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Vault of Horror
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Vault of Horror is an Anthology Film released in 1973 by the British Amicus Productions. It is a horror anthology, adapting five stories from the EC Comics titles Tales from the Crypt and Shock SuspenStories (though none, oddly enough, from the actual Vault of Horror comic).It is Amicus' second anthology of EC adaptations, following the previous year's Tales from the Crypt.In the United States the film was released in an edited version that replaced some of the gorier moments with freeze frames, to bring the rating down from R to PG. This version was also used for the U.S. DVD release, although the Blu-ray release uses the uncut version. | |
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Evil Versus Evil | |
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Evil Versus Evil: In "Midnight Mess" it's a greedy murderer versus a colony of bloodthirsty vampires. | |
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Dead All Along | |
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Dead All Along: Everyone in the framing story. | |
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Pay Evil unto Evil | |
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"Midnight Mess", "The Neat Job", and "This Trick'll Kill You" couple this with Pay Evil unto Evil as the victims of the wicked turn into their punishers. | |
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Framing Device | |
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Framing Device: The characters are all learning why they're in Hell/paying for their sins by being forced to relive their stories. | |
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Breaking the Fourth Wall | |
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Breaking the Fourth Wall: At the very end of the film. | |
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Neat Freak | |
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Neat Freak: Critchit, in "The Neat Job". | |
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Adaptational Villainy | |
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Adaptational Villainy: Compared to the comic, most characters are attributed some terrible deed to justify their suffering. For example, Harold in the original "Midnight Mess" comic was just some poor schmoe who wandered into the wrong restaurant while visiting his sister. Here he murders his sister so we don't feel too bad for him. | |
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Hollywood Acid | |
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Hollywood Acid: For some reason, Breedley was apparently in the habit of keeping a bottle of acid just lying around the house where anyone could get to it. That's not a good idea even if you aren't cheating on your wife. | |
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Inheritance Murder | |
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Inheritance Murder: Harold's motive for killing his sister (or trying to, anyway) in "Midnight Mess". | |
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Art Initiates Life | |
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Art Initiates Life: In "Drawn and Quartered", Hollywood Voodoo gives Moore the ability to affect reality with his art. By creating a painting of an object, anything done to that painting occurs to the real object. For example, when he rips up a painting of a jug, the jug shatters. Moore uses this power to take revenge on the three men who wronged him. | |
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Disproportionate Retribution | |
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Disproportionate Retribution: Arthur Pritchit is a pompous little prig with an obsession for tidiness, and rather outdated ideas about marital duties. But he's not actually evil, and even seems to care for and love his wife in his own uptight way. So, does he really deserve to end up being killed with a hammer, hacked into pieces and pickled in jars in his basement? And then be forced to re-live the same thing every night for all eternity? | |
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No Honor Among Thieves | |
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No Honor Among Thieves: In "Bargain in Death", Maitland plans to double-cross Alex by killing him and keeping all the insurance money for himself. Then he discovers that Alex has double-crossed him by leaving him buried alive. | |
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Vampire Bites Suck | |
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Vampire Bites Suck: Well, there actually may be one thing that sucks more... being hanged up by your heels and having a beer tap jammed in your jugular. | |
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Sympathetic Magic | |
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Sympathetic Magic: Used with paintings in "Drawn and Quartered". | |
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Public Domain Soundtrack | |
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Public Domain Soundtrack: "Dies Irae", a Latin hymn commonly used in funeral services. | |
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Spit Take | |
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Spit Take: In "Midnight Mess", Harold spits a mouthful of soup across the table when the waiter tells him he is drinking blood. | |
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Robbing the Dead | |
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Robbing the Dead: In "Midnight Mess", Harold pays the private investigator he hired to locate his sister, then after he gets the information, he murders the investigator and takes the money back. | |
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Psychic-Assisted Suicide | |
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Psychic-Assisted Suicide: Moore, who possesses Sympathetic Magic powers based around paintings, compels one of his victims (who has pulled a gun on him) to shoot himself in the head by showing him a painting he did of him, and then, while his victim watches, drawing a tiny circle between the painting's eyebrows in red pen. | |
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Recursive Canon | |
