloody slasher film, although not unique. There is no decent back story to the killings, which would have made a better film with a "Purge" aspect.

Guide: F-word. No sex or nudity.

It's not always easy to pull off a horror movie and everyone be really on board with it. However you are going to solve the ... mystery, however you are going to put a twist in it, people will dissect it. Not saying that is wrong, if you are into it. But you could also try to enjoy what this is giving you: hardcore horror and slasher material to "enjoy" (remember, it's a only a movie, not reality - even if you hopefully wish this won't happen in reality).

The effects are really good and I don't know if it was planned, but explaining the word Trick at the beginning, kind of elevated the intro to the story. Second guessing things, but failing to actually catch what it didn't show us. At least that is true for me. Not sure, if that little piece of nugget and its reveal will do anything to you or any other viewer and yes the movie is flawed. But the end can be satisfying - even if it doesn't actually make much sense either, because of all the convinient things that had to happen for this to become reality.

So don't overthink (no slasher can withstand that anyway) and just go for the ride ... just don't try this at home! At all!

2015. Deranged high school kid Patrick "Trick" Weaver (a frighteningly intense portrayal by Thom Niemann) butchers a bunch of classmates at a Halloween party. Despite being arrested and shot several times by Detective Mike Denver (a fine performance by Omar Epps),Trick somehow survives and continues to terrorize various towns on every Halloween.

Director/co-writer Patrick Lussier relates the familiar, but still enjoyable and absorbing story at a snappy pace, adroitly crafts a creepy mood, offers a flavorsome Halloween atmosphere, delivers a handy helping of nasty gore, maintains a no-holds-barred tough'n'gritty tone throughout, and pulls off a very clever and neat twist in the last third. Better still, Lussier's fiercely efficient and refreshingly straightforward meat'n'potatoes approach.to the premise works like total gangbusters.

The sturdy acting from a tip-top cast helps a whole lot: Ellen Adair as the no-nonsense Sheriff Lisa Jayne, Kristina Reyes as the feisty Cheryl Winston, Tom Atkins as crusty old guy Talbott, Jerome Charvet as the jittery Deputy Slater, Sasha Diamond as the spunky Deputy Iris Reddick, and Todd Farmer as the rugged Deputy Wan. Trick makes for a scarily anonymous and seemingly indestructible bogeyman figure while the moments of bloody'n'brutal violence pack a ferocious punch. An on the money slice'n'dice winner.