Friday, December 21, 2007

A kinder looking Crypt keeper

Just watched the 1972 movie Tales From the Crypt. Came out a long time before the HBO series and in all honesty, other than the Crypt Keeper segments from the series, the film does the EC Comics classic more justice.
Not too campy (except maybe for the fake blood looks awful), good stories, amazing looking for a 70's film, and the soundtrack is pretty damn spooky.
The opening story even has one time hottie Joan Collins getting killed by Old St. Nick (or a lunatic in a Santa costume at the very least).

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I guess you can file this under a "holiday cheer film" because of that. Totally reasonable to watch it during this time of the year.
5 uber-creepy stories. As great (maybe better?) an adaptation as the Twilight Zone film in the 80's.
I will even go as far as to say that it is one of my favorite 1970's British horror films.
This guy digs it.
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