Tales from the Crypt: Cutting Cards starts as high stakes gambler Reno Crevice (Lance Henriksen) rolls back into town after a year away in Las Vegas, he heads straight for one of his old haunts & meets an old adversary in fellow professional gambler Sam Forney (Kevin Tighe). After trading insults they decide to do what they do best, gamble for extremely high stakes, first on the agenda is Russian roulette & if that wasn't bad enough then comes 'chop' poker...
This Tales from the Crypt story was episode 3 from season 2, co-written & directed by one of the show's regular executive producers Walter Hill I thought Cutting Cards was a brilliant tale of of two egos. Tales from the Crypt used to play over here in the UK back in the 90's & that's where I originally saw loads of them, I can clearly remember certain episodes & in particular certain scenes with Cutting Cards one of the stories I've always remembered & having seen it again after all these years it's as good as I remembered it, if not better. The script by Hill & Mae Wood was based on a story from the 'Tales from the Crypt' comic book & moves along at a nice pace, it doesn't take itself too seriously, it has two great central character's that really carry the story & it has an absolutely terrific twisted twist ending that I thought was brilliant & rounded the episode off perfectly. I think this is a cracking tale from the crypt & one of my absolute favourites of the ones I've seen & the closing scene featuring the Crypt Keeper (John Kassir) has him frying severed fingers as he serves up the usual puns, yummy!
This looks great & has the production values of a decent budget film, it certainly doesn't look like a cheap made-for-TV show. So far this is the best episode from season 2, although I'm only three stories into it, but for some reason it seems to be a good four or five minutes shorter at only 20 odd minutes in length for reasons I don't know. This has some cool finger severing scenes in it using a meat clever which look very painful, ouch! The acting is good with the fantastic Hendriksen stealing the show as the cowboy gambler & he's worth watching this episode for alone, for some strange reason Roy Brocksmith has a small role as a bartender but he was in the last story The Switch so it seemed a strange decision to recast him so quickly, but it doesn't really matter that much.
Cutting Cards is a clever title for a great episode, it's well worth watching & is a cool darkly comic piece of morbid twisted entertainment that will only take 20 minutes of your life to watch, what can I say other than do it!
This Tales from the Crypt story was episode 3 from season 2, co-written & directed by one of the show's regular executive producers Walter Hill I thought Cutting Cards was a brilliant tale of of two egos. Tales from the Crypt used to play over here in the UK back in the 90's & that's where I originally saw loads of them, I can clearly remember certain episodes & in particular certain scenes with Cutting Cards one of the stories I've always remembered & having seen it again after all these years it's as good as I remembered it, if not better. The script by Hill & Mae Wood was based on a story from the 'Tales from the Crypt' comic book & moves along at a nice pace, it doesn't take itself too seriously, it has two great central character's that really carry the story & it has an absolutely terrific twisted twist ending that I thought was brilliant & rounded the episode off perfectly. I think this is a cracking tale from the crypt & one of my absolute favourites of the ones I've seen & the closing scene featuring the Crypt Keeper (John Kassir) has him frying severed fingers as he serves up the usual puns, yummy!
This looks great & has the production values of a decent budget film, it certainly doesn't look like a cheap made-for-TV show. So far this is the best episode from season 2, although I'm only three stories into it, but for some reason it seems to be a good four or five minutes shorter at only 20 odd minutes in length for reasons I don't know. This has some cool finger severing scenes in it using a meat clever which look very painful, ouch! The acting is good with the fantastic Hendriksen stealing the show as the cowboy gambler & he's worth watching this episode for alone, for some strange reason Roy Brocksmith has a small role as a bartender but he was in the last story The Switch so it seemed a strange decision to recast him so quickly, but it doesn't really matter that much.
Cutting Cards is a clever title for a great episode, it's well worth watching & is a cool darkly comic piece of morbid twisted entertainment that will only take 20 minutes of your life to watch, what can I say other than do it!