Trapped Ashes 2006

Michael Phillips, Chicago Tribune: With its gore-comix sensibility and self-conscious flashes of nudity, Trapped Ashes clunks along, and (to be completely petty) never really overcomes its clunky title. Read more

Jonathan Rosenbaum, Chicago Reader: Gross-out comedy about male discomfort with female sexuality dominates this horror anthology scripted by Dennis Bartok. Read more

Bill Stamets, Chicago Sun-Times: Dennis Bartok writes this lackluster anthology of four juvenile horror stories dripping with sexual dread and goofball gore. Read more

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Dennis Harvey, Variety: Pairing cult directors with macabre omnibus material is always a tasty proposition, but the results disappoint in Trapped Ashes, a quartet of mildly sexed-up, unscary horror tales with a unifying wraparound story. Read more