if their story seems completely bonkers, almost like a feverish work of fiction, you ain't heard nothing yet.

The film creates a perfect balance between action and depth of basic needs, in the midst of an infertile atmosphere.

It's funny, it's tense, it features two great performances from two actors and the director expertly creates a web of odd tension where you actually don't know what is happening for the majority of the run time.

This is a coming of age storyline that you've seen in one form or another for decades. It takes a truly unique voice to make yet another one worth watching.

Since with this style of series, you can't judge the series as a whole without judging the individual episodess, I'll go ahead and do so.Sacrifice: Painfully awful. Terrible pacing, the blonde haired blue eyed Romanian women can't act whatsoever, the sound effects are overly gory while what they depict is nowhere near as gory (priest screams bloody murder over disgusting sounds, then they show him and he doesn't really have a scratch on him) Not believable in the slightest. I love the little fire thing at the end. A few drops of gasoline on a metal covering with holes in it that is attached to a stone well. Surely lighting a little bit that was on top of the cover will cause the contents of the well to be entirely engulfed in flame as depicted, even though very little gasoline save for maybe a medicine cup's even entered it, over a period of a few minutes.Spooked: Great episode until the end. The end -really- disappoints me because you want -something- to be done to the chick. It just feels like you're robbed of that. Aside from the ending though, this is great, one of the better episodes.Family Man: -Excellent-. This is beautifully written, the actors are top notch, the twist... oh god the twist hurts. In a good way. Honestly, this deserves to be its own full fledged film. The amazing part? This was done by the same guy that did Freddy vs Jason. Don't let that fool you, this isn't anywhere near like that. Without a doubt, this was the best episode of the series, and one of the best horror anthology episodes I've seen in a long, long time.In Sickness and in Health: You know that thing it sitcoms where someone acts really angry, but then suddenly they're complimenting you? Like Superintendent Chalmers on Simpsons? Imagine that played straight in horror. Pretty bad, doesn't feel like Landis did this at all.Easter: Great work. It managed to make me jump a few times, and the ending was highly creative.New Years Day: Great until the fridge logic pops in and you realize that the plot twist creates a lot of plot holes. Also, the shaky camera gets really annoying.Community: Terrible. Really hamfisted attack on suburban life. I honestly suggest watching this just for how bad it is.Skin & Bones: Not bad, slightly above average. Doug Jones makes this episode worth watching, but the rest is not really that good. If you're a fan of the Wendigo legend or a Doug Jones fan, watch this.Something With Bite: -Hilarious.- This feels more like a John Landis episode than the John Landis episode did. Amazingly done, really good werewolf costume too.Echoes: Decent. The plot twist isn't predictable, at least.Chance: Confusing, feels really unfinished. I'm thinking maybe this episode -was- unfinished, maybe one of the last episodes made.The Spirit Box: Plot twist was -extremely- predictable. Also, the acting in this one is pretty off. If you can stand hollow teenager clichés solving a murder mystery, ...no, even then I'd suggest avoiding this.The Circle: Must watch. It's so bad it's hilarious. The actors seem to just be having fun with it, like they -know- what they're doing is bad. One chick is trying to act like she's reading, but she keeps forgetting how to. Forward two pages, back one, forward one, back two, etc. Light pokes in when it's supposed to be night time, light only effects the monsters when it comes to flashlights for some reason, even though there's lamps and fire and... y'know, I'll just leave it at this: This feels like it could be expanded into a bad film that the Mystery Science Theater 3000/Rifftrax guys would love to riff.Overall, I'd say just watch Spooked, Family Man, Something With Bite, and Eater. If you love to mock stuff, watch The Circle, Community, and Sacrifice.Also, don't base your decision on who directed what episode. The better directors actually did some of the worst episodes, to the point where they don't feel like they were actually made by those directors.

This episode was great. The two stars from Psych at a wedding to each other. The wife gets a letter saying something about how the person you are marrying is a killer. You think James is psycho but with the brother finding parts and you don't know if he is involved or not. You don't know who knows about it, what anyone knows with the family and friends all changing behavors and little innuendos and hints that they may know or be involved. Then the wife and husband have a little showdown. Youfind you that the wife, who has been scared the whole time, spoke to her new husband and asked him if he wanted to know what the note said. He says that he doesn't care and she will let him know when she is ready. Well she said she would, with a smile and she is the psycho. That twist at was GREAT!!!! Plus these two stars are terrific. Very different from their show.

This is a very mediocre stab at a genre that has been overdone, and in most cases usually much better than this. The stories are predictable and 1-dimensional. The two episodes I have seen so far had no plot progression at all, and in one case I predicted the 'twist' a mere 10 minutes into the show. 'Obvious' is the word I would use. Oh, and talk about boring... extremely.As for acting, it's not too shabby, and music, sets, etc. are well above average. I just tend to think that there have been too many shows of this nature, and perhaps mixing in a slice of sci-fi and fantasy might make the stories less predictable.

