Product description

Tales from the Crypt/Vault of Horror (REGION 1) (NTSC)

Price: £5.91
Average customer rating: 3.5

Binding : DVD
EAN : 0024543459729
Label : 20th Century Fox
Manufacturer : 20th Century Fox
Publisher : 20th Century Fox
Release date : 2007-09-11
Title : Tales from the Crypt/Vault of Horror (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actor : Array
Format : Array
Languages : Array
Number of items : 2
Region code : 1
Running time : 169
Studio : 20th Century Fox
Theatrical releaseDate : 1972-03-09
MPN : 2245973

Customer reviews

review by: date: 2008-08-19 rating:

Five entertaining tales of horror and black comedy.

PLEASE NOTE: THIS REVIEW IS FOR 'THE VAULT OF HORROR' ONLY:

A collection of tales where five men who committed evil during their lifetime spend an eternity re-telling their stories each night. Interesting stories, though two of them feature a little 'black comedy' thrown in for good measure!

Daniel and Anna Massey play side by side as brother and sister (as in real life of course) and they certainly seem to have enjoyed it! This movie has a galaxy of stars, including; Terry Alexander, Tom Baker, Michael Craig, Denholm Elliott, Glynis Johns and Terry-Thomas.

This has not been re-mastered.

review by: date: 2007-11-26 rating:

Cuts that spoil the rhythm and emotional flow
In addition to the cut mentioned in the review below, there are others in Vault of Horror - the comic/grotesque moment of the "Bits and pieces" in the preserving jar at the end of the sequence with Terry-Thomas and Glynis Johns. The cut is not even professionally done: the camera lingers on the shelf above, then starts to move to the shelf and jar in question, and there the cut takes place, while the camera is moving. Had the cut taken place a second or so earlier, we might not even be aware of the loss. At other times, the prudish editors have replaced climactic, cathartic moments with a freeze-frame, spoiling the rhythm of the film and making a nonsense of the emotional flow. I have only previously witnessed such unprofessional and unsubtle editing in feature films playing on TV in the Middle East. I wish I had not bought this set, but paid more for the individually packaged versions which I understand are not cut.

review by: date: 2007-09-17 rating:

Beware Vault Of Horror is cut but Tales From The Crypt is intact
When I heard that two of my faverite Amicus anthology films were being released on dvd I was overjoyed. However I was very dissapointed that the print of the Vault Of Horror is cut. The first segment called Midnight Mess is cut. The scene in question is where Danial Massey has his neck drained like a beer kegg. The scene is intact in the Vipco dvd release. The print however, is excellent and in widescreen.
On a more positive note Tales From The Crypt is totally uncut and once again is in widescreen.
It's nice that Midnight Movies are now releasing their dvds a 2 disk sets rather than the awful double sided dvd they used to release. So all in all I would say that this release is worth buying dispite one film being cut.

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