Wow! Such a good movie.

By the time the dramatic fireworks start popping off, each one feels earned.

Each character in this movie — down to the smallest one — is an individual rather than a type, prone to spontaneous changes of mood and sometimes amusing outbursts of pettiness or ill humor.

Worth seeing just to witness how winsome it is.

I remember seeing this movie on TV as a kid, and it terrified me.There are three parts, each one with Karen Black playing a different character and there are three entirely unrelated stories in this movie. The last one about the little hunting fetish doll was the one that had given me nightmares as a ten year old. After my family watched this movie in the 70s, my brothers had great fun, tormenting my sisters and I by sliding a knife under our bedroom door at night and making "hunting doll" grunts all the while. We slept with one eye open the night we saw that. My how times have changed! I recently came across this movie in a B movie bargain bin and thought it might be fun to reminisce. I bought it and brought it home to enjoy. When I came to the last part of the trilogy, I braved myself for a chilling and intense tale from my childhood. All I can say is I was thrilled, but not because it was as scary as my childish mind remembered. Compared to the gorefests that are out now, this movie is nothing. BUT it was absolutely hilarious watching this from an adult's perspective. Karen Black alone, is worth the watch, but this was classic camp. It is my guilty pleasure. My sisters watched it with me the last time we were all reunited and we laughed so hard we cried. That fact alone makes me give it a 7. It was soooo much fun to watch. I love old campy movies and B movies, so this one was a real gem to find. Absolutely over the top funfest for the melodramatic terror that the little hunting dolls stirs up in Karen...complete with simple and bad effects from a bygone era. If you like old classic horror, this one needs to be in your collection.

I can't imagine what might go through the mind of someone watching this for the first time in the present day, as an adult, who might be trying to take it seriously. I saw it as a kid on TV back in the 70's, and my brother and I laughed all the way through the final segment with the now-infamous Zuni doll. It had a couple of pretty good jump-scares, but nothing that was really going to frighten anybody, not even two kids up past their bedtimes. For years afterward, we'd come at each other waving an invisible spear and yelling "hi ya ya ya ya!" in our salute to Mr. Zuni. Memorable, certainly. Scary, not even a little bit. And the other two segments are 100 percent forgettable.

Three stories in a Twilight Zone style, all featuring Karen Black, is a mildly amusing trilogy from 1975. Robert Matheson is the source material. Black is first Julie, a school marm college professor with hair pulled up into a bun and old fashioned eyeglasses. A student takes a liking to her and convinces the outwardly shy teacher to attend a drive in movie with him, where he drugs her and takes compromising pictures in order to force Julie into a relationship. She has a surprise ending, which is not a happy one. Black is both Millicent and Therese in the second story. Milly is a woman who presents a spinster image, and Therese is a blonde sex bomb in mini skirt. They despise each other and I figured it out very quickly. Number three is the most entertaining, as Emelia has returned home with a Zulu killer doll as a present for her boyfriend. On the phone, she tells mom that a scroll explains that the doll has an evil spirit which will be released if a gold chain is removed. Of course, the chain falls off and the little terror chases Black all over the place, with a sharp knife as a weapon. It is the best of the three and Ms. Black makes the seventy two minutes worthwhile.

Ask anyone who has seen 70s TV anthology Trilogy of Terror and they'll no doubt mention the evil Zuni Fetish Doll that goes on a bloodthirsty rampage in the last of the three stories: with his beady little eyes, rows of savage teeth and wild black hair, he certainly is an unforgettable character. Sadly, there is nothing else about Trilogy of Terror that is anywhere near as memorable.The problem lies primarily with the stories, which are surprisingly weak considering that they come from the pen of Richard Matheson, best known for classic sci-fi novel I Am Legend and his work for The Twilight Zone. Tales one and two are extremely mediocre, devoid of either chills or thrills and saddled with extremely lame 'twist' endings that neither shock nor surprise. Story number three is also has a pretty feeble narrative (one which amounts to little more than an extended chase/battle in an apartment) but at least it has that wicked little Zuni doll to liven things up a bit.Star Karen Black puts in some decent performances throughout, ably playing a total of four very different roles, and there is adequate direction from Dan Curtis, but this film simply isn't as good as some seem to recall.