Why did the guy go to hell just for being a neat freak. I understand that being that uptight can stress people to a breaking point but it's not a reason to go to hell. His wife should have been the one in hell.
Don't wander into abandoned churches for Czakyr will grab you from underneath the watery grave.
He made her life a misery, thus he deserved to go to hell. As should all neat freaks. Ha!
shareOh yeah, well........you're the neat freak.
Don't wander into abandoned churches for Czakyr will grab you from underneath the watery grave.
As should all neat freaks.
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If this is the one I am thinking of, Its is a switch the the monkeys paw story.
If it is i think it was accidental rember she wishes him back to the way he was b4 the accident thint thats what killed him. not knowing it was seeing death or some prankster wearing a grim reapers outfit behind him causing him to have a heart attack. making it so he was still dead rigt befire the accident and would still have the phermadahyde or whatever they put onto you as the drain yr blood for temporary preservation cursing him to eternal life to infinite pain I always saw it as
BECAREFUL WHAT YOU WISH FOR MORE THEN NEATFREAK VENGENCE
that just me though =->
No, that's from "Tales From the Crypt". The one he's thinking of is has Terry-Thomas as a neat freak who drives his new bride to kill him in a fit of insanity.
Apparently being a complete douchebag qualifies for a trip to hell. Personally I'd have killed him a lot sooner.
Well in VAULT I think they were more in a limbo between heaven and hell. The men are forced to re-live their deaths because they haven't come to terms with the fact they actually died. To them they were dreams or fantasy's. Even when they disappear into the cemetary they still don't fully realize they were dead.
Though the guy in the "Glass Jars" story was selfish and only cared about himself. His wife was like a trophy that was meant to just sit there and not get in the way of him.
In Tales From the Crypt all the people actually fell into the pit of hell which was more literal for their actions in life.
While I don't condone Critchit's treatment of his wife (Critchit being the neat-freak's name,) I can certainly understand where he was coming from. He was used to everything being in a certain place so he could easily find everything and she kept moving things around. His basement workplace was a very special, important place for him, and then she messed it up. (Accidentally, of course, but still.) He did complement her earlier when she cleaned up the house and filled the kitchen shelf. The night before he'd volunteered to cook dinner, meaning he wasn't the kind of guy who expected his wife to slave in the kitchen every single night. And when he sees the mess in his workplace, this is after he's explained to her what an important place it is to him. Maybe he didn't need to flip out the way he did, but you have to understand he was narotic and facing a situation that would bother anyone. I'd like to have seen what would have happened later on if she hadn't killed him, after he'd had a chance to calm down.
In short, I feel that Critchit, like Ralph Jason, the guy whose wife makes a wish that leads to his death in the one story from the TALES FROM THE CRYPT film, did not deserve to go to hell (or limbo, or wherever). He was the one main character I really felt bad for.
Did Critchit's wife also go to hell/limbo or just to prison (or hospital for the criminally insane) for a very long time?
As for ruthless (by his own admission), arms-dealing cheat Ralph Jason ("Tales From The Crypt"), well...
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i thionk the film makers are being tongue in cheek. All thos guys are in Hell because they evil and he goes to Hell Just because hes too Clean. The fact he is played by Terry Tomas makes it funnier
shareYou have to remember this was made in the 1970s. By the values of that time, anybody who dressed smartly, had short hair, liked classical music and kept a tidy house was considered an evil agent of fascist repression, and therefore deserved to go to hell!
shareI thought someone was going to get chopped up and put in the freezer. I was mistaking this film for another i saw. When the bodyparts come to life and start moving.
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That's "Asylum" (1972) - Also an Amicus portmanteau film http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0068230
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Really. Asylum i watched when a kid. I was so scared i couldnt stay in the room.
Is Asylum as good as Vault of horror?
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I think that "Vault" is better but they're both classics.
shareI enjoyed Vault as well. I would like to watch asylum again to compare and will keep an eye out for it should it be on tv again.
I missed the Tom Baker bit though of Vault which i believe was the last bit.
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It was - get a copy - I thought that was perhaps the best segment - although they are all good bar 'this trick'll kill ya' - the rope-trick segment. A classic - and my 3rd Amicus fave behind Tales From The Crypt & The House That Dripped Blood - Love em!.
shareThe reason would be more obvious if they'd kept closer to the original EC Comics story -- there, the husband is not just an annoying neatnick, but _clearly_ mentally unbalanced in his anal-retentiveness. His reactions to any moving about of stuff, lack of noting use of groceries, or decline in spotlessness is met with emotional abuse and ranting tirades about how she can't keep things neat or follow directions. In the original ending, it's pretty clear that he's about to physically assault her* when she finally goes at him with a knife (practically self-defense) then cracks up and divides him up among the jars and shelves.
* In which case, we would've wound up with an ending where her dead body rises from whatever impeccable hidey-hole he's stuffed it in, _then_ he gets chopped up and canned.
The "reason" doesn't need to be analyzed. The whole "we have to retell the horrible things we've done for eternity" idea was just a flimsy way to link totally unrelated stories carved out of EC comics. If the movie was made from original stories you might expect them to take more care in linking them, but really they were just looking for a way to do the same thing as the 70s Tales from the Crypt (which made more sense).
shareYou realize that Tales From The Crypt (1972) was not the first time this concept was done, right? Amicus started it with it's very first anthology from 1965 called Dr. Terror's House of Horror, where everyone did bad things in their lives and were doomed in their afterlife as a result.
shareReckon it's meant to be a lesson, albeit a bit of a strict one - stop being a neat freak! OCD (Obsessive Complusive Disorder - don't think anyone doesn't know this by now, but just to be sure!) We call it that here in the UK, maybe the same in the USA!
shareHave to agree that the whole premise of tying up the lose ends doesn't really work, esp with this story. I didn't really get what it's about though it was 3 in the morning. Maybe the idea is that the evil stuff that happens to them doesn't really happen for real. So, Terry-Thomas is a neurotic clean freak to his wife in life. That's it, but when he dies he relives a nightmare where his comeuppance is he 'sees' himself dead in glass jars. Ditto the guy who knifes his sister. There's no vampire bar, in real life he got away with it. Now he's dead, he relives it with his own comeuppance, where he is bled dry by vampires. And so on.
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