EC Comics-inspired weirdness returns with three tales. In the first, a wooden statue of a Native American comes to life...to exact vengeance on the murderer of his elderly owners. In the second, four teens are stranded on a raft on a lake with a blob that is hungry. And in the third, a hit and run woman is terrorized by the hitchhiker she accidentally killed...or did she really kill him?
Just as you can't judge a '50s comic book by its lurid cover, so you can't judge a cheapo, three-part film by its sources.
– ,
Time Out,
24 Jun 2006
rotten:
Part of the problem is that King's short stories simply work better in print.
– Richard Harrington,
Washington Post,
1 Jan 2000
fresh:
The episodes are marginally interesting, but each is a little too long. And each could be fully explained in a one-sentence synopsis.
– Janet Maslin,
New York Times,
20 May 2003
rotten:
Tied together with some humdrum animated sequences, three vignettes on offer obviously were produced on the absolute cheap, and are deficient in imagination and scare quotient.
– Variety Staff,
Variety,
26 Mar 2009
fresh:
George Romero contributes the screenplay this time, basing it on some tastefully selected Stephen King morsels.