‘The Vault of Horror’: Feast Your Peepers on This, Boils and Ghouls!

Based on the comic book series from the ‘50s (it was like Tales from the Crypt, only hosted by the Vaultkeeper rather than the Cryptkeeper—though both were mined for episodes of the TV show). Done as an anthology, the wraparound story involves five gents meeting and discussing their strange dreams. In “Midnight Mess,” Harold (DanielContinue reading “‘The Vault of Horror’: Feast Your Peepers on This, Boils and Ghouls!”

‘Theater of Blood’: Vincent Price, the One and Only (Plus Some Other People, I Guess)

Edward Lionheart (Vincent Price) is a mediocre stage actor who, upon being denied the Critics Circle Award, attempts suicide, is rescued by a bevy of homeless men, and plots an elaborate revenge on the nine critics who panned his performances. Since he refused to do anything but Shakespeare, the killings are copied from the Bard’sContinue reading “‘Theater of Blood’: Vincent Price, the One and Only (Plus Some Other People, I Guess)”

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