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?
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.