When, then, she reveals she’s just joking, he invites her back to his place, but, still, she pranks him again, this time with make up, but the punchline is, this time she scares her prospective boss, for she was trying to get hire, to death, it’s not bad. Then, again with the motif of the woman picked up on the roadside, a director seeks refuge in his country bungalow to think about what he wants to do with a horror movie he is making, but he picks up a sexy hitchhiker who then also pranks him by claiming in a tunnel that she is a ghost who has come to haunt him. They are obsessed with making contact with a spirit, and then the table turn is that the driver in distress is the spirit they have called in, killed in a car crash, and come now to torture them, it is a kind of fun twist. They prank him a few more times, after, even, a pretty scary séance, until he is like, you are crazy, and he loses all patience. At first, he thinks she is seducing him, but, then, a ghost shows up, except that it is her clown of a husband, pranking him. There is another story that features a man broken down in a car on the road who seeks help to make a phone call at the house of an extremely beautiful woman. The first good story is of a professor who believes that there is a spirit of a man in his house who wants to take over being him, though this does not go very far, it is well told, and a pretty scary idea, nicely acted out. But the main event is that the grandmother sits them down and tells them five stories, which is a lot of stories. The set is very good, and remain good, when the kids wander here and there, with, on one room, a picture of a woman, presumably the grandmother when young, blinking to staring at the kids when they do a double take on it. Things finally settle down when we come to about five kids who knock on the door of a gray and atmospheric bungalow, lived in by an old grandmother in white. Soon after, there is also a kind of music video in the movie, which I could not make out why it was there. First there is an unappealing story of a fellow who is warned off of going into a cemetery on Friday the 13 th and a moonless night, but does, then there is trouble. Much like the portmanteau movies of the British horror boom, back in the 60s and 70s, this anthology horror film has some ups and downs, with a decidedly false comic take on horror, trying to twist emotions any which way (it reminded most of Tales that Witness Madness in its skirting on parody).
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