S2E52: Grim Reaper V Crypt Keeper

The How NOT To Make A Movie Podcast

Aug 29 2023 | 01:04:14

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Welcome to the fright of the century – The Grim Reaper v The Crypt Keeper. It’s not at all unusual for writers and directors to forge long creative bonds with certain actors. Scorsese and De Niro… Hitchcock and James Stewart… Tarantino and Samuel L. Jackson. At Tales From The Crypt, we fell in love with a few actors ourselves and worked with them repeatedly. William Sadler arrived at Crypt before we did; he’s in one of the three brilliant episodes that launched the whole series on HBO. They’re the episodes that caused HBO to proclaim it was no longer TV, […]

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