Trick or Treat
Trick or Treat (also known as Ragman and Death at 33 RPM in foreign markets) is a 1986 American horror film by De Laurentiis Entertainment Group, starring Marc Price and Tony Fields, with special appearances by Gene Simmons and Ozzy Osbourne. The movie centers on a outcast metalhead teenager who is haunted by the ghost of his rock hero. It is the directorial debut of actor Charles Martin Smith, who has a cameo in the film.
Plot
Eddie "Ragman" Weinbauer is a teenage outcast at Lakeridge High School who, due to his eccentric lifestyle and appearance, suffers bullying by his jock schoolmates, led by Tim Hainey. A heavy metal music fan, Eddie worships Sammi Curr, an infamous rock superstar and Lakeridge High alumnus, whose vulgar antics earned him a ban from returning to perform at the school's Halloween ball. Upon learning of Curr's death in a mysterious hotel fire, a distraught Eddie seeks comfort from his friend Nuke, a radio DJ and former classmate of Curr's. Nuke hands Eddie the master of Curr's last and as-yet unreleased album Songs in the Key of Death on an acetate disc, which he has copied to reel-to-reel tape so he can play it in its entirety on-air at midnight on Halloween, as per Sammi's will.
More details
author | Glen Morgan James Wong |
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director | Charles Martin Smith |
editor | Jane Schwartz Jaffe |
genre | horror |
keywords | acetate disc backmasking bully cassette tape cut flee halloween heavy metal music hidden messages in his records jock kill learn love interest music fan phone call radio dj radio station real world reel-to-reel audio tape recording reel-to-reel tape revenge plot speak taunt unfinished |
musicBy | Christopher Young |
producer | Joel Soisson Michael S. Murphey |
publisher | De Laurentiis Entertainment Group |
recordedAt | North Carolina |
theme | ghost high school teen horror |