Slow pace in the most part of the movie.

One of my all time favorites.

Fun premise, good actors, bad writing. This film seemed to have potential at the beginning but it quickly devolves into a trite action film. Ultimately it's very boring.

It's easily one of the freshest, sharpest and most enjoyable films of this year.

In this anthology movie a shady uncle tells three stories to his irritating nephew to get him to go to sleep. In the first, called Peter and the Witches, two witches want to resurrect their dead sister. They need a young woman for this, so they task their nephew to find one. They intend to boil her in their cauldron; however, they don't take into account their nephew's attachment to the girl. The second - Little Red Running Hood - is about a fitness fanatic who wants to lose her virginity. Meanwhile a werewolf pursues her grandmother who has accidentally being given his anti-lycanthropy medication. In the final instalment - Goldi Lox and the Three Baers – a lunatic family of criminals escape from an asylum and come into contact with a female serial killer.I'm usually a fan of portmanteau movies. Even if the quality is not great, the short running time of each story means they are rarely boring. However, occasionally this general rule fails to hold true. Deadtime Stories is certainly a case in point. All of its stories try your patience to varying degrees but perhaps worst of all it tries to be funny. But like most cheap horror comedies it fails miserably at being humorous. As a result it isn't scary nor is it funny and this is not good. It's not clear to me who would enjoy this but if you do then congratulations, you've got one over me.

-If you base what you like in horror from what you have seen released within the last 10-15 years...then you wont like this movie.-If you enjoy the style, humor, and campiness of the 80's horror, then this is a must watch!i remember watching this when I was a kid. We grew up in an eccentric horror fan family household. I loved this movie the first time I saw it. It is told in 4 stories. Main story is the premise for which the other 3 are told. Even though this movie is over 20 years old, I still wont post spoilers for it. It takes away from being pleasantly surprised. My favorite has to be the movies take on "Goldilocks and the 3 Bears". That was funny. The movie overall wasn't what you would call scary. Not that type of horror film. It also didn't take itself too seriously. Watch it! Just make sure to remember how horror was sometimes approached with humor and a bit cheesiness back then and you wont judge this film to harshly but rather end up enjoying the nostalgia.

DEADTIME STORIES was released a few years after the release of George A. Romero's CREEPSHOW. However, Deadtime isn't anywhere close to the caliber of quality that CREEPSHOW is. This movie is comprised of three stories, all of which totally suck. The first story deals with witches, as they perform stupid experiments. The second story is based on a guy that gets his pharmaceutical prescription screwed up with another patent's. This causes him to change into a werewolf. Finally, the third and final story is a black comedy that has the viewer forced to follow the path of three escaped mental patients who shard a country house with a character by the name of Goldi Lox. The bottom line is that all of these stories suck. It's a shame a producer thought that this project would be a success. I wonder what he was smoking?? The movie has a cool box cover, but that is all. AWFUL.

Three fairy tales are given ghoulish twists in what should have been a homerun for the horror genre. However, a slack production and a director who seems confused as to handle the stories sink it. Tale one, a romantic horror fantasy with attractive leads and a lush score is a moderate success compared to the other tales.