An entertaining and breezy look at horror anthologies throughout time. As expected, some films get more airtime than others and many are mentioned for a few seconds and not talked about again. The people being interviewed are a qualified and engaging group, but I do wish it were a little bit longer.

Initially I wasn't overly keen on sitting down to watch the 2020 documentary "Tales of the Uncanny", as horror anthologies usually tend to be somewhat bland. But still, I opted to sit down to watch it, because I do find myself curious about what gold out there in the horror genre is there yet for me to discover.

And as it turns out, then director David Gregory actually managed to concoct a wholesome documentary here with "Tales of the Uncanny", one that goes way back to the early days of horror anthology and carries on up to this day and age. So the information here was wide-spanning, and I definitely found some interesting things throughout the course of this documentary.

Take heed though, that a documentary such as "Tales of the Uncanny" is something for the avid fan of the horror genre. Yeah, if you sit down to watch "Tales of the Uncanny" as a casual viewer, I am pretty sure that you will find it tedious and boring.

But for us horror aficionados out there, then there were a fair amount of interesting information to be found in "Tales of the Uncanny".

My rating of "Tales of the Uncanny" lands on a five out of ten stars.

Originally intended as an extra on The Theater Bizarre release, Tales of the Uncanny grew in scope over the lockdown that COVID-19 caused. Starting with Severin Films chief David Gregory and House Of Psychotic Women author Kier-La Janisse, there's a huge cast of people ready to share their thoughts on the history of anthology horror, like Eli Roth, Joe Dante, Mark Hartley, Mick Garris, Ernest Dickerson, Joko Anwar, Brian Yuzna, Gary Sherman, Rebekah McKendry, Peter Strickland, Kim Newman, Jovanka Vuckovic, Luigi Cozzi, Tom Savini, Jenn Wexler, Larry Fessenden, Richard Stanley, Brian Trenchard-Smith, Ramsey Campbell and David DeCoteau.

The films covered are Eerie Tales, Waxworks, The Living Dead, Dr. Terror's House of Horrors, Flesh and Fantasy, Dead of Night, Three Cases of Murder, Tales of Terror, Black Sabbath, Twice-Told Tales, Kwaidan, Dr. Terror's House of Horrors, Torture Garden, Spirits of the Dead, The House That Dripped Blood, Tales from the Crypt, Asylum, The Vault of Horror, From Beyond the Grave, Trilogy of Terror, Dead of Night, The Uncanny, The Monster Club, Creepshow, Screamtime, Twilight Zone: The Movie, Nightmares, Tales from the Third Dimension, Cat's Eye, Night Train to Terror, Escapes,Deadtime Stories, Creepshow 2, From a Whisper to a Scream, After Midnight, Two Evil Eyes, Tales from the Dark Side: The Movie, Grim Prarie Tales, Necronomicon, Tales from the Hood, Family Portraits: A Trilogy of America, Three...Extreme, Trick 'r Treat, Fear (s) of the Dark, Little Deaths, The Theater Bizarre, Chillerama, V/H/S, The ABCs of Death, V/H/S/2, ABCs of Death 2, Barbarous Mexico, German Angst, Betamax, Southbound, Tales of Halloween, Holidays, Worst Fears, XX, The Field Guide to Evil and Nightmare Cinema.

Fans of anthology horror may not learn many new things, but it's a great introduction to newcomers, particularly the Amicus section of the film. I'd advise watching this with subtitles, as some of the Skype interviews are a bit difficult to make out. Otherwise, a great package that comes complete with Eerie Tales and Unusual Tales.