Tales from the Crypt: The Robert Zemeckis Collection

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In "All Through the Night," perhaps the single most famous story from the original comic book series, a psychotic killer dressed as Santa escapes Christmas Eve and terrorizes a middle-class home where murder has already made a holiday appearance: a homicidal wife plunges a fireplace poker into her husband's skull. (It was also adapted in the 1972 British anthology movie Tales from the Crypt). Kirk Douglas stars as a blood-and-thunder World War I general who discovers his son is a coward in the grim "Yellow," the most dramatically acute of the trio. Digital magic morphs Humphrey Bogart into "You, Murderer," a high-concept, rather gimmicky tale of murder, double crosses, and poetic justice as seen through a dead man's eyes. Isabella Rossellini (daughter of Bogie's Casablanca costar Ingrid Bergman) and John Lithgow costar as plotting lovers.

Country:
Genre:

Horror,

Comedy

Duration:

87 minutes

Year:

1999

Director:

Robert Zemeckis

Cast:
John Kassir

Crypt Keeper (voice)

Mary Ellen Trainor

Wife

Larry Drake

Santa

Marshall Bell

Joseph

Lindsey Whitney Barry

Carrie Ann

Crew:
Robert Zemeckis

Director

Fred Dekker

Writer

Jim Thomas

Writer

John Thomas

Writer

A L Katz

Writer