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Le caveau de la terreur (1973)

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Le caveau de la terreur

93 commentaires
8/10

Another worthy and entertaining horror anthology outing from those fine folks at Amicus

  • Woodyanders
  • 28 janv. 2008
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8/10

E.C.'s second most popular title receives a movie adaptation!

The Vault of Horror (1973) was another Amicus adaptation of the stories that were originally published in comic book form during the fifties. These stories came from the minds of publishing guru Bill Gaines and his staff of brilliant artists and story tellers. E.C. during the fifties was a hugely successful independent comic book company. But due to concerned parents and the crack down on comic book publishers by conservative politicians "who were protecting the children" created the Comic Book decency code that moralized all future comic books.

These brilliant stories first appeared in the VAULT OF HORROR series. Unlike the first film, the main character narrator is missing, other than that, it's the same omnibus style of film making. Odd stories with even mondo bizarro endings. Five tales that'll make you crave for more! Stars Terry-Thomas, Denholm Elliot and Glynis Johns. Watch out for the European cut. It has more blood and gore than the tamed U.S. release.

Highly recommended.
  • Captain_Couth
  • 26 août 2005
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8/10

A Nice Sequel to the Original

I adore the 1972 film; Tales From the Crypt and this 1973 follow-up is a solid effort. Granted, not all of the stories in this Amicus anthology are as strong as the '72 film, but this film is still a lot of fun. My favorite story in this anthology is the Terry-Thomas/Glynis Johns effort. It's definitely more comedy than horror, but even that packs a bit of a punch at the end. I've read that there was to be a third installment to this series of films, but a less than over-whelming feeling by the film-going public put an end to any further plans for a third film. The cast to this film is really strong and it's just a shame that the stories aren't as solid, still, an enjoyable effort and if you're looking for a fun way to spend an afternoon, a double-feature of Tales From the Crypt and Vault of Horror is definitely the way to go.
  • ClassixFan
  • 22 avr. 2004
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"An underrated horror omnibus from Amicus!"

  • jamesraeburn2003
  • 17 sept. 2003
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7/10

THE VAULT OF HORROR (Roy Ward Baker, 1973) ***

Fairly good entry in the Amicus anthology cycle, even if none of the stories are particularly remarkable (or original). The premise is also quite simple: five men meet inside an elevator which takes them, irrespective of the floor to which they were destined, to the basement of the building where a table has been set up for them; they gather around and, to while away the time until they're rescued, each recounts a recurring dream.

The cast is fine, as usual: Daniel Massey goes in search of his missing sister (real-life sibling Anna), eventually locating her at a remote village – where, as it turns out, all the locals (including the woman) are vampires!; this may be the most popular episode but also, perhaps, the most disposable (despite the amusingly outrageous fate awaiting Massey at the end) – considering that Amicus had already dealt with the subject of vampires in at least two previous horror compendiums, DR. TERROR'S HOUSE OF HORRORS (1965) and THE HOUSE THAT DRIPPED BLOOD (1971). Terry-Thomas is an ageing wealthy man who decides it's high time for him to marry, but ends up literally driving commoner wife Glynis Johns crazy with his obsessive fastidiousness! Curt Jurgens is a magician on holiday in India with wife Dawn Addams: to show off, he exposes a local exponent plying his trade at the market square; humiliated, the latter plots an elaborate and terrible revenge – with the aid of his young daughter – by intriguing Jurgens with a new trick involving a magic rope.

