The finest heavy metal Halloween high school movie of 1986. Rock star Sammi Curri practices the occult, puts backward messages on his records and bites off snake heads at his concerts. So, he isn’t going to let his death in a hotel fire stop him from playing the costume party dance at his old school. He comes back from the grave and wants to kill everyone in town with electric blasts from his guitar or through evil spirits that rise up out of records and tapes of his final recording. Curri’s biggest fan (Marc Price, the geeky guy from Family Ties) gets fooled into helping out with the plan until he figures out what’s going on. After that come the car chases, the explosions and the only scene in movie history where the good guys escape doom by flushing a toilet. This is straight from the 1980s time capsule. It comes from a period when the occult influence in rock music was a serious media controversy. Every daytime talk show had an episode about it. Every TV and radio evangelist looking to make a name spent time exposing backmasking and hidden symbols on record covers. It’s ripe material for a horror movie… and a comedy. Trick or Treat does both. This is a barrel of trashy laughs. The best joke is Ozzy Osbourne cast in a small part as a rock-hating Christian TV talking head.