Scary or Die

Plot synopsis:
=== The Crossing ===
Buck (Bill Oberst Jr.) and his friends have made a pastime of trolling the Mexico-United States border in search of anyone they believe to be an illegal immigrant. Upon catching someone, the group murders them and buries the body in the hopes of sending out a personal message to anyone else that wants to enter. However what they couldn't predict is that their victims might rise from the grave to take their revenge.
=== TaeJung's Lament ===
A lonely widower finds himself unable to cope with the loss of his wife and begins to follow around various women that resemble her. On one such occasion he ends up becoming a witness to a woman's kidnapping. The man rescues her and in gratitude, the woman urges him to meet her one night. Unknown to him, the woman and her friends are all vampires who are being hunted by Van Helsing himself.
=== Re-Membered ===
A dirty cop (Christopher Darga) has been asked to serve as a hitman for a man's murder, which he does. He dismembers the body and stows it in his trunk for later disposal, but is shocked when he begins to find evidence that his victim is somehow still alive.
=== Clowned ===
When Emmett (Corbin Bleu), a wayward drug dealer, gets bitten by Fucko (Domiziano Arcangeli), a flesh-eating clown at a family member's birthday party, the last thing he expects is for that bite to begin a horrifying transformation. As his transformation proceeds, Emmett is horrified to find that he has a newly acquired taste for human flesh.
=== Lover Come Back ===
A woman returns from the grave in order to seek revenge on the cheating husband who caused her death. As she moves towards her final task, she begins to recollect their relationship and how everything went wrong.

Tags: violence, murder, haunting

Review:
Although not entirely original at parts, Scary or Die is a modern "Vault of Horror" or "Trilogy of Terror." We are presented with five tales of the macabre as a zombie clicks on the clips on a you-tube like site.
The Crossing: When three Mexican hating rednecks murder two innocent Latino men at their dump site, they are punished three-fold.Tajeum Lament: A Japanese man who recently lost his wife saves a woman who looks similar to her.
He begins a metamorphism into the same creature that attacked him.Love Come Back: You can already guess what happens in this revenge story.I give it a C because although it's entertaining, sometimes it's way too predictable..
The other four, while not really terrible given the films very low budget, doesn't really stand out and are almost never scary or original.Usually, these types of films comes with a wrap-around sequence which makes the whole mess coherent, but this one opted not to give us that satisfaction.I'll still watch any horror anthology I can get my hands on, because if one of the segments aren't satisfying, it's pretty fast on to the next one.
"Scary Or Die" anthology tells five very different dark and twisted stories with L.A as a backdrop save the first.
"Scary Or Die" has directors Bob Badway, Michael Emanuel, and Igor Meglic coming together to create some clever and fresh urban tales of horror which star Bill Oberst Jr., Alexandra Choi, and Corbin Bleu just to name a few playing out these ill fated lives.scary or die"Scary Or Die" is a classic horror trilogy that celebrates the classic dark, witty and twisted styles most common in 80's anthologies and television series (Tales From The Darkside is the one I kept coming back to as I watched this film).
The stories are "The Crossing" - a very dark and poignant story of prejudice and karma which has a couple of 'good ole boys' seeking to deport immigrants in their own sick manner only to have fate exact a gruesome justice of it's own; "Tae Jung's Lament" - a Korean vampire tale that is both elusive and clever in it's re-imagining of a 'damsel in distress' story; "Re- Membered" – a story that brings a scene of almost demonic or devilish cat and mouse dance between a shady character with someone in the trunk; "Clowned"- is an emotional horror story that has a family torn apart over some demonic case of twisted circumstance which conjures nightmares on so many levels; and "Lover Come Back"- a sinister and justified voodoo love story that proves some emotional bonds go beyond the grave or in this case the gross dumping ground.For me this is one of the better produced anthologies that flows cleanly between tales as given through us by an unknown person via a website entitled "Scary Or Die".
Each of the stories held out to the very last scene before unveiling the full scope of the twisted tales which brought a freshness to each of them and made this film very entertaining.
