Two-Fisted Tales

Thought I would write about this further to the comments of another writer, who suggested it was impossible to get hold of.

It was screened on UK TV on the SciFi channel on 28th May 2001.

If you are desperate to see it - it's still out there. I wouldn't recommend it if you are a Brad Pitt fan though. Film is awful, and he doesn't look his best.

As a young lad I had the opportunity to see this "film", and allthough it had nothing compared to Tales from the Crypt, or Twilight Zone - hell, The Hitchiker was better - but I still thought that the plot in each story still had an edge...just that it wasn't that sharp...and it still managed to capture and hold that strange feeling when you don't know if you should laugh out loud, turn it off and something worth while, or maby just see it for what it is - A movie that's very idea (as so many have) that it IS bad. After all, just about everyone likes to trash a movie now and then just for fun...

Corny and horrible, I was not surprised this short lived show didn't make it. I remember fondly when Tales From the Crypt tried reusing these corny episodes like they were actually scary. Coupled with bad acting and lousy music, I was surprised this crummy showed was ever conceived. It never showed up again, and one can only be thankful for this circumstance.

If you liked Douglas in Kubricks "Paths of Glory" then you'll be sure to love this (if you can get your hands on a copy). The story is relatively the same, Eric Douglas (Kirk's real life son) is charged with cowardice in the face of the enemy. In the position of General this time around is Eric Douglas' real life father Kirk, a stern and typically insane general that will rather watch his son die at the hands of a firing squad than have the whole army think he's a coward. I actually saw this tales from the crypt before i saw Paths of Glory. Its a real classic. If any one can find a copy let me know.

This was a pilot for Fox that only aired once. It's basically another version of HBO's "Tales from the Crypt" with a different host (live, not animatronic). It's named after another of Gaines' EC comics which featured more action-oriented stories.

After Fox didn't pick it up, the two stories were repackaged as episodes of "Tales from the Crypt" and are aired that way to this day.

I don't believe the original version is available anywhere unless you taped it off the air as I did. When I find that tape, I'll fill in the rest of this page. :-)

The two episodes probably don't stick out among the regular "Tales from the Crypt" ones, and the show won't be back, so there's not much to review. It's more of a footnote to the HBO series.