Blu-ray Review – Trilogy of Terror

After scoring ratings gold with 1972's "The Night Stalker" and 1973's "The Night Strangler," director Dan Curtis decided to return to television with a new vision for horror entertainment on ABC, going the anthology route with 1975's "Trilogy of Terror." Trading the detective world of Kolchak for an extended freak-out with star Karen Black, Curtis reunites with writer Richard Matheson for tales of disturbing sexuality, mental fractures, and the menace of an African doll, coming up with a surprisingly bland stew of panicky encounters that aren't particularly vivid, only surging with violent energy in small amounts. "Trilogy of Terror" is largely remembered by fans for its final chapter, and for good reason, as the other two are basically filler for a production that's attempting to bring perversion and shock to network TV, not quite understanding how difficult it is to support nightmare fuel when dealing with commercial breaks and material that's decidedly more tell than show. Read the rest at Blu-ray.com