You know the type of thing. Several separate stories with a linking story connecting them. A doctor arrives at an asylum and hears stories told by each of his inmates. Items bought from an antique shop have a curious story attached to them. A tatooed man seeks the woman that illustrated him, each of his tatoos shows a different story. People sit around a table and exchange stories of how they died (turns out they’re all in hell). You know the type of movie I’m talking about.
They’re usually called “anthology films.” Dead of Night is the classic, especially for the frame tale, which is the scariest part.
There was also If I Had a Million, O. Henry’s Full House, and Tales of Manhattan. 11/09/01 – September 11 was a more recent one. There was also New York Stories
They were never all that popular, and it’s hard to come up with a frame tale that holds everything together. Also, by their very nature, they tend to be uneven, with good and bad segments.
Check out “Two Evil Eyes”, linking Poe’s “Valdemar” and “Black Cat”, and the horrid “Necronomicon”, a Lovecraft anthology “starring” (and wasting) Jeffrey Combs.
i think these movies should be more properly called anthologies. There was New York Stories which was three stories about NYC directed by Scorcese, Coppola and Woody Allen.
Roger Corman’s Tales of Terror from 1962. Featured tellings of “Morella”, “The Black Cat” and “The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar”, all three starring Vincent Price. A favorite of my childhood.
Yeah you are probably right. They are linked by New York, but I don’t think that is what the OP meant.
If you think about it, Citizen Kane could be such a movie though. I mean isn’t it basically about a reporter who goes around getting stories form different people about Kane’s life so he can find out the meaning of 'Rosebud".
