Three macabre tales from the latest issue of a boy's favorite comic book, dealing with a vengeful wooden Native American, a monstrous blob in a lake, and an undying hitchhiker.
George Romero contributes the screenplay this time, basing it on some tastefully selected Stephen King morsels.
– Pat Graham,
Chicago Reader,
12 Jul 2010
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:
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:
Part of the problem is that King's short stories simply work better in print.
– Richard Harrington,
Washington Post,
1 Jan 2000
rotten:
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.