Facebook Twitter Pinterest

Have one to sell? Sell on Amazon

Vault of Horror [DVD] [1973]

Get £1 Off Amazon Video*

Curt Jurgens (Actor), Terry-Thomas (Actor), Roy Ward Baker (Director) Rated: Suitable for 15 years and over Format: DVD
3.9 out of 5 stars 41 customer reviews
7 new from Â£69.98 9 used from Â£7.99

LOVEFiLM By Post

Rent Vault Of Horror on DVD from LOVEFiLM By Post

Special Offers and Product Promotions

What Other Items Do Customers Buy After Viewing This Item?

Customers Also Watched on Amazon Video

Product details

  • Actors: Curt Jurgens, Terry-Thomas, Tom Baker, Denholm Elliott, Glynis Johns
  • Directors: Roy Ward Baker
  • Writers: Milton Subotsky, Al Feldstein, William M. Gaines
  • Producers: Charles W. Fries, Max Rosenberg, Milton Subotsky
  • Format: PAL, Colour
  • Language: English
  • Region: Region 2 (This DVD may not be viewable outside Europe. Read more about DVD formats.)
  • Aspect Ratio: 4:3 - 1.33:1
  • Number of discs: 1
  • Classification: 15
  • Studio: Vipco
  • DVD Release Date: 13 Oct. 2003
  • Run Time: 83 minutes
  • Average Customer Review: 3.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (41 customer reviews)
  • ASIN: B00006FN36
  • Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 49,936 in DVD & Blu-ray (See Top 100 in DVD & Blu-ray)

    •  Would you like to update product info or give feedback on images?

Product Description

Product Description

Five separate horror tales, linked by the story of five men trapped in a vault beneath the Thames. The individual tales involve mysticism, vampires in an English town, the grisly end of an insurance racket, magicians, and the voodoo exploits of an artist who exacts revenge by painting the deaths of his detractors. Daniel Massey, Anna Massey, Tom Baker and Terry-Thomas star.

Customers Who Bought This Item Also Bought

Page 1 of 1 Start overPage 1 of 1
This shopping feature will continue to load items. In order to navigate out of this carousel please use your heading shortcut key to navigate to the next or previous heading.
Back
  1. Tales from the Crypt (1972) [DVD]
    Joan Collins
    4.6 out of 5 stars 91
    DVD
    £13.83 Amazon Prime
  2. Asylum (1972) ( House of Crazies )
    Peter Cushing
    3.9 out of 5 stars 46
    DVD
    £9.99 Amazon Prime
  3. From Beyond The Grave [DVD] [1973]
    Wendy Allnutt
    4.6 out of 5 stars 62
    DVD
  4. Dr. Terror's House of Horrors [DVD] [1965]
    Christopher Lee
    4.3 out of 5 stars 79
    DVD
  5. The House That Dripped Blood [1971] [DVD]
    Christopher Lee
    4.4 out of 5 stars 25
    DVD
    £41.85
  6. The Water Babies [DVD]
    James Mason
    4.4 out of 5 stars 40
    DVD
    £54.93 Amazon Prime
Next

Customer Reviews

Top Customer Reviews

5.0 out of 5 starsHow do you like your clots?....
By Corey Newcombe on 14 Mar. 2014
Format: DVD
Five men trapped in the basement vault of an office building share visions with each other of their demise.

Stories revolve around vampires, bodily dismemberment, east Indian mysticism, an insurance scam, and an artist who kills by painting his victims' deaths....

These sort of movies were ten-a-penny in the seventies, and in the US, this was released as a sequel to 'Tales from the Crypt'.

As usual with these films that are stories that are really striking, and others that pale in comparison. The first and last stories are the strongest here, funny for all the wrong reasons (the vampire teeth, and Bakers beard), but still eerie enough to give you a chill.

But this is where the problem lies, the three stories in the middle, while still good, pale in comparison, and you find yourself waiting for the next chapter.

Thankfully, it has enough camp elements, even in the more slower stories to keep the viewer entertained. The segments between the stories are entertaining with the main characters giving each other a bit of 'hell',

and the final speech, with Jurgens breaking the fourth wall, makes the film that little bit better.
2 Comments 5 people found this helpful. Was this review helpful to you? Yes No Sending feedback...
Thank you for your feedback.
Sorry, we failed to record your vote. Please try again
Report abuse
2.0 out of 5 starsA disappointing DVD release of an old favourite of mine
By Jeremy W. Newbould on 14 April 2007
Format: DVD Verified Purchase
PLEASE NOTE THAT THIS REVIEW IS BASED ON THE VIPCO DVD RELEASE OF THIS FILM.

