Grim Prairie Tales

"Grim Prairie Tales" is a 1990 American horror film, directed and written by Wayne Coe, and starring James Earl Jones and Brad Dourif. It is an anthology film of 4 Western (genre) stories, told by two travellers around a prairie campfire. Morrison (Jones) is a grizzled bounty hunter carrying a body, while Farley Deeds (Dourif) is a clerk on the way to a romantic reunion with his wife.

ynopsis

The first story, told by Morrison, is about an Indian tribe's revenge against the man (played by Will Hare) who desecrates their burial ground. When that doesn't impress Deeds, the second story, also by Morrison, tells about a man (played by Marc McClure) who helps a seductive seemingly pregnant woman (played by Michelle Joyner) in trouble. Deeds then responds with the only non-supernatural story of the three, about a homesteader family whose father (played by William Atherton) is forced to participate in a lynch mob. Finally, Morrison tells about a gunslinger (played by Scott Paulin) haunted by a man he kills.The next morning, Deeds points out to Morrison that the body he's carrying doesn't match the description on the wanted poster; Morrison cuts the body loose and rides out.

Quotes

"Wanna hear a story...city boy?"

"You city folk are a strange lot. You say, "Shock me," and then when I do, you come cryin', 'Oh no, I didn't expect "that"!'"

"What surprises me is that you've survived so long, not knowin' two spits and half a fart about the country you're in."

External links

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* [http://movies2.nytimes.com/gst/movies/movie.html?v_id=20937 "Grim Prairie Tales"] New York Times review by Stephen Holden
* [http://www.grimprairietales.com/ GrimPrairieTales.com] serves as Wayne Coe's personal site