WEBVTT 1 00:00:12.039 --> 00:00:16.120 Hello, kleets, it's me John could sear the voice of the crypt Keeper, 2 00:00:16.640 --> 00:00:33.119 and you're listening to Chronicles from the Crypt. Hello kitties, it's me 3 00:00:33.799 --> 00:00:37.920 Casualty Chris, and this is Father Malone and we are the hosts of Chronicles 4 00:00:37.920 --> 00:00:41.479 from the Crypt, a twice a month look at the horror anthology series Tales 5 00:00:41.560 --> 00:00:45.600 from the Crypt that aired on HBO from nineteen eighty nine to nineteen ninety six. 6 00:00:46.039 --> 00:00:48.960 Now, in each of these podcasts, we do two episodes of the 7 00:00:49.000 --> 00:00:52.439 television series. In between seasons we do bonus episodes, but this is the 8 00:00:52.479 --> 00:00:55.359 last season, so there'll be no bonus episode you missed out, or you 9 00:00:55.359 --> 00:00:58.280 could just go listen to it at Chronicles FTC dot com. Oh yeah, 10 00:00:58.280 --> 00:01:02.920 that's a better thing to say. Wow, one of us is thinking ahead, 11 00:01:02.920 --> 00:01:04.879 the other one is being smarmy. It's okay, Yeah, it works 12 00:01:04.879 --> 00:01:10.200 out. Well, that's what I do exactly. So on this episode of 13 00:01:10.239 --> 00:01:14.159 Chronicles from the Crypt, we are taking a look at the first episodes of 14 00:01:14.200 --> 00:01:21.799 season seven, Episode one and two, Fatal Caper and last respects. Greetings, 15 00:01:21.879 --> 00:01:26.840 travel fiends. It's so exciting being here in London. I'm already feeling 16 00:01:26.959 --> 00:01:32.959 right at Toomb can't to join me for a little fright seeing. Oh maybe 17 00:01:33.000 --> 00:01:37.000 we could find a nice cub and tuck into some authentic flesh and chips. 18 00:01:38.000 --> 00:01:42.319 Oh, we could go check out my English heritage. I bet you didn't 19 00:01:42.319 --> 00:01:48.040 know your pal the crypt Keeper was one of the Crown Ghouls, did you, 20 00:01:48.200 --> 00:01:53.359 creeps? I've got all kinds of skeletons in my closet, which is 21 00:01:53.439 --> 00:01:57.439 kind of like the family in Tonight's tale. You could call it Father Knows 22 00:01:57.599 --> 00:02:07.480 Beast, but I before so. Fatal Caper aired April nineteenth, nineteen ninety 23 00:02:07.480 --> 00:02:10.479 six. It is directed by none other than Bob Hoskins. Bob Hoskins actually 24 00:02:10.560 --> 00:02:15.439 stars in the episode as well, along with Natasha Richardson, Greg Wise, 25 00:02:15.639 --> 00:02:22.000 Leslie Phillips, and James Saxon. Episode follows two brothers who are trying to 26 00:02:22.039 --> 00:02:27.759 figure out the fortune of their wealthy father, all the while a woman is 27 00:02:27.800 --> 00:02:34.879 there doing things. Yeah there, This is a problematic episode. If you 28 00:02:34.919 --> 00:02:38.520 are not into virtue signaling or people being upset about things, maybe fast forward 29 00:02:38.560 --> 00:02:43.159 a couple of minutes. If not, this episode does something that an episode 30 00:02:43.199 --> 00:02:49.680 of the show already did, which is not handle the treatment of trans characters 31 00:02:49.960 --> 00:02:54.439 very repensate respectfully, but in a way that makes me feel good. Yeah, 32 00:02:54.479 --> 00:03:00.199 I mean this and the previous episode sort of suffer from this. Oh 33 00:03:00.240 --> 00:03:04.319 and then you didn't realize nobody realized that this was the other person that they've 34 00:03:04.360 --> 00:03:07.960 been talking about for the entire episode, because they've actually changed their gender. 35 00:03:07.159 --> 00:03:09.639 In both of them, it was a guy who becomes a girl. Right, 36 00:03:09.960 --> 00:03:14.080 So the episode that you're talking about, it is a it's a man 37 00:03:14.199 --> 00:03:17.919 who is cross dressing in this fit. In this episode, it is a 38 00:03:17.919 --> 00:03:27.159 man who has transitioned to a woman but didn't have the bottom surgery. Because 39 00:03:27.159 --> 00:03:30.960 that's like what the whole gag at the end of the episode is based around, 40 00:03:30.080 --> 00:03:35.479 is Oh my god, Natasha Richardson's character has a cock. Aren't trans 41 00:03:35.639 --> 00:03:38.599 people fucking weird? That's what this episode should be called. Yeah, I 42 00:03:38.599 --> 00:03:46.280 mean, I agree that it's not