Mini-Review: Almost all of those points are for "...And All Through The House", which is one of the best horror anthology stories I've ever seen. The movie got off to a great start with that one, and then it spent the rest of the runtime losing all of the goodwill it had initially built up. None of the other stories worked and the finale- "Blind Alleys"- was particularly poor. Excepting "...And All Through the House", the presence of Peter Cushing was the only thing that this flick had going for it.

Mini-Review: Amicus goes the gothic-horror route. It works well enough, which leads me to think it a shame that Amicus didn't do more horror flicks set in this period (A gothic horror anthology would have been nifty). Very, very slow, but Hammer fans should have no problems with the pacing- other viewers may get fidgety.

Mini-Review: I find that even enjoyable horror anthologies are hit-or-miss as regards the individual stories. This one is no exception, and I'd say that it's the best Amicus horror anthology I've seen so far due to the quality of the first story (The Gatecrasher) and the last one (The Door). The middle stories, while boasting solid casts- including the great Donald Pleasance- are all right, but don't match the quality of the other two. Peter Cushing is good, as always, in the wraparound story.

Mini-Review: An interesting look at a unique and dangerous world, but I didn't enjoy it as much as I thought I would. It's good, but I felt as if the writers and directors were trying to be too clever- I had no trouble following the jumps in time, but it seemed an unnecessary attempt to make the movie hip and edgy. Nor was it as dark and gritty as I'd thought it would be.

Mini-Review: I usually like Coen Brothers movies and can't quite clarify why I like them. This is one of the few cases where I was lukewarm, and I once again can't figure out why that's the case. The movie was funny throughout, and the acting and writing were stellar. Yet I walked away feeling a bit ambivalent about the whole thing. Regardless, I thought the cast was hilarious- Tom Hanks channeling a Poe-obsessed Colonel Sanders was great, and the other characters also had humorous quirks.