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Recursive Canon: During the "Bargain in Death" segment, Maitland passes time by reading... a paperback novelisation of Tales from the Crypt. | |
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Amnesiac Dissonance | |
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Amnesiac Dissonance: The memories of the people in the framing stories have been rolled back to the point before they committed their misdeeds. They're all pretty shocked and confused about what they did. | |
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Hellevator | |
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Hellevator: The elevator in the frame story is revealed by the end as a facsimile of their transition to their final un-resting place. | |
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Villain Protagonist | |
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Villain Protagonist: Every single main character in the stories. | |
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Denser and Wackier | |
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Denser and Wackier: Not by far, since there is still extreme violence and the same dark themes, but Vault of Horror has more tongue-in-cheek Black Comedy compared to the grim atmosphere and bleak ambience of Tales from the Crypt. Some scenes are deliberately campy and even the ending condemnation is downplayed. | |
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Asshole Victim | |
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Asshole Victim: Arthur Critchit. In "Midnight Mess" and "Bargain in Death", the villainous main characters' comeuppance comes at the hands of just-as-evil punishers who just happen to encounter them and unknowingly make them pay. | |
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Eye Scream | |
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Eye Scream: In "Drawn and Quartered", Moore takes his revenge on the art critic Breedley by poking out the eyes of his portrait. As he does this, Breedley's wife discovers that he has been having an affair and, swearing that he "will never look at another again", tosses acid in his face: burning out his eyes. | |
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Dreaming of Things to Come | |
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Dreaming of Things to Come: The characters in the frame story each have a recurring nightmare that appears to foretell their deaths. Subverted when it turns out that they're already dead, and are reliving their deaths over and over. | |
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I Ate WHAT?! | |
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I Ate WHAT?!: In "Midnight Mess", after Harold Rogers samples the restaurant's "juice" and "soup" courses and finds both to be rather peculiar-tasting: | |
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Berserk Button | |
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Berserk Button: After days of putting up with Arthur's crap on neatness, the words "Can't you do anything neatly?" drive Eleanor to kill him with a hammer and neatly place chopped up parts of his body into labeled Mason Jars. | |
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Missing Reflection | |
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Missing Reflection: How Harold Rogers learns he's dining in a restaurant full of vampires... and how they learn he's not one of them. | |
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Fan Disservice | |
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Fan Disservice: The wife in "The Neat Job" mixes up the underwear drawers at one point. Terry-Thomas is not flattered by pink women's panties. | |
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Mundane Afterlife | |
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Mundane Afterlife: Apparently, the only punishment for sinners is being compelled to tell other sinners about their misdeeds every night. | |
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Hollywood Voodoo | |
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Hollywood Voodoo: "Drawn and Quartered". | |
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Cat Scare | |
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Cat Scare: In "Midnight Mess", a man (literally) pops up in front of Harold Rogers on the street, to warn him to get inside before dark. | |
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Insurance Fraud | |
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Insurance Fraud: The object of Maitland's scheme with Alex in "Bargain in Death". | |
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Disaster Dominoes | |
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Disaster Dominoes: Eleanor Pritchit's frantic efforts to tidy up the house before her husband comes home. | |
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Clothing Combat | |
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Clothing Combat: In "Midnight Mess", Harold uses his necktie to strangle to death the private investigator he hired to find his sister. | |
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Aside Comment | |
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Aside Comment: During "Bargain in Death", Maitland glances at the camera and remarks, "There's no money in horror." | |
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Buried Alive | |
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Buried Alive: Maitland, in "Bargain in Death". | |
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Faking the Dead | |
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Faking the Dead: Maitland. | |
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The Dog Bites Back | |
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The Dog Bites Back: "Midnight Mess", "The Neat Job", and "This Trick'll Kill You" couple this with Pay Evil unto Evil as the victims of the wicked turn into their punishers. "Drawn and Quartered" sees a down on his luck painter acquire the powers of voodoo to get revenge on art critics who have given him a bum deal by making whatever he does to his paintings of them happen to them in real life. Too bad that also applies to his own self portrait... | |
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