Director: Darin Scott, Rusty Cundieff
Year: 2018
Country: USA
Alternate Titles: N/A
Genre: Anthology
Plot:
Brought to a remote facility, the storyteller is tasked with telling tales to an artificial intelligence simulation to determine proper police procedurals for his new robot police force.
Review:
Good Golly-Arriving at a special museum, a pair of friends anger the owner of the establishment with their scoffing notion of racist tales and ordered to leave the museum. Sneaking back inside with their friend to steal the doll, they get more than they bargained for when something is still alive inside. This one starts the stories off on a strong note. The racial overtones are covered extremely well, from their questioning of the doll's original historical intentions and the book from the past, and the doll coming to life and imparting a rather nice twisted form of justice is rather well done. The finale goes on a little too long to sell it's impact, but the idea here is still really enjoyable giving this a lot to like.
The Medium-Grabbed by his enemies, a man is beaten by rival gang members into revealing the location of stolen money only to die before he can do so. When they realize that a TV psychic may hold the answer, they enlist his help to find it only for something unexpected to stall their plans. This was a disappointing segment overall. The point here is completely missing and has no real connection to anything told before so there's very little impact to the final events as it just seems to insert the psychic out of nowhere and his questioning of his skills knowing that he's a fraud. The events of the seance is what ends up being the most enjoyable part as the payback doesn't have a strong twist but it's the events themselves that are shown playing out which is fun, even though it's a little long overall.
Date Night-Heading over to a friends house, several guys arrive to spend the night with a group of girls and enjoy the party, eventually knocking them out and doing hat they please. When they discover too late that the girls aren't what they seem, it puts them into a terrifying fight for their lives. Overall, this was a fun and enjoyable segment. While it takes a wile to get going showing the guys in the girls' house enjoying a board game for far long, there's still fun to be had seeing them engage in these games as well as the bedroom scene that create a nice and solid twist on itself to illustrate the perils of modern dating. Offering the best gore of the film but dropping the racial intentions of the segment, this is a wholly enjoyable effort.
The Sacrifice-Worried about her pregnancy, a man tries to get his pregnant woman over the idea of her dreams having a profound impact on the outcome of her life. Finally realizing what her dreams mean when he finds his life changed, he sets out on a path to fix it that will affect history. This was a decidedly bland effort. This is due to very little of what happens here being scary as the idea of transposing her dreams about the baby's future against the interactions of the black ghosts from the past doesn't have any real connection to the story being told. That causes this to end up being nothing more than a racial diatribe which doesn't create any kind of scares as it just meanders along for so long. The message is finely served, it's just not a scary one leaving this as a let-down to end this on.
Overview: ** 1/2/5
With some fun segments and a few minor ones that do hold it back overall, this is a slightly underwhelming if still not entirely worthless follow-up that does have some to like. Give this a shot if you're a fan of the original or a hardcore anthology fan in general, while those that are somewhat put-off by the original or not such a genre fan should heed caution.
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