handled tastefully necessarily. It's just it's to 43 00:03:46.360 --> 00:03:50.120 me, the worst part of it is that it's it's just so lazy. 44 00:03:50.319 --> 00:03:53.840 That's it's more of a crime because it doesn't seem like they're out to take 45 00:03:53.919 --> 00:03:58.080 down trans people or or say trans people have a problem or anything. I 46 00:03:58.120 --> 00:04:01.319 don't think either of the episodes did I just think that you've got no one 47 00:04:01.319 --> 00:04:05.000 else on screen, Like five characters they're talking about, one of the character 48 00:04:05.080 --> 00:04:08.360 doesn't show up to the entire thing. One of those characters is going to 49 00:04:08.439 --> 00:04:12.639 be the character, but some of the characters are familiar with that character and 50 00:04:12.680 --> 00:04:14.599 know what they look like. So how do we get around that, Oh, 51 00:04:14.599 --> 00:04:17.759 we'll change their gender. It's lazy and stupid. Nobody. I don't 52 00:04:17.800 --> 00:04:23.279 care how much surgery she had, that they the brothers would recognize their brother 53 00:04:23.560 --> 00:04:28.160 like that on a fundamental storytelling level is a fucking failure. Well, it's 54 00:04:28.240 --> 00:04:32.399 kind of like another piece of fiction that uses this kind of trope. It's 55 00:04:32.519 --> 00:04:38.800 kind of like ace Ventura, Like there is no way that you can tell 56 00:04:38.839 --> 00:04:43.519 me that people didn't recognize this character who looked like another character when, like 57 00:04:43.600 --> 00:04:48.240 you've said, plastic surgery is only so good. It cracks me up. 58 00:04:48.279 --> 00:04:56.240 How film like so many things that they kind of misuse. How they misuse 59 00:04:56.319 --> 00:04:59.800 plastic surgery, I mean they misuse it. In the last episode that we 60 00:04:59.839 --> 00:05:01.839 were talking about, this guy all a sudden looks like Humphrey Bogart, you 61 00:05:01.920 --> 00:05:06.120 know. In this episode it's the same thing, but all of a sudden, 62 00:05:06.199 --> 00:05:10.680 a male character who we don't know who he looks like to begin with, 63 00:05:11.120 --> 00:05:15.399 becomes Natasha Richardson. It wasn't going to occur. Well, it's just 64 00:05:15.639 --> 00:05:19.560 it's it's not it's not believable like in any way, it's I mean that 65 00:05:19.639 --> 00:05:23.519 to me, is is, like I said, the true crime of the 66 00:05:23.519 --> 00:05:27.800 episode. Now, I do want to point out weirdly, once we get 67 00:05:27.839 --> 00:05:31.120 to England, they start adapting Tales from the Crypt comics. This is a 68 00:05:31.160 --> 00:05:35.240 Tales from the Crypt. It's number twenty. The script was by Al Feldstein. 69 00:05:35.519 --> 00:05:42.000 Art was by Jack Caman, Amazing artwork. The story in the comic 70 00:05:42.279 --> 00:05:46.759 is has zero to do with this. This is entirely invented by whoever wrote 71 00:05:46.759 --> 00:05:49.360 this episode. I would say, because the Tales from the Crypt was too 72 00:05:49.360 --> 00:05:53.360 close to other episodes that they've done. But then this is just an amalgam 73 00:05:53.360 --> 00:05:57.680 of a dozen episodes we've seen in the comic. It's a bunch of friends, 74 00:05:57.680 --> 00:06:01.600 like college age friends who are bored and and they perform a seance just 75 00:06:01.680 --> 00:06:08.160 as a like a lark, and the room gets all misty and one they 76 00:06:08.199 --> 00:06:12.519 keep the friends keep disappearing until the like there's one guy left, I don't 77 00:06:12.519 --> 00:06:15.360 know many like they end up burying him somehow, and then it turns out 78 00:06:15.360 --> 00:06:17.959 to be a big hoax, like they just wanted to scare this guy really 79 00:06:18.000 --> 00:06:25.079 bad, and so they bury him, and then they've used a coffin that 80 00:06:25.199 --> 00:06:30.800 was previously used. And when the grave digger like approaches them, they say, 81 00:06:30.839 --> 00:06:33.120 you know, you buried our friend. He got buried by the guy. 82 00:06:33.399 --> 00:06:34.959 You buried our friend, You got to dig him up. He's like, 83 00:06:34.959 --> 00:06:39.439 no, no one's going near that. That coffin was covered in leprosy 84 00:06:39.439 --> 00:06:42.600 and anyone who touched it now is a leper, and they had all touched 85 00:06:42.600 --> 00:06:46.519 it. What bearing does that story have on the fucking piece of filmed entertainment? 