During a Trick 'r Treat post-screening Q&A, director Michael Dougherty revisited creating Sam and offered an update on the Trick 'r Treat sequel.
The Big Picture As though getting the opportunity to curate my own horror screening series wasn’t mind-blowing enough, then I got the chance to add one of my favorite movies of all-time to that line-up — Michael Dougherty’s Trick ‘r Treat.
You can catch the full chat, including the audience Q&A portion of the conversation, in the video at the top of this article, or you can read my interview with Dougherty in transcript form below. Let's go back to the very beginning of this script. What would you say is the biggest difference between draft one of this screenplay and what we now love in the final film?
DOUGHERTY: It was all the same stories. The one variation was that the rock quarry story initially just took place in a cemetery, and the kids were playing Ghost in the Graveyard or something like that. The original ending was that you found out that the group of kids lured the one girl to the cemetery to play Ghost in the Graveyard only to find out that they lured her there because she was actually dead and she forgot that she was dead.
DOUGHERTY: Yeah. The first producer who optioned the script and said he wanted to make it was Stan Winston. When I showed up to LA, he was the first person to say, “I know you're doing animation, but you should really make movies.” He became my first mentor in the business. And so I went off and I wrote the first draft, gave it to Stan, and he goes, “I love this. This reminds me of Creepshow and Tales from the Crypt.
DOUGHERTY: It's a good feeling. I just got back from Salem, Massachusetts for the first time. I’d never been there before. It's like Disneyland for Halloween and horror. You have to go. I'm walking around, and I'm talking to somebody on the phone, and I turn around and I see Michael Myers and Sam get out of a car together and then hold hands and walk down the street together. I almost cried.Let's talk about Sam a little bit now.
I like any practical creature element. And did I hear something in another interview about using a miniature for the bus going over?DOUGHERTY: Well, it's a mix of two things. So we did throw an actual short bus over a cliff. The shot from behind where you see it zoom away from camera and go over, that's a real bus, and then the camera pushed and tilted and looked down an actual cliff. But we then, for the sinking where it disappears in the water, that's a miniature.
DOUGHERTY: Another good question. I would say the rock quarry was daunting because it was so many kids, it was multiple locations. In some ways, the scale of that one is the biggest, you know, because the Sam versus Brian Cox stuff, that's just one house with two characters. And that was the rule for a lot of it.
DOUGHERTY: Sam versus Kreeg a little bit because it's Sam. I love working with the guy and Brian Cox because he's also fun to work with. But that's the whole thing, shooting it was a wonderful experience. It's just hard to pick. Here's my other favorite child question; do you have a single favorite frame of this movie?There are many good ones. I am obsessed with one of the “School Bus Massacre” shots.
To touch on more of the cast, can you give us an example of a time on set when someone went above and beyond with the material and did something that you didn't anticipate? DOUGHERTY: I just tried to come up with masks that felt like children actually made. I'm a huge fan of the history and lore of Halloween, and before we had, like, Don Post or Spirit Halloween masks, if you go back and you look at Halloween as it was celebrated in the ‘20s through the ‘40s, it's a lot of papier-mâché and just bags and glue and random stuff just sort of thrown together, and it's just eerie. Way creepier than what we have now.
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