The 100 Candles Game

No pun intended - and quite a few interesting actors in this. Been a while since I last saw Amy Smart. Was it the Crank movie(s)? Probably - anyway, she is one of the segments and the stories themselves are overall quite well told (again no pun intended of course).

That all being said, the movie is quite predictable. The jump scares to be expected. Still the effects are good or rather decent enough. If you like horror movies and specifically this format of more than one story being told ... well you have a winner for yourself here. At least not a loser, am I right? Now you may wonder why people even play those games - but think about it: in real life you might play them too, because you expect nothing to happen ... also we need these decisions, otherwise you wouldn't have a movie at all ...

I don't mind the odd horror anthology, it's a bit of a lucky dip, but for the most part this one is okay. Some of the acting is questionable, particularly the 4 main characters, but sometimes it's hard to tell if it is the actor or the script. The sub stories are done fairly well, with pretty good acting throughout, and interesting storylines. There is no back story as to where they were, and why they were doing it, and the characters are fairly bland. But for some reason I can't put my finger on, the whole thing just seems a little soulless. Whether it is the lack of empathy with the main characters, or the, at times, clumsy story telling I don't know. Worth a watch if your not expecting too much.

I thought the film was very weak. The plot is unconvincing. Those stories they tell just aren't scary. By the third story about the child who can't leave home, I was already disappointed. The following story of the woman in an oxygen mask is just boring. And the ending is so abrupt that I literally gasped - not from horror but from exasperation.

That's what this is. What dissapoints me, is that one of the stories, 'The Visitant (2014)', was also a short movie among others in 'Patient Seven (2016)'. If you make a movie like this, at least put original, newly made, shorts in your movie. Don't use existing ones. That's so cheap. Watch this for the shorts. The rest is just luggage.

A classic horror anthology, where people tell each other ghost stories.

The ghost stories themselves are pretty great, the cinematography is excellent & the performances are good, there's even a few surprising twists.

Where it falls down badly is the 100 Candles part itself, 4 people in a candle circle, telling the stories. This part makes no sense, the actors can't act & it's all just horribly wrong.

If you can ignore this part, the anthologies are worth the watch; if I'd made one of the ghost stories, I'd be pretty p*ssed to see what was supposedly holding it all together.