In the latest episode of Rewind of the Living Dead, we’re going to hang out with the Crypt Keeper and make sure we fill up the key with blood as we review the 1995 film “Tales from the Crypt: Demon Knight” …
“Tales from the Crypt” was a popular horror anthology series that adapted stories from the original EC Comics with dozens of future acting stars getting their start on the show.
Universal Pictures owned the rights to the franchise and they approached producer Gil Adler to gauge his interest in directing the film.
Adler admitted he just wasn’t right for the job but he stayed on as producer and ultimately hired one-time cinematographer Ernest Dickerson to take over as director.
Dickerson adapted a spec script written by Ethan Reiff and Cyrus Voris that had been floating around Hollywood for nearly a decade already but just never got made.
As production ramped up, Dickerson insisted on casting a Black woman as one of the primary protagonists because he knew audiences would just assume the character was going to die early in the movie.
He eventually hired Jada Pinkett Smith for that role and then he found Billy Zane to portray the villain in the film.
Dickerson actually credits Zane for many of the film’s best moments as he improved many of his most famous lines and moments throughout the movie.
The story centers around a mysterious traveler running from a demonic collector desperate to get its hands on a religious artifact that could either save or doom the world and they finally collide at a church converted into a motel in a nowhere little town in New Mexico …
In the latest episode of Rewind of the Living Dead, we’re going to hang out with the Crypt Keeper and make sure we fill up the key with blood as we review the 1995 film “Tales from the Crypt: Demon Knight” …
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