anthology film rarely work for me . most of them be as uneven a twenty mile of bad road . trap ash be yet another bumpy ride . six people be trap in a room and must relate terrible thing that they have have happen to them to their host ( henry gibson ) . what follow be four segment direct by auteur not necessarily know for their horror chop ( with the possible exception of sean s. cunningham ) . each segment prominently feature the tie between sex and death so prevalent in horror film . one feature a woman with vampiric breast whose lamprey mouth nipple suck the blood of her lover . another woman fall for a corpse who whisk her away to hell while on japanese holiday . a succubus fall for stanley kubrick . and the last and poor woman share the insatiable hunger of her fraternal twin and a tapeworm . the first segment set up expectation that trap ash will be a much more lighthearted film . surprisingly and this segment be direct by ken russell though it felt like something from joe dante or paul bartel ( it be especially reminiscent of irvin kershner hell toupee episode of amaze story ) . the sean s. cunningham sequence felt like a pail gaijin aping of hideo nakata ( the ring ) and john gaeta just do not work at all . i enjoy the kubrick bit and courtesy of monte hellman a perennial cashier du cinemart fave except that the horror element seem like an afterthought . surprise that this wasn not call tale from the crypt represent trap ash and this be one that can be miss by all except die hard john saxon fan .