Sean S. Cunningham, Joe Dante,
John Gaeta, Monte Hellman, Ken Russell – 2006 – USA
One of the worst of many,
many gimmick horror anthologies in recent years, all the more unfortunate
because some really quality people were involved, including Monte Hellman and
Ken Russell. On a studio back-lock, a
tram driver played by Henry Gibson (one of the film’s only pluses), takes a
group of passengers on a tour, strands them in an abandoned haunted house set
and makes them tell scary stories to each other. Each one is dramatized by a different
director, such Joe Dante and Sean S. Cunningham. What’s curious is that in none of them are a
director’s signature remotely apparent.
They all look like they could simply have been made by the same hack. It seems to me that the only thing of
interest about such a concept would be to see a mix of styles between the
stories; otherwise why not have one director at least try to make a good film
instead of several directors making a bunch of bad ones? Very unfortunate and disappointing all
around.
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