Surprisingly incoherent and boring

If you're interested in the topic at hand, you should just watch it and judge yourself because the reviews have gone very biased by people that didn't even watch it and just hate (or love) the creator. I liked it, it was well written, narrated, and directed and it was about a topic that interests me.

I think this is a new genre that they're all sort of working their way through it and haven't got all the kinks worked out yet but it's a genre that works for me.

Through painfully honest and emotional moments, the movie becomes irresistibly relatable

My daughters and I saw this movie in the Main Theatre in Nacogdoches, Texas, when it came out. My youngest was three and very vocal, and announced as she sat in my lap that it scared her half to death, which cracked several of the audience up. That broke the tension a little, because it was quite the scary movie. I read where one of the episodes, set in a graveyard, was cut before release, but it was included in the version they showed us. When I tried to watch the horrible copy on you tube, it was gone. It was the episode that sent my 12-year-old daughter running up the aisle and through the doors, where she nervously watched through the crack. I wish they would issue the original four-episode film as a DVD, because I know there is a big audience who's been waiting to see it and show their children as well. I'd pay to see it at a theater again, but I'd certainly buy the DVD.

As to why some have mentioned this film to be creepy, scary, uneasy, etc. Maybe I had to have first seen this when I was a teen or for that matter a pre-teen to appreciate this movie but seeing this as an adult after all the build up on how good this movie is supposed to be was a huge let down. And this is coming from someone who even to this day and age is still a sucker for scary movies. I recently watched "The Turn of the Screw", "Full Circle" (Mia Farrow), "Don't Look Now" (Donald Sutherland) and "The Ring" & those movies got under my skin and had me feeling uneasy and looking back over my shoulder for days. Not this film.

a film i first saw in 1979 at the drive in. i was very young, but the'green room' story really shook me up. seeing the film years later it's a really odd and weird film. there's a weird aura to the whole film. its very amateurish, but a lot of it really works. the great ending is bizarre, but haunting. overall a good film to watch for the anthology fan. it's not easy to get hold of. but originals on VHS do exist, though any DVD is a bootleg as of this writing. i'd say overall it really fits the times, as it was filmed in the late 70's. the acting isn't great, but it is pretty fitting for the film. and i'd expect the 'green room' episode to be the favorite story to most.

I rented this film way back in 1987. I had never heard of it and the PG rating had me expecting the worst. Still I love horror films so I gave this a try. I saw it on a dark, cold winter night. There was a snowstorm going on outside, I was alone in the house and I turned off all the lights. Under those conditions this film scared me silly.The opening is all sound effects against a black screen of something attacking a family in their house on a winters night. It gets in and kills them all. Very effective--the sound effects are realistic and NOT seeing the monsters makes it all the more scarier. That opening alone is worth seeing this for.It's an anthology movie--a bunch of kids telling horror stories around a campfire. The movie is tame (remember--it's PG rated) and the stories are kind of predictable but the middle one got me going. It's about a bunch of guys spending the night in a deserted, supposedly haunted house. They're on the first floor...and then they hear noises on the floor above...THAT scared me silly. The ending was REAL bad but, for a while, that had me shaking.So, it's not a good film, but there's something about it that really works. I (cautiously) recommend this.