Giant Leap Entertainment, 2000

starring: John Ritter, David DeLuise, and Allison Smith

directed by: Lance W. Dreesen and Clint Hutchison

the plot: Realtor Bob Carter (Ritter) is showing Allen (DeLuise) and Mary Ann Doyle (Smith) houses in a quaint neighborhood. However, each of the seemingly perfect homes has a dark history attached to it, which Bob reveals to the young couple under “full disclosure.” At the first home, he recounts the story of a cuckolded husband’s revenge from beyond the grave. At the second, he tells of a man’s battle with an evil organ grinder monkey (dead serious). And, at the third, he reveals the details behind a teenager’s visions of the Granny Killer. As the gruesome stories drive the Doyles farther and farther from making an offer, Bob grows nervous, and it becomes clear that the firm he works for takes drastic measures to ensure top performance in its employees.

why it’s good: Horror movie anthologies are a special breed. Counting the wrap-around segment, this movie delivers four stories for the price of one. First, you’ve got “Make Me an Offer,” which ties the whole movie together with John Ritter delivering nuances of creepiness, desperation and humor that are probably beyond what this movie deserves, right up until the point where he stabs a guy in the neck with a pen (gnarly blood fountain effect here, by the way). Next, there’s “Nightmare,” which drunkenly stumbles down the tightrope between creating an homage to “Creepshow” and straight-up ripping it off. Especially notable is the weird level of likeability Carmine Giovinazzo manages to generate as Frank, the unlucky lover of a married woman. Third, we have “Bobo,” wherein doting father Ron Gatley (played by Bryan Cranston) must contend with a murderous monkey that has captured his daughter’s affection. And I do mean “murderous”—the monkey kills a large dog, sticks roughly a dozen knives in the chest of former WCW wrestler Buff Bagwell (off-screen, sadly, though we do see the perforated body), and cuts a woman’s throat. Finally, there’s “Come to Granny,” in which a young man reveals to a psychiatrist that he has been having psychic visions of the horrifying Granny Killer (a man who hacks young women to pieces with a meat cleaver while wearing an old-lady mask and spouting lines like, “Don’t run and hide, it’s only granny!”). Maybe the best part of “Come to Granny” is the Granny Killer being credited as “?” at the end of the film.

why you should own it: Come on, it’s a horror movie with John Ritter (OK, sure, he was also in “Bride of Chucky”), Bryan Cranston (and this was before “Breaking Bad” or “Malcolm in the Middle”), and Buff Bagwell (okay, no one really cares about Buff). You can get the film on DVD for cheap as a double feature with “Cherry Falls” (a movie in which the killer targets virgins), and that’s awesome, because getting an anthology movie as part of a double feature is like having a buffet as part of your smorgasbord.