About this time last year, I started getting pretty excited about a horror movie that was scheduled to open just before Halloween. The trailer had been release and Michael Gougherty’s Trick ‘r Treat looked like it would be a fun return to Halloween 80′s horror. It looked schlocky enough to be fun and creepy enough to be scary. Beautiful. Something other than Saw Whatever #.

Halloween came and went and the film never opened. Not near me. Not near anyone. It just seemed to fall out of the release schedule. Not sure why considering that not only did it look like good fun, it featured a cast which included Brian Cox, Dylan Baker and Anna Paquin. No theatrical release, no DVD release details. WTF?

It seems that there may have been some problems with the distribution, I didn’t follow it as closely as I probably should have but in late October, we’re starting to see the Oscar films so one less movie to see isn’t necessarily a bad thing. But the horror fanatics over at Dread Central didn’t forget and in fact, they have a new update on the film.

Turns out that there’s a newly minted poster floating around but the folks over there have also confirmed that the film is not being released by WB. What does that mean? That we’re back to zero: a good looking little film floating in the ether. What’s the deal? It can’t be any worse than some of the other crap out there for the Halloween horror movie season! If you’ve got such little faith, take it direct to DVD! At this rate, whoever ends up with it is going to be facing some fan backlash for keeping it on the shelf for so long.

So if you’re excited to see it, you’re going to have to wait a little longer (cross your fingers for Halloween ’09) and if you have no idea what the heck this Trick ‘r Treat deal is all about, be sure to check out the trailer after the jump!