chipolata
Monday 1st November 2010 10:08am
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Quote: Dolly Dagger @ November 1 2010, 10:58 AM BST
Loved the whole portmanteau concept.
Except I don't think it worked as true portmenteau. Dead of Night or Asylum worked because the stories had actually happened to the people involved, and by the end they realised they were dead or trapped in a recurring nightmare. Here the stories were a fable about meanness, a poorly researched story that didn't happen and a dream (can't remember what the Lomas story was supposed to be). So it was very wishy-washy portanteauing.
I would have liked each story to be an actual vignette from the characters twisted lives, and for their lives to have more of a bearing on the people telling the stories. It all seemed a bit slapdash.