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starring: James Earl Jones, Brad Dourif, Will Hare, Marc McClure, Michelle Joynerdirected by: Wayne Coe
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Binding: VHS Tape
EAN: 9781572521094
Format: Color, NTSC
ISBN: 1572521090
Label: Fox Lorber
Manufacturer: Fox Lorber
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Fox Lorber
Release Date: October 13, 1997
Running Time: 86 minutes
Sales Rank: 47350
Studio: Fox Lorber
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Editorial Review:
Amazon.com:
Writer-director Wayne Coe's low-budget anthology is not as scary as its title or packaging would have you believe, but it is a charming effort nonetheless. Brad Dourif and James Earl Jones star as a city slicker and a bounty hunter who meet at night on a quiet prairie and end up swapping stories by the campfire. Since the four tales are part of a slowly building competition between the two men, they become progressively more gruesome. The two most memorable revolve around a grotesque gunfight and its aftermath, and a wandering prairie woman with a bizarre appetite. Ultimately the stories are mood pieces rather than outright scare fare, but they are absorbing, and the connecting scenes with Dourif and Jones are so energetically played out that you forget how calculated some of their exchanges are. --Bryan Reesman
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating:  - Interesting and different, but not exactly grim
For such a distinguished actor, James Earl Jones has made some really forgettable movies, and I would count Grim Prairie Tales among them. This 1990 anthology piece seems to have garnered decent reviews, but I personally can't see how this movie could impress anyone. Just because it's different - a horror/Western anthology which eschews the standard formula of "it is the story, not he who tells it" (i.e., the two storytellers are more interesting than the stories they tell) - doesn't mean it's ... Read More
Rating:  - A terrific study of a growing friendship posing as a horror story
Those expecting this movie--which should be on DVD--to scare them will go away disappointed. None of the stories the two men tells is particularly frightening. What they are, though, are insights into the moral character of the men telling the stories. And, what makes this film so good is the dead body sitting on James Earl Jones' horse while the two men joust across the campfire.
From the beginning we identify with Brad Dourif's nervous city slicker crossing a lonely expanse. When ... Read More
Rating: - Grim is the word for it!
I just watched the movis "Grim Prarie Tales" What can I say but totaly awsome!! This movie had me on the edge of my seat. Why can't they make good movies like this anymore???
Rating: - Not on DVD? No ratings?
How did this get overlooked? This is a very worthy movie, consisting of Brad Dourif and James Earl Jones playing two travellers sharing a campfire in the old west, and sharing stories of a rather unusual bent. Dourif is the city slicker type, taken aback by Jone's turn as a rough and tumble mountain man. But he has an ace up his sleeve, in the form of a story. It's just for fun, and it is. Any movie fancier should see this at least once. I don't understand the low profile.
Rating: - Flawed Anthology
The problem with most anthologies is that you cannot put much characterization into them, and some stories are just plain better than the others. Dourif and Jones' storytelling antics were more entertaining than the stories they told, it was nice not to have Jones sitting behind a desk somewhere bellowing in his famous voice. Here, he MOVES, and is very good. The finale leaves something to be desired, I only slightly recommend this film.
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