Trick or Treat
1986's TRICK OR TREAT has a lot of fun with all the brouhaha that surrounded rock music in the 1980s. Namely, all the church groups and concerned parents who were obsessed with finding hidden messages within. Playing records backwards to discover that, yes pastor, that long haired rock hero is saying Satan is good. That's what they wanted to hear, anyway. I'm sure more than one artist was toying with the public, utilizing "backmasking" to taunt the emerging Religious Right and other authority figures. The whole devil worship thing was largely a gimmick for most bands. Actor Charles Martin Smith ( AMERICAN GRAFFITI , THE UNTOUCHABLES) makes his directorial debut with this heavy metal horror flick that mostly delivers on its premise. Eddie (Marc Price) is a high school outcast who goes by "Ragman" and worships metal acts like Motley Crue and Megadeth. His fave is Sammi Curr (Tony Fields), a brash performer who is an alumnus of Eddie's school an...