In the fourth episode, Michael Craig plans to collect his own life insurance (with the help of pal Edward Judd) by faking his own death – the latter, however, has no intention of sticking to his part of the bargain (though he's ultimately not allowed to reap the rewards of his fraud and betrayal). Craig eventually wakes up from a deep sleep in his coffin – terrorizing a couple of intended body-snatchers into the bargain, but himself runs into the wrong end of the graveyard custodian's shovel! This is the shortest episode and, frankly, I was expecting its ironic punchline to be more grisly and drastic! The last segment is the longest and best, if still offering nothing we haven't seen before: a painter (Tom Baker) living a bohemian existence on a tropical island discovers that promoters of the business (including Denholm Elliott as an influential art dealer) had downplayed his talent in order to acquire his stuff cheaply, and then made a pot for themselves by selling it again at the proper value. He turns to a voodoo priest for revenge, who gives him the power to destroy the subject of his paintings – naturally, he draws portraits (from memory and apparently in no time at all!) of his three enemies and has his way with them; what he doesn't know is that, while he's away from the studio, something is about to happen to his self-portrait...

The final revelation is typical of Amicus; while the handling is somewhat pedestrian yet reasonably efficient and the general tone unassuming, this kind of fare has endured by always putting the accent on fun (with the added bonus of star gazing). Incidentally, like its predecessor TALES FROM THE CRYPT (1972), this drew inspiration from the popular EC Comics; as a matter of fact, the film itself was known in some quarters as TALES FROM THE CRYPT, PART II. Having mentioned the latter film, both of these have just been released as a 2-Disc Set DVD by Fox; unfortunately, the print used for THE VAULT OF HORROR (while presented in its OAR, unlike the DivX copy I watched) is reportedly the milder PG-rated edit. There are only a few shots missing but, apart from being awkwardly replaced by still-frames, they actually constitute a couple of delightful reveals and one instance of hardly-shocking gore! Considering the fact that I also own TALES FROM THE CRYPT on DivX and that the DVDs contain no significant extras, I'm content with these versions.
  • Bunuel1976
  • 19 oct. 2007
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6/10

A collection of 5 horrifying tales based on the original stories from E. C. Comic books of the fifties

Another melange based on William H Gaines tales fron E. C.. comic books , produced by Amicus: Max Rosenberg, Milton Subotsky. A classic terror movie formed by five segments well realized and magnificently played . Vintage horror film financed by Amicus with a Great British Cast and formed by several episodes full of creepy events , chills, thrills , gore and guts. It stars with five strangers at an eerie and sisister room .Later on , there they tell how each of the strangers will die . As they explain fantastic visions about their nightmares . It deals with 5 segments with five protagonists : Real-life brother and sister, Daniel Massey-Anne Massey, Curd Jurgens, Michael Craig, Terry Thomas, Tom Baker get in a lift that transports them to a non exit lounge in the basement of a skyscraper. There they confide their recurring nightmares. Each segment has at least 1 killing. It is formed by 5 stories :Midnight mess with Daniel Massey, Anne Massey. The neat job with Terry Thomas, Glynis Johns. Bargain in death with Michael Craig, Edward Judd. This trick will kill you, with Curd Jurgens, Dawn Addams, Jasmine Hilton . And Drawn and quartered with Tom Baker, Demholm Elliott .The rest of the cast is no less impressive, though delivering brief but enjoyable interpretations. And now ...who is next....

Amicus sixth portmanteau movie that simply slaps down its thrilling and terrifying tales, butressing with dreary slabs of plot and chatter, concluding into eerie results. As at a rare room join five strange people who star 5 segments , all of them are filled with mystery , suspense , terror , grisly killings , twisted events and horrible happenings . The British star-studded results to be pretty good with a plethora of notorious actors . Well made terror antology film, and in some places was released as Tales of Crypt II, being compellingly filmed by the gore-minded lad Roy Ward Baker. The better episodes involve the suburban wife Glynis Johns driven to killing and her house-proud husband Terry Thomas constantly nagging about the housekeeping, resulting in an impeccably tidy disposal of a corpse. As well as the surprising story of a rope with a mind of its own starred by Curd Jurgens, Dawn Addams, including nice special effects. . Each story harbours an ingeniously creepy and ghoulish conceit and at the end each tale takes place a grand guignol climax. The great cast is pretty good, giving nice performances , though Edward Judd, Demholm Elliott, Anna Massey have a few lines.. Most stories previously appeared in American comic books as Tales of Crypt from EC comics as well as in The haunt of fear. Colorful , adequate cinematograhy , shot at Shepperton studios . It was compellingly accompanied by a thrilling and suspenseful musical score .

