Please don't spend money on this.

Best movie of this year hands down!

Absolutely the worst movie.

This is one of the best movies I’ve seen in a very long time. You have to go and see this on the big screen.

It is very uneven in terms of quality with the second half being quite weak, not particularly engaging and forgettable, but the first half with the first two segments is terrific with original and authentic stories and very creepy and memorable imagery. However, Fear(s) of the Dark, although very flawed, is mostly memorable for the impressive and beautiful animation with many directors each giving his contribution with his own style ranging from hand-drawn to anime to computer animation. Its second half is weak, but it largely benefits from deft editing, great directing and wonderful animation styles making it a very interesting experience.

The stories and the animation were mildly interesting, but it could have used some color. The awfully drab browns and grays with, occasional tinting, began to depress me after awhile.The really (and I mean REALLY) bad parts were the segments between the stories with that horrible woman squawking like a really annoying buzzard, over those idiotic moving shapes. Every time her rotten voice hit our ears everyone (all six people) in the theater groaned. Nobody cares about her stupid European elitist fears. She should be more afraid of her head and body becoming two separate entities sometime in the future than whether or not she's becoming more "right-wing".It made me want to stand up and shake my fist at the moving rectangles and scream, "Shut up you loudmouthed b---h!!" She ruined the movie.I've read what others are saying about the white subtitles, but I really I really have much trouble reading them. However that obnoxious woman made me wish I was illiterate.

Multipart animated film from France that is probably high on the love list of Mike Mignola and Frank Miller since its very often all black screens with very little white. Another one from IFC Films that is a rather disappointing film on all but the artistic level. The stories are linked by a lord of some sort walking his dogs across a landscape and setting one loose on a person periodically. This leads into an abstract animated piece with narration which then leads into the stories. The first story is from Charles Burns and it plays like a Charles Burns story, with a guy finding a weird bug that gets loose as he is picked up by a possessive girl.Another story is a manga or anime like tale of a little girl who is being tormented. The third is about a a monster on the loose and the final one concerns a man who breaks into a house.(I think I missed a very short one, but frankly its no loss). None of the stories are really scary or creepy (Maybe the Burns piece is the best because of the unease of the interpersonal relationships.) Worse they are all the sort of tales that we've seen before, mores so if you love short horror fiction be it books, TV films or radio. What works here is the art which at times seems more like fine etchings or story illustrations come to life. it beautiful stuff (the exception being the Charles Burns stuff which looks like everything he's ever done). Worth a look only if you like animation as art, and even then I'd wait for a rental.(I had such high hopes)

Sometimes when I write comments, especially when I stray away from the overall or say average voting, I know people will automatically "not like" my comment or find it useful. Still as in this case, I'll explain my rating to those who care to read.We have a few really good animated short movies here (each with a different visual style/theme). If I had watched them as standalone stories, I would have rated them much higher. Or at least without the intermission animated story, which didn't have anything to do with any of the stories (apart from the fact that it was animated and could be categorized as horror, if you want to). But even the intermission shorts (which isn't even surprising, you can see where it's headed, which is boring and annoying at the same time), are not even close to achieve the status an intermission voice has.A female speaker speaks ... well french (duh), but again adds nothing much to the stories we are watching. Even more disturbing, it seems this voice-over is plain preposterous and pseudo philosophical. It drifts into conversations you might have with yourself in front of the mirror or when you are alone, but never want anyone else to hear say them (especially if you don't even have those "akward" conversations with yourself). This voice(-over) alone deserves a 1/10, but since the shorts are very good (and deserve the 7/10 rating the overall movie has), I settled for a 3/10