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.
Unfortunately the movie Tales from the Crypt: The Robert Zemeckis Collection is not yet available on HBO Max.
Production | William Teitler | Producer |
Writing | A L Katz | Writer |
Writing | Jim Thomas | Writer |
Writing | John Thomas | Writer |
Production | Gilbert Adler | Producer |
Production | Richard Donner | Producer |
Writing | Gilbert Adler | Writer |
Production | Joel Silver | Producer |
Directing | Robert Zemeckis | Director |
Writing | Fred Dekker | Writer |