The motion picture was professionally directed by the British horrormeister Roy Ward Baker, though another terror specialist director, Freddie Francis, was the original choice to shot. Here Baker emphasising the frightening, dramatic and suspenseful possibilities. Roy directed a great number of films. Deemed to be a terror expert, as proved in The monster club, Mask of death, And now the screaming starts, The legend of the 7 gold vampires, Asylum, Dr Jekill and his sister Hyde, The scars of Dracula, The vampire lovers, The anniversary. Roy Baker also directed some Hollywood fims such as Inferno, House in the square, A night to remember, Don't bother to knock, and Night with sleep. Rating : acceptable and passable. 6/10. Worthwhile watching.
  • ma-cortes
  • 1 déc. 2018
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7/10

"How Would You Like Your Roast Clots?"

"Vault of Horror" (1973) is one of seven horror anthology pictures released by Hammer rival Amicus over an eight-year period. It had been preceded by "Dr. Terror's House of Horrors," "Torture Garden," "The House That Dripped Blood," "Asylum" and "Tales From the Crypt," and would soon be followed by "From Beyond the Grave." As in its immediate predecessor, the vignettes here were all inspired by tales that had appeared in the fondly remembered EC Comics of the 1950s. "Vault" wastes little time with its obligatory framing story, as five men, strangers to one another, are shanghaied via elevator to a luxuriously appointed subbasement chamber and, over drinks, discourse on their respective nightmares. In "Midnight Mess," a brother (Daniel Massey) kills his sister (real-life sister Anna Massey) over an inheritance but must later face the neighborhood's very unusual nighttime denizens. In "The Neat Job," a compulsive neatnik (Terry-Thomas) subjects his new wife (Glynis Johns, 50 here and still adorable in this, one of her last theatrical films) to more aggravation than Felix Unger ever dished out to Oscar...until poor Glynis can't take it anymore, that is. In "This Trick'll Kill You," a husband-and-wife team of magicians (Curt Jurgens and Dawn Addams) steals a magic rope in India, only to have things go terribly wrong afterwards. In "Bargain In Death," two men (Michael Craig and Edward Judd) attempt an insurance scam involving a faked death and premature burial, leading to quite a messy situation indeed. And in "Drawn and Quartered" (great title, that!), future Dr. Who portrayer Tom Baker plays an artist living in Haiti who uses voodoo to take vengeance on his enemies. All five of these stories are compact, occasionally humorous but nonetheless quite grisly affairs, more than competently directed by Amicus veteran Roy Ward Baker. The film's conclusion will surprise only the most naive viewers, but remains wholly satisfying. In all, a pleasing quintet of shudders. Oh...this is the only film of the seven mentioned above that does NOT feature the talents of the great Peter Cushing. But since he did appear in "The Creeping Flesh," "The Satanic Rites of Dracula," "And Now the Screaming Starts" AND "From Beyond the Grave" that same year, I suppose all can be forgiven! "All the things that make life worth leaving," the trailer for "Vault" proclaimed in '73. Indeed, indeed....
  • ferbs54
  • 30 nov. 2010
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7/10

The actors make it worthwhile.

"The Vault of Horror" is not one of the best horror anthologies to come from Amicus. The main problem is that the stories just don't have that much kick to them. The execution is reasonable, and there are a few creepy moments as well as some very funny ones. The most valuable asset that the movie can boast is a sterling group of actors who make the most out of so-so material, taken from the old E.C. comics published by William M. Gaines.

A quintet of men are taking the elevator in a big hotel ALL the way down. They end up in a sub basement that they weren't aware existed. With no way out of the place (which looks like a club of sorts), they decide to hang around. Soon, they're regaling each other with the nightmares that are plaguing them.

