A Night of Horror: Nightmare Radio

Hard to rate this anthology anything than middle 5/10. Its not bad, its competently made but, at least for me, non of the stories stand out much. Comparing to for example some V/H/S episodes that haunts me to this day, this was rather forgettable experience. Still decent ride for avid horror fan.

So this film has a 6.5 rating on here (at the time of writing) and I have no idea how. I watched this last night and it's appalling, yes I admit, i have seen worse anthology films but that doesn't excuse this awful film. The lead actor who plays the DJ is one of the worst actors I've ever seen, if he was any more wooden you could use him to build a fence around your garden. Yes the dialogue he's given is so awful that Robert De niro would probably have struggled to put in a convincing performance with it, but his line delivery and facial expressions are comically bad. Speaking of the dialogue, it really does show the level of skill involved here when, in this day and age, the writer chooses to write lines like this. Radio DJ takes a studio call from one of his female listeners. Caller: Hi my name is Joanne DJ: Hey! you've got a sexy voice, what do you want to talk about today? Seriously, who wrote that, a horny 13 year old? It's awful, What radio DJ would address a female caller in that way? The short stories range from so short and pointless that they have zero effect on the viewer, to dull and boring and they even throw in a foreign language segment because, you know, nothing makes and English speaking film more classy than a subtitled story shoved into the middle. It's so out of place. NONE and I mean this, NONE of the stories are scary, creepy or un-nerving and there's zero atmosphere to get wrapped up in. The acting on the whole is absolutely abysmal, some of the radio callers voices are hilariously bad, the effects aren't too bad, they're not terrible and there is obviously some effort gone into them but it can't save this turkey. I'm completely certain that the score for this will come down after a few weeks, as I do feel there's been a lot of fake upvotes involved here. I've given it a 1 purely for that reason. An honest rating for this would have been a 3, maybe a 3.5 but it's no where near a 6.5. Not the worst horror anthology out there, it's not Creepshow 3 bad but it's about on par with another rubbish horror anthology i watched recently "XX" Avoid.

Worst movie, worst stories, A complete waste watching the movie

Are you a fan of horror anthology films (such as "Tales from the crypt", "Creepshow", "Tales of Halloween", "XX" or "Tale of Tales")? Well, you might as well like this movie. Provided you are not an avid lover of short films and continuously seek for horror short films on YouTube or other channels. Because then it may well be that you've already seen a few of the films that are used in "A Night of Horror: Nightmare Radio". This anthology isn't a collection of newly made short films. It's a collection of pre-existing short films. And these are all connected with each other through a central storyline with DJ Rod Wilson (James Wright) who broadcasts a night program on some local radio station. A program in which he (and also a few nightly callers) tries to delight listeners with some chilling and creepy ghostly stories. It's not Halloween yet, but it would be a suitable movie for that period of the year. Frankly, I thought the beginning of the film looked very promising and exciting. The first short ("In the Dark Dark Woods", a sort of alternative version of "The Invisible Man") and the introduction of the bearded, radio guy gave me a taste for more. And when the second short story (highlight of the whole movie and my absolute favorite) was over, I was already getting ready for even more of that. "Post Mortem Mary" isn't only fantastic in terms of content. The handling of the camera, the way in which the story was portrayed and the ever-rising suspense in this excruciatingly exciting short story, produced a very successful end result. It's the story of a mother and her young daughter Mary earning their living in Australia in 1840 as post-mortem photographers. The idea is to photograph the corpse as vividly as possible. Something Mary has yet to learn. It's a fantastic short film that was well received at some festivals in 2017 and won some prizes worldwide. An eye-opener for sure (no pun intended). Unfortunately, none of the subsequent stories reached the same level as the previous short films. Not that they were awfully bad or of a sadly low level. But "Post Mortem Mary" is head and shoulders above the rest. "A little off the Top" is a bit of a sinister story that focuses on the insanity (Or craftiness. It's just how you look at it) of a hairdresser. "Drops" demonstrates how a traumatic experience torments a Spanish young dancer. I thought "The Disappearance of Willie Bingham" was kind of successful. A somewhat different story about how a death penalty is converted into a more alternative punishment. In my view a fairly funny story. "The smiling man" undoubtedly deserves a place behind Mary's story. Concise and terrifying at the same time. Without too much fuss. The final short films "Into the Mud" and "Vicius" were, in my opinion, the weakest ones. The fact is that by making a selection of existing short films in "A Night of Horror: Nightmare Radio", the quality level is very high. None of the stories gives you the feeling as if they were quickly produced, such that the intended playing time of the feature-length film could be reached. Another advantage is that the movie scores well in terms of diversity. There's something for everyone. Only "Into the Mud" (a kind of mythologically oriented fantasy story) feels a little bit like the odd one out here. The only downside was the overarching story of the DJ himself. First of all, I didn't think it was convincing enough. It even felt a bit boring. And the denouement was a bit of an anti-climax. Yet to my surprise, I enjoyed this movie more than I expected. So if you feel like hearing some scary, paranormal stories with a lurid touch, then you'll be fine with this film. More reviews here: movie-freak.be

Instant cult classic. If you liked old school Creepshow movie you'll like this movie

There is no way the rating of the movie here (currently 6.4 at the time of writing) is genuine. Obviously the producers (or whoever) have got friends and family to up the ratings. This movie is terrible - right from the opening credits to the end. The acting (for the most part) is awful and lacks direction, and the stories are ridiculously predictable and terribly executed. Don't bother with this one. You'd be better off having your teeth pulled for entertainment.

This movie wasn't horrible but it wasn't good either. The radio host character was absolutely abysmal. He tried so hard to be scary and suspenseful but came across as a piece of cardboard. I only lasted 30 minutes and 2 stories into the movie. The 1st was completely nonsensical, boring. and not even remotely scary. The 2nd tried to have a punch but fell completely flat. It was a complete and utter snooze fest waiting for the completely anticlimactic ending. I've seen up voting before but I'm surprised to see 800 possible fake accounts just to up vote this movie. Both of the written reviews are completely fake and you can always tell because they're so ridiculously over the top about how much they love the movie and then you watch it and realize there's no way that any real person could have thought that about THIS movie. In pretty sure they just cut and paste them from real movie review websites, made for different movies. Imdb seriously needs to solve this problem.

This is not a 10 star movie. This is a 4. A few average stories, a few bad ones. The best is the Russian subtitled one. Luck perhaps as they probably threw in a foreign language one for diversity. The rest are at most average. I'm not gonna review each segment I only am leaving a review so someone doesn't watch this expecting 10 stars. The radio studio segments were not too good, not so much the acting but the inane writing. The whole radio studio segment is a borrowed adaptation I saw in one of many other horror anthology movies or shows but I couldn't place where, I spent more time trying to figure out where I saw it used before than caring about the bad stories. The old music they use is by far the best thing in this movie.

Rod (James Wright ) hosts a late night call in for horror stories in Maryanna. He tells stories as does his guest callers. The tales consist of about 9 or 10 short features. These tales lacked the twists of "Creep Show" style stories and were definitely second tier. Note the 1980's period of the radio station and TV. Babcock Furniture advertises VCRs while some folks in the tales have cell phones. He speaks of the Internet. If you get bored, you can always skip to the next feature. Guide: No F-word. Nudity.