86 00:06:46.560 --> 00:06:53.079 We were given nothing, nothing at all, same name. Yeah, 87 00:06:53.120 --> 00:06:57.680 like what why say it's adapted at all? It literally has zero to do 88 00:06:57.759 --> 00:06:59.519 with it. Like other ones, you can say, oh, well, 89 00:06:59.680 --> 00:07:01.000 you know, they took it in a zombie direction and they decided to do 90 00:07:01.040 --> 00:07:03.959 a whole other thing here, But that's not the case here. This is 91 00:07:03.959 --> 00:07:10.720 just a free adaptation and wah, and it is a lazy adaptation at the 92 00:07:11.560 --> 00:07:15.439 Actually, I guess it's not even an adaptationism. It's a lazy story that 93 00:07:15.480 --> 00:07:19.240 we've seen told like four times now like variations on this story. When I 94 00:07:19.279 --> 00:07:23.920 was watching this episode, I just kept thinking to myself, Okay, so 95 00:07:23.959 --> 00:07:27.319 they moved to England, but Tales from the Crypt is just back up to 96 00:07:27.360 --> 00:07:30.399 its old bullshit again. Yeah. I mean, I could be wrong, 97 00:07:30.480 --> 00:07:34.360 but you know, I see Scott Nimophro's name as the story editor here. 98 00:07:34.720 --> 00:07:41.519 So I gotta wonder if these scripts weren't like written for a seventh series in 99 00:07:42.560 --> 00:07:46.160 America and then that didn't happen, and then this somehow presented itself, if 100 00:07:46.160 --> 00:07:49.199 they could go make them in England. So you had the same group of 101 00:07:49.240 --> 00:07:54.199 writers who've been churning out the last couple of seasons of the show, giving 102 00:07:54.240 --> 00:07:59.279 us yet another one, except now we're dressed up in old England. Well. 103 00:07:59.319 --> 00:08:03.720 Yeah, the the addition of the show being filmed in the UK does 104 00:08:03.800 --> 00:08:09.439 not seem to do anything other than change the accent of all of the characters. 105 00:08:09.040 --> 00:08:13.240 It does that. I will also say, however, because this I 106 00:08:13.519 --> 00:08:16.839 noticed this and all the episodes I've seen so far, the production value is 107 00:08:16.920 --> 00:08:22.319 through the roof because it's all location filming, because they have all these great 108 00:08:22.360 --> 00:08:26.000 locations to go film at, as opposed to in Los Angeles, where you 109 00:08:26.040 --> 00:08:28.279 know, ninety percent of the episodes were filmed on a sound stage, So 110 00:08:28.800 --> 00:08:33.720 these episodes, as hit or miss as they are, like, they look 111 00:08:33.799 --> 00:08:35.600 better to me. I mean, obviously it looks like an English production. 112 00:08:35.639 --> 00:08:39.960 If you told, if you presented the series to me with a different title 113 00:08:39.960 --> 00:08:41.879 on it, I would believe that it was a whole other thing and not 114 00:08:41.919 --> 00:08:45.600 Tales from the Crypt at all. Oh, I completely agree with that. 115 00:08:45.960 --> 00:08:50.679 Yeah, but I do like the way it's filmed. It's not as sort 116 00:08:50.679 --> 00:08:54.559 of glossy and shiny as the American one was, and it seems a little 117 00:08:54.600 --> 00:08:58.679 more serious it. Actually, the thing it reminds me of is the Tales 118 00:08:58.720 --> 00:09:01.960 from the Crypt movie from seventy one. I would agree with that one. 119 00:09:03.639 --> 00:09:07.440 That's what it feels like. I mean, it really feels like those Amicus 120 00:09:07.559 --> 00:09:11.679 films. Yeah, like, and like there's nothing wrong with that. No, 121 00:09:11.440 --> 00:09:13.679 I think it's not an improvement, but I you know, I think 122 00:09:13.679 --> 00:09:20.559 it's a good you know, separate direction for the series. But you still 123 00:09:20.639 --> 00:09:24.399 have to give us a good goddamn story, and you have a treasure trove 124 00:09:24.480 --> 00:09:28.480 of stories to pull from. Don't give us something like this, particularly not 125 00:09:28.759 --> 00:09:31.480 as the lead off. Well that's the that's the fucking insane thing, right, 126 00:09:31.559 --> 00:09:35.000 And that's something that I think we have really had a hard time kind 127 00:09:35.000 --> 00:09:37.519 of wrapping our heads around. Least I have, and I would assume you 128 00:09:37.559 --> 00:09:43.039 probably have as well. The first episode of the first season of this show 129 00:09:43.279 --> 00:09:46.679 is still our favorite episode. At the same time, it's our favorite episode. 