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Post by wmcclain on Oct 27, 2023 22:13:43 GMT
Vault of Horror, The (1973), directed by Roy Ward Baker. "There's no money in horror" -- man planning to get himself buried alive. This entry in the Amicus series of horror anthologies seems more "comic book" than the others. Our entries: - Prologue: Five men descend in an office building elevator to a basement that shouldn't exist. They find a nice bar and for some reason decide to drink and relate their worst nightmares.
- Midnight Mess: Your sister is a vampire living in a vampire village. Are you sure you want to murder her and go out for a meal after? (Featuring real-life siblings Daniel and Anna Massey. She was in other notable thrillers, including Peeping Tom (1960) and Frenzy (1972)).
- The Neat Job: Fussy Terry-Thomas finally decides to get married so he will have a housekeeper to care for his many hobbies. You can easily push that scheme too far. His "young" wife is the great Glynis Johns, age 50 here.
- This Trick’ll Kill You: Stage magician Curd Jürgens travels to India to find new tricks. When encountering real magic he really should leave it alone, and definitely not murder to acquire it.
- Bargain in Death: When will people learn? These clever plans of "I'll pretend to be dead, be buried and then secretly dug up so we can collect the insurance" -- how often do that work out? Especially when medical students who need a body are in the house?
- Drawn and Quartered: Tom Baker (Dr Who #3) is an artist who discovers he is being cheated. He buys some voodoo (the priest shaking his head sadly) and returns home to get revenge on his enemies.
- Epilogue: The explanation for the setup doesn't make much sense.
The film has a censorship history you can find in the wikipedia. The home video editions are supposed to be uncut but the Blu-ray definitely has a blackout mask covering a scene of blood being drained from our victim. The complete film series: Available on Blu-ray from Shout Factory.
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Post by Captain Spencer on Oct 28, 2023 3:01:35 GMT
I found it to be a worthy follow-up to Tales From The Crypt.
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Post by Prime etc. on Oct 28, 2023 7:17:47 GMT
This was the most impossible film for me to see for many years. First time I recorded the censored version off tv--it stopped before the ending.
I wasted money on a newsgroup around 1998 to get a copy of it uncut. Ripped off. Then someone sent me a really bad quality video and I watched that--with the missing edits. But I was very disappointed that the infamous "ghoul walk" shown in horror books was not included.
I am guessing the footage never turned out in the lab. I don't believe they only did it for publicity because you can see where it would have gone in the film--since the actors are only seen from behind in the final shot of them.
Still, I like it for three of the stories.
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