A creepy film filled with mystery, suspense , terror , grisly killings , twisted events and horrible happenings . It belongs to "Tales from the Crypt" series that was a 1989 horror story anthology series based on the gruesome E. C. comic books of the 1950s presented by the legendary "Crypt Keeper", a sinister, grisly ghoul obsessed with gallows humor and horrific puns. The series was originally envisioned as a trilogy story feature film. This was changed to a television program, because the producers feared it would bomb as a movie, as trilogy-style horror movies rarely had success at the box-office. Brayker (William Sadler) is the guardian subject to ghastly events and menaced by psycho. Bayker cares of an ancient key that keeps the forces of darkness from overwhelming mankind, a key desired by the charismatic Collector (Billy Zane), who unleashes a disgusting mix of demons against the house's inhabitants. So various demons and warriors attempt to obtain a key containing the blood of Christ. The key is guarded by immortal warriors called Demon Knights. Ready for your deadtime story? Dead-On Humor and Horror !. Two Scary!
A nineties horror film with a great cast and full of ghastly events, chills , thrills, gore and guts. Gruesomely garish big-screen version of TV series that was inspired by the lurid 1950s E. C. Comics. Horrormeister Crypt Keeper offers his usual pun-filled introduction to a pale set in a seedy Boarding House. Curious hybrid of spoof/splatter that doesn't quite work in either genre. There's a star-studded cast that results to be pretty good with a plethora of known actors, such as : Jada Pinkett Smith, William Sadler, John Larroquette, Brenda Bakke, CCH Pounder, Dick Miller, Thomas Haden Curch , Gary Farmer, John Schuck, Charles Fleischer. And Billy Zane who steals the show by giving a sympatic and ironical acting. And John Kassir came up with the trademark voice of the Crypt Keeper. When Kassir auditioned for the part, the producers loved it so much, they almost immediately chose him. John Kassir, voice of the Crypt Keeper, often had to swallow lemon juice and honey to sooth his throat after doing his lines. It took six puppeteers to operate the Crypt Keeper during his scenes, four puppeteers alone just for his facial expressions. Crypt Keeper designer Kevin Yagher incorporated the eyes of ¨Chucky¨ (1988), another creation he designed, into the Crypt Keeper.
The motion picture was professionally directed by Ernest R. Dickerson (Bones, Juice, Never Die Alone, Bulletproof, Surviving the Game). It follows in the wake of Horror Anthology movies of the Sixties and Seventies made by British ¨Hammer Films¨ and ¨Amicus¨ from producers Max Rosemberg and Milton Subotsky , in which a skeleton or a sinister Crypt Keeper acting as hosts and usually based on stories previously appeared in American comic books as Tales of Crypt from EC comics , such as : ¨Dr. Terror's House of Horrors¨ 1965 by Freddie Francis , ¨Torture Garden¨ 1967 by Freddie Francis , ¨Asylum¨ 1972 by Roy Wad Baker , ¨Tales from the Crypt¨ 1972 by Freddie Francis, ¨The Uncanny¨ 1977 by Dennis Heroux , among others . Rating: 6/10.
A nineties horror film with a great cast and full of ghastly events, chills , thrills, gore and guts. Gruesomely garish big-screen version of TV series that was inspired by the lurid 1950s E. C. Comics. Horrormeister Crypt Keeper offers his usual pun-filled introduction to a pale set in a seedy Boarding House. Curious hybrid of spoof/splatter that doesn't quite work in either genre. There's a star-studded cast that results to be pretty good with a plethora of known actors, such as : Jada Pinkett Smith, William Sadler, John Larroquette, Brenda Bakke, CCH Pounder, Dick Miller, Thomas Haden Curch , Gary Farmer, John Schuck, Charles Fleischer. And Billy Zane who steals the show by giving a sympatic and ironical acting. And John Kassir came up with the trademark voice of the Crypt Keeper. When Kassir auditioned for the part, the producers loved it so much, they almost immediately chose him. John Kassir, voice of the Crypt Keeper, often had to swallow lemon juice and honey to sooth his throat after doing his lines. It took six puppeteers to operate the Crypt Keeper during his scenes, four puppeteers alone just for his facial expressions. Crypt Keeper designer Kevin Yagher incorporated the eyes of ¨Chucky¨ (1988), another creation he designed, into the Crypt Keeper.
The motion picture was professionally directed by Ernest R. Dickerson (Bones, Juice, Never Die Alone, Bulletproof, Surviving the Game). It follows in the wake of Horror Anthology movies of the Sixties and Seventies made by British ¨Hammer Films¨ and ¨Amicus¨ from producers Max Rosemberg and Milton Subotsky , in which a skeleton or a sinister Crypt Keeper acting as hosts and usually based on stories previously appeared in American comic books as Tales of Crypt from EC comics , such as : ¨Dr. Terror's House of Horrors¨ 1965 by Freddie Francis , ¨Torture Garden¨ 1967 by Freddie Francis , ¨Asylum¨ 1972 by Roy Wad Baker , ¨Tales from the Crypt¨ 1972 by Freddie Francis, ¨The Uncanny¨ 1977 by Dennis Heroux , among others . Rating: 6/10.