Paste Magazine's the 25 Best Horror Anthology Movies of All Time

"Although the concept of "anthology" films could be said to date back as far as D.W. Griffith's Intolerance in 1916, the storytelling device has always found a natural bedfellow with the horror genre. Perhaps it approximates oral tradition—different stories told by different speakers, gathered around a campfire or sharing a cabin on a dark and stormy night. Horror stories, often simplistic and straightforward by nature, can function well as bite-sized morsels of fright. Anthologies, therefore, make room within the genre for tales that could never have supported feature-length films (although particularly successful anthology segments may very well receive that treatment)."