Rating: R
Genre:
Horror
Release Date: 10/07/2003
SubTitles: English/Espanol/French
Dubbed: English/French
Sound: DD5.1/DDS
Run Time: 93 Minutes
Flags: Adult Situations, Not For Children, Profanity, Gore
Distributor/Studio: Universal Studios
This first theatrical feature spun off from the television series
Tales from the Crypt (which was in turn inspired by the infamous EC horror comics of the 1950s) concerns a mysterious man named
Brayker (
Bill Sadler), who arrives at a church-turned-rooming house in a small town in New Mexico. Hot on his trail is an equally mysterious and very menacing figure known as
the Collector (
Billy Zane), who arrives with policemen in tow; he claims that
Brayker stole some keys from him, and he wants the cops to help him reclaim them. It turns out, however, that the "keys" are actually several amulets that contain drops of the blood of Christ; they can be used to ward off evil in the right hands, but they can lead the world to doom if used improperly.
The Collector and his forces lay siege to the house with the other residents caught in the middle between
Brayker and
the Collector, including alcoholic
Uncle Willy (
Dick Miller), prostitute
Cordelia (
Brenda Bakke), sleazy Southerner
Roach (
Thomas Haden Church), postal employee
Wally (
Charles Fleischer), sensible
Jeryline (
Jada Pinkett), and landlady
Irene (
CCH Pounder).
Bordello of Blood, the second
Tales from the Crypt feature, hit theaters the following year.
~ Mark Deming, All Movie Guide
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