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Tales from the Crypt: From Comic Books to Television!

 

WINNER! CINE Golden Eagle Award for Outstanding Historical Documentary - Spring 2005.    


"Mixing delightful interviews with fascinating newsreel footage, this documentary serves up a joyous celebration of the powers of imagination over the forces of repression. Recommended."    ---- Video Librarian


"Fans of horror, comic books and American history can rejoice. Tales From the Crypt: From Comic Books to Television! is an excellent documentary that delves into EC’s humble comic book beginnings and shows how it transformed into the spectacle it is today... I was thrilled to watch this documentary."    ---- Doug Brunell, FilmThreat.com


"This entertaining documentary examines the rise, fall, and resurgence of horror comics...The briskly edited program bursts with playfully ghastly music, clever sound effects and iconographic animation...Including a wealth of extras, this DVD is a must for pop-culture collections."    ---- Booklist


"This ghoulish fun is recommended for fans of comics and horror films; larger public libraries should consider."    ---- Library Journal


"As a piece of history, as well as a celebration of some enormously skilled showmen, this is a fascinating, fact-filled film... Featuring an image so garish and colorful that it practically leaps off the TV screen...With lots of loving detail and a wealth of visual wonders, this is one impressive picture... [It] also boasts an incredibly dense Dolby Digital 5.1 Surround mix that incorporates a lot of ambient elements...We get spooky music, various groans and screams, and some nice separation in the channels throughout the course of the presentation."    ---- DVDTalk.com


"This compelling documentary does a lot of things well...Tales from the Crypt: From Comic Books to Television should be required viewing for comic readers and horror fans...This 2-disc pack is exploding with voluminous ghastly goodies."    ---- CHUD.com


"The appealing professionalism of the show should put the true balanced story of EC into general circulation for the first time... This DVD does a fine job of leaving nothing out."    ---- Comic Book Marketplace


"I'm so delighted to be included in this documentary! EC Comics played an important part in my childhood -- and in my writing. I thought I knew everything about them. But this DVD had some shocks and surprises even for me! And I loved seeing all the amazing, horrifying art again!"   ---- R.L. Stine, author of Goosebumps and The Nightmare Room


"Packed with interviews from genre luminaries...Chip Selby's brilliant doc chronicles the rise of EC's iconic horror comics of the 1950's through their persecution at the hands of Congress and Frederic Wertham's Seduction of the Innocent, and their eventual reappraisal as classics of comic storytelling and eventual translation into the medium of television.    ---- IGN FilmForce


"It's a marvelous, cleverly put-together piece...Fangorians with even the remotest interest in this chapter of horror history, or in the movies and TV series based on EC's stories and characters like "The Crypt Keeper," owe it to themselves to check this disc out."    ---- Fangoria


"As colourful and slickly produced as the comics that inspired it... The true value of "Tales from the Crypt: From Comic Books to Television" is contained in its bonus features (collectively three times longer than the main feature)... It's worth the $29.99 USD plus shipping and handling for the [Bradbury] interview alone.    ---- Rue Morgue Magazine


"This documentary covers all the bases with an engaging and flashy style that often replicates the comic book format...The docu features a huge amount of colorful artwork from the original comic books, plenty of rare photographs and anecdotes, and a clear-eyed view of the moral panic that ensued as children were presumably being turned into deviants...Great stuff all around..."    ---- Mondo Digital


"Anyone with the slightest interest in EC Comics will want a copy of the new documentary produced and directed by Chip Selby...[T]he best way to experience it is to go to his website and order the DVD, which includes loads of extra footage. It's about time someone did something like this, and Chip sure did it right."     ---- Mark Evanier , TV/Comic Book writer


"The film is a great historical reference for the evolution of the horror comic and its resounding influences on today's comic book stories and market. The DVD version of an already-superb documentary contains almost three hours of bonus material...This DVD is a must have item for serious EC collectors and comic book fans."     ---- SCOOP


"Tales from the Crypt: From Comic Books to Television" does the impossible by capturing the original flavor, living personalities and true social implications of the greatest comic book company of all time!"     ---- Jerry Weist, author of The 100 Greatest Comic Books


"For fans of 'Tales from the Crypt' this documentary is a treasure trove, plain and simple. Full of valuable insights and information, this documentary is wonderfully produced and fun to watch... The bonus materials are equally impressive, making this DVD a must have..."     ---- DVD Review.com


"All fans of the horror genre should pop this sucker into their DVD player and revisit a huge part of horror history..."     ---- Creature Corner


"The TV show itself is spectacular. The graphics, using the EC comic book art, are absolutely mind-boggling...You have done a masterful job."    ---- Al Feldstein, Editor/Writer/Artist, EC Comics

 

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