Runtime: 93 minutes
Rating: R
Release Date: May 4, 1990
Director: John Harrison
Timmy (Matthew Lawrence) makes the
mistake of wandering into the kitchen of Betty (Deborah Harry), who
just so happens to be in the mood for little boy stew. She gives him
a book of fairy tales that are a little dark and twisted to tide him
over, and he decides to read her a few to hopefully distract her
until he can find a way to escape.
When I was younger, I always loved the
"Lot 249" segment, which is the first in the film. The
segment stars Steve Buscemi as a graduate student who discovers that
his quasai-girlfriend, played by Julianne Moore, cheated on him and
tried to steal from him. Her younger brother, played by Christian
Slater, saves the day, but not before his sister and her lover die.
In the end, Buscemi brings her back from the dead to get revenge on
her brother.
"Cat from Hell" is the
typical middle story in films like this. It involves an older man,
who thinks that a black cat living in his house is evil. He offers a
hitman $100,000 to kill the cat. The cat stalks the man all night,
and when the older man comes back, he discovers that the cat actually
suffocated the hitman by stuffing itself down his throat. In the end,
the cat kills the old man too.
My favorite story in the film now is
the last one, titled "Lover's Vow." James Remar plays a man
who sees a gargoyle kill a man in a dark ally. The gargoyle promises
to let him live as long as he never tells anyone what he saw. That
same night, he meets Rae Dawn Chong and falls helplessly in love with
her. After several years of marriage and having two kids together, he
tells her what happened the night that they met. She turns into the
gargoyle, kills him, and becomes statues with their kids. Oh and in
the end, Timmy traps Betty in her own oven and presumably lives
happily ever after.
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