In "Midnight Mess", Rogers (Daniel Massey) tracks down his sister Donna (Anna Massey) to a rather strange community where it's not advisable to be out and about after dark.

Terry-Thomas plays Mr. Critchit in "The Neat Job". A fussy anal retentive, he drives his new bride Eleanor (Glynis Johns) right up the wall, until she can't take it any longer.

"This Trick'll Kill You" stars Curd Jurgens as Sebastian, a magician who finds a young woman performing a trick that fascinates him. In fact, he's willing to kill to be able to use this trick.

In "Bargain in Death", author Maitland (Michael Craig) thinks he's arranged for the perfect insurance scam, only for his plans to be derailed by some desperate medical students.

Appropriately enough, we end with the best segment, "Drawn and Quartered". Tom Baker plays a painter named Moore. Eager to get revenge on those who exploited him, he makes a deal with a voodoo master, and acquires the ability to destroy people and objects by painting pictures of them, then altering the pictures.

Erik Chitty, Dawn Addams, Edward Judd, and Denholm Elliott are also among this superior British cast. There's a little bit of gore, including one ingenious image in "Midnight Mess". A hysterical comic gag involves Mr. Terry-Thomas. In-jokes add to the fun, with Craig seen reading the novelization for "Tales from the Crypt". In fact, Craig has the best line in the movie when he says, "There's no money in horror."

We fans of the genre know differently. Overall, this is fun. Nothing great at all, but it has its pleasures.

Seven out of 10.
  • Hey_Sweden
  • 25 janv. 2015
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10/10

Great 'little' movie

What more could you ask for? This movie shines with a brilliant line-up of actors playing up the script for all it's worth. Directed by Roy Ward Baker, VoH oozes with direction and style (see his filmography). Fans of classic not-too-low-budget horror will appreciate this film, as will anyone with a lust for british films. And Hammer films.

To date, this is the ONLY multiple-story film I can watch more than once. Maybe it's the era bleeding through the screen into my brain, bringing me back to a time when cgi didn't exist and movies held their own magic without having super budgets spewed into them. Maybe it's because Tom Baker, my all-time favourite Doctor, plays a rather scruffy-looking artist with a serious dark side. Maybe it's the memorable soundtrack, oddly orchestral amid the tumult of intrusive moog soundtracks of the period.

As mentioned in another review, get the UNCUT version if you can. If there are kiddies about and you want to frighten them without the (very mild) gore found in most films of today, the edited version will do. It is near-impossible to find a commercial copy of this film in the states, but maybe Cinemax will run it again late at night? Please?

If you see it on a shelf, get it.
  • dubnut
  • 29 juin 2000
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7/10

An Old Film With a Fun Streak

Five men are trapped in a basement, so to pass the time they each tell stories about visions they had of their own death. Directed by Roy Ward Baker for Amicus.

The first man (Daniel Massey) tells a story about a town of vampires, which was mildly entertaining and there was a good special effect with the mirrors. The vampires had some really goofy looking teeth, but this story was okay to start the film off.

The second tale was the best in my opinion, about an anal retentive guy (Terry-Thomas) who must have everything a certain way -- he even labels and counts his groceries and where they should be placed.

Next we have a magician (Curd Jürgens) in India, looking to buy some Indian magic. He finds a girl with a rope trick and tries to get it from her, but she will not sell.

The strangest story is the fourth, with a man (Michael Craig) buried alive... in one of the most unbelievable insurance scam attempts ever. I really enjoyed the fact the characters worked as comic book writers for "Vault of Horror", and this tale is probably the funniest.

Last, an artist (Tom Baker) who learns voodoo in Haiti and can command things to happen by painting them. The longest of the five and fairly decent, with some parallels that can be drawn to Dorian Grey.

