I'm Working on: The House of the Dead (Patreon)
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I've always rejected anthology films for review because I don't want to spend the whole review reiterating story and, to be honest, if I'd realised this was an anthology going in then I wouldn't have done it. But as it turns out, this kind of works as a review, mainly because the 5 stories that comprise it are so unbelievably thin that they take almost no reiteration. It really wants a sort of Twilight Zone vibe with an ironic twist in every tale, but it's so forced that it comes across like a parody (I kept hearing a line from Futurama 'Stay tuned for more; Tales of Interest!').
Does this mean we're putting anthologies back on the approved list? I won't be so quick to dismiss them in the future, but nor am I keen to rush into another, and they would need to have similarly weak stories to work for us.