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Three short stories told into a feature-length grindhouse showing complete with trailers and intermissions.

The Good Stor(ies): Phobia-Worried about their son, a couple turns to whatever means possible in order to cure his crippling fear of something being in the cellar of the house. Attempting to utilize a radical therapy treatment to help cure him, they realize too later there was a legitimate reason for his fears. This one was pretty enjoyable if somewhat odd for a starting segment. The main starting point to be had here, with the crippling phobia and the talk between the psychiatrist and the parents, gives this a nice entry point to explain what's going on and the cruel reversal of fate plays into the twist rather nicely, being exceptionally creepy. It's slow-burn pace, though, is a bit odd to start this effort off.

Back Road-Stranded on the side of the road, a couple out on a date are forced to take a ride with a stranger who offers to take them back to his house for help, only to capture them instead. Intending to use the two for food, a sudden twist forces the cannibal family into a deadly fight to survive. Overall, this was a great way to end this anthology. The setup here with the twist involving the family they run into is fairly obvious and spotted easily yet there are several other strong and surprising twists at work here that make this intriguing and surprising. The action here that springs forth from that twist is really enjoyable and provide this with plenty of fun alongside some time gore in the kills even though this does suffer from way too much shaking camerawork that renders the action somewhat difficult to tell at times. However, that's all that holds this one back.

The Bad Stor(ies): Room for Rent-Desperate to fill a vacant room, a woman shows a friend of a friend the extra space available only to be abducted and taken to the basement. Realizing she's in the clutches of a deranged serial killer, she is subjected to a more grisly fate than she ever expected. This wasn't too bad of a segment. The second segment is built entirely around the twist with the identities which is all this has going for it which may or may not be detrimental here. The twist can be spotted easily and can overcome the gore present as well, but overall this was far too obvious and familiar to mean much of anything.

Rated Unrated/R: Graphic Violence and Graphic Language.

This is a movie in three parts/stories like tales from the darkside or bodybags for example: the first tale concerns a the attempts by two parents to cure their odd young boy. The second is about a sudden tenant vacancy in an apartment and the third is a reverse take on the hitcher with a psycho driver picking up a stranded couple. I get it. Its a production done on the cheap meant to be a parody of the genre. But it aint great. The cast could be better. Some gory bits but overall it just plain bland. At least its only over an hour long so youre not investing a huge amount of your time in it. I added a star just for its short running time.

Honestly, I'm a fan of bad, campy horror movies. I saw this while scrolling through Prime and say it had decent reviews, so I shot my shot. There's not even any story development! I know it's 3 short movies, but they all basically go "something predictably bad is going to happen, oh I can't believe it happened already! Time for a bad irony scene then the credits!" And that's it.... 3 times. I'm going to go read some Descartes just to find some self meaning again because this made me lose hope in... well everything. Please don't watch.

I watched through my fingers! So much blood, gore and killing!

It gave me that old school horror film feel that I miss in today's scary movies.