In the 1960s and 1970s Amicus were one of the main rivals of Hammer Studios, specialising in making horror films in the `Dead Of Night' portmanteau format.

One of my favourite Amicus movies has always been this one, mainly because of its superb all-star cast. Like `Tales From The Crypt', made a year earlier, this film takes its inspiration from the old EC comics of the 1950s as well as from other Amicus productions such as `Dr Terrors House Of Horrors' and `The House That Dripped Blood'.

The set up is fairly simple: Five men congregate in an elevator but instead of stopping at each one's desired floor the elevator takes them down to a basement room where each man then tells the others their recurring nightmare...

The first story is called Midnight Mess and stars real-life brother and sister Daniel and Anna Massey. A man called Rogers tracks down his sister to a strange town and tells her that their father has died and that she will inherit everything. Unfortunately he then pulls out a switchblade knife and stabs her several times, thus ensuring that all the money will go to him instead. To celebrate his impending wealth, the evil heir-sole then goes to a local restaurant but it is no ordinary restaurant...

The second story (The Neat Job) stars the late great Terry-Thomas as a man obsessed with neatness and tidiness. When he marries a clumsy and accident-prone lady it is inevitable that it is going to end in tragedy.

The third story (This Trick'll Kill You) stars future Bond villain Curt Jurgens as an unscrupulous magician who will go to any lengths to obtain new illusions for his latest act.Read more ›
4 Comments 52 people found this helpful. Was this review helpful to you? Yes No Sending feedback...
Thank you for your feedback.
Sorry, we failed to record your vote. Please try again
Report abuse
3.0 out of 5 starsVAULT OF HORROR
By MADMAN TOP 500 REVIEWER on 3 April 2016
Format: Blu-ray Verified Purchase
Vault of Horror is a great film but sadly this Blu-ray release is very poor, don't get me wrong the Blu-ray transfer is very nice it gets a 4/5 from me. My problem with this release is the back cover because for some reason the information about the film has been distorted, so the only way to find out is to play the film.

Now am no expert about the films ratio but it looks like full screen to me with slight black bars top and bottom.

The sound is in 2ch PCM which does sound good.

There are no bonus features or subtitles.

A very average release from Final Cut.
11 Comments 5 people found this helpful. Was this review helpful to you? Yes No Sending feedback...
Thank you for your feedback.
Sorry, we failed to record your vote. Please try again
Report abuse
3.0 out of 5 starsIf you can play Region A (locked) Blu-rays, get the U.S edition but otherwise this will do!
By Robert on 3 April 2016
Format: Blu-ray Verified Purchase
Fairly good Blu-ray by Final Cut but I'd say only buy it if you don't have a Region A Blu-ray player & thus can't play the perfect U.S release which includes Tales From The Crypt too. In that edition we have three prints of "Vault.."; the original 4 x 3 uncut edition (in the correct ratio, as shot), the uncut 16:9 cropped print & the edited U.S theatrical cut in 16:9. I mainly watch the 4:3 print as that was how it was made.
4 Comments 4 people found this helpful. Was this review helpful to you? Yes No Sending feedback...
Thank you for your feedback.
Sorry, we failed to record your vote. Please try again
Report abuse
3.0 out of 5 starsPoor print but at least it's uncut unlike the American dvd release
By David VINE VOICE on 8 Sept. 2007
Format: DVD
As the other reviewers of this film have said the print quality is awful and is full screen. Fox have just released a double disk containing this film and Tales From The Crypt. Both films are presented in 1.85 widescreen. However, before you throw your Vipco dvd away be warned the American dvd of Vault Of Horror is cut unlike the Vipco release. The scene is at the end of the first story Midnight Mess where the vampires drain Daniel Massey's neck like a beer tap. This scene just freeze frames in the American release but is intact in the Vipco dvd. How annoying is that! I should mention their print of Tales From The Crypt is totally uncut. So you are left with the choice or either having a lovely widescreen print which is cut or a rather naff fullscreen print which is uncut. Talk about a no win situation.
2 Comments 16 people found this helpful. Was this review helpful to you? Yes No Sending feedback...
Thank you for your feedback.
Sorry, we failed to record your vote. Please try again
Report abuse
3.0 out of 5 starsNot the best of the Amicus anthologies.
By Mr. Russell C. Witheyman on 21 Aug. 2013
Format: DVD Verified Purchase
Vault of Horror was the penultimate anthology movie made by Hammer rivals Amicus films. In this one sadly there is no Peter Cushing, but it still has an array of great actors like Tom Baker,Denholm Elliott,Curt Jurgens etc.

