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Tales From The Crypt Collection
The Vault of Horror
Everything that makes life worth leaving!
The sequel to Tales from the Crypt. Five strangers trapped in a basement vault converse about their recurring nightmares. Their stories include vampires, bodily dismemberment, east Indian mysticism, an insurance scam, and an artist who kills by painting his victims' deaths.
- Original title
- The Vault of Horror
- Language
- EN
- Country
- GB
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Dec 16, 2017 · via TMDB
The Vault of Horror (1973, Roy Ward Baker) Just as Britain's premier house of horror, Hammer Films, was entering the period of it's final decline in the early 1970s, a new challenger for the throne arose. This was Amicus Productions, founded in 1962 by two American screenwriters and producers, Milton Subotsky and Max Rosenberg. Beginning in 1965, with Dr. Terror's House of Horrors, Amicus focused on horror films, especially anthology film inspired by the 1945 British classic Dead of Night. In 1972 the studio released it's best known title, Tales from the Crypt. Based upon the EC comic book of the same name, the movie was a huge hit, on both sides of the Atlantic. It was only natural, then, that it would be quickly followed up by a similar film, again sharing a title with a classic EC comic, The Vault of Horror. The movie consists of five short stories, framed by five men who find themselves trapped in the basement of a building, and begin recounting their nightmares to each other. These range from a man who finds himself at dinner with the undead, to a starving artist with the power to kill through his art. The cast is impressive, and while the stories are, as with all such movies, uneven in quality, that unevenness is much less pronounced than is the norm, with the final tale being the weakest. Speaking personally, I love these anthology films, also referred to as Portmanteau films. It's much easier to construct a short horror tale than a long one, and the story telling is often better. Though not as well known as the earlier Tales from the Crypt, I think it's the better film, and it's one of my favorites. Give it a try!
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Anna Massey
Donna Rogers (segment 1 "Midnight Mess")
Terry-Thomas
Arthur Critchit (segment 2 "The Neat Job")
Glynis Johns
Eleanor Critchit (segment 2 "The Neat Job")
Curd Jürgens
Sebastian (segment 3 "This Trick'll Kill You")
Dawn Addams
Inez (segment 3 "This Trick'll Kill You")
Michael Craig
Maitland (segment 4 "Bargain in Death")
Edward Judd
Alex (segment 4 "Bargain in Death")
Robin Nedwell
Tom (segment 4 "Bargain in Death")
Tom Baker
Moore (segment 5 "Drawn and Quartered")
Denholm Elliott
Diltant (segment 5 "Drawn and Quartered")
Terence Alexander
Fenton Breedley (segment 5 "Drawn and Quartered")
Erik Chitty
Old Waiter (segment 1 "Midnight Mess")
Mike Pratt
Clive (segment 1 "Midnight Mess")
Jerold Wells
Waiter (segment 1 "Midnight Mess")
Marianne Stone
Jane (segment 2 "The Neat Job")
Frank Forsyth
Male Customer (segment 1 "Midnight Mess")
Jasmina Hilton
Indian Girl (segment 3 "This Trick'll Kill You")
Arthur Mullard
Gravedigger (segment 4 "Bargain in Death")
Maurice Kaufmann
Bob Dickson (segment 5 "Drawn and Quartered")
Sylvia Marriott
Mrs. Breedley (segment 5 "Drawn and Quartered")
Tommy Godfrey
Landlord (segment 5 "Drawn and Quartered")
Daniel Massey
Harold Rogers (segment 1 "Midnight Mess")
Daniel Johns
Cutter (segment 5 "Drawn and Quartered")
Roy Ward Baker
Director
Milton Subotsky
Producer
Milton Subotsky
Screenplay
Al Feldstein
Story
William M. Gaines
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Mar 16, 1973
