""Deadtime Stories," which is lurking in far fewer theaters [than the simultaneously released Creepshow 2], is pretty bad itself, but there's a perverse originality at work by director Jeffrey Delman, who cowrote the stories with Charles F. Shelton and J. Edward Kiernan. Some things may have been lost in cuts made to bring the film's rating from an X to an R, but a wacky sense of humor is at work in these offbeat recastings of children's tales told by a distracted uncle to put his demanding nephew to sleep... Admittedly, the acting in "Deadtime Stories" is mostly bad, but some of the lines are hilarious." - Richard Harrington, Washington Post