Deadtime Stories

Three fairy tales are given ghoulish twists in what should have been a homerun for the horror genre. However, a slack production and a director who seems confused as to handle the stories sink it. Tale one, a romantic horror fantasy with attractive leads and a lush score is a moderate success compared to the other tales.

A little boy begs his uncle to tell him bedtime stories. The uncle does, but gives them all macabre twists in this fair-to-middling anthology film.

"Peter And The Witches" is about a young man (Scott Valentine) who is a slave to two witches. This segment is slow and almost plot less.

"Little Red Runninghood" has a high school girl in a red jogging outfit picking up medicine for her sick grandma at the drug store. She's given the wrong prescription, and the man the medicine belongs to has a very special reason for needing it before the full moon (hint, hint). You'll guess the punchline, but it's still a funny segment.

"Goldi Lox And The Three Baers" is a very broad, very black comedy about a telekinetic young woman (the very sexy Catheryn DePrume) and a homicidal family - Papa Baer, Mama Baer and Baby Baer - that team up together and go on a crime spree. Sort of a R rated Looney Tunes cartoon, this is the best segment of the film.

Perhaps not the best horror anthology around, it's still amusing in spots. Apparently this movie was shot over the course of four years. The British title is Freaky Fairy Tales.

Its totally creepy that the washed up pervy drunk uncle is telling a little boy dirty bedtime stories. The gore is pretty fun though. I'm not sure what age its intended for, its adult but then its still so campy at times its like it was also for kids 50 years ago. What a mess! But its obvious that Rob Zombie liked it, that Goldie Lox segment is pretty much just House of 1000 corpses.

Seen much better Anthology horror films than this. Worth a watch but do not get your hopes up.

Bongzilla should make an appearance prior to watching.

Three stories, only one is good, the others are okay. The gimmick of twisted fairy tales is stretched a bit, but works well enough. Where it falls apart is with the framing device and the last story, which is so hokey and over the top that it almost ruins the movie. The middle one is the best with the first one being a solid meh. Still worth seeing as a whole, but there are far better anthologies.