Little Deaths

4.6 is what this gets on IMDb.....really???? Tell me whats wrong will this??? three tight little debauched stories of the macabre that are so well acted and directed that I have to say this was a masterpiece. I think anyone for a penchant for the darkside should be smiling down on the dark ominous salacious gods that put this together. I've always loved anthologies since Creepshow and than Trick or treat came in 2007 and that to me was the best of the best. Years later Theatre Bizarre rekindles my great memories for these kinds of films and than I am introduced to this masterpiece. My favourite of the sanguineous triactor was "bitch" but the other two are very close in nature. Just three stories that will keep you on the edge of sanity for however long before you snap and realize how outlandish this film really is. Just flawless!!!!! Thank you England..........

While most horror anthologies have a central unifying theme, or at least, a concluding wrap-up, the three short episodes in this film are totally unrelated and unconnected. This is the novelty or perhaps the weakness of this film.

The first episode rocks, and Holly Lucas hit me like a tornado in this one. She was too pretty and sophisticated anyhow, to be playing the part of a homeless vagrant. With hardly any lines, she looked so vulnerable initially, when bound and raped.. so stunningly seductive when topless, with her ample, swinging assets, she herself mounted her captor, and so frightening, when she reverted to her true feral form at the end. Its her film all the way.

The second episode is dull, confusing, morbid and OTP. Useless to discuss it.

The third was a wicked tale of revenge by a mild guy on his overly aggressive and perverted girlfriend. Quite novel. LOL. But wholly unrealistic.

I would vote 9/10 for Holly alone, but overall, the other episodes drag down the entire film, and it gets an average 4/10 from me.

OK, this is not a GREAT movie, but I am lost with the ratings here. I assume that if you watch this film it is because you like the horror genre, and all three stories do deliver a good and fun time. I think that this is probably the aim: to entertain and amuse, and it delivers.

Maybe some stories are predictable, but there is always a funny twist here and there that render them just different. The filming and acting are actually surprisingly good and my feeling was that I got what I was looking for. No more, no less.

Definitely recommended to anyone into horror/gore/sex movies with a sense of humor.

So first off, we are dealing with a VHS type movie. (VHS the Horro franchise). Pretty much, 3 different short movies forced into one. I can tell you, minus the second story, everything else kinda sucked. Even the second story wasn't good, but at least was bizzarely unique in it's own twisted sense.

The acting is a mixed bag some are overacting, some are underacting. The writing. Honestly i think all three of these short films would of been way better off as full lenght films. I feel like having them shortened like this pulls out the magic that these movies could of had. Let me start with first story.

First story. A weird couple torture a homeless chick, Guinea Pig style kind of, and then she turns out to be a zombie, and other homeless people are zombies. That's the whole plot. I can say that the gore is weak but okay, and everything else sucked. None characters have any depth or any reason to be there. It was shock for the sake of being shocking and it was just kinda pointless and dull. I can say the acting was fine. The camera work was fine. The plot needed a lot of work and depth into these characters, why were the homeless "zombies"? Why did the couple decide to torture the homeless chick?? I was about to say it felt like a remake of VHS 1 first story, but then i saw VHS was released in 2012. But still it felt empty.

Second story. The only story i kinda enjoyed. Not because of the plot, just because how weird it is. Pretty much we got a chick with her boyfriend. She gets into pills to stop taking drugs. However, these pills are made out of a human being that has a Nazi huge shaft attached to him-her-it and this connects her to having hallucionations to the creature. I dont want to spoiler more. I can say that the plot makes not a lot of sense but hey it was unique and interesting to say the least. It's bizzare and not something you'd often see in horror movies. The acting was kind of wooden, the camera work was fine. I just wish we had a bit more informations on how exactly the pills stuff began? A bit more depth in that sector but over all this could have it's own movie with more depth and logic put into it.

Third story. This feels like totally out of left field. Both first and second stories have elements of horror in them. This, has none of that. Instead this is a drama about a couple that has a weird relationship. The girlfriend treats her boyfriend like a dog. Literally. And she always is toxic towards him, and she is treating him like he is her toy in a way. This crosses the line of her boyfriend, so he tied her up, and put meat on her naked body, and forced like 5-6 dogs onto her, and she has a huge fear of dogs, what is happening to her is unclear and i am kinda glad i did not had to see that bs. Over all this story is just ridiculous and i hated every second of it. It feels like a completely different idea then the two other tiny films. Also! Camera work in this is terrible. Everything is muffled in a blue weird gradient and it makes the scenes look way uglier.

Ultimately No i can not recommend this. I would just stay and watch the V/H/S films to be honest with you, or Tales of Halloween, both of those films are short films merged together, but they are way more interesting then what we had here. All of this felt like a forced shocker that kinda fails at being shocking at least to me, but then again it takes a lot to get me to that stage.

The cinematography is good. The mood it is setting, I also liked that. The stories weren't that bad either. Though they had some downfalls (the second one trying to hard with the twist, I guess). I don't feel good about blaming the actors either. Maybe the stories only sound good on paper, but the direction wasn't that good. I can't say for sure what element didn't seem to fit.

I can only say, that the sum of it's (3) parts, wasn't as satisfying as I hoped it would be. You have to have a heart for anthologies in the first place of course. Not to mention the fact that this isn't for the squeamish either. But I reckon you have read this before somewhere about this movie. Do not rent it, if you can't handle the gore and nudity!