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The Vault of Horror (1973)

Horror | 83 minutes
3,02 50 votes

Genre: Horror / Mystery

Duration: 83 minuten

Alternative titles: Further Tales from the Crypt / Tales from the Crypt, Part II

Country: United Kingdom / United States

Directed by: Roy Ward Baker

Stars: Curd Jürgens, Denholm Elliott and Tom Baker

IMDb score: 6,6 (7.143)

Releasedate: 16 March 1973

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The Vault of Horror plot

"Everything that makes life worth Leaving!"

Five people trapped in the basement of an office building talk about the visions they have about their own death. The stories deal with vampirism, dissection, Native American mysticism, an insurance scam and an artist who kills people by painting their death scene.

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Actors and actresses

Donna Rogers (segment 1 "Midnight Mess")

Arthur Critchit (segment 2 "The Neat Job")

Eleanor Critchit (segment 2 "The Neat Job")

Wilson (segment 2 "The Neat Job")

Sebastian (segment 3 "This Trick'll Kill You")

Inez (segment 3 "This Trick'll Kill You")

Fakir (segment 3 "This Trick'll Kill You")

Maitland (segment 4 "Bargain in Death")

Alex (segment 4 "Bargain in Death")

Tom (segment 4 "Bargain in Death")

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Donkerwoud

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India and Haiti the British way[/i]

Unofficial sequel to 'Tales From The Crypt' (1972). True to cinematic practice, everything is a notch below the first installment. It starts with the location of a soulless apartment building instead of the Gothic crypt of the original. There is also no appealing character like Ralph Richardson to welcome the protagonists of the stories to the mysterious twilight world between heaven and hell. The opening story, 'Midnight Mess', begins mysteriously with a psychotic brother searching for his sister, but the paranormal twist is predictable and unsubtle. 'The Neat Job' manages to capture the underlying psychological terror of its predecessor somewhat better. Comedian Terry-Thomas is hilarious as the domineering husband with the compulsive need for everything in his living environment to be spick and span, even if it comes at the expense of his new wife's happiness.

'This Trick'll Kill You' features a laughably bad paranormal twist involving a fakir's Indian flute. It doesn't help that it is set in India, while it is clear from everything that the characters are in an English studio. 'Bargain in Death' is a standard story about an insurance scam gone wrong, but it does have a few good jokes and an amusing cameo by Arthur Mullard as a recalcitrant gravedigger. 'Drawn and Quartered' features a funny-looking Tom Baker with a wild artist's beard that Vincent Van Gogh would be jealous of. He turns to dark voodoo to take revenge on the critics and art buyers who hurt his sensitive ego. The story itself builds towards a satisfying climax, but here too it is a shame that it largely takes place in an English studio (cardboard Haiti).

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As far as I'm concerned, just a tiny bit less than Tales from the Crypt (1972). It doesn't make much difference... except we can just sleep with the lights off tonight. Four of the five stories score solid marks, in order of favorite: 3, 2, 5, and 1. Story 4 is nice, but nothing more than that.

Perhaps it is high time to use these kinds of EC Comics as inspiration again, as a counterweight to that enormous pile of annoying horror junk that has been dumped on us for years.

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clubsport

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I found the first story the least engaging, and the last story with that painting and the voodoo captured the imagination the most; the rest were somewhere in between.

Quite a nice one in the Tales from the Crypt series; every story has something to offer, and the ending is quite cleverly conceived.

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