Tales from the Crypt: The Robert Zemeckis Collection

Story

Synopsis

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.

Director

Robert Zemeckis

Writers

A L Katz, Fred Dekker, Jim Thomas

Language

English

Release date

7 September 1999

Ensemble

Cast

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  John Kassir

  Crypt Keeper (voice)

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  Mary Ellen Trainor

  Wife

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  Larry Drake

  Santa

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  Marshall Bell

  Joseph

• Lindsey Whitney Barry

  Carrie Ann

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  Kirk Douglas

  General Kalthrob

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  Eric Douglas

  Lt. Martin Kalthrob

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  Lance Henriksen

  Sergeant Ripper

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  Dan Aykroyd

  Captain Milligan

• Dominick Morra

  Priest

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  Steve Boyum

  King

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  Chuck Picerni Jr.

  Jones