Scary Tales

i watched this movie after seeing part 2.

it's a good idea, about a guy who visits a job finding office. hes offered 3 jobs but can't take them until he hears about them.

each story is about his future. one has him running over a little girl and being haunted by her doll. the last one has edgar allen poe.

not nearly as good as scary tales 2, but worth your time.

one comment though, the acting kind of bad in some spots, but the leads are really, really good.

my wife and i picked this movie up in Ohio at a horror convention (where we watched part 2 with an audience). both movies are hard to find, but worth your time if you can buy them.

Just watched Scary Tales last night, and I have to say after hearing a lot of negative feedback about this movie that I was surprised and entertained through most of it. The acting at most points was very laughable but that's what made it great, and I really liked the story twists. Each story ends on a bit of a different note, but I'd have to say my favorite Tale was the final story with Poe. Looking forward to seeing the sequel, I have heard some good reviews of that one so I'm sure I will enjoy it!

Scary Tales reminded me of the 1970's Tales from the Crypt movie, and of course Creepshow.

I've seen some awful, awful horror movies made on low budgets, but this one wouldn't even qualify as a halfway decent student film. I laughed throughout the movie--not with it, but at it. Every, and I mean every, element of "Scary Tales" spells out A-M-A-T-E-U-R. On an obvious level, there's the terrible acting. It's one thing for an actor not knowing how to emote well, but these actors literally can't do anything right. There's a couple of scenes where characters are rustling through papers, and they don't even do that convincingly! You can attack this movie from any and every level. There's the pervasive use of cheesy sound effects, uninspired computer-generated editing techniques that even the most elementary film student can figure out--Hell, even the font they used for the titles is horrible! I'm a film student myself and I can honestly say I've made better films than this. The director really put no effort into suspending an audience's disbelief and concealing the micro budget. In a couple scenes, the main character is working in a bookstore and he stacks the books vertically, rather than horizontally. Now, even the lousiest, around-the-corner bookstores don't stack their books that way. Did the director have any brains whatsoever? Even amongst cheesy horror movies, this ranks as one of the cheesiest. Skip it at all costs!

This shot on video anthology works well as a black comedy/horror cheapie. Bill Cassinelli is quite good in his role as Dennis Frye, an unemployed man who visits a job placement center. While there, he is told what may happen to him at each job by Mr. Longfellow (wonderfully played by Joel Wynkoop). The flick is paced slowly at times, but it works. Michael A. Hoffman maintains a sense of humor and never lets this become predictable. One of the better horror anthologies to be released for some time....7/10

Following a job-recruitman post, an unemployed man heads to a special center for a new job and learns the possibilities that await each of the potential positions.

The Good Stor(ies): Hit and Run-Heading out for a delivery, the driver of a fast-food company inadvertantely kills a young girl out in the middle of the street when he fails to spot her playing alone. Overcome wih guilt about the incident, he soon starts beliving he's going crazy when he continually spots the dead girls' doll everywhere he goes. This was a fairly fun and enjoyable semgent. It's a cliched setup, but it's that way for a reason as these stories usually work which is what happens here. The idea of spotting the doll and being forced to relive the incident continually makes for a few creepy moments especially in conjunction with the doll's eerie whispering that accompanies them. The later half where the dolls start doing more is a bit of fun, and with the final comeuppance delivered it satisfies, really only letting the cliched and predictable nature of it all bring this down.

The Bad Stor(ies): I Ain't Got No Body-Working at a used bookstore, a chance at potential romance with a frequent customer spurns a lonely clerk into looking at ways to win her over with a book on astral projection. As she keeps holding back his advances, he attempts to master the format which soon leads to deadly consequences for them both. This one isn't all that great and doesn't really have much going for it. The majority of this is undone with the idea of not really making the dream girl all that desireable as she's pretty rude, ungrateful and sarcastic which renders a lot of his pining after her problematic as he can't tell that she's not all that great. This does ruin a large part of the segment with a pretty lousy non-horror feel and really only serves to make the final twist to feature any kind of horror-based activity which is quite intriguing. That is really the most worthwhile part about the segment.

The Death Of...-Trying to work on a screenplay, an unsuccessful writer who finds his work continually rejected and declined to the point that it begins eating away at the rest of his life. Attempting to find inspiration wherever he can find it, the drive for success eventually drives him into dangerous territory. This was a rather bland and banal offering that doesn't really have much going for it. The setup for this one is quite familiar and cliched and does doom this one quite easily as there's very little to it that's terrifying based on the setup. The visual tricks used to accomplish this are quite a bit of fun and are the main aspects holding it up since the twist here is accomplished nicely, but again it's far too cliched and easy to guess where it's going to really matter much. This is watchable but not that surprising.

Rated Unrated/R: Graphic Language, Violence, Nudity and a sex scene.