130 00:09:46.840 --> 00:09:50.639 And we came to that conclusion separately. It's not like you said it 131 00:09:50.679 --> 00:09:52.200 and I was like, oh, yeah, me too. It was like, 132 00:09:52.279 --> 00:09:56.039 no, that's my favorite episode, that's your favorite episode. There are 133 00:09:56.039 --> 00:10:01.519 a lot of things playing into why that's the case. And every season's first 134 00:10:01.559 --> 00:10:05.759 episode you would think would be this like fucking grand slam of a story to 135 00:10:05.919 --> 00:10:11.679 really start the season out right, and those episodes have just been getting worse 136 00:10:11.720 --> 00:10:16.480 and worse and worse as the show has gone on, Like the the quality 137 00:10:16.600 --> 00:10:24.039 has fallen off in these first episodes of the season so hard that now we're 138 00:10:24.080 --> 00:10:26.240 at the point where it's just a complete retread of something we've seen before. 139 00:10:26.440 --> 00:10:31.559 I don't think anyone there at the time could recognize a good episode anyway anymore. 140 00:10:31.759 --> 00:10:35.120 Obviously, you're gonna stick Robert Samakis's episode at the end of the season, 141 00:10:35.360 --> 00:10:39.159 like as the big finale because it's Robert Samakis and it's his show. 142 00:10:39.679 --> 00:10:43.919 But as far as being able to like look at what you've been given and 143 00:10:43.000 --> 00:10:48.879 pick what order they should play in, they had no idea. And I 144 00:10:48.919 --> 00:10:52.600 don't know, it's just a continued laziness on the part of the writing staff 145 00:10:52.639 --> 00:10:56.440 of the of the show. I think we are a far cry from cutting 146 00:10:56.480 --> 00:10:58.919 cards, let's just put it that way. Indeed we are. We are 147 00:11:00.000 --> 00:11:03.480 a far cry from the man who was deaf. The entire series has been 148 00:11:03.519 --> 00:11:09.960 a slow progression away from their best episode, and like it's in such a 149 00:11:09.039 --> 00:11:13.600 way that it's so obvious we can't help but mention it. Yeah, it's 150 00:11:13.600 --> 00:11:18.799 not like the quality is like up and down. It is steadily declined with 151 00:11:18.919 --> 00:11:24.200 one or two bright spots. Yeah, And like I said, obviously they 152 00:11:24.200 --> 00:11:26.879 couldn't even see the good ones when they had them because they were always just 153 00:11:26.879 --> 00:11:28.080 sort of crammed in with the rest of them. Not that it's going to 154 00:11:28.159 --> 00:11:31.840 make the series as a whole any better, but give us something awesome to 155 00:11:31.840 --> 00:11:35.320 begin with and something really scary at the end, that's what we need. 156 00:11:35.440 --> 00:11:39.360 We didn't get that here. I wonder do you think we're gonna get that 157 00:11:39.360 --> 00:11:46.120 with the next episode, Last Respects totally greetings, infestas, I'll be with 158 00:11:46.159 --> 00:11:50.399 you in a moment. I was just putting these gross profits away for safekeeping. 159 00:11:52.240 --> 00:11:56.000 You see boils and ghouls At crypt Keeper Financial, we can help you 160 00:11:56.120 --> 00:12:01.960 get mug for your money, whether it's mutual fiends. You want a cold, 161 00:12:01.960 --> 00:12:11.279 horrid cash, we can guarantee your coroner the market. I bet you'd 162 00:12:11.279 --> 00:12:16.639 be the type who's interested in boo chits. Like Tonight's tale. It's about 163 00:12:16.679 --> 00:12:22.000 three girls who are chopping around for a tax fright off of their own in 164 00:12:22.120 --> 00:12:28.440 a nasty shock option I call Last Respects. So. The episode is directed 165 00:12:28.440 --> 00:12:33.000 by Freddie Francis. It is written by Scott namerfro you just mentioned him. 166 00:12:33.000 --> 00:12:39.080 It stars Emma Sam's Carry Fox and Julie Cox and it is about three sisters 167 00:12:39.120 --> 00:12:45.840 who are given a monkey's paw and things happen monkey paw, things happen. 