I liked this film. It was not outstanding, but it was fun and original. The format is much the same as "Tales From the Crypt" or "Creepshow", only this is 1973! If you are a fan of those horror staples, you will like this one, too.
  • gavin6942
  • 31 oct. 2006
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5/10

Bless those Amicus guys.

I think the first thing one has to ask is if these type of compendiums actually set out to scare people? It's always been a moot point with me as to if we the viewers should also have our tongues firmly in our cheek as well! Here we get five stories with varying degrees of entertainment value, Midnight Mess, The Neat Job, The Trick'll Kill You, Bargain In Death and Drawn & Quartered. Five men meet in a lift and are taken down to a basement room where all the comforts of home are evident, here they tell their reoccurring nightmares, which in turn leads us to the final shocking denouement.

Very much dated and looking seriously of its time, there is still much to enjoy here, from Terry-Thomas's neat obsessive segment to Tom Baker's crowning last feature, it's wickedly sick without overtly trying to sicken you. Which brings me back to my opening question, are they meant to scare you are are we merely privy to comedy with a cheeky horror theme? You decide 5/10.
  • hitchcockthelegend
  • 28 oct. 2008
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9/10

From The Crypt To The Vault

  • ShadeGrenade
  • 12 sept. 2008
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7/10

A great five story horror anthology from Amicus.

  • poolandrews
  • 30 oct. 2004
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4/10

A nice idea indifferently executed

The idea of a horror anthology movie interested me, so I sat down to watch this movie tonight. While the basic structure and idea was good, I was amazed at how sluggish and indifferent most of the five episodes were. Most of this seemed to be because of relatively poor writing--this SHOULD have been a lot more interesting than it was.

The first, third and fourth segments were all completely forgettable and so I won't bother elaborating on them. They just weren't very interesting or scary. The second one, starring Terry-Thomas, wasn't exactly brilliant, but was pretty enjoyable and the final scene, though a tad cheesy, made me really laugh--so it was worthwhile. The only one of the five that really worked well was the final segment that starred Tom Baker (you know, the Dr. Who that everyone liked so much in the 1970s). Baker played an angry artist who wanted revenge on three men who had cheated him and the way this played out was indeed clever. Because of this and the concluding scene, at least the movie ended on a positive note. However, due to the film's highly uneven nature, I'd not recommend it. It's not so much bad--it's just not very good either. Apparently, I am in the minority, though, as several other reviewers liked it.

By the way, a very, very similar film was also made by this same production company, ASYLUM, as it involves four different stories strung together with a central theme. However, ASYLUM is a better and more interesting picture.
  • planktonrules
  • 9 janv. 2008
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Classic classy campy horror, but MUST see uncut version

It's no surprise to horror fans that HBO's Tales From the Crypt was a huge success -- the UK's Amicus Productions was cranking out 4- and 5-story anthologies in the late 60's and early 70's. Utilizing veteran actors and cameramen who knew how to beautifully combine camp and horror, Vault of Horror was one of the best.

But you'd probably never know it, if you live in the US. Every version ever available on tape or on TV is cut, badly enough to almost totally destroy any payoff. A "Tale from the Crypt" is more dependent than most on a shocking ending; chop out the deliciously gory ending, or water it down, and you've got a big build-up to nothing. I first saw VOH in its hacked-up, PG version, and thought it pretty limp. It's so unfair: the last-minute hacks of a studio butcher (!) can render any carefully created piece of work into tepid mush, making the filmmakers appear incompetent.

Where can you find the uncut version in the US? Legally, nowhere. You'll need a friend in the UK who can lend you a copy, or possibly a Japanese import. This movie begs for release on DVD.

**UPDATE** The uncut version is finally available on DVD from Vipco (Britain). It won't play on most U.S. players, but may be played with some PC software such as WinDVD.
  • tabbycat
  • 23 janv. 2000
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7/10

How do you like your clots, Sir?

  • Prichards12345
  • 12 oct. 2008
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7/10

A fine effort from the golden age of anthology horror films.

