Powerful

Beautiful, moving film.

The storyline feels a little thin and moth-eaten in parts but this sequel is plenty of fun.

The best films of this genre always show a path and provide a takeaway for being a better person.

Disembarking an elevator, five men find themselves in a small room and proceed to tell their dreams to each other to pass the time until they are rescued.The Good Stor(ies):This Trick'll Kill You-Traveling to India, a magician looks to find a new trick to bring into his act. His assistant wants to leave, but after agreeing to another night, he happens upon a local performing a special rope trick. Wanting to know how it works, he tries to get the secret of the act but it soon resorts into something that none of them saw coming. This is a really interesting one that is quite fun. The central premise is quite fun and there's a central air of mystery to be had as it takes place in a foreign country with a seedy underside. There is one particularly gruesome effect when a fakir manages to push a knife right through his cheek, and the scene where his assistant climbs the rope, sees something at the top, screams and disappears, leaving nothing but a swiftly spreading pool of blood on the ceiling is particularly gruesome. Even the rope attack at the end is done well, and the only real part that isn't all that terrific is the long sequence where they try to figure out the trick. It goes on a little too long, but is the only thing wrong with it.Drawn and Quartered-Living in Haiti, an artist finds that his agent has been ripping him off by informing him his paintings are worthless while actually being sold for a lot of money in London. Meeting with a local witch-doctor, he finds that whatever he paints happens in real life. Traveling to London, he threatens revenge but it gets laughed at. Remembering his deal, he sets out to paint their futures for him to decide upon. This one here isn't anywhere near that bad, and is quite fun. The central premise is incredibly original and intriguing, and the fates suffered by the victims are fun to watch unfold. These are great ones and do get a few chills watching them, especially the gunshot one which is really suspenseful. Even the lead-up to the final twist has a few good parts going for it. The ending is a little predictable, but that's all that this one has against it.The Bad Stor(ies): Midnight Mess: Looking for his sister, a man arrives in a small town and finds her living alone. Warned away from going out at night, he decides to venture to the only open restaurant in town. Waiting to be served, he comes across a terrible secret that is particularly shocking. This one here is particularly uneven. Despite the strong central image of vampires planting spigots in a victim's jugular just like a wine cask or the most effective one where the curtains are pulled back to reveal a dining hall filled with reflection-less vampires, this one isn't that spectacular. The twist comes rather quickly, the whole thing is rushed out and this never once takes the time to build up to anything worthwhile. As well, the image of the incredibly fake vampire teeth protruding from the mouths is purely laughable. It's decent, but not that spectacular.The Neat Job-Moving in together, newlyweds quickly realize that his tidiness is a major source of irritation. As they spend more time together in the situation, it soon becomes even more irritable and distressful, and eventually she tries to make things right, to no avail. When it finally becomes too much to bear, she resorts to special means to get it solved. Simply put, this one is dull. It's not that horrific, nothing terribly shocking happens or anything at all, the twist is seen coming from a mile away and as a whole, the idea isn't that terrifying. This is the weakest of the stories and is easily forgettable.Bargain for Death-After realizing he's broke, a horror writer decides to fake his own death to collect the insurance money. As it works to perfection, he awakes in his casket and is soon dug out by medical students who want to bring him back to practice on. When it turns out that the cadaver isn't what they wanted, they resort to other means to get away. This one pretty much plays out like the first one, it's too rushed and doesn't have the time to build up to anything. Nothing is really remarkable about it, and it ends up not really making an impact on anything. The comedy in here is really dreadful and not that funny. It's only real bright spots are the nasty car crash and a pretty gory spade in the head death, but these here are the only things worthy about it.Today's Rating/PG-13: Violence.

Roy Ward Baker directed this five-part anthology film that sees five strangers stuck in an office basement who talk about their recurring nightmares: 'Midnight Mess' - A thief comes to a bad end when he meets some vampires. 'The Neat Job' - A very tidy man becomes involved with the wrong woman. 'This Trick Will Kill You' - A couple in India get mixed up with a mystic much to their regret, 'Bargain Of Death' - A plan involving faking a death by burial goes quite wrong. 'Drawn & Quartered' - Future "Doctor Who" star Tom Baker plays an artist who seeks revenge on the men who wronged him. Weak film has wildly uneven tales that veer from silly comedy to gruesome horror, none of which work, though Tom Baker comes out best. Muddled morality and premise don't help.

