If you've come of age in the 21st century, then you know Melissa Leo for her roles as tough-as-nails women. She played a down-on-her-luck woman transporting illegal immigrants in "Frozen River", the hardboiled matriarch of a boxing family in "The Fighter" (for which she won an Academy Award), and Laura Poitras - who filmed Glenn Greenwald's interview with Edward Snowden, resulting in the Academy Award-winning documentary "Citizenfour" - in "Snowden".Some of these future roles get hinted at in the horror flick "Deadtime Stories". The movie features unusual twists on stories told to children. The first two vignettes are authentic horror stories, but the third one is a comic spin on Goldilocks and the Three Bears, with the bears depicted as a human family that escapes an institution (Melissa Leo plays the mom). The family reminded me of the Three Bears from Chuck Jones's cartoons (which themselves sort of predicted "All in the Family").Anyway, it's nice brainless fun. I suspect that they had fun filming it. I wonder if any of Melissa Leo's co-stars (Sean Penn, Tommy Lee Jones, Amy Adams, Bryan Cranston, Joseph Gordon-Levitt) from her more famous movies have ever seen it.

-If you base what you like in horror from what you have seen released within the last 10-15 years...then you wont like this movie.-If you enjoy the style, humor, and campiness of the 80's horror, then this is a must watch!i remember watching this when I was a kid. We grew up in an eccentric horror fan family household. I loved this movie the first time I saw it. It is told in 4 stories. Main story is the premise for which the other 3 are told. Even though this movie is over 20 years old, I still wont post spoilers for it. It takes away from being pleasantly surprised. My favorite has to be the movies take on "Goldilocks and the 3 Bears". That was funny. The movie overall wasn't what you would call scary. Not that type of horror film. It also didn't take itself too seriously. Watch it! Just make sure to remember how horror was sometimes approached with humor and a bit cheesiness back then and you wont judge this film to harshly but rather end up enjoying the nostalgia.

A little boy begs his uncle to tell him bedtime stories. The uncle does, but gives them all macabre twists in this fair-to-middling anthology film."Peter And The Witches" is about a young man (Scott Valentine) who is a slave to two witches. This segment is slow and almost plot less."Little Red Runninghood" has a high school girl in a red jogging outfit picking up medicine for her sick grandma at the drug store. She's given the wrong prescription, and the man the medicine belongs to has a very special reason for needing it before the full moon (hint, hint). You'll guess the punchline, but it's still a funny segment."Goldi Lox And The Three Baers" is a very broad, very black comedy about a telekinetic young woman (the very sexy Catheryn DePrume) and a homicidal family - Papa Baer, Mama Baer and Baby Baer - that team up together and go on a crime spree. Sort of a R rated Looney Tunes cartoon, this is the best segment of the film.Perhaps not the best horror anthology around, it's still amusing in spots. Apparently this movie was shot over the course of four years. The British title is Freaky Fairy Tales.

lame anthology is so stupid and laughable its kind of funny has a horrid premise weak acting and its B O R I N G Scott valentine Is wasted in this mess don't rent this movie its not worth your time trust me bomb out of 5