This is a new horror anthology film that is based on the same classic E.C. Comics published by William Gaines that Tales From The Crypt, The Vault Of Horror, and Creepshow are; and it continues in the tradition of the stories being based on bad karma getting those who have it coming to them! This one also won the Driectors' Choice Award at the Indie Horror Film Festival near Chicago and screened at the Bram Stoker International Film Festival in England as well. It opens up at a local diner with several of the main characters at different parts of it discussing brief intros to the segments they are in. It then starts off in a dark creepy graveyard with a few kids messing around, only to meet a scary but cool looking ghoul who has a lesson to teach about disturbing the dead.
The second segment is about a troubled young man named Norman who is believed to have a sick mother living with him who nobody has seen, and keeps going to the library to check out books on different plants and medicines who also has a very nosy neighbor who keeps suspecting he is up to something, then gets too carried away with her spying on him and eventually starts making accusations without proof or enough legit reason to believe.
The third segment begins with a hunter traveling from out of town on a hunting trip, hunting coyotes out of season, saying that when a farmer is offering $100 per coyote head, it's open season all year round. One thing he doesn't realize is that there are werewolves in that area that could bite him and turn him into one of them, and another farmer is offering $500 per werewolf head.
The fourth segment starts with a couple of young bank robbers on the run when their car breaks down, and they end up having a mysterious family who lives in that isolated area take them in for the time being until they can get their car fixed and back on the road. They don't realize the dark and maybe deadly secrets that family possesses.
The fifth segment is about a scientist studying human cell regeneration and about how starfish can grow lost legs back but humans can not, trying to discover a way he can change that. When a girl he cares about gets severely injured, he really goes over the top by trying to help her by using his research, then gets carried away when it doesn't work in the way he had hoped.
The sixth segment is about a pedophile who stalks small children at local playgrounds and elementary schools, only to find that not all young small children are as dumb and vulnerable as he thinks, and about how the past can come back to haunt in more ways than a lot of people realize.
This film is overall well done with the whole cast and crew doing excellent jobs in what they did and/or with the roles they played. There is also great looking props, scenery, costumes, and make up to have really cool and scary looking creatures like a ghoul, a werewolf, and zombies. The stories are also very original with good twists and turns before displaying bad karma getting those who have it coming to them. My personal favorites of the segments are the first, third, and sixth; but they are all good overall. This is also one of the better horror anthology films to come out in years, maybe decades now. Fans of E.C. Comics, Tales From The Crypt, The Vault Of Horror, and Creepshow should not be disappointed with this one.
