Fantastic premise, great characters, and wonderful lead performances go a long way toward elevating this low-budget horror indie above most of its peers. Helps that it has a couple of really effective scares (floss!) and just the right amount of humor as well. Execution isn't anything too special, and the third act feels weirdly flat, but when you nail the essentials as well as they do here, much of that can be forgiven.

Stylish, gory, and fun horror anthology that channels Amblin, Raimi, and Wright, amongst others. Clancy Brown is fantastic as a Tall Man-esque Cryptkeeper type, the wraparound segment rules, and the stories are all at least good, with each one arguably improving on the one that came before. This should absolutely be a calling card film for first-time feature director Spindell.

How I imagine the producers pitched this to Villeneuve:

VILLENEUVE: I dunno, this seems sort of hopeful and uplifting. I prefer dark stories about serial killers and drug runners. I don't really see why you came to me, to be honest.

PRODUCERS: Did we mention there's a giant spider creature thing?

VILLENEUVE: I'M IN.

(This joke for the thirty people who saw ENEMY).