CRADLE OF FEAR is a shot-on-video horror anthology film from cinema bad boy Alex Chandon, and starring Dani Filth from the heavy metal band CRADLE OF FILTH. Filth is clearly no actor and thankfully limited to appearing in the nonsensical wraparound story, so at least the viewer can watch the four main tales collected here without his presence.This movie was described as a tribute to the likes of the Amicus film ASYLUM, but viewers looking for similarities between the two titles are likely to be sorely disappointed. Because CRADLE OF FEAR is trash of the highest order: incredibly gory trash, it has to be said, but trash nonetheless. Every cast member gives stilted and embarrassing performances, the stories could have been (and probably were) written on the back of beer mats, and everything as a whole is a waste of time.The first tale is about a one night stand that goes horribly wrong. There's ample gore in this one, and some quite extensive nudity from the willing Emily Booth, and that's about it. The second tale is about two robbers who fall out and is merely an exercise in bloodshed. The third story is about a George Michael lookalike who loses his leg and becomes desperate to get another. Eileen Daly strips off for the role and there are some incredibly awful CGI car effects. The final story is about a snuff website and is the longest and most boring of the lot. Anybody who's a fan of the classic British horror anthologies of old, or even American ones like CREEPSHOW and CAT'S EYE, should stick to them...

Set in London, The Man intertwines four strangers' tales as they seek bloody revenge against others. While he's going around, a detective goes around trying to find an apparent connection to the killings that become associated with an incarcerated rapist.The Good Stor(ies): Story 1-Finding a slew of dead bodies, a detective recounts backward how the victims turned out. When several friends meet up at a Goth club, she takes a mysterious man home only to awake with a concerned state that she thinks is caused from their affair. Spending the night with her, she eventually learns she had been telling the truth all along. This one here is one of the best stories. The incredibly psychedelic imagery is pretty prevalent in here, especially the trippy and down-right freaky sex scene, as the strobe lights going off into the total darkness with the complete inability to notice what's going on. Coupled with the fine nudity and extremity with the actions and it really works. Even the later sequence where they're walking down the street having the usual demonic-faces-no-one-else-sees scene is a lot of fun, which here is hyper-extended for even more chills. The eruption sequence at the end is where it really works well, using a lot of impressive gore to make for some really bloody material. The creature is a little weakly-designed, but it's still pulled off well and is used inside an actually creepy scene, which is for the better.Story 3-Living together, a man and his girlfriend are forced to live with his amputated leg from an accident years back. After meeting with a mysterious doctor, he is able to get a new leg and is ready to begin life again. Going through the usual rehabilitation methods, he is finally able to take back control of where he was, and it soon starts to worry him when he begins having visions of it being taken from him while they're together. This one here plays up the tired cliché of most similar stories, where it might have a life on its own after being attached, but it happens so late that there's really only a few scenes where it occurs, and it's much less chilling when it happens a few times rather than all the time. The atmosphere that creates is really great and manages to make it more entertaining. There's a brutal car crash that has some nice gore to it, including a brutal ending to one of the passengers. The sex scene, for once, is played more erotically and sensual that usual, making it a welcome inclusion.The Bad Stor(ies): Story 2-Sneaking around London, a couple women decide to stop off at a friends' house before leaving. When they find that a stranger is instead sleeping in the house, in a brutal accident both end up killing them. Struck by the accident, they decide to cover it up before it gets out, but once their conscious turns on them, they both try to get out before succumbing to it. This one here is actually pretty decent, but it's mainly hurt by the fact that there's not much going on in it. Despite the nice scene of the girls taking a bath together, there's no other real scene in here that offers up anything interesting. The brutality assaults go on much longer than they should, the gore looks terrible and it really sticks out that there's nothing in here that was needed for it.Story 4-Working for a large company, an employee spends most of his time goofing around online, much to the detriment of his boss. As he decides to continue, he eventually finds a website that allows the visitor to actually kill a person through the internet. As he becomes devoted to the website, his personal life becomes trashed, and he soon discovers a price to pay for attending the site. This here is the greatest disappointment in the whole series, as it should've been great. The plot is great with the different stance on the voyeur offering a real psychological advantage. The gore is brutal, especially the over-the-top dismemberment scenes that play into the voyeur study, and a later massacre sequence where a whole slew of victims are hacked up quite messy and bloody. The segment, though, is just way too long and slow- going, taking way too long to get to the few interesting moments that are here. The CGI is also really terrible, and takes the viewer right out of the scene.Rated Unrated/NC-17: Extreme Graphic Violence, Full Nudity, Graphic Language, animal violence, a sex scene and drug use.

I love low budget cheap horror, however it get tiresome when the storyline is the same... this was completely different. I had no idea what was going on from one moment to the next, it kept me guessing and was really really graphic, I loved it... SPOILER COMING: the scene in the sick rooms could have been more gruesome, could have chose to sever a genital or a head as opposed to what he did choose but this was saved by the fact that the rest of the film was that gory, that i am quite ashamed I wanted more. Never the less, the film was really fun to watch with the demonic faces, the crazy beast baby, and the ending.... I loved it loads! Even though I'm not particularly a cradle of filth music fan or a Goth, there is no reason why you would not enjoy it, especially if you like a little nonsensical violence and blood.

Well, I've seen this movie a couple of time... I don't think it's as trash as the title may suggest. It's just Dany Filth play-in' bad with some pals. The best scene remains the one with the cop's kid getting abused in a sadistic show room... Otherwise, the story (stories' better, indeed) are at least originals. But I do prefer the Hellraisers. Pinhead is a better sadistic "madman". I think Dany Filth will improve if he goes on playing.He's an excellent actor, even if I don't like much of his music, perhaps too commercial (I like old school black metal, this can explain my point of view).The second point is the fact that most of the fellows playing here have played at least once in Cradle of Filth's videos...