Just saw the TV edited version of the movie Tales From The Crypt. It's different from the TV show. Their is no scary dead dude crypt keeper. Just a monk like crypt keeper guy. The story goes something along the lines of people wandering into a crypt and get trapped.
They meet up with the Crypt Keeper monk guy and refuses to let them out until he tells them stories about them selves. There are five stories for five people about how they die. It begins to seem like that their deaths have already happened. The stories also have a vibe about a bit of human nature. It is almost a commentary on life and death and greed and human nature.
It is an entertaining movie for an old 70's movie. Reminds me of The Twilight Zone Movie, only caught a bit of that movie on TV at one point. One of these days I will watch all of that one. Older movies have a different feel to them. These are movies back before heavy CGI animation and effects. It's a great reminder of the times when movies had to rely on trickery to get things to work. There is a feel to them, a look, a very particular style to get some of these films to work. Tales From The Crypt defiantly pulls a few of them. It's what makes old movies great or bad or cheesy. Not that its bad or anything, just an interesting reminder of how films use to be filmed and edited. It's like vinyl records to music.
It's an interesting movie to check out if you're a fan of Tales From The Crypt, Twilight Zone, or The Outer Limits. Sometimes you need to watch the vintage films to really grasp how far films have come in the last 120 years or so. There is more artistic freedom in film making but at the same time there are more technological short cuts. Not that its all bad. Remember the history of your craft, the ideas can be reused someday, maybe.
Have you seen it? What are your thoughts of it?
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