In perhaps the most classically directed (and maybe best titled) Tales stories, Joe Pantoliano (Memento) works as a carnie who has figured out a way to kill himself in front of an audience several times over. And this isn’t a trick—he’s able to have multiple lives based on a very strange experiment with a cat. The writing and acting in this is great, but—social commentary and comedy aside—the directing is where it’s at. Director Richard Donner employs creepy carnival music, uncomfortably close-up shots, dream-like sequences, and a first person coffin-narration that is just perfectly claustrophobic. And this makes the traditional Tales twist at the end all the more twisted.
                                        - The Tim Reaper