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Dead Easy and Body Count
2 years ago
As we all know, the HBO horror series Tales from the Crypt was based on comics from EC, though some were adapted from other comics with different names. People were even graced when movies were made under the TftC name as we know as “Demon Knight”, “Bordello of Blood”, and “Ritual”. Now, it’s an understatement that the last one wasn’t based on any story from the comics, none of the movies were; Ritual wasn’t even a Tales from the Crypt movie to begin with, they just slapped on the Crypt Keeper and try to advertise it with the name.
Though nat a gem, Demon Knight was actually a pretty solid movie that tried to stay in tone with Tales From the Crypt. Bordello of Blood wasn’t as good, and Ritual…. Less said the better. What many people don’t know is that producers from Universal were trying to make a Tales from the Crypt movie trilogy and that Demon Knight was supposed to be the second entry. The movie before Demon Knight was called “Fat Tuesday”, later renamed Dead Easy”, while the one after was called “Body Count”. The cross from Demon Knight was even supposed to be the one prop that connected all three movies together. Sadly, Dead Easy and Body Count never came to be and were considered lost media. Recent, however, many fans weee able to find the script writers, who elaborated on what the plots of each movie were.
Dead Easy even had a private reading with Sean Astin as the main lead. Though there are many things that are in both plots, here’s what I’ve managed to piece together.
Dead Easy/Fat Tuesday: A man living in New Orleans remembers trauma as a boy since his father was from a clan of mystics who’s did something against them. The father was banished and died, but he comes back as a harlequin-like demon and raises an army of zombies. Not only that, but the undead mystic goes after his grandson, leading the MC to get into conflict with him.
Body Count: A modern take on Frankenstein where a college stoner tries making a documentary about war violence, when finds out his uncle hiding a dark secret. Said secret must’ve been that he find a way to bring back the dead as he’s able to resurrect a corpse. But, as you’d expect, something goes wrong when the corpse has a Rambo-like mindset and goes on a vigilante rampage.
How either would go down is still beyond me, and Dead Easy was said to have a prominent Afro-American cast, not as much as The Wiz or Meteor Man since I don’t think the MC was going to be Afro-American, but who can say? One thing I found out, the harlequin demon was showing to be voiced by the Crypt Keeper himself, John Kassir.
And hey, just cause they weren’t adapted then, doesn’t mean they can’t be now. Just keep it away from Blumhouse…. And any other studio who uses CG .
Though nat a gem, Demon Knight was actually a pretty solid movie that tried to stay in tone with Tales From the Crypt. Bordello of Blood wasn’t as good, and Ritual…. Less said the better. What many people don’t know is that producers from Universal were trying to make a Tales from the Crypt movie trilogy and that Demon Knight was supposed to be the second entry. The movie before Demon Knight was called “Fat Tuesday”, later renamed Dead Easy”, while the one after was called “Body Count”. The cross from Demon Knight was even supposed to be the one prop that connected all three movies together. Sadly, Dead Easy and Body Count never came to be and were considered lost media. Recent, however, many fans weee able to find the script writers, who elaborated on what the plots of each movie were.
Dead Easy even had a private reading with Sean Astin as the main lead. Though there are many things that are in both plots, here’s what I’ve managed to piece together.
Dead Easy/Fat Tuesday: A man living in New Orleans remembers trauma as a boy since his father was from a clan of mystics who’s did something against them. The father was banished and died, but he comes back as a harlequin-like demon and raises an army of zombies. Not only that, but the undead mystic goes after his grandson, leading the MC to get into conflict with him.
Body Count: A modern take on Frankenstein where a college stoner tries making a documentary about war violence, when finds out his uncle hiding a dark secret. Said secret must’ve been that he find a way to bring back the dead as he’s able to resurrect a corpse. But, as you’d expect, something goes wrong when the corpse has a Rambo-like mindset and goes on a vigilante rampage.
How either would go down is still beyond me, and Dead Easy was said to have a prominent Afro-American cast, not as much as The Wiz or Meteor Man since I don’t think the MC was going to be Afro-American, but who can say? One thing I found out, the harlequin demon was showing to be voiced by the Crypt Keeper himself, John Kassir.
And hey, just cause they weren’t adapted then, doesn’t mean they can’t be now. Just keep it away from Blumhouse…. And any other studio who uses CG .
