Trick or Treat

Rating: 7/10 (5 July 2013)

If you don't mind, as an audience member, being treated with total contempt by the writers and director then the chances are you'll enjoy this on an entertainment level. I do mind being treated with contempt by the writers and director yet I still managed to enjoy the elements involving magic both on and off stage. Once you get past the 'Mousetrap' element, providing, of course, you can, you will probably revel in the sheer outrageousness of the whole thing. Clearly the writers painted themselves into a corner around the eighth or ninth reel, realised that there was no plausible explanation on God's earth for what was happening and thought, screw the audience, we'll just go into hyper mode and maybe they won't notice it's total BS. On the plus side it has Melanie Doutey.