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Grim Prairie Tales (1990)

Grim Prairie Tales poster
Directed by
Wayne Coe
Genre
horror film
Country
United States
Runtime
1h 26m
Rated
R
Rating
5.8 of 10 from 27 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

Two strangers share horror stories around a campfire on the prairie. A bounty hunter and a clerk trade unsettling tales as they travel through the American frontier.

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What happens

Grim Prairie Tales is a 1990 American independent horror Western film, written and directed by Wayne Coe, and starring an ensemble cast including James Earl Jones, Brad Dourif, Will Hare, Marc McClure, William Atherton, and Lisa Eichhorn. An anthology film composed of four separate stories, it is 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. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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