168 00:12:46.120 --> 00:12:50.879 Oh, they also own their father's curiosity shop. That is a complete mcguffin 169 00:12:50.919 --> 00:12:56.240 in the worst way. Yeah, but yeah it is. Um, I'm 170 00:12:56.240 --> 00:13:01.759 curious, what do you think? Not good it is? It is so 171 00:13:01.840 --> 00:13:07.440 bad that I was tempted to turn it off because I knew where it was 172 00:13:07.519 --> 00:13:11.000 going, and it was like, oh, there's another twist and another twist, 173 00:13:11.000 --> 00:13:16.519 Like none of these twists weren't obvious, and we know where this episode 174 00:13:16.639 --> 00:13:20.639 is going. Just look at what the fucking crypt keeper shows you on the 175 00:13:20.639 --> 00:13:24.559 page of the book before the episode starts. That is the ending, and 176 00:13:24.639 --> 00:13:28.960 it is. He does it all the time, but this time it's literally 177 00:13:30.000 --> 00:13:33.120 the last scene and it is the episode's ruined for you. Oh yeah, 178 00:13:33.519 --> 00:13:39.960 that was real bad Um. Okay, were we talking about free adaptation? 179 00:13:39.240 --> 00:13:43.120 Yeah, we were. Here we go again. This is Taylsener Crypt number 180 00:13:43.159 --> 00:13:46.440 twenty three, written by Bill Gaines and Alfellenstein and drawn by Graham Ingles, 181 00:13:46.480 --> 00:13:52.519 another great fucking artist. In the comic, it's a chauffeur for a wealthy 182 00:13:52.600 --> 00:14:00.120 family. He marries the daughter of the millionaire. She's underage. He's going 183 00:14:00.159 --> 00:14:03.960 to have it annulled. At the same time, she was visiting him in 184 00:14:03.000 --> 00:14:07.799 the rain and got sick. The mean father has separated these lovers. She 185 00:14:07.919 --> 00:14:11.960 comes down with a cold that turns into much worse, and then she dies. 186 00:14:11.919 --> 00:14:18.080 The chauffeur returns, kills the millionaire and then goes to her tomb. 187 00:14:18.600 --> 00:14:20.679 It's a tomb. You have to open a door and enter just to tell 188 00:14:20.720 --> 00:14:24.000 her what he has done and how much he misses her. He gets trapped 189 00:14:24.039 --> 00:14:30.039 in there, no one comes to rescue him. Thirty days later, two 190 00:14:30.080 --> 00:14:33.600 people opened the crypt. They discover him, and they figure that he died 191 00:14:33.639 --> 00:14:37.440 maybe a day ago, and he was able to do so by eating the 192 00:14:39.080 --> 00:14:45.799 corpse of his underage bride Monkey's paw. Yeah. I was about to say, 193 00:14:45.840 --> 00:14:48.159 boy, that story was a lot better than this one, wouldn't it. 194 00:14:48.559 --> 00:14:50.519 You know, I feel like because this is something we talked about at 195 00:14:50.559 --> 00:14:54.639 the beginning, right, we would talk about the original comics and I would 196 00:14:54.720 --> 00:14:58.919 kind of seed the floor to you because while I have read them, your 197 00:14:58.000 --> 00:15:03.240 descript you're describing of them. It's always much more robust than I And I 198 00:15:03.279 --> 00:15:07.720 think that comes from you reading it as a kid. Oh yeah, certainly, 199 00:15:07.320 --> 00:15:11.080 versus me reading it as an adult. I mean, I posted it 200 00:15:11.120 --> 00:15:13.440 on our Instagram a while back. I'd like to re mention it once again. 201 00:15:13.840 --> 00:15:16.480 Earlier in the year, Father Malone and I have the same birthday, 202 00:15:16.559 --> 00:15:22.600 and we traded gifts and Father Malone sent me a very thoughtful gift. He 203 00:15:22.679 --> 00:15:30.840 sent me a Tales from the Crypt comic book in paperback form, and that 204 00:15:30.960 --> 00:15:35.000 was something that you had originally read when you were in your like early early 205 00:15:35.120 --> 00:15:39.799 years, right like ten. Yeah, like you have a background with these 206 00:15:39.840 --> 00:15:43.519 comics, and I can't help but wonder, because we've never really talked about 207 00:15:43.559 --> 00:15:46.679 it, how big of a disappointment is it watching this show knowing how little 208 00:15:46.720 --> 00:15:52.759 they actually adapted the goddamn comic. It's interesting because at the time I was 209 00:15:52.840 --> 00:15:56.159 watching it, you know, I can't say that I knew every comic that 210 00:15:56.240 --> 00:16:02.799 had been adapted, and that's partially because majority of Taysom Encrypt episodes are based 211 