The Vault of Horror

1973 • 1h 27m •

Horror

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The sequel to Tales from the Crypt. Five strangers trapped in a basement vault converse about their recurring nightmares. Their stories include vampires, bodily dismemberment, east Indian mysticism, an insurance scam, and an artist who kills by painting his victims' deaths.

"Everything that makes life worth leaving!"

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Anna Massey

Donna Rogers (segment 1 "Midnight Mess")

Terry-Thomas

Arthur Critchit (segment 2 "The Neat Job")

Glynis Johns

Eleanor Critchit (segment 2 "The Neat Job")

John Forbes-Robertson

Wilson (segment 2 "The Neat Job")

Curd Jürgens

Sebastian (segment 3 "This Trick'll Kill You")

Dawn Addams

Inez (segment 3 "This Trick'll Kill You")

Ishaq Bux

Fakir (segment 3 "This Trick'll Kill You")

Michael Craig

Maitland (segment 4 "Bargain in Death")

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2017-12-16

The Vault of Horror (1973, Roy Ward Baker)

Just as Britain's premier house of horror, Hammer Films, was entering the period of it's final decline in the early 1970s, a new challenger for the throne arose. This was Amicus Productions, founded in 1962 by two American screenwriters and producers, Milton Subotsky and Max Rosenberg. Beginning in 1965, with Dr. Terror's House of Horrors, Amicus focused on horror films, especially anthology film inspired by the 1945 British classic Dead of Night.

In 1972 the studio released it's best known title, Tales from the Crypt. Based upon the EC comic...