I was cruising Amazon and this movie was recommended so why not. I had been feeling like a slasher and I thought for a minute this might be one. It's not, but it did fit the bill regardless.
Vincent Price leads us on an intro where I'm wondering where this will go, then we cut to the first story cause you guessed it! It's an anthology film.
Segment one is a story of a dorky guy that goes on a date with a woman and when she rebuffs him he kills her. Then he kills his sister, before a mutant baby creature shows up and kills him! I must've missed that this was supposed to be the baby of him and the woman he killed. I must've missed that somewhere.
Second segment, some asshole guy owes some gangsters and flees to the swamp and is saved by an old black man who practices voodoo. The asshole comes to believe the man might be over 200 years old and tries to get him to share the immortality secret.
Segment three is a story of a carnival glass-eater who is in love with a woman. He wants to leave the curcus and be with her, but the circus is hella evil and they don't want him to leave. What lengths they're willing to go to...now that's the horror.
Segment four is a civil war thing where a squadron of officers finds a small secluded house where evil children live. They kidnap the soldiers and slowly kill them off, leaving Cameron Mitchell to be tortured.
Vincent Price is in the wrap-around, and shit, what else do you need? Some unexpected and unusual nudity, in that it is from an older woman, some good kills, some of the more unusual villains and ideas. I'll take it! Hell I'll even give it 3.5 stars.
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