Perfectly adorable

not horrible nor great

It's simply great fun, a winsome film and an occasionally over-the-top luxury fantasy that never flags.

A clunky actioner with a handful of cool moments.

This is a a great movie. It is very scary., It has great story line. It also has great acting. It also has great special effects. The Trilogy of terror II is better. This scarier then the silences of the lambs could ever be.

What in the name of sanity did I just watch? Basically "Trilogy of Terror" is a film with a very short runtime (1 hr 12 mins) that is broken up into three separate short stories, the main character in each is played by Karen Black. As the name suggests, these short stories are horror, or meant to be horror anyway, I found nothing from any of the stories to be particularly frightening, very camp and very lame is what they are. The first story, titled "Julie" is about a high school kid asking his English teacher out, she agrees to go to the drive-in movies with him, only to be drugged and photographed, then blackmailed..., this story takes a clever turn towards the end, if another word for clever was lame.The second story is about feuding sisters (both played by Karen Black, neither sisters share a scene together to get around that one), in what felt like a poor rip off of "Whatever happened to Baby Jane?", anyhow in the end with the help of some voodoo, the one sister is able to kill the other off, yawn, boring. The final story is the most famous one, as for how it's become so famous is absolutely beyond me..., is this pathetic tribal doll meant to be scary or something? The story and the 'fear-factor' is so camp it made me cringe, the first three quarters of the story is boring and nothing happens other than 'suspense building', you only get to see the doll in action for the last couple of minutes of the film, waste of time, and anything but scary!It's an awful film, or film's, or whatever you want to call it, B-movie horror films, probably C-movie actually..., this is obviously where the Simpson's drew their inspiration for the Treehouse of Horror episodes from, only the Simpson's long running versions are far superior than this load of tripe.

Richard Matheson's PREY happens to be another of my favorite short stories (it's right up there with THE BIG SURPRISE, which was done as a fairly effective segment of NIGHT GALLERY, with John Carradine), and it makes one humdinger of a closing act in this trilogy. Every kid I knew could talk about nothing else the day after it aired; we relived the experience over and over. And we weren't the only ones who loved it: when the makers of GREMLINS needed inspiration, they fell back on Matheson's mini-masterpiece. It's understandable: it still holds up, after all these years... though I should point out that the score I've given this telemovie is for the PREY segment alone; the other two segments were less notable, in my ever-humble opinion. (Note: as a cabbie, I had a "regular" who tried to convince me once that she was someone else- her "twin sister," in fact- by donning a wig and acting differently, but I blew her cover when I asked to see her ID when she used a credit card to pay her fare. They're out there, folks...)

Ask anyone who has seen 70s TV anthology Trilogy of Terror and they'll no doubt mention the evil Zuni Fetish Doll that goes on a bloodthirsty rampage in the last of the three stories: with his beady little eyes, rows of savage teeth and wild black hair, he certainly is an unforgettable character. Sadly, there is nothing else about Trilogy of Terror that is anywhere near as memorable.The problem lies primarily with the stories, which are surprisingly weak considering that they come from the pen of Richard Matheson, best known for classic sci-fi novel I Am Legend and his work for The Twilight Zone. Tales one and two are extremely mediocre, devoid of either chills or thrills and saddled with extremely lame 'twist' endings that neither shock nor surprise. Story number three is also has a pretty feeble narrative (one which amounts to little more than an extended chase/battle in an apartment) but at least it has that wicked little Zuni doll to liven things up a bit.Star Karen Black puts in some decent performances throughout, ably playing a total of four very different roles, and there is adequate direction from Dan Curtis, but this film simply isn't as good as some seem to recall.