Yet another good Amicus horror anthology - this one follows the format seen in 'Dr Terrors House of Horrors' and 'Tales from the Crypt', with five strangers telling (or being told) their stories.

'Vault of Horror' starts with a panoramic view of London, which moves round to a modern tower block. Five men enter the building's lift at various levels going down to the ground floor. The lift carries on to the sub-basement where the men find themselves trapped. To kill the time they recount their recurring nightmares to each other.

Whilst much about these anthology films is sub-standard, the short story format doesn't allow boredom to set in and as a viewer I find them enjoyable to watch. They know their limitations and concentrate on giving the horror fan numerous quick-fixes to keep him more than happy.

'Vault of Horror' isn't quite up to the standard of the two genre classics mentioned earlier, but its certainly up with the likes of 'Asylum' and 'From Beyond the Grave' (the latter being slightly over-rated in my opinion).

As is usual the five stories range in quality - the 1st and 3rd segments (Midnight Mess & This Trick'll Kill You) are the above-average standard fare; the 2nd segment (The Neat Job) looks like it is the comic relief story. This impression is mainly due to Terry-Thomas in the main role and on closer inspection the segment is more of a psychological horror/thriller entry - not as fun to watch but still average. The 4th story (Bargain in Death) is the disappointment - the story is fine featuring insurance fraud, betrayal, premature burial etc. but the segment self-destructs with implausible coincidences, poor dialogue and disastrous comic-relief - Arthur Mullard as a grave-digger and Robin Nedwell as a medical student. This leaves Tom Baker to rescue things in the final story (Drawn and Quartered), as a vengeful artist who's been ripped off by critics and gallery owners. This is a longer segment with good characterisation and a decent script which could have been fleshed out into a full-length horror film in its own right.

We all know what will happen in the end, but this only reinforces the affection that fans will have for the film and others like it. It really is a shame that Hammer didn't branch out into the anthology area in the early 70's as well - with these films Amicus proves itself to be the near equal of that more famous British studio.
  • Wilbur-10
  • 28 nov. 2001
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7/10

The best anthology horror I've seen

I love the retro flavor of this movie.

Great premise for an anthology: we begin with five strangers quietly meeting in some office building and they pass the time by telling of their strangest dreams. They include Tom Baker (for one generation, the narrator of "Little Britain") sporting a fine beard.

The first story is by far the weakest. It's stylish and well paced to be sure so I would place it above a lot of feature length things the of the same genre, even recent stuff which on the whole I prefer, but it's just too formulaic and familiar to really work.

The second story is my favourite. It feels more like one of those vintage "weird fiction" stories rather than horror in the conventional sense. Two marvellous actors are at the heart of this comedic anecdote whose humour actually gives it a disquieting power. It could have gained a lot from showing a bit less, something that applies to all the stories to some extent, but it ties itself up very satisfyingly.

The third gives us some exotic appeal. It loses a lot of its potential by the end but the production values are there and the music is super. It makes on think why we don't listen to Indian music more often. I could say a similar thing about the fifth story. On that note the awesome Die Irae style main thing is awesome.

The fourth story suffers from a lack of good characterisation; it just has no personality or good pacing, not that I hate it.

And now for Baker. Great premise delivers even if it doesn't always seem to make sense. It's sort of like Final Destination two decades before final destination.

There's a wonderful wraparound which gives the movie its essential charm including a great ending and beginning. The stories themselves are a bit of a mixed bag but they have that "weird fiction" vibe where you'r just the plaything of a universe with a thing for irony and karma.

It may be sort of schlocky but that just gives in a more grotesque tone.

A real treat and very refreshing after sitting though Bird Box or The Conjuring.
  • GiraffeDoor
  • 12 févr. 2019
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7/10

Enjoyable Amicus anthology

Five strangers sharing a tower block lift in London find themselves in a sub-basement. They all have one thing in common and that is they all find themselves dying in peculiar dreams, so one by one they recount them. So we have five stories with a wrap around. As is the norm with anthologies there will be segments that are stronger than others but here, with the exception of the weaker fourth (Bargain in Death), I thought they were all equally good. Greed appears to be a common theme. There is a smattering of dark humour added to the horror. Great cast. It's hardly taxing on the mind but this does make great late night viewing.
  • Stevieboy666
  • 2 juin 2018
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9/10

Great fun - and poor old Terry Thomas!

