Goregoyles: First Cut offers short horror as a place for concentrated effects, abrupt changes of tone and ideas that may not need a feature's long explanation. The useful comparison is between the openings: how quickly does each story make an ordinary setting unstable? Watch what is left for the final image or reversal to accomplish. An anthology's variety can be its strength, allowing a cruel joke, a disturbing atmosphere and a practical effects flourish to occupy different kinds of time.