Trick is a Todd Farmer / Patrick Lussier collaboration that snuck up on us today. It's about a masked psycho who goes on a killing spree at a Halloween party in 2015, and while he's seemingly defeated, he tends to return every year to up his bodycount.

A fun fact about Farmer/Lussier is that they were supposed to direct a sequel to RZ's Halloween 2, but that never took off. They must have put a lot of thought into the idea of a Halloween slasher and didn't want to let it go, so they created this movie instead. Now mind you, the final product turns out vastly different than anything regarding Michael Myers, but it must have been in their thought process when they decided to created a seemingly indestructible seasonal slasher.

The movie deals primarily with the detective trying to hunt down the killer each year, only 'Trick' is always one step ahead of him. Sometimes, annoyingly so. However, the payoff is pretty good because the story does make a fair amount of sense, and it's loaded with gory kills and seasonal imagery. Plus, you have Tom Atkins playing a bad-ass, but as expected, he's not in a very large role. It's still great to see him in another Halloween movie though.

Also to note is that we have a Scream 2 reunion with Omar Epps and Jamie Kennedy. The cast is pretty likable, so you want them to get a one-up on Trick, but that doesn't mean they don't take a hell of a beating to get there.

It gets more interesting toward the end too, but the less said, the better.