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Television viewers got a fright in 1989, when TALES FROM THE CRYPT made the transition from EC comic book to TV show. Hosted by the Cryptkeeper, each episode of the show offered a new, ghoulish tale for the audience to sink their teeth (or fangs) into. The show originated on HBO, and all six episodes from the first season are included here. It was such a success that myriad CRYPT-inspired spinoffs resulted, including an animated series, several feature films, and seemingly infinite merchandising opportunities. A popular favorite among horror-film fans, TALES FROM THE CRYPT also appeals to viewers who love the visceral thrill of jumping out of their seats as terrifying scenes unfold in front of them. The first seven seasons of the show are gathered on this collection.
Plot Summary:Tales from the Crypt was Amicus studio's biggest anthology hit, so it was lucky for them EC Comics had two other horror titles with which to start the inevitable offshoot franchise. That the hasty sequel The Vault of Horror was never followed by The Haunt of Fear should give you a fairly accurate sense of Vault of Horror's overall worth, but it's not entirely without its own tragically '70s, tragically British charms; many of them turn up in Glynis Johns's wardrobe, all cow prints and silk jumpsuits. The fatal problem isn't that the performances aren't suitably broad, or that Roy Ward Baker (fresh of helming the far more successful Asylum for Amicus) is a lesser director than Francis. The problem is that the five stories selected this go around pale in comparison to those included in Tales from the Crypt, all but one of which—the mundane p.o.v. of a unknowing corpse yarn "Reflection of Death"—were among the comic publisher's absolute best. (I'd even go so far as to say that "Wish You Were Here," with its mythically horrifying twist ending, bests its antecedent "The Monkey's Paw.")
Not so with Vault of Horror, which doesn't even have the good sense to include even one of the "reanimated corpse wreaks revenge on its murderer" tales which were EC's stock in trade. Instead we have the lackadaisical "Bargain In Death," one of those stories where someone takes a potion that allows them to fake their own death and cash in on a life insurance policy, the sketchy "Midnight Mess," in which a man mistakenly stumbles into a restaurant run by civilized vampires with tasteful, human culinary habits, and the downright moronic "This Trick'll Kill You," a none-too-subtle allegory about a married pair of magicians murdering fakirs in India to steal their seemingly inexplicable rope trick (the implications are obvious). If the other two stories fare better, it's because they stick to the key ingredients of the EC mythos. "Drawn and Quartered" is a voodoo-laced example of the "let the punishment fit the crime" school by way of The Portrait of Dorian Gray, with an added bonus that the punishment is actually brought about by the offender's own hand (resulting, with the powerful final shot, in an unusually smart deployment of suggested gore). But the only story that really seems in its own element is "The Neat Job," in which Johns can't seem to properly tidy up the house of her fussbudget OCD husband (Terry-Thomas, who matches Johns pound for pound by leading with the gap between his teeth). Like "Midnight Mess," it's more a sketch than an actual story, but its presentation of domestic terror into an eerily cloistered suburban pad is prime EC territory. DVD Details:
 
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