Rotten
Dennis Bartok writes this lackluster anthology of four juvenile horror stories dripping with sexual dread and goofball gore.
Bill Stamets, Chicago Sun-Times
Trapped Ashes
5 Tales of Terror From the Biggest Names in Horror
2006 · 1h 45m · R
Horror
Directed by
Sean S. Cunningham
,
Joe Dante
,
Ken Russell
,
Monte Hellman
,
John Gaeta
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Trapped Ashes
Overview
Trapped in a house of horror, seven people discover that the only way they'll get out alive is to tell their scariest stories.
Director and cast
- Sean S. Cunningham Director
- Joe Dante Director
- Ken Russell Director
- Monte Hellman Director
- John Gaeta Director
- Jayce Bartok as Andy (segment "Wraparound")
- Henry Gibson as Tour Guide (segment "Wraparound")
- Lara Harris as Julia (segment "Wraparound")
- Scott Lowell as Henry (segment "Wraparound")
- Dick Miller as Max (segment "Wraparound")
- Michèle-Barbara Pelletier as Nathalie / Martine (segments "Wraparound"/ "My Twin, The Worm")
- John Saxon as Leo (segment "Stanley's Girlfriend")
- Rachel Veltri as Phoebe (segment "The Girl with Golden Breasts")
- Richard Ian Cox as Doug (segment "The Girl with Golden Breasts")
- Glynis Davies as Nurse (segment "The Girl with Golden Breasts")
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
25%
Tomatometer
Fresh
Gross-out comedy about male discomfort with female sexuality dominates this horror anthology scripted by Dennis Bartok.
Jonathan Rosenbaum, Chicago Reader
Rotten
With its gore-comix sensibility and self-conscious flashes of nudity, Trapped Ashes clunks along, and (to be completely petty) never really overcomes its clunky title.
Michael Phillips, Chicago Tribune
Rotten
Pairing cult directors with macabre omnibus material is always a tasty proposition, but the results disappoint in Trapped Ashes, a quartet of mildly sexed-up, unscary horror tales with a unifying wraparound story.
Dennis Harvey, Variety
Rotten
Only fitfully entertaining.
Michael Rechtshaffen, Hollywood Reporter
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