Tales from the Crypt: The Robert Zemeckis Collection (1999)

Plot Summary

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.

Full Cast & Characters

John Kassir

Crypt Keeper (voice)

Mary Ellen Trainor

Wife

Larry Drake

Santa

Marshall Bell

Joseph

Lindsey Whitney Barry

Carrie Ann

Kirk Douglas

General Kalthrob

Eric Douglas

Lt. Martin Kalthrob

Lance Henriksen

Sergeant Ripper

Dan Aykroyd

Captain Milligan

Dominick Morra

Priest

Steve Boyum

King

Chuck Picerni Jr.

Jones

Director & Crew

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