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The Crypt Keeper
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Tales from the Crypt is a 1972 British horror film directed by Freddie Francis. [3] It is an anthology film consisting of five separate segments, based on short stories from the EC Comics series Tales from the Crypt by Al Feldstein , Johnny Craig , and Bill Gaines .
Tales from the Crypt: Demon Knight: Directed by Ernest R. Dickerson. With Jada Pinkett Smith, Brenda Bakke, CCH Pounder, Dick Miller. High-level demons collect low-level demons as warriors in attempt to obtain a key containing the blood of Christ.
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- Action, Fantasy, Horror
- Ernest R. Dickerson
- 1995-01-13
Demon Knight is a feature-length film presented by the HBO series Tales from the Crypt, and features scenes with the Crypt Keeper (voiced by John Kassir, as in the series) at the film's beginning and ending.
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is a 1972 British horror film, directed by Freddie Francis. It is an anthology film consisting of five separate segments, based on stories from EC Comics. Only two of the stories, however, are actually from EC's Tales from the Crypt. The reason for this, according to Creepy founding editor Russ Jones, is that Amicus producer Milton Subotsky did not own a run of the original EC comic book but instead adapted the movie from the two paperback reprints given to him by Jones. The story "Wish You Were Here" was reprinted in the paperback collection The Vault of Horror (Ballantine, 1965). The other four stories in the movie were among the eight stories reprinted in Tales from the Crypt (Ballantine, 1964). It was produced by Amicus Productions and filmed at Shepperton Studios.
In the film, five strangers encounter the mysterious Crypt Keeper (Ralph Richardson) in a crypt, and he tells each in turn the manner of their death. Richardson's hooded Crypt Keeper, more somber than the EC original (as illustrated by Al Feldstein and Jack Davis), has a monk-like appearance and resembles EC's GhouLunatics. In the EC horror comics, the other horror hosts (the Old Witch and the Vault Keeper) wore hoods, while the Crypt Keeper did not.
Five strangers go with a tourist group to view old catacombs. They do not realise that they are all dead. Separated from the main group, they find themselves in a room with the mysterious Crypt Keeper, who details how each of the strangers have died.
(The Vault of Horror #35)
After Joanne Clayton (Joan Collins) kills her husband on Christmas Eve, she prepares to hide his body but hears a radio announcement stating that a homicidal maniac (Oliver MacGreevy) is on the loose. She sees the killer (who is dressed in a Santa Claus costume) outside her house but cannot call the police without exposing her own crimes. Believing the maniac to be Santa, Joanne's young daughter unlocks the door and lets him into the house, whereupon he starts to strangle Joanne to death...
(Tales from the Crypt #23)
Carl Maitland (Ian Hendry) abandons his family to be with Susan Blake (Angela Grant). After they drive off together, they are involved in a car accident. He wakes up in the wrecked car and attempts to hitchhike home, but no one will stop for him. Arriving at his house, he sees his wife (Susan Denny) with another man. He knocks on the door, but she screams and slams the door. He then goes to see Susan to find out that she is blind from the accident. She says that Carl died two years ago from the crash. Looking in a reflective tabletop he sees he has the face of a corpse. Carl then wakes up and finds out that it was a dream but the moment he does, the crash occurs as it did before...
(The Haunt of Fear No. 12, March–April 1952)
•Ralph Richardson – The Crypt Keeper
•Joan Collins – Joanne Clayton
•Peter Cushing – Arthur Edward Grimsdyke
•Roy Dotrice – Charles Gregory
•Richard Greene – Ralph Jason
•Ian Hendry – Carl Maitland
Currently you are able to watch "Tales from the Crypt" streaming on fuboTV, Cultpix or for free with ads on The Roku Channel, Tubi TV, Crackle.
- Freddie Francis
- PG
- 14
When people in a tourist group get lost within ancient catacombs, they meet the sinister Crypt Keeper (Ralph Richardson), who tells them each their fate. The creepy figure's macabre stories ...
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- Horror
- PG
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Five people are taking a conducted tour of a crypt (actually, London’s Old Highgate Cemetery) when they suddenly find themselves in a creepy stone throne room. The Crypt Keeper enters, they ask what the hell is going on and the answer is – wouldn’t you know – hell itself.
