Pros: A whole arc, a great story about one man's madness, is presented in its entirety and a mini-arc, Bloody Karte, also included.
Cons: No Japanese audio track, though the Ocean VOs do a fine job.

My Take:

To say that I was surprised that I actually liked this production is an understatement. Let me explain. When I got the first volume of this series along with a whole lot of other titles, I was a little scared with what I was going to see. Not that I was going to be scared with the actual content. I was afraid that I was going to be subjected to viewing something that would be really, really bad computer animation. You know something? The animation isn't horrendous, and yet it's not Pixar-level either. If you come in expecting something to look like The Incredibles, you might as well check out The Incredibles when it comes out. Gregory Horror Show has a visual quality that is more or less a cross between PlayStation cutscene (apparently there's a game based on the series or vice-versa) and ReBoot Season One (please Mainframe and Anchor Bay, give us ReBoot: Seasons 1 and 2 soon).

Storywise, Gregory Horror Show is a cross between The Twilight Zone and Tales From The Crypt. A man, lost in the woods, stumbles across the Gregory House, a huge creepy-looking mansion. Within the walls of Gregory House are human fears personified into twisted anthromorphic characters and other lost souls. Gregory, an glum little mouse, is the proprietor of the Gregory House and an evil little rat. The unseen protagonist cannot escape the house and descends into madness courtesy of the characters he meets in the house, like a father and son with a splitting headache, a chameleon nurse named Catherine who has a strange fetish of drawing blood from her patients, a character named Judgement Boy who gives you a question to reveal who you really are and what you're really like, and a chef that doesn't really like criticism, all wrapped around short self-contained stories that are part of this arc (25 "nights" in all). The arc's primary storyline takes the unseen protagonist deeper into Gregory House while he and the viewers learn the secrets behind the evil mansion leading to perhaps one of the most shocking climaxes I have ever seen.

Gregory Horror Show is a deviously deceptive, brilliantly written horror comedy series. Or is it comedic horror series? The characters are quirky and memorable, especially Judgement Boy, whose sing-song mantra will be a cult classic, and of course Gregory, who seems like a cross between The Cryptkeeper and Droopy. In this Halloween season, check out the first volume of Gregory Horror Show. Guess what they say is true. Once you enter the Gregory House, you can't escape.