The first story is about an old white guy who passes through a sacred Indian burial ground (oops, sacred Native-American burial ground) and gets buried alive. That's it. Really.

The second story involves a traveler who shelters a pretty woman in the middle of nowhere. She thanks him by toying with his testosterones and sucking his entire body inside her vagina. This one seems rather pointless, but I like what she does to him.

As for the third story, a family of pioneers claims some land that has been paid for in blood, and just when the story is getting somewhere, it ends abruptly. Ugh!

The fourth and final story: This one involves a duel with an unusual aftermath. Out of the four stories, this one is the best. It has a stylish animation sequence with the dead Mexican haunting the hired gunman, and the ending is not quite as abrupt as those from the three other stories.

This movie has a very good cast, but someone has apparently forgotten to tell the writer that ending stories is annoying when they're only 80-90% finished! Save for the intimidating performance by James Earl Jones, this is not a very scary movie. The bottom line: While "Grim Prarie Tales" has its good points, there are better anthologies out there, better anthologies with satisfying endings to their stories.

** NOTE: The more dots, the better it is. 12 dots indicates a masterpiece while no dots means it's a "disasterpiece." **