Masterful Movie

An Exercise In Nonsense

This is one of the few movies I've ever seen where the whole audience broke into spontaneous, loud applause a third of the way in.

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 saw this movie twice. First time watching it I hated the first story, because it never explained why everything happened. While watching it I couldn't wait for it to get to the big reveal, but it never does. It just ends without any explanation, and I was really upset. A short story should still have a beginning middle and end. Things should still make sense, not ''just because''. It almost felt like it ended the way it did because the writer/director couldn't think of a good enough plot to tell us why it happened, and where did the man come from. You could chalk it up ''the box'' being apart of witchcraft, but who knows. Second story is obviously more comedic. First time watching it I liked it, but 2nd time around I realized how dumb the main character was. I get that she didn't want to ruin her daughter's birthday party, but there was a better way of going about it. Also they never explained how the father died? Accident? Suicide? Who knows.Third story is typical monster movie, about 4 friends who are in the middle of nowhere. A whiny girl cuts her hand and gets infected with something demonic. It's cliche but entertaining. I would actually like to see a 90 min version of this. Also please keep breathing heavily so the creature knows exactly where you are!Fourth story was the worst. It was boring and I didn't care about the characters. I'll just say this. That whole principal scene made my blood boil. ''He should be expelled''. uh no..he should be in PRISON!

This movie was simply godawful. When the second short story started to insult my intelligence, I had to call it quits.

This film is made up of four unconnected horror stories.The first segment is more mystery than horror, as there is something strange going on but it is not revealed. There is only one brief scene that is horrible, but it looks quite out of place with the rest of the story. The second segment is just comedy, I didn't find anything scary with it. The third segment is a slasher, so it is not my thing. The fourth one is the best, as it is suspenseful and scary.

I watched this with a friend tonight for our October horror movie night and was quite impressed. It's pretty clever all the way through, doesn't fall into the trap of many horror anthologies of playing for laughs or going too heavy on the gore. There is some good gore in this, but not a lot and nothing gratuitous... it's in service to the story, not the goal of the story, if that makes sense. It also didn't strain at its budget and try to pull of FX that weren't really necessary to the stories... as it often does, this lack of visual spectacle ended up making each story more intimate and focused on the characters. The first segment was quite intriguing and I really liked how it resisted giving a simple/dumb explanation for what's going on. It sent my head to some odd places, thinking about food and our need to eat. My wasn't as pleased with it as I was, I think she wanted more exposition/explanation. I was surprised that it was based on a story by Jack Ketchum because it was less visceral and more cerebral than most of his stories... creepy and weird.The second segment was much more humorous, but just as sinister in its way... being as it's about the pressures put on women of a certain class of society. The scene at the end with all the children and their mothers spilling into the house... their clothes and costumes and hair... it was hilarious and horrific at the same time. Again, my friend didn't particularly care for that segment but I think she didn't see the horror in it. The third segment was the most overtly 'horror-movie' fare.It's about some campers who pick the wrong place to spend the night. Well done but nothing too surprising about it. It was my least favorite segment by far, but my friend liked it best. The fourth segment was very clever indeed. It's a sequel of a sort to a famous horror film of the 60s... though it also serves as an alternate ending to the film. I wonder how many people will pick up on its hints as to that provenance... and I'm not sure it matters. My friend wouldn't have picked up on it if I hadn't pointed it out to her. It's also the segment I'd most like to go on about... but that would be hard to do without massive spoilers. There wasn't a bad segment in this, IMO. The third one was a bit average, but still not bad. The animated segments between the stories were fun too... a bit like lighter-hearted Brothers Quay shorts.