In the devil's noose
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | In the devil's noose |
| Original title | The Vault of Horror |
| Country of production | United Kingdom |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 1973 |
| length | 87 minutes |
| Rod | |
| Director | Roy Ward Baker |
| script | Milton Subotsky |
| production | Milton Subotsky Max J. Rosenberg |
| music | Douglas Gamley |
| camera | Denys N. Coop |
| cut | Oswald Hafenrichter |
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In the Snare of the Devil (OT: The Vault of Horror ) is a 1972 British horror episode film directed by Roy Ward Baker . The leading roles are Terry-Thomas , Curd Jürgens , Michael Craig , Glynis Johns , Dawn Addams , Edward Judd , Denholm Elliott and the siblings Daniel Massey and Anna Massey . The film is based on several short stories.
action
prolog
Five unknown people step into an elevator in a modern London office complex and land in the basement without anyone having pressed the button. There you come across a nobly furnished room in the style of a gentleman's club. The elevator door has long since closed and nothing and nobody can take the five people away from here. The five patiently submit to this eerie situation and now begin to tell each other stories in order to wait for the time to the hoped-for rescue from this situation, which cannot be influenced from here. Each of these stories has something to do with a recurring nightmare.
Midnight Mess
Angry that his sister Donna has become the sole heir to his father's fortune, Harold Rogers decides to visit her in a remote, dark village to instantly murder her. That's how it happens. Harold then returns to an inn, completely relaxed, in order to first enjoy a meal and to celebrate the new wealth for himself. But he has gone to the wrong place at the wrong time: Harold has landed in a vampire nest, and the fluttering undead have chosen him for their main meal. The presumably dead Donna is also not quite as dead as he had hoped. The long teeth greedily squint at his carotid artery ...
The Neat Job
Petty bourgeois Arthur Critchit is a terrible pedant who is literally driving his wife Eleanor insane with his obsessive obsession with order. The polarity is very different and by no means the perfect housewife he had hoped to marry. Once Arthur is out of the house, she likes to let Fünfe be straight in order to panic all the more properly when the old moan is on the march. The more hectic Eleanor tries to tidy up the apartment at the last second, the more she creates more and more chaos in a kind of chain reaction. So annoyed by his obsession with cleanliness and control mania, she kills him just at the moment when he wants to give another lecture, starting with the words: "Can't you do anything properly?" Now she has done it really properly: Eleanor has knock him down properly with a hammer, his body neatly dismantled and all organs disposed of individually and of course neatly in jars with appropriate stickers.
This Trick'll Kill You
The third story takes place in India. The extremely self-conscious, if not to say arrogant, magician Sebastian discovers an amazing rope trick with a fakir during a study trip that he absolutely wants for his show - at any price. But the fakir does not want to let him do this trick, so that Sebastian first exposes the fakir and then murders his assistant, whom he lured into the hotel and his wife Inez, who was traveling with him. Sebastian takes the rope, which can be turned into a snake by playing the flute. From now on, Inez is to take on the role in the rope trick that the fakir's assistant had previously played. But this trick soon works like a curse that will fall on Sebastian and his no less murderous wife. Inez immediately tries to emulate the assistant and climbs up the rope while Sebastian flutes. Suddenly there is a bloodcurdling scream and Inez disappears. All that remains is a large blood stain on the ceiling. The rope, however, winds and knots around Sebastian's neck and strangles him. A little later, the assistant shows up in the bazaar where Sebastian and Inez first saw them with the fakir's rope trick.
Bargain in Death
To cheat the insurance company, Mr. Maitland is buried alive. He and his friend Alex came up with the following morbid “stroke of genius” in order to get Maitland's life insurance premium: Milan “dies” and is buried in the cemetery. But the plan goes completely wrong, because Alex turns out to be a bastard and cruelly suffocates his buddy Maitland in the coffin. One day two medical students, appropriately named Tom and Jerry, bribe a gravedigger to retrieve a body from the cemetery that they need for medical studies. When that Maitland's coffin opens, things take their terrible turn. In fact, Maitland survived and jumps out of his coffin, scaring Tom and Jerry almost to death. The two young men, in turn, run in panic onto the main street, where they are almost hit by a car with Alex, of all people, behind the wheel. During the evasive maneuver, Alex's car gets out of control, crashes into a tree, catches fire and finally explodes. In order to tame Maitland, who has gone wild and who now believes and attacks everyone in the cemetery as a participant in the conspiracy against him, the gravedigger strikes with his spade and now finally transports Maitland to the afterlife. The grave digger apologized to his two clients, the budding physicians, that at least the skull of the excavated man was no longer usable.
Drawn and Quartered
The English painter Moore lives more badly than right from his art in Haiti . When he found out that while he was starving in the Caribbean heat, the art dealers Diltant and Gaskill, who had bought up his last works, were selling them on at extremely high prices at home in England after an extremely benevolent review by the art critic Fenton Breedley, and thus a fat profit he is furious and seeks revenge - especially since the three compatriots had always assured him that his art was worthless and that buying it was a kind of act of grace and generosity. In the home of voodoo magic, Moore goes to a Haitian voodoo priest and has his painting hand given appropriate powers. Moore learns that from now on he has absolute power over the fate of the people he would take portraits of. Since Moore is also busy completing a self-portrait, he locks this painting away as a precaution so that nothing happens to him. Then the artist returns to England and begins to paint portraits of Gaskill and Diltant, but also of the critic Breedley, and mutilates and destroys them in a horrible way. In fact, soon afterwards, all three men die who so shamefully betrayed the honest wages of his work. Since he also has to get his self-portrait out of the airtight security container in order not to suffocate, a serious mishap happens promptly. A worker accidentally spills paint thinner and spills it on the self-portrait, and Moore dies a terrible death as a result.
epilogue
Now that each of the five trapped people has told their story, everyone involved begins to ponder the deeper meaning of their nightmares. Suddenly the elevator door opens again and gives you a view ... of a cemetery. You step through the door and one by one disappears from the scene. Only Sebastian stays behind and explains that they, who were all dead from the start, were doomed to tell the stories of their evil deeds in order to record them forever. He returns to the study, which is suddenly completely empty, and disappears just like the others. Then the door closes with a loud bang.
Production notes
In the Devil's Snare , a sequel to the 1971 episode film Tales from the Crypt , was made at Twickenham Studios in 1972 and premiered in March 1973. The strip did not start in German cinemas and only had a television premiere on February 2, 1996 (on RTL ).
Charles W. Fries took over the production management. Tony Curtis designed the film structures.
For the veteran German-Austrian cutter Oswald Hafenrichter, as well as the former Chaplin actress Dawn Addams , this was the last film activity.
synchronization
| role | actor | Voice actor |
|---|---|---|
| Arthur Critchit | Terry Thomas | Hans Sievers |
| Sebastian | Curd Juergens | Gottfried Kramer |
| Inez | Dawn Addams | Angela Stresemann |
| Eleanor | Glynis Johns | Renate Pichler |
| Inez | Dawn Addams | Angela Stresemann |
| Diltant | Denholm Elliott | Harald Pages |
| Bradley | Terence Alexander | Lothar Grützner |
| Moors | Tom Baker | Gerhard Marcel |
Reviews
"Five horror stories, intertwined by a thin connecting thread, which deal with murder, torture, bloodthirsty vampires and voodoo."
"Weak horror episodes based on the legendary EC comics."
“All-Star Omnibus; simple but well staged. "
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b In the Devil's Snare. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed December 1, 2018 .
- ↑ In the Devil's Loop in the German dubbing index
Web links
- In the snare of the devil in the Internet Movie Database (English)