I have a love/hate for horror anthology movies. There are so many out there, that it’s hard to find the good ones when there are a ton of bad ones. Plus, it’s hard to get several good stories into one movie. Usually there’s a mix bag. And this one is actually not bad. Though, one of the stories was already on YouTube.

Released: 2019

Runtime: 1 hr 44 mins

Director: Matthew Richards, Oliver Park, Jason Bognacki, Luciano Onetti, Adam O'Brien, Nicolás Onetti, A.J. Briones, Joshua Long, Pablo S. Pastor, Sergio Morcillo

Writer: Matthew Richards, Michael Kraetzer, Guillermo Lockhart, Mauro Croche, Santiago Taboada, Michael L. Fawcett

Actors: James Wright, Patricia Arizmendi, Adrián Barriopedro, Claudia Beattie

MY THOUGHTS

First off, I’ve seen one of the shorts on Alter (a YouTube channel that shows horror shorts). I’ve read that the shorts were on the various festival circuits. And then put it into one movie. But I’ve only seen one of them and it was pretty good. I think the main issue is the wraparound story and I didn’t have that big of an issue with it. It seems to have a lower budget than the shorts.

There are eight short stories including the wrap-around story. The wrap-around story is about Rod (James Wright) a radio DJ who tells scary stories and has his listeners tell scary stories as well. I feel James Wright did a good job during most of the movie. I just felt the twist-ending was kind of a let down. 

I feel the first short, Post Mortem Mary directed by Joshua Long, started the movie off strong. It is about a young girl Mary (Stella Charrington), in 1840’s Australia, who is forced to photograph a two-week dead girl because the grieving parents want something tangible to remember their daughter. Post Mortem Mary is a creepy, slow burn story.

In Matthew Richards’ The Disappearance of Willie Bingham we see a new take on how far we should go punishing someone for a serious crime. Willie commits a horrific crime and instead of going with execution he agrees to an experimental procedure. This was the short that I had already seen.

Sergio Morcillo’s Gotas is another good one. It talks about how one teenage girl deals with trauma and past tragedy. Or I should say how the pain and abuse manifests itself to her now.

The rest are the typical mixed bag of good, bad and just okay. Not a whole lot of blood and gore but some. And some of the shorts are creepy and scary. Overall, not a bad anthology. Not as good as Creepshow and Trick or Treat, but decent enough.

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Let’s get into the rankings:

Kills/Blood/Gore: 3/5

Sex/Nudity: 1/5

Scare factor: 4/5

Enjoyment factor: 5/5

My Rank: 3.25/5

IMDB: 5/10

Rotten Tomatoes: critics:  5/10  audience:  3.3/10

Letterboxd: 2.5/5