9 Awesome Horror Anthologies

A look at 9 classic and contemporary horror movie anthologies that chill the blood

There’s nothing like a good horror omnibus, those dark, deep, delicious multi-story features that pack in massive casts and frissons into their running times.

The golden age of the horror anthology was certainly the 1970s (though 1945’s Dead of Night still stands as the grandfather of the sub-genre), with an endless spate of “more bang for your buck” portmanteu’s spewing out of drive-ins and hard tops around the world. That popularity cycled down eventually – as most trends do – in the 1980s and audiences lost interest, mostly due to the home video and pay-TV boom giving people access to as many feature films as they wanted for reasonable prices, leaving little patience or demand for “short films.”

And that’s what anthologies are, really. Collections of short films, connected by some sort of thread or narrative glue. Perhaps this is why, in recent years, we’ve seen an influx of anthology films coming from the filmmaking fringes (Southbound, Tales of Halloween, Late Night Double Feature). In this media soaked age, attention spans are smaller and so are wallets. People want as much “stuff” as they can get and indie producers know this and exploit the economics of that accordingly.

In honor of this recent anthology influx, we’re digging up 9 of our favorite multi-tale spine-shakers that have stood – and will stand – the test of time.

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