Very very predictable, including the post credit scene !!!

This is a coming of age storyline that you've seen in one form or another for decades. It takes a truly unique voice to make yet another one worth watching.

An old-fashioned movie made with new-fashioned finesse.

The acting in this movie is really good.

This anthology set up is quite good with a colorful wrap around and Dourif and Jones shine as the storytellers. The first story is of an old man (Will Hare) who travels through a forbidden Indian graveyard and is buried alive while he sleeps. The next story is of a man (McClure) who meets a woman (Michelle Joyner) who tricks him into a deadly surprise while they make love. Finally, there is a man named Arthur (Atherton,) who appears to be a good family man until his daughter Eva (Wendy J. Cooke) sees him brutally murdering some innocent people one night. Writer / Director Wayne Coe mix the Horror and Western genres together and it has a great set up. The problem comes when the stories don't deliver any horror. One quick shock is delivered when the man making love is sucked into and through the woman he is making love with but even this is bloodless. The tales are interesting and even amusing they just don't lead to any terror. Well made with nice cinematography from future Academy Award winner and Steven Spielberg collaborator Janusz Kaminski. Unfortunately, the best stuff in this film is the go between with story tellers Dourif and Jones.

Blustery bounty hunter James Earl Jones and jittery eastern tenderfoot Brad Douriff share a campfire on the prairie and swap horror stories, some of the supernatural variety while others are all too natural.This is a low budget but ambitious and atmospheric horror western, worth a look for fans of either genre, though some fans of traditional westerns might not be amused.The vignettes are great but the wraparound with Jones and Douriff is so entertaining that the stories they tell pale in comparison.Other than Jones and Douriff, the best performance in the film is by William Atherton as a frontier dad with a dark secret.

Brad Dourif (the voice of Chucky) and James Earl Jones (the voice of Darth Vader) play two heavily contrasted travelers in the nineteenth century who end up camping together and telling scary stories. Dourif Plays Farley Deeds, a naive clerk who is on his way to see his wife who is visiting his ill mother-in-law. Jones plays a gruff bounty hunter who is attempting to cash in on the corpse that hangs off the end of his horse. Together, they are a priceless pair with some of the most humorous and interesting exchanges in film lore. The tales are overshadowed by the two star's immense talent and their unusually great chemistry.

The pleasure of the horror anthology is that of brevity. No story can really out-stay its welcome or be forced into unnecessary padding. And if one episode fails to work, never mind, there will be another one along in a minute.James Earl Jones and Brad Dourif are both excellent as the contrasting storytellers and make the linking storyline into a highlight itself. Their tales are a mixed bunch. The opener about an Indian curse is rather slight. However the second tale about a helpful young man and a mysterious pregnant girl finishes on such a disturbing, horrific note that the viewer might not recover for the rest of the film! Especially if they're male. Definitely it is the moment that will be talked about afterwards. Deliberately, the third story concerns a more cerebal horror. A girl discovers a shocking truth about the father she idolises. Yet it emerges as probably the most satisfying tale of the night with a haunting punchline. Finally the concluding tale of vengeance beyond the grave is fair, its highlight being an animated nightmare sequence.The Western trappings bring a welcome original atmosphere to these Tales from the Crypt refugees, making this a worthwhile diversion for the jaded horror fan.