Five grisly tales from a kid's comic book about a murdered father rising from his grave, a bizarre meteor, a vengeful husband, a mysterious crate's occupant, and a plague of cockroaches.Five grisly tales from a kid's comic book about a murdered father rising from his grave, a bizarre meteor, a vengeful husband, a mysterious crate's occupant, and a plague of cockroaches.Five grisly tales from a kid's comic book about a murdered father rising from his grave, a bizarre meteor, a vengeful husband, a mysterious crate's occupant, and a plague of cockroaches.
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- TriviaAn alternate ending (scripted but then rewritten) for "Something to Tide You Over" found two policemen dropping by to investigate Richard's panicky-but-true claims of Harry and Becky invading his beach-house. When the policemen (predictably) laugh at his story - thinking he's drunk - Richard attempts to prove this by showing them camera footage of both undead stalkers. Instead, the television plays his incriminating conversation with Harry before and during the latter's burial-by-the-sea.
Richard protests that he's been set up, that this is the wrong tape. "Oh, it's the right tape all right, pal!" the police answer. "And speaking of rights...!"
The film smash-cuts from there to Richard's murder trial; he is convicted and sentenced to death row. Another smash-cut finds Richard in the gas chamber, laughing hysterically even while his life is choked out of him: "I can hold my breath for a long, long time...!"
- GoofsBefore he is slapped in the Prologue segment, Billy (Joe Hill) already has red slap marks painted on his face.
- Quotes
Jordy Verrill: Meteor shit!
- Crazy creditsDuring the end of the credits, we hear "the old creep" laugh
- Alternate versionsVersion aired on Spanish-speaking channel Telemundo is dubbed, edited for content, runs 1 hour and 30 minutes (with commercials) and only shows stories "Something To Tide You Over" and "The Crate". The end credits for all five segments are intact.
- ConnectionsEdited into Cent une tueries de zombies (2012)
- SoundtracksA Star Is Born
(1937) (uncredited)
Music by Max Steiner
[segment "The Lonesome Death of Jordy Verrill"]
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It's pretty good
Despite some major problems (mainly contained in Stephen King's uneven and often heavy-handed script), this is still a pretty fun attempt to bring 1950s EC horror comics to the big screen. One of the best things about it is director George ('Night of the Living Dead') Romero's creative, vivid direction, that captures the bright color schemes and comic book framing to a tee. Each tale has a different horror theme usually tempered with some comedy and ranging from a rich patriarch returning from the dead to get revenge on his obnoxious family to a meteor that causes an outbreak of vegetation to a fanged, ape-like creature that's been locked away in a crate for decades. All five of the tales presented, despite some missteps, offer up good gory fun. Some of the acting is good, too, particularly Adrienne Barbeau as a heavy drinking, obnoxious faculty wife who gets what she deserves, Hal Holbrook as her hen-pecked husband and E.G. Marshall as a wealthy, obsessively clean old jerk who is savaged in his futuristic apartment by a legion of cockroaches. Talk about flesh crawling! Tom Savini's special effects are great, as usual.
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- Country of origin
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- Also known as
- Cuentos de ultratumba
- Filming locations
- Island Beach State Park, Berkeley Township, Ocean County, New Jersey, USA(beach in "Something to Tide You Over")
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Box office
- Budget
- $8,000,000 (estimated)
- Gross US & Canada
- $21,028,755
- Opening weekend US & Canada
- $5,870,889
- Nov 14, 1982
- Gross worldwide
- $21,029,383
- Runtime2 hours
- Color
- Sound mix
- Aspect ratio
- 1.33 : 1(original ratio/open matte)
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