Name: Trick
Director: Patrick Lussier
Genre: Horror, Halloween Horror
Released: 2019
Rating: 5.8

Synopsis

A detective tries to track down a masked killer who reappears every Halloween to wreak bloody havoc.

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Summary adapted from TMDb and Wikipedia sources.

🎄 Holiday Cheer Breakdown

☠️ Takes place on or around a holiday —
☠️ Features holiday symbols and decorations —
☠️ Features a traditional holiday activity —
☠️ Features an iconic holiday character —
☠️ Someone is killed in a festive or holiday-specific way —

Content Warnings

⭐ IMDb Parents Guide 🛡️ Common Sense Media

someone is stalked

Yes

alcohol abuse

spoiler There’s a lot of drinking throughout this movie. I dunno if you’d consider it abusing necessarily,but there’s a lot of drinking scenes.

someone is restrained

Yes

there's finger/toe mutilation

spoiler A character's fingers are severed while trying to loosen a cord around someone's neck. It happens offscreen, but you see the loose fingers fall to the ground.

someone struggles to breathe

spoiler A character has a cord tightened against their neck for several moments before being decapitated by it.

someone falls to their death

Yes

there's torture

Yes

heads get squashed

spoiler Yes,a cross type off object (it looks to be someone’s headstone) is swung into a car’s windshield and hits a character. It doesn’t show when it happens,only afterwards. It is quite graphic though.

someone breaks a bone

Yes

there's excessive gore

Yes

there's shaving/cutting

Yes

a kid dies

spoiler Teenagers but not a little kid

a parent dies

Yes

there are clowns

Yes

there's ghosts

spoiler Throughout the movie there is an assumption that maybe the killer is dead and “ghost”. But there’s a plot twist at the end. I don’t wanna spoil it though.

there are jump scares

spoiler Some might feel that there are but I didn't really jump to anything.

there's a hospital scene

Yes

Someone attempts suicide

spoiler ***SPOILER*** At first it looks like a character commits suicide by jumping off a roof. But eventually later in the movie it comes out that the character and the killer were fighting on the roof,and the character was pushed off. So it looked like a suicide.

there's flashing lights or images

spoiler From what I remember no,but there are bright lights flashed at the camera (think bright like a flash light). It bothered me a bit so I thought I would give a warning to others.

there are homophobic slurs

spoiler No, but characters make fun of and taunt a male classmate for refusing to kiss another boy during "spin the bottle".

an LGBT person dies

spoiler A nonbinary character is killed right after telling another character they just met a girl.

the black guy dies first

spoiler Near the end of the movie they make you think the black character dies. But they end up surviving.

a car crashes

Yes

there's gun violence

spoiler Police officers use guns throughout this movie.

there's blood/gore

Yes