Trick or Treats

Trick or Treats is a 1982 American slasher dark comedy film written, shot, edited, and directed by Gary Graver, and starring Jackelyn Giroux, Peter Jason, Chris Graver, David Carradine, Carrie Snodgress, and Steve Railsback.

Its plot focuses on an escaped psychiatric patient who attempts to track his young son on Halloween night.

Malcolm O'Keefe is surprised one morning at breakfast when two men arrive to bring him to a mental asylum so that his wife, Joan, will have him committed.

Christopher plays tricks on Linda, such as using a fake guillotine, throwing a smoke bomb at her, and using a joy buzzer.

AllMovie gave the film a negative review, writing, "Genre fans generously overlook bad logic in exchange for action and overkill, but the plot holes that litter director/screenwriter Gary Graver's story are never plugged with the cheap spectacle that might have given this by-the-numbers stalker film a reason to exist.