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For Mothman Day, radio host Harlan Dean (Joe Bob Briggs) accepts only calls from listeners who have stories about encounters with creatures from cryptozoology - or more accurately from urban legend:

• Scared: In order to overcome her fear of the dark, Heather (Sable Griedel) and her friends (Bobby Sasser, Ian Lemmon, Wendy Wygant) have taken a trip to the countryside where she's to face her feat. Too bad they've picked a neck of the woods that's inhabited by a vengeful tribe of deformed people that have escaped from a sinister research institute and noe are on a vengeful and quite cannibalistic rampage ...
• The Forest Bride: Park rangers James and Steve (Phillip Redman, Cortland Woodard) receive a distress call about a group of campers missing in the woods. Going to investigate, they find one of the campers (Bianca Allaine), out of her mind with fear - and the creatures that have very probably takne her friends ..
• Frog Me Forever: Oren (Warren Ray) isn't only a terrible fishing guide, he's also a horrible (self-appointed) cryptozoologist. But that doesn't mean he can't find a monster every once in a while - or is the monster actually finding him?
• A Hopkinsville Encounter: Billy (Shawn Kinsinger) has found an egg of obviously unearthly origin - and despite him living in an UFO-infested region and having actually had a run-in with aliens previously, he has no better idea than to use the egg as part of this year's Halloween decoration of his house. Well, the aliens want what's theirs back ...
• Chupacabra Death Machines: Somewhere in Texas, drug cartel bosses match dealers fallen from grace against Chupacabras - for pure entertainment ... and of course high stakes on the betting table.
• Infectious: Two youngsters (Eliot Wise, Carson Christopner) find an alien, knock it out and figure it's a good idea to bring it to their mad scientist friend Corey (Daniel Alan Kiely). Only the alien is carrying a virus they only help spread.
• Trick or Beast: Shawn (Josh Stewart), Matt (Chad Burns) and Shawn's cynical sister Leah (Sé Marie Volk) are trying to hunt down a monster from local lore. Thing is, there's more than one party after the creature, and some parties are intent on killing - the monster and/or whoever else gets in their way ...

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As with many anthology movies by multiple writers and directors, this is of course a bit of a mixed bag, as the segments range from the dead serious to the overtly silly, from the contemporary to the nostalgic, and from the subtle to the unabashedly visceral, and in accordance with that, the quality also varies a bit - but still, what all the diverse segments have in common is that they wear their love for monster movies on their sleeves and were made by clearly genre savvy people, and this is really infectious and will thus please horror fans with great ease.

review © by Mike Haberfelner

 

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