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Dir(s). Sean Cunningham, Joe Dante, John Gaeta, Monte Hellman, Ken Russell
Rating: 6.5 | 0 User Reviews | Send to Friend
Think the quirky horror of "Tales from the Crypt" with the contrived sexiness of a bikini-clad Barbie doll plastered in front of a Porsche at a lame ass backwoods car show. Dennis Bartok writes and produces this anthology about a mysterious tour guide (Henry Gibson) who leads a group of six into the haunted mansion of a legendary horror filmmaker where the only escape is for the guests to reveal their most terrifying story. The resulting roundtable of stories are as varied as its five directors, and the horror-minded erotic tales run the gamut between killer breasts, a seductive zombie Japanese monk, the vamp girlfriend of a 1950s director and the unbreakable bond between a little girl and her twin tape worm. Bartok rounds up this directorial line up of genre heavies which includes Sean Cunningham (Friday the 13th), Joe Dante (Gremlins), Monte Hellman (Cockfighter, Ken Russell (The Wall, and John Gaeta, a first time director whose claim to fame is the groundbreaking visual effects of The Matrix. Sure, packing one's film with a hand full of directors who have reached cult status seems like a good idea, but the varying visions and abilities make Bartok’s writing uneven and scattered. The most impressive and intriguing sections were those more subtle, with the intent to tell the story rather than show a little nipple at any afforded chance. Overall, it's entertaining enough for an audience not in the loop, though its status among genre fanatics may vary.
Special features include commentary with Dennis Bartok and actors, the extended cut of Stanley's Girlfriend and The Girl with the Golden Breasts, deleted scenes, and a Making of featurette.
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