Horror anthology on TV has been getting progressively worse since it hit it's pinnacle with Tales From the Crypt (TFTC). TFTC was an amazingly brilliant masterpiece of horror TV anthology series that set the bar for this type of programming as high as it could possibly be. Admittedly, TFTC jumped the shark and became a bad show in Season 7 when it moved production from USA to Britain for no reason. But that is only 1 bad Season out of 7. TFTC still provided 6 Seasons worth of perfect TV horror.Then came Masters of Horror (MoH), and next notable TV horror anthology series. MoH was hit and miss. 8 of the 26 episodes of MoH were brilliant masterpieces. The other 18, however, ranged from mediocre to terrible; the lion's share being terrible. Despite being a bad series overall, at least that's 8 brilliant episodes of horror television that MoH contributed to the annals of great TV horror.Then comes Fear Itself. Fear Itself is by it's very format, a vastly degraded version of MoH. TFTC which was made for HBO, MoH was made for Showtime. Both channels are not standard channels which the FCC regulates a lot and therefore both shows were able to get away with a lot more mature content than Fear Itself ever had any hope of doing on NBC. The result of this that that Fear Itself is by it's very format, a show geared for little kids. In terms of format and flexibility about what content they cannot show, Fear Itself is exactly on par with the old kids' TV shows "Goosebumps" or "Bonechillers" or "Are You Afraid of the Dark?".However, although they are exactly on par with each other in terms of tone and what they cannot show, the *quality* of the content of Fear Itself is laughably worse than all of those kids' shows, to an extreme degree.Fear Itself is horror anthology TV hitting rock bottom.The 'theme song' to Fear Itself sounds like it's sung by a laboratory baboon who has just been injected by mad scientists with all kinds of wacky drugs. The 'singing' is profoundly asinine and painful to the ears. A shame that such good visuals during the opening credits are utterly ruined with that babyish assault upon the senses of a 'song'.You may often have heard that Fear Itself is an hour long - that's wrong, don't believe it. Fear Itself is only 42 minutes long and 18 minutes of commercials. Despite having a very short 42 minute running-time, Fear Itself cannot even fill a fraction of that with meaningful content.Fear Itself fails by trying to pad 15 minutes worth of content into 42 minutes. It's a problem with bad scripts and bad writing far more-so than running-time. The 42 minute running-time of Fear Itself is admittedly a less-than-ideal handicap for good storytelling. But Fear Itself doesn't do much of anything with the characters or plot even with the time they *do* have. In Fear Itself, the amount of content in the episode does not fit with the running-time of the episode. For example, look at the 'In Sickness and in Health' episode; 17 minutes wasted on repeating the same content over and over again (a bride panicking about a note in the Church and having inane conversations with her friends). All of that content which could *easily* have fit into 5 minutes or less.The acting in Fear Itself is terrible across the board. As is the writing. As are the production values. As are the monster effects. As is the overall atmosphere which looks amateurish, as if it's shot with the cheapest rundown consumer camcorder you would find a local pawn shop. Definitely no suspense or scares to be found in Fear Itself. Fear Itself only employs D-List actors or worse. Sometimes, like in the episode 'Family Man', the D-List actors can surprise you and be excellent at acting. *Usually* though, they will be every bit as terrible as you expected them to be.Almost every episode has dozens of plot-holes. To add insult to injury, the 'stories' are just rehashes of stale-old clichés that have been done a million times before.Any viewer of Fear Itself could *undoubtedly* write *much* better dialogue, characters, and plot lines than are in Fear Itself; even someone with no talent for writing whatsoever.A feature-length running-time is not required to tell a good story, as some have argued to try to make excuses for Fear Itself. For example, the MoH episode 'Incident on and Off a Mountain Road.' 55 minutes minus a few for opening and closing credits, and it had brilliant character & plot development and is a masterpiece in own right. Likewise with the MoH episode 'The Black Cat' which is ~57 minutes minus opening credits.TFTC was a half-hour show, but those characters and plots were amazingly immersing and fleshed-out *despite that* in almost every single episode. In fact, some people remember TFTC as being 1 hour episodes because the episodes *feel* like they are due to being so richly-made with great characters and plots. That's *with* the opening and closing credits *and* Cryptkeeper's bookend segments before and after the content of each episode eating into the episode content time. Which just makes the accomplishment all the more remarkable.Understandably, some horror fans want to accept Fear Itself simply because it is horror on TV, which in and of itself is a rare thing. The problem with accepting Fear Itself , despite it being garbage, is that it sets the bar for horror TV as low as it can possibly be. If that precedent is accepted, then future horror TV shows will be just as bad. Therefore, it is better to be honest about Fear Itself in order to let the makers of horror know that a good horror product is expected in the future, not more crap.