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Overrated and overhyped

Admirable film.

This is one of the few movies I've ever seen where the whole audience broke into spontaneous, loud applause a third of the way in.

This is a gorgeous movie made by a gorgeous spirit.

This 1986 horror anthology film tells of a scared kid who gets his uncle to tell him bedtime stories to help him sleep. He reads 3 bizarre tales based on Fairy tales like, "Little Red Riding Hood" and "Goldilocks & The 3 Bears. The first is about 2 witches and a peasant boy, the second is about a teenage girl encountering a werewolf and the third is about a family trio of criminals meeting a blonde psychopath. This was ok, but could've been better. The first 2 tales are kind of creepy and the third is goofy. You could give this a try at least once if you're into anthologies.

If you've come of age in the 21st century, then you know Melissa Leo for her roles as tough-as-nails women. She played a down-on-her-luck woman transporting illegal immigrants in "Frozen River", the hardboiled matriarch of a boxing family in "The Fighter" (for which she won an Academy Award), and Laura Poitras - who filmed Glenn Greenwald's interview with Edward Snowden, resulting in the Academy Award-winning documentary "Citizenfour" - in "Snowden".Some of these future roles get hinted at in the horror flick "Deadtime Stories". The movie features unusual twists on stories told to children. The first two vignettes are authentic horror stories, but the third one is a comic spin on Goldilocks and the Three Bears, with the bears depicted as a human family that escapes an institution (Melissa Leo plays the mom). The family reminded me of the Three Bears from Chuck Jones's cartoons (which themselves sort of predicted "All in the Family").Anyway, it's nice brainless fun. I suspect that they had fun filming it. I wonder if any of Melissa Leo's co-stars (Sean Penn, Tommy Lee Jones, Amy Adams, Bryan Cranston, Joseph Gordon-Levitt) from her more famous movies have ever seen it.

I saw this back in 1989 and its 1 week long stint at a local multiplex. Me and my friend were desperate to see a horror film. Well--that IS what we got! This is an anthology film about some annoying uncle (horribly overplayed) telling his bratty nephew some fairy tales to put him to sleep. Naturally these are all turned into "horror" stories. None of them were interesting, scary or much of anything. The acting sucked and the special effects were VERY sub-par. The only relatively interesting part was seeing Scott Valentine strip nude in the first segment. All you see is his butt and a VERY brief side view but he was young, handsome and in good shape. Also interesting to have male nudity in a horror film. That aside this was boring and just jawdroppingly stupid. In a way me and my friend sort of enjoyed it. It was so hopeless it was actually kind of fun! Seriously though a must-miss unless you want a textbook example of how NOT to do a horror film.

A very unusual, strange, but in the end not at all interesting, simil-horror anthology, based on a different interpretation of classical fables. A really warped uncle tell his nephew three different stories to try to convince him to sleep: the first is a sort of faerie tale with a couple of witches and their young male servant that try to resurrect one of their kind. But the boy falls for a knockout blond and so the story goes. The second is a retelling of Little Red Riding Hood, really strange and boring. The third segment, that is the only good one in this movie, is a sick and totally goofy version of Goldylocks, with the blonde girl as a crazy serial killer of young boyfriends that makes a strange alliance with the Bear family (in fact, a sort of mixture between Bonnie and Clyde and a farmer family coming out of Lil Abner) and find her true love in Baby. All in all, a forgettable attempt at innovation in a field crowded with better ideas