The Devil's Tail

An hour thirty minutes of my life I can't get back. This movie is billed as a single story but after spending 45 minutes confused, I realized there won't be any cohesion in this anthology. If I didn't spend $5.99 to watch this travesty, I would have shut it off. A truly horribly done wreck.

There's nothing as disconcerting as going on IMDB for a little illumination on what you just watched to find "I only watched for six minutes. Don't waste your time," or "It only played to the end cause I was reading." In other words, you felt compelled to review a film you haven't seen. Some people must really like to see their names in print. That said, it took me a bit to realize that this was an anthology. I think that was because they aren't so much complete stories as they are vignettes. The closest to a complete tale is the one about the metal-head chicks attending a rock festival and staying in a rental house. And maybe the one about the girl getting her first period. Anyway, the stories piqued my interest at some points, lost my attention at others, but overall provided me with some unsettling moments and some gruesome imagery, which is all I require for a direct-to-video horror flick. I look forward to these filmmakers' future works, hopefully staying within the horror genre, as it's fertile ground for innovation. Some of these vignettes could be exapanded into full-length features, such as the one about the old man collapsing at the train station.

It's not a bad film, not a great film.

But the reviews saying it bounces around may miss the fact it's an anthology horror?

If you go in knowing that it's an independent film that's a bunch of short stories, it will make a lot more sense.

Anthology horrors seem to be only as strong as their weakest story, but they do allow for fun and unique punch lines. It's a good way for independent filmmakers to promote their stylization and ideas to potential investors and for future films. We have seen this happen with many films like Terrifier. Hope to see bigger and more polished work come from some of these creatives.

Although not the best use of your time, you are watching horror build itself authentically from the ground up, and most importantly filmmakers that actually LIKE horror do so.

Yeah, so first off, neither the synopsis nor the video trailer said this was an anthology, which might be how they get people to actually watch it since most if not all horror anthologies really aren't done well enough to get someone to watch the whole thing. This one is no different, and I wouldn't have finished it if I wasn't "watching" it while playing mobile games and browsing the internet at the same time.

The stories don't seem to have any common connection beyond how people can be cruel. The only bit that really would fit into a horror movie would be the burnt guy from the trailer, so if you've watched that, then you've seen all the scary bits that the film had. The acting was mediocre, except for the nurse who was horrible. I honestly don't know what this was supposed to be about, if it even had a story behind it.

This isn't horror, I'm not sure what it is, but it isn't that... Maybe some art student can contrive some far fetched idea what the artist wanted it to be like people do with modern art. Time is better spent rewatching Kitchen nightmares as that's scarier than this by far.

This is an anthology, and while it seems to try and have a wrap-around story, that wrap around in no way ties them together and is in itself just another short film in the anthology. The most unfortunate part is that the wrapper story is the only one worth watching, and it's split up by several much worse stories. Actually, the stories may not be all that bad, but they make very little sense - it's like they chopped off the last 5 minutes of each one. I suppose the one with the metal girls actually does have an ending, but that's the only one. Honestly, if you're reading this review to decide whether or not to watch the movie, then I recommend you find another one to watch.