One assumes there was a point to The Vault of Horror, a five pronged depiction of separate shorts that tell tales about five middle aged men eventually coming a cropper in all manner of grotesque ways. Teetering on the boundary between what constitutes a trashy grindhouse flick and a more meditative, contemplative piece, although not really ending up as particularly interesting examples of either, we observe varying mutilations and such born out of interesting premises that just don't cut it in the long run. One way into getting to the bottom of films such these is often through deducing what it is each of its strands or stories have in common, then figuring out some kind of core thematic that's being explored. Do we view the film as being about victimisation? Masochism? One story appears to be about the desire to lose – to taste defeat. Almost all of the stories depict someone attempting to instigate a sort of crime, one that ranges from insurance fraud to the more ambitious murdering of someone before having said crimes backfire on them in gruesome, inventive ways.Things here are, however, looser and more unexplained than one would have liked; an often limp series of vignettes strung together by a twist at the very death which thinks it's smarter than it actually is and just causes the viewer to question the thought process of the overall piece even more. We begin with your more bog standard establishing shot of London; there is the River Thames and Westminster in general put to us via a slow pan. The music tells us to be afraid, informs us that things are creepier than they look but try not to waste too much energy looking for political connotations between what we're seeing, and what it is that's usually put to what we're hearing. The camera sees past most of what's familiar for a large, multiple storey building - a cut to an elevator insinuating that we're now inside said structure and observing a variety of men all above thirty, but below around sixty, shuffle their way into the compact space. Something goes wrong: the operates by itself and it resistant to any sort of overriding - before anyone knows anything, it has taken them to the building's basement and has motivated them to sit at a large table so as to speak to one another.From nowhere, one of the men begins to talk to these total strangers around him about a dream he once had – a nightmare more-so a dream wherein he kills one of his siblings upon visiting them, only to find that where it is they were located carries with it a secret not even someone in the 'zone' enough to kill their own sister could have foreseen. The man seemed to enjoy the experience, on top of the retelling of it, but we didn't and the whole episode is over rather quickly. Another man pipes in with his experiences in the land of nod, and he's dreaming about murder perpetrated by wives more-so implemented upon sisters – a tale that is far more comedic than I think was intended as obsessive compulsive disorder suffers are allowed some sort of meek laugh at themselves. Curd Jürgens plays one of the other men, a magician who tells of his tale as a foreigner abroad in India who fell afoul of an uncanny local double act born out of the desire to know the secret to a street trick. The film is rounded off with two other stories, one about a ridiculously trusting individual looking to be 'killed' and buried before being dug up by a friend with whom he'll split the life insurance, whereas the final one sees Tom Baker's Anglo-Haitian painter 'cursed' with the ability to kill people through what situation he paints them in.I suppose, if one is familiar with the acting talent therein, there might be a cheap thrill in watching these people, of whom are more associated with broad, sweeping, "sensible" films such as Battle of Britain and Peeping Tom, going through drab motions as a number of deadbeats who get right-royally done over in all manner of sordid spectacle, but there is little else beyond this. The film flails as a congealed piece of film making designed to engross us; move us; offer us something we didn't already know. The women are on the receiving end of a short straw, depicted gold diggers and murder victims who, on one occasion, even manage to perversely garner their revenge for the Hell of it. The Haitians are these strange individuals besotted with voodoo, while Indians do not fare much better in the representation stakes. The stories appear to be about greed: a magician's desire to possess the mind blowing Indian street act so that they may make hundreds in currency back home; a man's desire to come into contact with a large cash insurance settlement and another's for a large chunk of inheritance. Another is about the misuse of power and the lust for revenge, but the film is essentially one long, sick joke about the comeuppance these people receive. The problem being that no one is laughing.

The Vault of Horror (1973)Also know Further Tales from the Crypt and Tales from the Crypt IIFive strangers meet and end up getting stuck in room, so then each of them tell them a dream,When first one Framing StoryHarold tracks down sister as their father died, so her their father as giving her everything so, he track her down,it's not every turn out the way he wanted to do This was one was just about decent, there some cool twist at the end of this movie, Did dose really a little out dated a bit.5 out of 10The Neat JobThe as got to be the most Stumper story I have seen, (My older brother his a bit like him) is very neatly but I don't think even, he said can't you do anything Neatly. I found the think way of the top act, the story, the ending was planing stupid.1/10This Trick'll Kill A bit better then the last storySebastian and is wife are India and looking for new trick and he finds this girl. who dose a trick,he want her trick and as he ask her to hotel room, it's her first mistake and His too.I didn't like sound effect in story at all, it's just sounded odd.. I didn't really get the rest of , for me it made sense at all, I found its very silly and ending I didn't really get it! (This another one that felt a little outdated as well)3/10Bargain in Death This wasn't to be bad, Scan between to Friends, back stabbing and then karma strikesthere one decent scarce Scene in this movie and I did I liked how story came to a end.Drawn and QuarteredThey saved the best story for last, I loved this, this was great story about Painter. who gets some voodoo pen /pins and start Draw with the them. He pain someone, when he wants his revenge , he dose nasty stuff the pictures , which happens to them in really life, for time this movie came decent.Some things did bother me in this movie, that would spoiler the movie over all I did enjoy the last story8/10Overall, This was very disappointing, then some really silly segments in this movie, the last story saved the movie a bit!7 out of 10 ,