  • neil-upto11
  • 28 mars 2011
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7/10

Fun little find!

Still making my way through IMDBs "The 40 Best Horror Movies You've Never Seen" A good list of older harder to find movies. It has been fun watching these movies and growing up on the '90s Tales from the Crypt show I have a soft spot for these connected series. Definitely worth a watch!
  • Wikkid_Gamez
  • 8 juin 2019
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4/10

"Strange. Mysterious. Unworldly. Almost unbelievable."

There's something so deliciously cheesy about British horror films from the 60s and 70s. Badly dubbed, erratically edited and with cranky dialogue they're awful yet wonderful at the same time.

Most anthology films seem to take the basic template of the superb Dead of Night, yet fail in two important respects. One is the colour. The 80s may be the biggest fashion disaster, but for home decor the ubiquitous browns and oranges of this era are a horrific mistake to be forever avoided. The other is that Dead of Night's framing story was at least as interesting as the tales that it surrounded. In The Vault of Horror it's just five blokes sat around a table discussing nightmares. The ultimate resolution to this is quite familiar to fans of Brit Horror, and is pretty much identical to similar conclusions in Dr. Terror's House of Horrors (1965) and sort-of prequel Tales From The Crypt (1972).

The stories themselves don't lend much to narrative tension, given that it's openly stated that they're dreams. Mind you, most of the tales are campy affairs that only pre-PC Britain could have produced anyway. Middle class vampires with their own restaurant chain; a hen (cockerel?) pecked housewife with a hammer fetish; a stereotyped India, replete with sitars and magic rope trick; and Tom Baker as a portrait artist specialising in voodoo. It's the sort of thing ripe for satire, which makes it all the more disappointing that Steve Coogan's "Dr. Terror's House of Horrible" wasn't really very good. The Indian girl with the rope trick is even a white actress (Jasmina Hilton) browned up, for goodness' sake!

The film could make for a good study, as it shows an interesting line in what really frightened middle class Englishmen at the time. Not mummies, demons or Frankenstein's monster. Instead we get misogyny and racial minorities. The fourth story sets itself out from the preceding ones by actually opening strongly - a man buried alive - rather than the somewhat laborious pace of the others. However, it too goes nowhere, and with Arthur Mullard as a gravedigger it's the campest of the lot.

Prize for the best segment then goes to the voodoo art of Tom Baker in the final tale. Punningly titled "Drawn and Quartered", the rankness of this subtitle is only bettered by the first's "Midnight Mess". Not scary, witty or particularly inspired, it's weird because this film is rubbish, yet I really quite liked it.
  • The_Movie_Cat
  • 17 juin 2002
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10/10

Great anthology!!! Equally as good as (if not better than) "Tales from the Crypt".

As far as anthology films go, it's hard to beat this one. It's got a great early 70's campiness about it that gets better each time I watch it. It not the easiest film to find (I've only seen it at ONE video store in the midwest US) and if you do track it down on the old Nostalgia Merchant label it's cut. There are quite a few scenes out of place and some cut altogether (most notably the "vampire sequence"). It's too bad Fox couldn't pick this up and distribute it along with "Tales From The Crypt". Overall, I highly recommend this film and suggest getting your hands on a UNCUT Japanese import.
  • hkchris
  • 20 juin 1999
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7/10