Mainly because there are some deep messages in these stories that you don't see in a lot of the new anthologies and I am still trying to figure out what those messages actually represent..
"The Crossing" takes on zombies and immigration with Bill Oberst Jr. leading the charge, "Taejung's Lament" twists together Asian ghosts and vampires, "Re-Membered" gives us a new look at Tell Tale Heart and Frankenstein, Corbin Bleu proves he isn't that kid from High School Musical anymore when he gets "Clowned" in this all heart and a lot of bite were-clown story - Emanuel cleverly toys with our fear of clowns mixed with cannibalism and werewolves, while a voodoo grandparent's blessing of true love may in fact be a curse.
Harks back to the days of the Horror anthologies such as Tales from the Crypt and Tales from the dark side.The stories twists are rather predictable, in keeping with the anthologies of old, pretty shallow, lacking in substance and explanation.There are one or two moments that make you wince slightly, but that's it, without them this would be the stuff TV Horror is made of.Initially I thought it was a collection of short films strung together, until the cast started crossing over from one story to the next.Watchable, but not worth dedicating your movie night to.
A website host examines a series of stories that take place among residents of Los Angeles.The Good Stor(ies): The Crossing-A group of teens take a trip to the Mexican border for fun and games with captured illegal aliens, but things take a dark turn when their previous victims rise from the dead to take revenge.
Actually fairly decent enough with a clever twist here in that it's not immediately about the torture of the victims before since this one manages to get through a little spiel before getting to it's main point, which is fun but those aren't that interesting.
Thankfully, the zombie attacks are gruesome and gory enough that they're one of the saving graces here, and manage to make a clichéd segment into something fun.Clowned-After getting bit by a strange clown for his brother's birthday party, a man finds transforming into a frightening clown and tries to stave off a series of murderous urges as he searches for the one responsible for his condition.
Clearly the film's main selling point as there clearly was a lot put into this one with it's extended and obvious length advantage over the others, it's also quite a lot of fun as the change comes on quite slowly and makes for a pretty chilling transformation as all the parts start coming in slowly before the big reveal at his final form which is outrageously creepy and saves the whole film just by itself.
While it doesn't get resolved and features a lame shock twist, this is still bloody enough and has a great air about it that it's easily the best thing about this entry.The Bad Stor(ies): Tae-Jung's Lament-A lonely man attempts to rescue a woman from a strange thief, and upon doing so is granted an opportunity for thanks with her and her friends, unaware they're part of a vampiric cult being hunted down by a master tracker.
The rescue attempts aren't that bad and actually have some good stuff to them as the segment doesn't tell us what's going on and are just throwing them into the scenario.
Overall, this one just feels quite lacking.Re-Membered-Having finished his assignment, a dirty cop returns to his patrol route in an attempt to get away with his deeds, only to be constantly under suspicion that the dismembered body in his trunk is still alive.
A pretty disappointing effort that again runs on tons of clichés, as this one acts like the Poe story 'The Tell-Tale Heart' with a different organ chosen as the only difference here, but the constant thumping in the trunk of the car and his frantic worry about getting away with it are just right out of that story.
The appearance of the still-alive body at the end doesn't have any ring to it at all, and overall this one feels like filler.Lover Come Back-After a spat with her lover causes her to die, she returns from the grave powered by a voodoo curse to seek revenge on her philandering spouse.
Again, the story plays out the way you expect it to without any real change simply because it don't offer any place to go but to dwell in the land of the familiar and because it focuses so long on the romance to start the relationship before dwelling on the supernatural return this doesn't get the chance to do anything of any importance before it goes for the familiar, and more than any of the segments this one's inclusion is pointless and unnecessary.Rated R: Graphic Language and Graphic Violence..
i try to watch every anthology that comes out and i usually enjoy them.
The stories are pg 13 level scary and fun to watch.
SCARY OR DIE is a low budget horror anthology with a few nods here and there to the likes of CREEPSHOW and its ilk.
