SUBMITTED BY pimpjoe_esb

April 16, 2007 —

Check out the first of several set reports at Dread Central below.

"Halloween has such a rich history going back hundreds of years, but you never really see that in horror movies. " director Michael Dougherty explained during our interview on set, which are my sentiments exactly. When we first got to the production offices the walls were lined with conceptual drawings for all the characters that we'll be seeing in film and they all just had a fantastic, Norman Rockwell meets Tim Burton sensibility to them. It really gave me hope for a movie that, in all honesty, didn't seem like a big deal when it was first announced.

So what is Trick 'r Treat about anyway? Well, to put it simply; "The whole thing takes place on this one block in middle American where, one night a year, everything goes wrong. " as Production Designer Mark Freeborn put it to us, and that's a damn good explanation. Taking place over the course of Halloween night, we're taken through four separate scenarios that involve residents of a small town in Ohio. The idea was one that had been floating around in director Dougerty's brain for about 10 years before it finally made it to celluloid.

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