Back in 2007, I was saying that Mike Dougherty's Trick R Treat could take the Halloween franchise crown from Saw with a minimum of effort. Now that it's is finally available for mass consumption on DVD & Blu-ray, it's virtually impossible to find in brick and mortar outlets. After trying big box retailers near me, I found Wal-Mart and Target that weren't carrying it at all, and Best Buy was sold out. Reports like this are coming in from all over the country on message boards and Twitter feeds.

This is just another interesting footnote in the unreasonably rough road to release the movie has seen. Trick R Treat is an anthology horror film (in the vein of Creepshow) that deals with how the spirit of Halloween infects a small town. There are four separate sections to the film, with a creepy little
"kid" with a sack over his head named Samhain popping up throughout. It managed to not freak out my wife, who can't take the torture porn and straight-up slasher movies that clog the cineplexes these days.

Instead of people rallying to be a part of a gigantic marketing buy from Paramount to "demand" Paranormal Activity go nationwide (as if it won't), I wish there were a more concerted effort to demand availability of Trick R Treat in retail stores nationwide. We can all just order from Amazon and wait, or buy it VOD with no extras for an outrageous $15, but this is not some boutique release, this is a title people have been wanting to get their hands on for a couple years now. It's sold out or backordered all over the country, from burgs to major metros. Like me, do you want yours NOW? Sound off in the comments below