00:16:02.840 --> 00:16:06.840 on either Vault of Horror or Haunt of Fear or more likely than not, 212 00:16:06.919 --> 00:16:11.759 shock suspense stories. But I kind of gave them pass when I was watching 213 00:16:11.759 --> 00:16:15.960 it initially because you know, I felt that, you know, that's good, 214 00:16:17.039 --> 00:16:19.399 you know, to to take some license with it. Now going back 215 00:16:19.440 --> 00:16:27.080 and realizing just how far afield they were with most of their adaptations, and 216 00:16:27.480 --> 00:16:30.919 as I said, it is a treasure true that the story I just described 217 00:16:30.919 --> 00:16:37.000 for Last Respects it is fucking horrifying, and there was nobody on their staff 218 00:16:37.000 --> 00:16:44.320 it seems, that was leaning into that direction. It's a fundamental like amnesia 219 00:16:44.480 --> 00:16:48.360 that they stopped making a horror show after a little while, and we're just 220 00:16:48.480 --> 00:16:53.960 like basing everything on ironic twists and occasion, and in it occasionally a bit 221 00:16:53.960 --> 00:16:59.039 of gore or a monster to you know, sate the fans. Yeah, 222 00:16:59.120 --> 00:17:03.559 I think at this point in my life now watching it and watching just how 223 00:17:03.840 --> 00:17:07.480 much of a missed opportunity they had to draw some of these stories and put 224 00:17:07.480 --> 00:17:11.160 them on screen and do them justice. That's, yeah, a big problem, 225 00:17:11.440 --> 00:17:15.480 and it's disappointing to me as someone who has read the comics but also 226 00:17:15.640 --> 00:17:22.279 expects it to be a show that leans more into horror, because again, 227 00:17:22.319 --> 00:17:26.880 the show is hosted by a literal fucking corpse. I don't expect all the 228 00:17:26.920 --> 00:17:30.680 stories to be supernatural, but I expect more than one or two a season 229 00:17:30.720 --> 00:17:37.279 to be. And it's a shame that that's where we are now, because 230 00:17:37.440 --> 00:17:41.759 out of the first two episodes of this season, one of them has supernatural 231 00:17:41.759 --> 00:17:45.160 elements, the other one doesn't. And I can tell you with absolute certainty 232 00:17:45.240 --> 00:17:48.680 that the rest of the season may go even less fifty fifty than that, 233 00:17:48.799 --> 00:17:52.920 because the other seasons, especially the later ones that we've talked about, have 234 00:17:53.079 --> 00:17:56.319 as well. You know, It's funny to me, like looking back and 235 00:17:56.359 --> 00:18:00.200 seeing interviews with people, and you know, they would talk about ec comics 236 00:18:00.200 --> 00:18:04.359 and they talk about its sense of humor, and I think, you know, 237 00:18:04.359 --> 00:18:08.039 the makers of this series like use that as an excuse to kind of 238 00:18:08.119 --> 00:18:12.839 camp it up and ham it up and all of the horrors delivered with a 239 00:18:12.960 --> 00:18:17.400 tongue in cheek. But as I said, if you go back and read 240 00:18:17.440 --> 00:18:21.039 those comics, there ain't a fucking thing funny in them. If you if 241 00:18:21.079 --> 00:18:25.680 there's a humor to it, it's that you're reveling in what are usually not 242 00:18:25.799 --> 00:18:29.599 talked about. Dark subject matters like that, to me is where the humor 243 00:18:29.720 --> 00:18:33.960 sort of rises and falls. With the original comics, I think they were 244 00:18:33.960 --> 00:18:37.720 all deadly serious. And I'm not saying I need doom and gloom, you 245 00:18:37.759 --> 00:18:41.319 know, twenty two minutes a week for however many seasons. But it just 246 00:18:41.359 --> 00:18:47.480 seems that as we were just saying, like somebody along the way forgot that 247 00:18:47.559 --> 00:18:49.720 this was a horror show and you should be disturbed, Like, even without 248 00:18:49.720 --> 00:18:55.279 a supernatural element, you can do episodes that like gut you, and these 249 00:18:55.279 --> 00:18:57.640 guys just weren't interested in that. I mean, one of the best episodes 250 00:18:57.680 --> 00:19:03.440 that we saw that has no supernatural element is our favorite episode of the goddamn 251 00:19:03.440 --> 00:19:08.079 show. Yeah or Three's a Company, which also doesn't feature any supernatural elements 252 00:19:08.079 --> 00:19:14.640 whatsoever. It's