This one ploughs the same territory but is hardly on the same level as the older films, appearing very cheap and amateurish in places, but at least it's watchable and the old standby still works: if there's one story you particularly hate, you can rest assured that another one will replace it soon enough.The first tale is about Mexican zombies, and I think it's the strongest here: certainly it's the only one that manages a few genuine scares in the Romero mould.
The second effort is about a Korean vampire, and it's weaker all round, with a very light story barely sustaining the scant running time and a too obvious twist in the tale.
The fourth story is about an evil clown who bites a man who finds himself also turning into a clown.
Lured by the cover art to think I was in for a killer clown movie, the Creepshow-esque hand that clicked on the scaryordie website in search of a good horror clip made me realize that this was an anthology.I haven't bothered to check if all segments were directed by different directors, but what they lack in a unifying theme, they make up with style.
The set-ups are also classic : zombies, vampires, devil cults and the aforementioned killer clown.
1.Clowned - 10/10 2.Tajeum Lament - 10/10 3.RE-Membered - 9/10 4.The Crossing - 8/10 5.Love Come Back - 7/10Over all very good watching experience..My Rating: 9/10.
When it comes to horror movies (be they low-budget, or not), Scary Or Die (SOD, for short) was just plain dull & dumb!
Let's see - In the city of Los Angeles there were both Black & Mexican blood-lusting zombies - There were dead-faced Chinese ghosts and blood-thirsty Oriental vampires - There were re-animated Caucasians (as pieced together corpses) - And, last but not least, there were Black psycho-clowns with infectious bites.
(And, I still don't understand why the hell Emmett didn't go to a doctor after he'd been bitten) I found SOD to be the sort of typical, brain-dead slop from the horror movie genre that comes across like its stories were all made up as they went along (which they probably were), and that goes double for all of its dimwitted dialogue.If you ask me, when it comes to the likes of these horror story anthologies, SOD made 1982's Creepshow look worthy of an Oscar comparison.
Taejung manages to put his phone in the fuel tank and using the laptop follows the car and he is led to the place where the young woman is about to be murdered but in the last-minute he saves her managing to stop the attacker.
This is the longest and is about a young man who is bitten by a clown and with time changes begin to occur.
His clothes remain small shoes are no longer good and slowly begins to turn into a bad clown.
Surprisingly good horror anthology.
It's not prefect, and it's not very scary despite the title, but it's a good amount of entertainment for a viewer with low expectations.The Crossing - A pair of rednecks and their girlfriend are killing illegal aliens along the border and burying them to send a message to other potential border-crossers.
Nothing too noteworthy, but features some average zombie splatter which was entertaining.Teujung's Lament - A fascinating story of a man who's wife was taken from him and now wanders around drinking and following random women around, until he finds one he is especially struck by, who is knocked out with chloroform and kidnapped that same moment.
Again, not bad, but nothing noteworthy.Clowned - Best story of the movie by far, which follows a young man who gets bitten by a flesh-eating clown and undergoes a strange transformation that puts his family in danger.
This one is sad, funny at times, and the clown make-up looks great (if you saw the movie's cover you already know what it looks like, but I guess they had to do something to draw you to the cover).Lover Come Back - The last story and also the least interesting.
Enjoyable Anthology, some stories were great, others left you wanting more....
Being a big fan of horror anthology movies, I anxiously waited for Scary or Die to become available on Redbox.
The film tells five stories, with what looks like a rotting hand watching each one on a computer screen.
Each story, with the exception of "Clowned" (the one on the cover) is only about 15 minutes long.
It tells the story of two rednecks and a young woman (apparently one of their girlfriends) traveling by pick up truck through desert/rural Arizona.
On the way, they stop at a gas/convenience stop, and while the quieter of the two rednecks goes to have roadside bathroom sex with his girlfriend (the thought of the stench alone made me gag!), the other (who also enjoys drinking some stuff - moonshine I guess - that looks like tobacco spit and urine - out of a peanut butter jar) teases the Mexican store clerk, killing him off camera, unbeknown to the female.
