Name: The Trick Is the Treat
Genre: Short
Released: 2013-10-30
Duration: 3 min
Rating: 5.8
Cast: Joshua Epstein, Angus Scrimm

Proof that the late great Angus Scrimm could have read from the phone book and made it sound gothically epic!

So in this odd but charming micro-oddity of a short, various sweet things are listed by an eldery man's familiar voice and a child's voice and the tone gradually gets slightly ominous and macabre and the effect is a little on the hypnotic side, when it's over you may have a slight headache as well as possibly really wanting to eat a little candy! Nothing really much to say about this tiny short and its just a bit of strange silliness, but also it's fun and quite enjoyable if only just to hear the wonderful grim tones of a wonderful underrated thespian actor who's casual utterances here somehow terrifically convey a touch of the spooky magic of the Halloween spirit, of which now he surely is! Rest in peace good sir 🎃

The short form refers to creative works characterized by their brevity and concise storytelling. Unlike full-length feature films, short films have a running time of less than 45 minutes, while TV shorts have a running time of less than 22 minutes.

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