Locker 13

Forgive me IMDb but I must say this.User reviews and ratings on this site are many times quite misleading.Still I having been coming here for years.Sometimes I come across awful movies with great rating and vice verse.This is an example of the latter.Although the ratings haven't even reached 5 points, This is an excellent production.Great combinations of stories with solid acting from everyone,and with a message, or messages..this reminds me of twilight zone albeit modernised.loved every bit of it.And I am a tough customer when it comes to films.A great great find.So good it deserves a first post from me :)

I've been a sucker for anthology movies since the Amicus horrors of the 60s and 70s (sadly I'm old enough to have seen Tales From The Crypt and Asylum on 'the big screen'), so the synopsis of a little movie called Locker 13 greatly appealed to me.

This is so nearly a great film of its type. All the stories are gripping, the wraparound included. Good dialogue and solid acting from some recognisable faces.

Unfortunately, short stories for me also need a satisfying payoff. And this is where Locker 13 falls down. After interesting build-ups, most of them left me thinking, "is that it?"

One memorable ending would have earned it a 7, but just a 6 for me. Certainly worth watching though.

An 8 for me.

I found the structural story clever, especially in the second half. It makes up for certain deficiencies, which it has, no doubt. Schroder and Polito were fine in story 1. It was very Twilight Zone-ish. A couple of the stories were weak, but I enjoyed Huddleston in the one about the initiation, playing it like Jeffrey Lebowski. The highlight though is all about the locker. I liked Jason Spisak as Skip. All in all...pretty good. Don't forget..Know Yourself.

I have always been a fan of horror anthologies, whether they be in comic book form (like those 1950s EC Comics) or in movie form. So it should come as no surprise that I've seen a LOT of horror anthologies. Which may explain why I had a big problem with "Locker 13". Since I have seen so many short horror tales with big twists at the end, in recent years I have found new horror anthologies to be very predictable. Of the five stories told in "Locker 13", I was able to more or less guess what "surprise" twist would happen on four of these stories. The one story that I wasn't able to predict the ending (a secret society new member initiation) had a ending that was disappointing in another manner, just petering out with NO surprise at all. While this movie isn't the worst horror anthology I have seen - it has some genuine merit, like good acting and fine production values for what was a pittance of a budget - if you are looking for neat twists and surprises, you better look elsewhere. Unless you've never seen a horror anthology before.

The stories contained herein were not THAT terrible, except for the main one. And that's the one that needed to be a lot better. It was good to see Mr. Lebowski!!!! But overall I can't give this one any more than a 3/10.