The creators and stars of a horror film gather together after completing filming and share their own horror stories, and what seems like would be an adult gathering ends up being juvenile in many ways. Lead by director and star Harve Presnell, the movie opens with a satanic wedding that is revealed to be the conclusion of the movie, and then we go onto hear the various stories that they have to tell. Most of them seem pointless or plotless, some building to have a possibly intense conclusion and letting the audience down.
There's a stranded man picked up by someone driving by (pointless), Napoleon in battle watching roasting rats (plotless) and the potentially amusing story of a foreclosure manager locked in a safe and visited by the ghost of a man whose foreclosure led to him being killed in a robbery. That one at least has a sense of irony in it, and the last minute presence of a young Doris Roberts as the foreclosure manager's wife. It's the best entry in the film, and that's not saying much.
The next segment involving a martial arts trainer is very dull, and I found myself tempted to fast-forward. The story involves a limbless samurai and is just too creepy and tasteless to care about watching unfold. The British horror filmmakers were better at creating engaging multi story anthology films that really built up in tension. This one just lays there with its premise just not working, playing out like a short story where nothing goes anywhere, causing the reader to gape at the last page, scratch their head, and say to themselves, "Huh?"
There's a stranded man picked up by someone driving by (pointless), Napoleon in battle watching roasting rats (plotless) and the potentially amusing story of a foreclosure manager locked in a safe and visited by the ghost of a man whose foreclosure led to him being killed in a robbery. That one at least has a sense of irony in it, and the last minute presence of a young Doris Roberts as the foreclosure manager's wife. It's the best entry in the film, and that's not saying much.
The next segment involving a martial arts trainer is very dull, and I found myself tempted to fast-forward. The story involves a limbless samurai and is just too creepy and tasteless to care about watching unfold. The British horror filmmakers were better at creating engaging multi story anthology films that really built up in tension. This one just lays there with its premise just not working, playing out like a short story where nothing goes anywhere, causing the reader to gape at the last page, scratch their head, and say to themselves, "Huh?"