Terror Tales (2016)

★ 2.0 2h 1m IMDb

After being abducted by a psychopath, a husband is subjected to three horrific tales of terror while his family is held captive in an attached cargo trailer.

Terror Tales

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Cast

Jennifer Runyon
Jennifer Runyon as Melanie (segment "Epidemic") Died 2026 · Chicago, Illinois, USA ​Jennifer Runyon was an American actress. She made her feature-film debut in the slasher film To All a Goodnight (1980), and went on to have supporting roles in the comedies Up the Creek (1984) and Gh...
Lynn Lowry
Lynn Lowry as Susan McKay (segment "By Proxy") Age 78 · East St. Louis, Illinois, USA Linda Kay Lowry is an American actress, screenwriter and producer. Description above from the Wikipedia article Lynn Lowry, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia..
Felissa Rose
Felissa Rose as Witch (segment "Epidemic") Age 56 · Greenwich Village, New York City, New York, USA Felissa Rose Esposito (born May 23, 1969), better known as simply Felissa Rose, is an American actress. She has amassed over 200 film credits, and is best known for her work in the horror genre, for w...
Helene Udy
Helene Udy as Sonya Hamilton (segment "Epidemic") Age 63 · Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA Helene Udy Is An Actress, Producer, Performer & LA Performer. She Has Performed Throughtout California..
Laurene Landon
Laurene Landon as Miss Tate (segment "Radical Video") Age 69 · Toronto, Ontario, Canada Laurene Landon (born March 17, 1957 as Laurene Landon Coughlin) is a film and television actress. Laurene first began appearing in movies in the late 1970s. She is best known for playing the role of M...
Ari Lehman
Ari Lehman as Edmond Blackburn (segment "Epidemic") Age 60 · Brooklyn, New York, USA Ari Lehman is an American film composer, musician, film producer, screenwriter and actor..

Audience Reviews

TheVidiot 2/10 Jul 01, 2022
One of the aspects I most enjoy about horror anthologies is that they are like fighters who know they can't go the distance. Instead of a long drawn out match they attack with a flurry of blows from the bell; going for a K.O. As fast as one match is over the next one starts. What if the film makers think they have twelve rounds in them? Full of themselves they know they can go the distance. But like the tales they tell, it is all make believe.

An unnamed lunatic (Christopher Showerman) has taken a family hostage at gunpoint. The mother and daughter are tied up in a booby trapped trailer attached to a pick up truck. Dear old dad rides shotgun as the crazed driver passes the miles by telling three alleged tales of terror. There's no point to any of the stories being told. None of it relates in any manner to the captive audience and his predicament. The lunatic just likes to hear the sound of his own voice. Yes, we have a wrap around story.

And our three tales. Tales that are so uninteresting, dragged out and poorly edited that they aren't worth mentioning. I was fast forwarding like a fiend only to seemingly end up where I started. That's how poorly written and edited this film is. Minutes pass where nothing happens. There's no back story. No character study. No depth. Only actors milling about cheap sets and locations spouting inane dialogue.

Did I mention this thing runs two hours?

The only plus that kept me from turning off TERROR TALES and watching a blank screen instead is the cast. Some how the film makers were able to rope in actors we horror fiends grew up watching; Felissa Rose (SLEEPAWAY CAMP), Lynn Lowry (THE CRAZIES), Ari Lehman (FRIDAY THE 13TH), and Laurene Landon (MANIAC COP). Fill in the remaining characters with working class actors with extensive credits and on paper TERROR TALES should have been worth a watch. Sadly, no.

Stay away. Do not watch. Avoid like the plague. Achtung! Boredom ahead.

Does anyone want to buy a copy of this on DVD for cheap?

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