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· Year: 1990
· Director: Wayne Coe
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· Cast: James Earl Jones, Brad Dourif
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When a bounty hunter and a city boy meet on a prairie in the old west, they keep each other company by telling scary stories by the campfire. The stories are: a white man is punished for knowingly trespassing on an Indian burial ground; a drifter gets far more than he wants when he takes a pregnant woman under his wing; a little girl is horrified by her father's secret; and an impeccably clean gunslinger can't shake the feeling that his most recent victim is haunting him.
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RATING
Out of 100 |
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81
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| COLD ANALYSIS |
| 4.0 -ATMOSPHERE |
| 1.5 -GORE |
| 3.25 -HUMOR |
| 2.0 -SCARES |
| 2.5 -TENSION |
You know, I like this movie more each time I watch it. Though the first and third stories are the strongest, the whole film has an atmosphere (atmospheres, really) that never fails to draw me in. Unlike some horror anthologies, in which each story tries (and, in a lot of cases, fails) to achieve blind terror, Grim Prairie Tales wants to get a different reaction from us with each tale. And the wraparound story is absolutely fantastic--James Earl Jones and Brad Dourif have a wonderful, scary, funny rapport.
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