actually the genre of episodes that we bemoan on a frequent episode 253 00:19:14.640 --> 00:19:18.240 basis because they use them so often. The love triangle, Yeah, and 254 00:19:18.400 --> 00:19:22.359 it just shows that when people give a shit, you can take any trope 255 00:19:22.400 --> 00:19:27.240 and make it awesome and not just sort of say that's enough. And I 256 00:19:27.599 --> 00:19:30.599 know I've said this a lot on the podcast, but it always feels like 257 00:19:30.640 --> 00:19:33.640 it's just enough, Like, yeah, we're giving him this and that, 258 00:19:33.720 --> 00:19:37.200 and here's twist and in this ironic and you know, here's some more jokes 259 00:19:37.359 --> 00:19:42.400 and you know what, man like I want, I want the man who 260 00:19:42.480 --> 00:19:49.079 was dead well, and the other shame here is the involvement of Freddie Francis. 261 00:19:51.000 --> 00:19:56.039 Freddie Francis obviously directed the original Tales from the Crypt film Yeah, and 262 00:19:56.559 --> 00:20:00.559 this is the episode of the show that he ends up directing. Boy, 263 00:20:00.319 --> 00:20:07.240 this is a really bad episode. The monkey's paw is an overused trope and 264 00:20:07.400 --> 00:20:11.039 they don't use it in this episode to any novel or new way. The 265 00:20:11.079 --> 00:20:15.519 three sisters end up using it. One of them dies and then the other 266 00:20:15.519 --> 00:20:18.519 one brings the dead one back to life because it turns out she was murdered 267 00:20:18.559 --> 00:20:22.279 by the third sister the end, Like, you don't even need to know 268 00:20:22.319 --> 00:20:25.440 anything else about the episode. That all happens in the last five minutes. 269 00:20:25.599 --> 00:20:27.920 And this is a twenty minute episode. Twenty five minute episode. Yea, 270 00:20:29.000 --> 00:20:33.319 not only did he direct that original tales from the Crypt film a way way 271 00:20:33.359 --> 00:20:36.759 back, but he directed a better version of the story they were telling here. 272 00:20:36.920 --> 00:20:40.920 Because there's a monkey's paw segment in that movie. It's not great, 273 00:20:41.039 --> 00:20:44.440 but it's but it's a lot better than this. On top of everything else, 274 00:20:44.960 --> 00:20:52.359 the fact that this episode has an intro a cold open is bizarre capital 275 00:20:52.440 --> 00:20:59.079 weird. That it's weird because the show has rarely done it, and when 276 00:20:59.119 --> 00:21:02.759 they do it, those episodes are exactly what I'm about to say here. 277 00:21:02.960 --> 00:21:07.319 It's a twenty six minute long episode. You cannot afford to do that, 278 00:21:07.920 --> 00:21:11.880 no, right, Like, if that's the way you're going to introduce the 279 00:21:11.920 --> 00:21:14.039 monkeys, Paul, you don't have to spend the first five minutes of the 280 00:21:14.039 --> 00:21:17.160 episode doing so. Yeah, we all know it. There's a reason you're 281 00:21:17.160 --> 00:21:19.119 trying to innovate around this story. That's because we all know it, but 282 00:21:19.200 --> 00:21:22.519 they don't. They don't innovate anything, right, No, not not not 283 00:21:22.519 --> 00:21:30.240 not here. Oh I did I mention for the previous episode, um fatal 284 00:21:30.319 --> 00:21:33.240 caper. Skip that one. I just want to to Oh yeah, skip 285 00:21:33.279 --> 00:21:37.079 this one too. Yeah. I just want to say, because I'm gonna 286 00:21:37.079 --> 00:21:38.880 tell you now to skip this one, so you might as well skip the 287 00:21:38.960 --> 00:21:42.359 last one. And it's it's a it's a shame. It's a shame because 288 00:21:42.880 --> 00:21:47.240 I don't think any of the actresses here were given anything to do. No. 289 00:21:48.359 --> 00:21:51.200 Yeah, I mean I don't want to say like people weren't doing their 290 00:21:51.279 --> 00:21:53.119 job here because they were. I think all the acting is fine. Uh, 291 00:21:53.400 --> 00:21:56.359 you know, the direction is good. I still like the look of 292 00:21:56.400 --> 00:22:03.559 the show. But we're just kind of still stuck in season five of Tailsomer 293 00:22:03.599 --> 00:22:07.319 Crypt That's just what we keep getting. What a waste of carry fox right, 294 00:22:07.759 --> 00:22:14.079 Yeah, man, she ain't and much no shallow grave though. Yeah, 295 00:22:14.119 --> 00:22:18.160 this however, real bad. Yeah, what a drag. It's it's 296 00:22:18.279 --> 00:22:22.640 it's it's a shame, it really is. It's it's a total shame. 