Tales from the Crypt (film)/YMMV


 * And the Fandom Rejoiced: After three long years on hiatus due to financial mismanagement, the acclaimed Archives program is being revived under a new publisher starting November 2011.
 * Anvilicious: The "social issue" tales in Shock Suspense Stories and, occasionally, in the SF/fantasy titles. (It's noteworthy that the in-house term for these pieces was "preachies.") The more critically-acclaimed of these stories would fall under Some Anvils Need to Be Dropped.
 * Complete Monster: Bill from "The Thing from the Grave." He turns jealous and psychotic after he learns his girlfriend is dating another man, so he goes off and kills the new boyfriend. If that weren't enough, he later openly admits to his girlfriend that he killed the man, then tries to burn the terrified woman alive. Fortunately, said other guy returns from the dead, saves the girl, and drags Bill to his well deserved demise, right where Bill had buried him months ago.
 * This status is made even worse in the TV adaptation, where it's shown that he was treating his girlfriend cruelly while they were still a couple.
 * James Elliot is even worse.
 * High Octane Nightmare Fuel: Boy, howdy. Too many examples to comfortably fit here. Yes, in the non-horror titles too. Why there isn't a page made for this, who knows?!
 * Hilarious in Hindsight: In the movie "The Vault of Horror", Tom Baker plays a painter who, thanks to voodoo, can mutilate people in the same way their paintings are mutilated (jabbing out the eyes = being blinded, putting a red dot on their forhead = getting shot, ect.) By the end, thanks to a fallen can of lacquer thinner applied to his own self-portrait, Baker has his head run over. Why is this hilarious? Because if this was 1974, and not 1972 (when the film was released), Baker could've regenerated.
 * Nightmare Retardant: The creators didn't always get it quite right, and reuse of certain scenes by later artists has reduced the shock factor considerably when readers see the original.
 * Some Anvils Need to Be Dropped: Specifically, "Judgment Day" and "Master Race"