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Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Binding: DVD
Brand: Image Entertainment
EAN: 0014381342123
Format: Color, DVD-Video, Full Screen, NTSC
Label: Image Entertainment
Manufacturer: Image Entertainment
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Image Entertainment
Release Date: June 19, 2007
Running Time: 81 minutes
Sales Rank: 50179
Studio: Image Entertainment
Theatrical Release Date: 1986
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Once upon a time, when you were six years old, and your parents used to tell you 'bedtime stories.' Somehow those stories became twisted in your dreams, and you sometimes had the worst nightmares about haunted heroes, fire-eating witches and bloodsucking werewolves who ate children for breakfast. Remember? Well, hold on to your popcorn, because your favorite nightmares come to life in a horror/fantasy salute to the age-old bedtime story ritual. Travel on a mysterious journey to a medieval world populated by blood-crazed witches, evil experiments and captive maidens. Then from the catacombs and dark caverns of medieval Europe you plunge into modern suburbia and the frolicsome adventures of a nubile lady jogger tracked by a savage werewolf. Finally, sensuality becomes macabre black comedy on the trail of three escaped mental patients who share a country house with a daffy murderess. Pray you can sleep again!
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Rating:  - Please don't tell me another wretched story, Uncle Mike
Deadtime Stories is just a totally lame, poorly made, almost completely unwatchable failure of a film. It's unbelievable to me that this thing actually got a theatrical release; I guess no more than a handful of people actually paid to see it because I don't remember hearing of any bloody riots from mid-1980s moviegoers. What you have here is an annoying kid dumped on his uncle one night and whining no less than three stories out of the guy - who, for obvious reasons, would much rather be downstairs watching the Miss Nude Vail contest on TV. You would think there would be some potential for a version of Little Red Riding Hood in which the protagonist is actually "a hot-looking high school senior with deep blue eyes, and fine, firm breasts," but you would be wrong. As lecherous as Uncle Mike (Michael Mesmer) is, the only real looker we get in the entire film is Goldi Lox (Cathryn DePrume), and that's way too little way too late.
Uncle Mike's first story is Peter and the Witches. Not only is the whole story horrible, the film print is so bad that I didn't even recognize young Peter to be Scott Valentine (apparently, neither did NBC or he would never have kept his job playing Nick on Family Ties). Then you have the aforementioned Little Red Riding Hood, which takes place in a thoroughly modern setting. Rachel (Nicole Picard) is sent to get her grandmother's prescription filled but is accidentally given the drugs needed by a rather wolfish hood who gets to grandmother's house ahead ... Read More
Rating:  - Just a fun flick!
When a babysitting uncle is asked thrice to tell bedtime stories to get his nephew to go to sleep, he concocts three weird yarns that must be seen to be believed. The first is an ancient tale about a young man owned by two sister witches working to awaken a long dead third. The second tale is a modern day Red Riding Hood story about a sexy young jogger who is pursued by a werewolf with good intentions but no self control. Last, we have a goofy dark-comedy inspired by Goldilocks and the Three Bears, only in this story the three bears are a family of escaped, homicidal mental patients and Goldilocks is a cute but murderous girl with psychic powers.
If that synopsis sounds interesting to you, then that's a good start. You may want to look into this movie. Here's what you have to know. This is a low-budget horror film from 1986, and the DVD case doesn't represent the movie at all really. Bottom line, this is a fun horror-anthology movie. Not one that is going to really scare you or creep you out very much even (depending on your creepometer), but it's great for a night of wacky horror movie watching. It's lots of fun, that's all. It's no masterpiece. It's presented in fullscreen, and I have no idea what is up with that. The case says it is presented in its original aspect ratio, 1.33:1, but Internet Movie Database gives the O.A.R. as 1.85:1, and, I'm thinking IMDB is probably the more trustworthy source here since the DVD doesn't even give us the full credits, ha. Seriously, the film cuts ... Read More
Rating:  - Great, Fun, Classic Horror Fun
I first watched this movie back when it was new, and had a blast. This is what happens when a film purposely doesn't take itself too seriously, and it shows in the end result of these fun, (and in the case of Goldilocks), outright goofy takes on classic bedtime stories with a horiffic twist. The other reviewiers obviously did not experience true 80's horror i.e. Sleepaway Camp, My Bloody Valentine, April Fools Day, and Motel Hell to name a few. Horror today is way too self-absorbed, over-analyzed, and the movies are mostly made to please a demographic that really don't appreciate what makes a good popcorn night. A couple exceptions would be Slither and Feast which give an obvious nod to the 80's style and are indeed a treat. I have spent 20+ years collecting and studying the horror genre, and believe me, Deadtime Stories is ten dollars well-spent.
Rating:  - el oso grande
The story lines are predictable and the special effects are cheap. I gave it 2 stars because the neigbor's kid like it.
Rating: - Utter crap
I try to find some good in any movie I watch, even when I know I just bought a low-budge B movie. Hey, a lot of B movies make up for big budgets and prime distribution by being just darned good films. Deadtime Stories, however, is just a throwaway and not even worth a rent. Don't even bother unless you're getting it for free.
This movie lacks everything that can make movies rise above humble origins. The direction and cinematography are completely lacking in anything unique, or even familiar but well done. Good lighting, interesting camera work and good use of environment seem to be completely ignored (or just unknown).
The first story, involving a slave boy (well, young man) stuck serving a couple of witches trying to resurrect their dead sister, is downright stupid. Every dumb witch cliche' you can imagine is served up with equally bad dialogue and lame acting. No stars.
The 2nd story is supposed to be a "sexy suburban jogger" take on Little Red Riding Hood, but it's also stupid. It doesn't even make you laugh at it's failings, it just comes across as completely vapid. One star for a half-decent makeup job on the werewolf's face, which you get to see for a few seconds at the end.
The final story, which I reached only by hoping things could get better, is the worst. And I was hoping.... Anyway, here we have a family of phychos who have just broken dad out of what must be the most badly conceived mental facility ever shown on film. Even ... Read More
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