Line #6 Headscratchers/TalesFromTheCrypt


1	!![[Film/TalesFromTheCrypt 1972 movie]]
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3	* In the 1972 ''Film/TalesFromTheCrypt'' movie, "Reflection of Death" ends with [[spoiler: Maitland stuck in a sort of GroundhogDayLoop]], and "Wish You Were Here" ends with [[spoiler: Jason kept alive and in agony forever]]. How do they end up as part of the group in the framing story? And what's the point of the Crypt Keeper [[spoiler: sending them to Hell, when they already seemed to be consigned to a version of it within their own stories]]?
4	** It is likely that Maitland was NOT stuck into this and that the second time he died for good like in the comic that the story was based upon. As for Jason, it is a plot hole plain and simple, though it could be easily explained by his friend taking the statue and wishing for him to die and rest in peace. The statue wouldn't have to twist the wish at all to make him suffer, all things considered.
5	** I thought that his soul/spirit/essence/whatever had already passed on after death and that his wife's wish just made his soulless corpse spring to life.
6	** Or maybe the Crypt Keeper isn't just tasked with telling people about FireAndBrimstoneHell, but ''any'' kind of Hell. Jason's terrible fate included.
7	** Perhaps those scenes take place after the FramingDevice, and those are their eternal punishment in hell.
8	* How did Joan Collins' daughter open the door when two of the five locks were way above her reach?
9	** Probably something simple like a step stool.
10	* If Jason's wife's last wish made him immortal (he was alive even after being hacked to pieces with a sword), how does he finally die and wind up in Hell along with the other characters?
11	* What exactly did Jason do in "Wish You Were Here" to deserve hell? Joanne killed her husband, Carl Maitland abandoned his wife and kids, James Elliot drove an old man to suicide out of spite, and Major Rogers neglected his wards at the home for the blind, but all Jason did was die and get brought back to life because of his careless wife. I've heard there's implications of being an arms trafficker, but I've watched the whole movie through, and not once did I get that. Even if he is, it's odd that out of the five, he's the only one to have no one screen reason for eternal damnation.
12	** The entire moral of the original Monkey's Paw story is to not be greedy and be happy with what you have, or you'll pay for it. This takes that lesson to an extreme. Besides, the idea of an innocent person suffering horribly through no fault of their own is an EC Comics staple.
13	** At the beginning of the segment it was clear that he was ruthless in his business dealings, uncaring of the people he hurt. Presenting this fact to his lawyer, the lawyer stated it wasn't necessary to be cruel. However, the fact that we never find out what he did or witness him doing anything bad makes his fate seem like KarmicOverkill.
14	*** InformedAttribute at best, since none of his actions in the segment really reflect that.
15	* Speaking of "Wish You Were Here", why would Jason be full of embalming fluid if his wife used the second wish to bring him back as he was immediately ''before'' the accident? Explain ''that'', movie!
16	** In this case "before the accident" probably just means "alive". Or at least that's the way the figurine thought of twisting things.
17	* So in "Reflections of Death" Carl Maitland gets in a car crash. When he wakes up, he's been flung from the car. Given that the twist is that he actually died, why is his corpse still at the scene of the crime? Surely, it would've been recovered and buried.
18	** Because it would have ruined the twist. Maybe he hallucinated it. Also, depending on how long after the crash he "wakes up", it's possible no one has called the paramedics to collect the body yet.
19	*** Enough time has passed for his wife to remarry and his lover to be released from whatever hospital she would've been sent to, meaning he would've had plenty of time to be buried. Though considering the second twist was that he was dreaming the whole thing, the rest checks out.
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22	!![[Series/TalesFromTheCrypt TV show]]
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24	* In "The Man Who Was Death", at least two cases of murder had the culprits go free after the death penalty was abolished. Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't prison time still a thing? Even if they weren't sentenced to execution, that shouldn't mean they'd get off scot-free for their crimes.
25	** They went free because they were acquitted, not because the death penalty was abolished. If they had been found guilty, they likely would've been given life in prison.
26	* Why is their version of "Blind Alleys" called "Revenge is the Nuts"? Not only is it based in a home for the blind and not a nut house, that title is related to an entirely different story from the comics.

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