Simple at times, but gets the effect! ** SPOILERS **

There are a lot, just like a music compilation, of disappointments with a segmented arrangement. Much like an orange that's maybe got a 'segment' on the turn, I find these horror anthology films. The three mainstays of this genre, this film, Doctor Terror's House of Horror and Tales from the Crypt are the best known. One way to view it is to remember those segments that were most memorable when you hadn't seen the film for years. My most memorable one is 'The neat job', with Terry-Thomas and Glynis Johns, where the neat-freaked Mr Thomas plays Arthur, an astute, rich and successful oldie now looking to finally settle down with a little wife, in the form of posh but impoverished Glynis Johns as Eleanor. It's not long before his neatist ways surface after she tries to re-arrange the rooms/furniture whatever else would be out of place to him. Eleanor, bored one evening, slightly on edge awaiting Arthur's also punctual return, accidentally knocks things over and in attending to them, in turn indirectly causes more mayhem and mess/damage - not advisable for a neat freak who's about to return home in ten minutes! It nicely reaches a point where even though Eleanor has had many shriekings from Arthur before, he catches her in his workshop, after trying to re-hang a picture she'd knocked off the wall with a nail. On seeing the mess, Arthur lets rip, but we cut to Eleanor's face like a raging tiger and thumping Arthur on the nut violently with the hammer in her hand. It doesn't quite end there. It shows Eleanor pleasantly walking around stating 'you said I couldn't be neat' "well", she goes on to say, "everything's in its place NOW Arthur". A large wall shows lots of jars with Arthur's body parts, properly labelled-up. Some have questioned as we do, whether Arthur should find himself within the final roll-call of Curd Jurgens end (Epitaph?) for all the bad people who ended up in a sticky end as truly evil enough, but he was still torturing poor old Eleanor! I found the one with Mr Jurgens and Dawn Addams familiar too. A serious magician finds an act in India, a magic rope trick too good to be true. The daughter/assistant of the fakir-like chap refuses to sell it to him so he murders her. Dawn Addams tries out the the trick by climbing the rope and suddenly looks up and screams, and, disappears, disturbingly as if taken into another world, with a patch of blood on the ceiling, then the rope calmly wraps itself around Jurgens' neck and strangles him - we then see the girl, whom was murdered, back with the rope trick in the market - as if to say she has all power with the rope trick, a bit like Robert De Niro's part as Al Capone in 'The Untouchables' 'If someone messes with me, I'm gonna mess with them!'. Tom Baker's Voodoo one is easy, but still watchable - the artist whose career could've done better was brought to that by critics who who panned his paintings so they then bought them cheap and you guessed it, sold them for a massive profit. As Baker enlists a voodoo-man or Witch Doctor if you like, as he's in a kind of self-imposed exile in the Caribbean somewhere, you can guess he's going to paint rather than stick pins in a doll (As he asks the latter, he's reminded as an artist he can just 'paint' to do his deeds). Again, the three men who wronged him, have portraits painted by Baker and are naturally dissected, (One loses his eyes, another, his hands and Denholm Elliot's character shoots himself). Baker has forgotten his own portrait though, locked in a safe and forgetting also he needs air! He manages to open the safe in time to stop HIMSELF suffocating. Trouble is, he has left it out and below a skylight where a painter (Of the decorating kind) is on a platform, spills some stripper which crashes through the skylight and nicely smudges away Baker's self-portrait. Next it cuts to the latter running across a road into the path of a lorry and getting smudged horribly himself! The other stories in this include a good tongue-in-cheek one with the Masseys about vampires. Daniel Massey kills his own sister and then finds himself unwittingly in a restaurant of the vamps, add to that his dead sister and all put a tap into his neck, like a beer keg, and have a blood fest. The other story with Michael Craig and Edward Judd about faking death to cop the insurance, only for Craig to find himself really dead. Curd Jurgens leads the way in explaining how the men met up - to repeat and suffer telling these stories to one another each night for eternity. Simliar of course to the other two films mentioned. A welcome, kitsch Britsh-horror type flick!
  • naseby
  • 19 juin 2010
  • Permalien
5/10

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  • Scarecrow-88
  • 19 oct. 2008
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