Tales from the Crypt

A perfectly okay 70's British horror anthology movie, although this one has a twist: the stories are inspired by or adaptations of stories found in the old EC horror comics like Vault Of Horror or, well, the name of the movie. Unfortunately, the quality of them veers quite a lot, as the stories have to fit into the wraparound story, so some end up truncated, and one just doesn't make sense at all. Not to mention that the twist of the wraparound story can be seen coming hundreds of miles away. Two of them -- the one with Peter Cushing about a kindly old man in the neighborhood whom everyone assumes is a creeper, and the last one about a strict overseer at a home for the blind -- are great, and feel just like the old stories or the 90's show, with a twisted, sadistic moral at the end, and make the whole thing worth watching on their own. Two of the remaining stories are just okay and feel like they've been trimmed for time. And that fifth ... it just doesn't belong. Overall, not my favorite of this niche subgenre, but not bad either. Like most anthology movies, "a mixed bag" is an appropriate review.