Welcome back, boys and ghouls to another trip back to the crypt. We’re still going through that first season of Tales From The Crypt and I find it interesting to see actors who have since become familiar faces. Here, we have Lea Thompson and Brett Cullen, both of whom I’ve seen them star in many feature films since their early work on Tales From The Crypt.
Lea Thompson plays a sexy, young prostitute, Sylvia Vane, who dreams of something bigger. She’s quite fond of her beauty and bets a fellow-prostitute that she can use her looks to get with Ronnie Price (Brett Cullen), one of the big shot millionaires.
It’s not much of a stretch for Lea Thompson to play a sexy woman. I’ve always been quite fond of her, in fact. The biggest complaint I have is her less than attractive accent. It didn’t really fit the woman, quite honestly.
Strapped for cash, Sylvia makes a deal with a bizarre fella who runs a local pawn shop. He makes a mold of her face and gives her $10,000 cash for it. Sylvia’s beauty is given to what I assume is the pawn shop owner’s deceased wife. He has kept her body in the back of the shop all this time.
Making things all the more bizarre, Sylvia doesn’t come back within the four months to return her beauty. I know, it doesn’t make a whole hell of a lot of sense, but that’s horror writing for ‘ya. She ends up losing her beauty within hours. And yet, her arms looked just fine. The only portion of her body which shows any signs of aging is her face.
She wasn’t able to get her beauty back in the end because she ended up killing her eventual husband (Ronnie Price) and left evidence of it at the crime scene. If she were to get her old face back, she’d be locked up as soon as she is found. With the aging face, she’ll be a free woman but remain horrible looking.
The fact that her body wasn’t aging like her face was showed me just how much thought went into the production of this episode. I am sure the budgets for this show wasn’t that impressive, but they should have either covered up her arms or simply not have shown them in the later scenes.
Rating: 6.8
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