The 80s were the Wild West, in terms of both child-rearing and what constituted a riveting yarn. The premise of DEADTIME STORIES is simple: A child with a monster in his closet (maybe?) buys time and keeps the lights on by demanding stories from his yuppie, potentially cocaine-loving, uncle. What you get is a trio of progressively demented Fairy Tales, filled with extreme and beautifully executed gore, transformation effects, lots of sex and nudity and general surrealist wackiness which is about as appropriate for children as Danzig's VEROTIKA (2019).
