The Movie: The Vault of Horror (1972)
What Is It?: Amicus’s
second portmanteau to mine classic E.C. Comics for big-screen fodder isn’t
quite as consistent as Tales from the
Crypt, and the vampire makeup (a handful of joke-shop fangs) in “Midnight
Mess” is laughable, but this is still a quality collection of spook stories.
Best of the bunch is “Drawn and Quartered”, one of E.C.’s best stories and one of
the best portmanteau episodes in the history of portmanteaus.
Why Today?: Today
is Comic Book Day.