There are 5 stories, usually there are 4, but being that this is the shortest out of all the Amicus anthologies (1hr 22mins)the stories whip by at lightning pace. The reason i've given this only 3 stars, is that there are at least 3 other Amicus anthology movies better than this one. It's let down by 2 very mediocre stories which really disappointed me on first viewing. The best segments are the story with Curt Jurgens as a magician searching for a new magic trick in India, and the final story which stars Tom Baker as an artist who enacts revenge using voodoo on the people that have wronged him. This is one of the best stories of any of the Amicus anthologies and is worth the purchase price alone. The wraparound story isn't the best either and thematically is very simialr to the ones used in "Tales from the crypt" and "Dr Terrors house of horrors".

Ignore the grumblings about the poor picture on the Vipco release. It looks fine. Yes the picture is occasionally soft-ish, and it's in 4.3 pan and scan, but if people think this is horrendous quality then frankly they need a new pair of glasses. After reading some of the reviews i was expecting to be watching a LP VHS taped from the telly transfer but i thought it looked quite reasonable. Certainly not top notch or anything but more than watchable.

I believe there is a better transfer, and in widescreen, on a U.S Midnight movies double bill set with Tales From the Crypt, but that print is CUT, the Vipco release is UNCUT but pan and scan.
Comment One person found this helpful. Was this review helpful to you? Yes No Sending feedback...
Thank you for your feedback.
Sorry, we failed to record your vote. Please try again
Report abuse

Most Recent Customer Reviews

4.0 out of 5 starsThree stars for a superb film, however,

Three stars for a superb film, however, sadly the blu ray is not that more impressive picture wise than my original dvd

Published 4 days ago by Boogie Sandwich
5.0 out of 5 starsIt looks excellent and please use this and not the VIPCO dvd ...

the new transfer is the same as the Scream Factory version, its uncut a MGM only had the cut version the print was supplied to the USA via the UK film four and the BFI. Read more

Published 27 days ago by A. Hargreaves
5.0 out of 5 starsFive Stars

Adds to my collection.

Published 2 months ago by Winston Hoe
5.0 out of 5 starsBrilliant

Of All the E.C. and E.C. Style Anthologies that Amicus produced throughout the 70's.Vault of horror is My Favourite. Read more

Published 7 months ago by Mrs. D. Moncrieff
5.0 out of 5 starsFive Stars

greatty mcgreatgreat

Published 7 months ago by Paul S. Whiston
5.0 out of 5 starsFive Stars

Good quality film...very happy.

Published 14 months ago by Joe
3.0 out of 5 starsVault of deceit

I bought this set accidentally thinking it was the Hammer version. Some of the films are fine, some of them are el cheapo productions. Good price though.

Published 17 months ago by Louis Morter
5.0 out of 5 starsthis is a good film if you are into "old fashioned" b movies

this is a good film if you are into "old fashioned" b movies, it has a great cast of British actor, who were famous for their time, than they are now, that most of them... Read more

Published 17 months ago by NICOLA MATTHEWS
3.0 out of 5 starsThere`s something VAULTY going on!

CONFUSED WITH ALL THESE REVIEWS? I AM! This wonderful horror film from the 70`s featuring the 4th doctor who TOM BAKER is quickly becoming lost in it`s own vault of properly... Read more

Published 17 months ago by monster room
5.0 out of 5 starsReview

If you're a fan of the old late night horror's of yester-year then the likes of 'vault of horror from 1973 will suit you nicely. Read more

Published 22 months ago by Azee

There's a problem loading this menu at the moment.

Learn more about Amazon Prime.

Customer Discussions

This product's forum
› See all 2 discussions...

Look for similar items by category

Feedback