297 00:22:22.359 --> 00:22:26.160 And you, I mean, you watch an episode like this and you just 298 00:22:26.200 --> 00:22:30.119 have to ask yourself it was anyone in the audience fooled by the twist, 299 00:22:32.160 --> 00:22:34.640 and if they weren't, why did you do such an obvious on the nose 300 00:22:34.680 --> 00:22:41.559 twist to begin with? I mean, I don't know, not spectacular, 301 00:22:41.160 --> 00:22:45.559 lazy, but hey, those English accents, right, I mean, I 302 00:22:45.640 --> 00:22:47.880 like the English accents, and I like the look of the show, but 303 00:22:47.960 --> 00:22:52.359 I don't like anything else. I mean, my hope is that the quality 304 00:22:52.519 --> 00:22:55.359 of the script will catch up to the way the show looks. Now, 305 00:22:55.640 --> 00:22:57.240 yeah, I mean there's got to be one or two, right, I 306 00:22:57.240 --> 00:23:00.920 mean hopefully, you know, I would like to believe so, but I 307 00:23:00.960 --> 00:23:04.119 haven't seen anything yet that would show to the contrary that we're going to get 308 00:23:04.160 --> 00:23:08.440 anything good this season. I mean, again, this season is derided among 309 00:23:08.599 --> 00:23:14.319 fans as the lesser of all the seasons. Well, you know, so 310 00:23:14.359 --> 00:23:18.319 far, I gotta say it's comparable. Like I can't. I couldn't tell 311 00:23:18.319 --> 00:23:22.359 you just based on these two episodes that this is the worst that we've gotten. 312 00:23:22.519 --> 00:23:26.000 Like, I'll let you know, but there have been some pretty bad 313 00:23:26.000 --> 00:23:30.480 ones. I would say the quality of these two episodes so far, and 314 00:23:30.559 --> 00:23:34.279 I have watched the next two, the quality so far is very similar to 315 00:23:34.319 --> 00:23:38.839 season six. So if people are deriding this season specifically, I don't know 316 00:23:38.880 --> 00:23:42.920 why it's not any worse, and you know, speaking to the idea that 317 00:23:44.079 --> 00:23:47.079 like it's well shot and like, you know, for me, like I 318 00:23:47.119 --> 00:23:48.559 wanted to feel like a film, I don't want it to seem like sense. 319 00:23:49.680 --> 00:23:55.240 There are on the American version of the show, you know, there 320 00:23:55.240 --> 00:23:59.319 are episodes that are terribly written, terribly acted, and it all looks like 321 00:23:59.400 --> 00:24:03.720 they're on a set. So as far as I'm concerned, this season already 322 00:24:03.720 --> 00:24:06.640 has a step up. Yeah, it doesn't look like a set. It 323 00:24:06.680 --> 00:24:11.000 looks like it's definitely filmed in the UK. Yeah, because it was exactly 324 00:24:11.240 --> 00:24:15.880 skip this one, big time, skip, big time skip. So on 325 00:24:15.920 --> 00:24:18.240 the next episode of Chronicles from the Crypt, we're gonna be taking a look 326 00:24:18.240 --> 00:24:22.519 at two more episodes, a slight case of murder and escape. Yep, 327 00:24:23.640 --> 00:24:32.759 yeah, can't wait, can't wait until then. Where can people find you, 328 00:24:32.880 --> 00:24:34.920 Father? Yeah? You can check me out over at Father Malone dot 329 00:24:34.960 --> 00:24:38.960 com. You can check out my new podcast, Dark Destinations. It's a 330 00:24:40.039 --> 00:24:45.519 travelog of fictional towns. You can also hear me over on Dreams for Sale, 331 00:24:45.519 --> 00:24:48.799 the Twilight Zone eighty five podcast that Chris and I do with our good 332 00:24:48.799 --> 00:24:51.519 friend Mike White. As for me, you can find me on Twitter, 333 00:24:51.640 --> 00:24:53.799 Casualty, Underscore, Chris. All the podcasts that I work on are there, 334 00:24:53.880 --> 00:24:57.519 Culture Cast, one Season Show, Scary Stories we Tell, They're all 335 00:24:57.559 --> 00:25:00.279 there, Go check them out. Can you find this episode? You can 336 00:25:00.279 --> 00:25:06.400 find this podcast on the internet at Chronicles FTC and we're also at Chronicles from 337 00:25:06.440 --> 00:25:11.559 the crypt dot Com. Big thanks as always to John Casier for the intro 338 00:25:11.640 --> 00:25:26.920 to the podcast, and we'll catch you on the next episode.