{"id":8846,"date":"2013-10-31T01:01:29","date_gmt":"2013-10-31T05:01:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/?p=8846"},"modified":"2015-10-02T15:26:09","modified_gmt":"2015-10-02T20:26:09","slug":"tales-from-the-crypt-1972-freddie-francis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/archives\/8846","title":{"rendered":"Tales from the Crypt (1972, Freddie Francis)"},"content":{"rendered":"

Anthology horror with a lousy framing story, exactly like Dr. Terror’s House of Horrors<\/a><\/em>. This is actually based on the comics, didn’t just steal the title. Buncha pricks on a tourist romp in some ancient crypts get lost, run into evil cryptkeeper Ralph Richardson (bad parson of The Holly and the Ivy<\/a><\/em>), leading to series of flashbacks before revealing that they’ve all been dead all along.<\/p>\n

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First, TV star Joan Collins kills her husband (for the insurance) on Christmas, then she’s stalked by a psycho killer santa.<\/p>\n

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Next, Ian Hendry (Repulsion<\/a><\/em>) leaves his wife to run off with a girl, but he dies in a car crash then comes back a zombie.<\/p>\n

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Robin Phillips wants to do some realty scheme, but friendly old Peter Cushing refuses to step aside, so Robin destroys the old man, who comes back a zombie and kills him.<\/p>\n

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Richard Greene (Hound of the Baskervilles<\/em>) dies in a car crash after his financial advisor (Roy Dotrice, Mozart’s dad in Amadeus<\/em>) wishes on the monkey’s paw, then he and Greene’s wife have second thoughts and wish him alive again, but he lives in zombie-agony. Three zombie stories in a row!<\/p>\n

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Mustache businessman Nigel Patrick (The League of Gentlemen<\/a><\/em>) becomes new head of a home for the blind and slashes budgets for everything to the despair of Patrick Magee (Alex’s tormentee\/tormentor in A Clockwork Orange<\/em>), who plots elaborate revenge.<\/p>\n

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Anthology horror with a lousy framing story, exactly like Dr. Terror’s House of Horrors. This is actually based on the comics, didn’t just steal the title. Buncha pricks on a tourist romp in some ancient crypts get lost, run into evil cryptkeeper Ralph Richardson (bad parson of The Holly and the Ivy), leading to series […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[400,532,102,54],"class_list":["post-8846","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movie","tag-1970s","tag-anthology-film","tag-britain","tag-horror"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8846","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8846"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8846\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10387,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8846\/revisions\/10387"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8846"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8846"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8846"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}