Tales about Tales

So last night some friends and I decided that there could be nothing better than staying in and watching the original Tales from the Crypt movie. I have seen it several times, and Amelia had heard of it, but Matt, Pat, Casey, Chris and Hannah were entirely in the dark about it.

Many people have seen the series or the other movies. Those that have remember the Cryptkeeper looking something like this:



Yeah, he looks like a champion. He is.

The old Cryptkeeper is more flesh-oriented. He is similarly a badass, but more humanly so. He tends to look more like this:



Despite an entire lack of illegal substance, this movie was damn good. I have seen it quite a bit recently and have to say that without Amelia and Hannah to set the mood, the movie would not have been scary. There was a scene where a homicidal maniac dressed as Santa reached through a grate to grab at a woman. It has reflex-action and a little jumping potential, but by and large it isn't scary. Hannah screamed. Amelia, who was reaching for the popcorn that Hannah was holding, screamed because Hannah screamed. I was sitting close to Amelia. When she screamed, that caused me to start and nearly fall out of my chair, as well as sacaring Chris. Casey admits he jumped as well.

That was the first of the five stories in the anthology. That scream set the mood and the movie, featuring zombies, wishes gone awry and killer animals/blind people, creeped everyone out to greater or lesser extent.

Anyway, the moral of the story: If watching a vaguely scary/creepy old horror anthology, bringg a few jumpy girls. They know how to set the tone.