
Trapped Ashes 2006 Written by Dennis Bartok, directed by Sean S Cunningham, Joe Dante, Ken Russell, Monte Hellman and John Gaeta.
Several people are taking the studio tour with driver and host Henry Gibson. He lets them into the haunted mansion where they get trapped in a big room. Henry tells them they might get out if they tell their most terrifying stories. Joe Dante directs this bit of the film.
Ken Russell directs The Girl With Golden Breasts, a story about a woman gets a breast augmentation to further her acting career and winds up with with blood sucking breast implants.
Sean S Cunningham directs Jibaku, a story about a couple that find a man who's hung himself in a wood, the wife gets seduced by a demon. The husband has to go to Hell to rescue here.
Monte Hellman directs Stanley's Girlfriend, a story about a blood sucking witch.
John Gaeta directs My Twin, The Worm, a story about a parasite that affects a woman's pregnancy.
Once the stories are told Henry drops a bit of bad news on the group. No one's going home. Sad, huh. Henry was the best character in the movie. He plays a delightfully demonic guy.
I wasn't sure if I had seen this, the opening tour ride seemed familiar. Turns out I had back in September of 2011. My comment on My Watched Movie List was "trapped people/tits". That's mostly what the stories were about: sex and breasts. It was OK but I'm not tempted to buy a copy now I've seen it again. I'd prefer watching Dr Terror's House of Horrors, The Vault Of Horror or Tales From The Crypt, a few of Amicus Productions anthology films.

The Boy And The Heron 2023 Written and directed by Hayao Miyazaki.
Mihito is ten during WW2, his mother dies when the hospital is bombed. His father builds parts for planes, they move the factory into the countryside to escape the fire bombings. The father has married his dead wife's sister Natsuko and they have moved into her family estate. Mohito is rather cold to his step mother. He discovers the tower building designed by Natsuko's grand uncle who disappeared 30 years ago. Mohito has encounters with a grey heron who talks and has another being living inside of his body. The heron claims he could find Mohito's mother.
Natsuko wonders off into the forest and everyone searches for her. Mihito and Kiriko, one of the granny maids living in the house, enter the collapsing tower which turns out to be the gateway to the oceanic world. They have some adventures, meet Mohito's mother, rescue Natsuko and return home. Mohito has gotten to like his step mother better.
I enjoyed some of the movie but it felt it was less entertaining than some of my favorites, I've seen My Neighbor Totoro at least a couple of dozen times over the years and still enjoy it. Same with The Castle Of Cagliostro. I liked most of the other films he did through Howl's Moving Castle but haven't watched them anywhere near as often. Laputa and Kiki's Delivery Service are the most watched of that lot. I bought a DVD of Ponyo in 2010 but still haven't watched it. I don't have a copy of The Wind Rises. I just put one in my cart on Amazon.
Despite having a copy of TBATH I don't know that I'll return to it anytime soon. It seemed like a greatest hits of Miyazaki scenes. Some of the later movies are in the 2 hour range but they move the story along quicker and seem less draggy. No matter, there's still the earlier lot of films to watch again. I've also got Miyazaki's Sherlock Hound to watch. He directed the first 6 episodes before trouble with the Doyle estate put a hold on production. Miyazaki moved on and someone else finished the series of 26 episodes.