The female flips out and tries to escape, meanwhile the blood from one of the victims, plus the concoction in the rednecks peanut butter jar seeps into the ground, and up come the Mexican Zombies.
While you don't get a clear look at the Zombies, they are menacing, killing and tearing both rednecks apart (man did they deserve it!)and injuring the woman - though she escapes.
The 4th and longest segment, clowned, is a good one.
A young drug dealer is bitten by the weird clown with sharp teeth from his little brothers birthday party, he starts changing (the clown makeup is decent), doesn't seek medical attention, leaves home and becomes a homeless man looking for the clown who bit him.
Clowned is a bittersweet story with a sad ending.
The acting was very decent, and again, while it drags, remained a good story.
The baby twist at the end was hilarious.The 5th and final segment is the story of the rotting hand watching these stories on a computer screen.
Overall, Scary or Die is a decent anthology movie with more good than bad.
"Scary or Die" turned out to be much better than expected, especially given Comcast's misguiding description, which failed even to identify the anthology format.
Southern horror fans should stick together, so I second the spot-on review by SouthernHorrorFan - well-earned praise for these interesting offerings, "Scary or Die" proves that filmmakers don't need a big budget to succeed in generating some decent horror..
Oh an anthology horror movie !
Nowadays if you like any story from a horror anthology then you're very fortunate Let's just say I wasn't fortunate in watching this .
But even in horror terms this is fairly vapid stuff of rednecks vs zombies , lonely man meets woman with a secret etc etc .
Some people who think clowns are scary might find at least one of the stories creepy but the rest of the film is unimpressive for those not addicted to the horror genre.
:SPOILER: Hillybilly Zombies, Asian Business Associates And A Mexican Clown Birthday Party.I'm Pretty Sure The Movie Budget Was 6 Coronas And A Free taco Bell Meal.
Instead I see WAY too many 6-10 star reviews.Look, I recognize that many if not most beginning directors, actors, and writers enter the industry in the horror genre and that's OK.
She obviously wasn't a zombie.The second story wasn't quite as bad but made little sense.
The lame framing device for this mediocre anthology has an unseen person logging on to a website where they view five short, supposedly scary videos.In the first, The Crossing, trashy strumpet Connie (Hali Lula Hudson) accompanies rednecks Buck (Bill Oberst Jr.) and Keith (Shawn-Caulin Young) to the Mexican border where the guys have been murdering and burying immigrants in order to deter wetbacks from entering their country.
Some enthusiastic blood-letting makes this tale fairly enjoyable, although the 'twist' at the very end is as old as the hills, ripped straight from Romero's classic Night of the Living Dead.Tale number two, Taejung's Lament, revolves around lonely widower Taejung (Charles Rahi Chun), who, having rescued mysterious young woman Min-ah (Alexandria Choi) from an attacker, is invited to a party the following week.
Another moderately entertaining story, but the payoff is weak and predictable.Re-membered stars Christopher Darga as hit-man Sam Franks, who is driving down the freeway with the remains of a dismembered victim in his trunk when he hears strange noises coming from the back of his car.
No prizes for guessing that this story ends with Sam meeting a grisly fate at the hands of his victim, who has somehow reassembled himself.The fourth and best story, Clowned, sees petty drug-dealer Emmett (Corbin Bleu) gradually transforming into a hideous clown after he is bitten by the creepy (and inappropriately named) entertainer at his younger brother's birthday party.
Director Michael Emanuel drags his story out for far too long but at least offers some genuinely creepy imagery along the way, with Emmett as the clown being a particularly impressive sight—easily one of the more disturbing horror movie clowns that I have seen.
The ending for this one is also pretty neat, displaying a delicious sense of black humour.In contrast, Lover Come Back, the final segment, is incredibly short, and tells of a woman whose voodoo amulet helps her to return from the dead to seek revenge on her murderous husband.
It's executed with a fair amount of style, but isn't all that memorable.The film wraps up matters by revealing the person logged onto the website to be the dead woman from the final story, which doesn't make a whole lot of sense.