trick or treat be a fine example of hollywood jumping on the backwards message in metal music bandwagon that tipper gore and her washington wive kick start in the mid 80 ( other and less successful entry in this mini genre include the awful black rose and silly the gate ) . i be a sophomore in high school when trick or treat come out and couldn not wait to see it . it seem to disappear from video store by the end of the 80 and but i finally pick up a budget price dvd copy a short while ago and it bring back many pleasant metal memory from back in the day . any teenage metal nerd could relate to the trial of eddie ragman weinbauer ( marc price of family tie ) in this film a he be persecute by the preppie beautiful people in his high school for his heavy metal fashion and musical taste . eddie favorite rock star be sammi curr ( who look a lot like tommy lee of motley crue ) and who be kill in a hotel fire early in the movie . eddie be inconsolable till he receive a test pressing of sammi final and unreleased album from a radio dj ( gene simmons of kiss in a brief cameo ) . eddie soon discovers that this lp and when play backwards and allow him to communicate with the undead spirit of sammi curr himself . soon sammi be give eddie advice on how to get even with his preppie torturer but when the message escalate in scariness ( wasteem all . no false metal . ) eddie try to destroy the album and which result in sammi come back to life via eddie stereo speaker . sammi rampage to the big dance at eddie high school and take the stage to rock the crowd and disintegrate a few unlucky false metallers before eddie arrives to save the day and the girl of his dream . ( sigh ) no and it not terribly scary in 2006 and it wasn not even scary in 1986 and but trick or treat be a movie that will bring a smile to the face of any 1980s metaller and have a kick as soundtrack courtesy of the cult band fastway . well worth seek out if you have ever bang your head or have a taste for b grade horror movie ( or both and like me ) .