What a waste of my time!!!

It's hard to see any effort in the film. There's no comedy to speak of, no real drama and, worst of all.

The movie turns out to be a little better than the average. Starting from a romantic formula often seen in the cinema, it ends in the most predictable (and somewhat bland) way.

Just intense enough to provide a much-needed diversion, just lightweight enough to make you forget about it soon after it’s over. It’s not exactly “good,” per se, but it does what it sets out to do in terms of putting us on edge, which makes it … successful?

I've seen this before but forgot until about 5 min into it. I see I haven't rated it yet, so let me say "DO NOT WASTE YOUR TIME!". It has all the redeeming qualities of a mid-80's college assignment - crap writing, crap acting, and some attractive women who don't show enough to make it worth watching. Film has 5 stories and a wrap around, but none of it is good. All the IMDb reviews echo "it isn't that bad".....I'd have to say "it isn't that good." Again, do NOT waste your time on this one, even if you watch utterly unwatchable horror or kung fu crap like I do. And I watched it twice. I am ashamed, but I'll blame the non-sober part of me.

An insomniac who's tired of not sleeping decides to watch a horror TV anthology hosted by 'professor' Lucius Phibes (Trent Haaga). The good professor introduces 5 separate horror talesThe first, "The Exterminator" has a tyrannical boss being kidnapped and tortured. It's atrociously acted, thinly plotted and throughly unentertaining. If I were the insomniac after watching this story, i'd be asleep with a quickness.The second tale features a reclusive writer who doesn't want to be bothered with anyone after his wife drowns. He stumbles onto a way of 'reanimating' his poor deceased wife. It's a tad better than the first story, but it's also too lightly plotted, the 'twist' a bit too easy to realize & the characterization way too sparse. the third deals with a group of friends unknowingly inviting a vampire into their house. The plot twists in this one don't really make all that much sense if you hold them to the light. And since it's also short, no ideas get a chance to be expounded on. This is a great detriment to the enjoyment of it in my eyes.Moving on to the forth story, A group of people are besieged by zombies in the Old West. This segment is more 'comedic' then the first three, but sadly said 'comedy' falls decidedly flat. The zombie make-up is all right, i guess (if you squint) but the story is barren & motivations unclear. Worst of all there's no ending, it just....ends.The last story does NOT go by that old adage 'saving the best for last' in the least. Quite the opposite in fact as it's as awful as the dreadful first story. It deals with a trio of friends hiking in the woods and catching the eye of a maniac. It's excruciatingly boring and badly acted. The less said about the soul-killing short the better.Lastly the wraparound segments are saved only by Trent Haaga, who's the only entertaining thing about the train wreck of a film.Eye Candy: after the ending credits roll, we are 'treated' to an extra taking a lengthy shower scene. (treated is in quotations as she's not really that good looking. she does show T&A and a hint of the other)My Grade: D-DVD Extras: 12 & a half minute Making-of featurette; music video by The Sea Monkees; photo reel; trailer for this movie; and trailers for "Blood Predator", "Grave Mistake" & "Rock'N'Roll Frankenstein"

Since Slices is a movie done by 5 directors each shooting one of the five segments of the movie, I'll break this review down for each part. By and large most of the segments are horribly flawed beyond just the fact that the film makers mostly shot on video with no lighting or decent sound; most of the segments have horrible acting, no coherent plot, and lack direction--amazing considering each director was only responsible for supplying about 25 minutes of the runtime.The first segment, The Exterminator, runs on too long for how little actually occurs on screen. The camera setups are sub-film school level (I kept paying attention to the desk drawer holding a plant in the opening scene since it took up most of the frame). A close-up or two wouldn't have hurt. Shots in general are horribly framed for this, cutting off people's heads for some of the shot a lot of the time. The dialogue is plodding and adds nothing to the story--which should have just been a bad boss gets his comeuppance or a commentary on the absurdity of bureaucracy in modern business) but isn't. The story is instead about some conspiracy to keep the US population at 300 million and the conspiracy's latest victim. This segment seemed to actually have the best acting in it, but wasn't enough to save it from being a snoozefest. Score: 1/10The second segment, Dead Letters, seems like it would have worked well as a short story about revenge. As a film, the segment falls short. First of all, the crew must not have heard of a wind screen for a mic (or chose not to ADR the dialogue in later), since all the outdoors scenes sound like they were recorded standing next to the afterburners in a jet. The "plot twist" isn't scary if you've ever seen a horror movie in your life (especially a certain one done by Mr Hitchcock), and the prop used for a carcass will literally make you laugh out loud. There's some claymation that is cool to see on screen since you don't get to see it that often nowadays. Also, this segment was the sharpest-looking out of the 5 segments, and it looks like film was used instead of video for some of the flashbacks, which worked. Score: 2/10Night Scream is a vampire movie about a group of young adults who go out for a party in a remote location, only to come across an injured girl who is bleeding and scratched up. Short story short: nothing in the plot makes sense: the group is going to a sex party but only one of them even seems flirtatious, and the "twist" makes no sense whatsoever. And as if it had to be said, the acting is awful (I kept wondering why the hot girl only makes faces and barely says anything, then when she opened her mouth to speak I discovered why). Score: 1/10The Range is a zombie western. That on its face sounds good, but when you take into account the bad acting/accents, lack of horses (in a western no less! the scenes for each group open with them explaining they lost their horses), and general lack of plot this is arguably the worst of the 5 segments. And then the story doesn't even keep up with zombie lore since some transvestite Indian is shot in the head in the beginning of the segment and yet comes back later as a zombie. The use of a screen wipe and still frames to depict gunfire at the end make no sense given the shots used. It looks like the director had no idea what he was doing with this and then ran out of time to shoot a full ending. Score: 1/10 (because 0 isn't an option)Last but not least, The Turnout is actually a fairly well-made short. While the voice-over work is on par with the acting in most of the feature, it seemed like the director actually had an idea in this one. Unfortunately the story seems a bit truncated. In the behind the scenes featurette on the DVD, the actor who plays the antagonist explains the character's back story as to why he acts the way he does, and it seems like that would have been good to have in the actual screenplay somehow--especially since the ending falls a bit flat vs where it seemed to be heading as a horror short. If they could have expanded this segment and cut down some of the others it would have helped. Score: 4/10The wraparound segments with the host introducing the segments are actually the best part of the movie. Sure it's been stolen from a billion horror movies, but it was fairly funny and served as a good introduction. However, the end sequence these wraparounds led to were not scary at all, and the post-credits sequence adding some much-needed nudity to the movie was far too little too late, especially considering most viewers wouldn't touch the stripper involved with a 10-foot-pole. Overall, I'd give this movie a 2 out of 10, and that may be generous.

I watched this film at a sneak preview and it was scary as hell for a little independent horror movie. The premise wasn't the most original but it was effective in the payoff. This movie had 5 segments by five different directors and each segment had such a different feel to it, I really enjoyed the wrap around with Trent Haaga, who I love from Troma! Slices had some really outrageous and scary moments with Chuck Williams (Bubba Ho-tep and Groom Lake) but also some damn funny moments too. I couldn't stop laughing while watching David C. Hayes playing a zombie killing cowboy, he steals a few great scenes with his comedic timing. I wasn't at all bored with this movie and even know the movie had a couple of week spots, over all the movie was entertaining and had a great climax, me and some friends were talking Slices the whole night. I recommend this film to any horror fans who like to kick back, watch a Rock "N" Roll horror film and have a good time!