When the big story payoffs come, they hit hard and with plenty of gnarly viscera that'll either shock you or put you on the floor with laughter. But you can’t really fault Jeff Burr for that, it was his first feature film and shortcomings aside it’s still pretty damned impressive. Camera angles aren’t all that inventive and the film often has a flat matter-of-fact presentation. If there’s a fault to wager against this film is that it can feel a bit amateurish at times.
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As fun as the story and shocking finale are, it still feels like it belongs in a different movie without such a tight structured premise of the town's dark history. It could slip into any horror anthology film. It's a fine story on its own, but it doesn't really feel like its a part of the other stories. The one outlier story for me was the third one about the carnival freaks. As you go back in time you learn more dark secrets of the town right up to the moment the little hamlet was founded. I also thought it was a clever idea to have the stories in chronological order. Any time you can get Terry Kiser or John Cameron Mitchell chewing some scenery, you’re in for a treat. While maybe not quite as good as the opener, the rest of the stories are pretty strong leading to a fitting epilogue. The story that has always stuck in my brain was the opener Stanley starring Clu Gluager, Megan McFarland, and Miriam Byrd-Nethery. However, it does fall inwto the trap of having one or two very strong stories that overshadow the rest of the lot. Thankfully From A Whisper to a Scream is one of the more memorable endeavors thanks to some clever stories, fun twists, gnarly gore, and Vincent Price. When they’re done right they can be impressive feats of filmmaking, or they can crumble apart and hardly be memorable. It is there that Julian will recount four sad and terrifying tales of woe and misery that have befallen residents detailing the history of the sleepy town of Oldfield.
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On the night of the execution of the serial killer Katherine White, reporter Beth Chandler (Susan Tyrrell) interviews her reclusive librarian uncle Julian (Vincent Price). But this small town doesn't have the happiest of memories. In Tennessee there rests the small town of Oldfield.
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