The Vault of Horror

Last night I was watching the 1973 movie The Vault of Horror, directed by Roy Ward Baker. The movie stars Terry-Thomas, Denholm Elliot, Curt Jurgens, Tom Baker and Michael Craig, and revolves around five men who find themselves trapped in a mysterious sub-basement in a high rise building. To pass the time they tell each other stories of their recurring nightmares and deepest fears. The movie consists of five self-contained stories and a framing story linking them together. It was a pretty good film. I really like those anthology type films, because you always knew that if one story was bad there would soon be another one along. It's reviewed at Permanently Weird.

I went along to my parent's house today. The new issue of Fortean Times had arrived, the main feature this month being the theory that reports of the Chupacabras creature may have been influenced by the alien from the movie Species. We had some lasagne for lunch, and then walked along to the zoo for a bit. It was cheap to get in today due to the snow and cold. We saw sealions, penguins, rheas, parrots, tapirs, koalas, sun bears, chimpanzees, rhinos, pygmy hippos, gibbons and various monkeys. It was a nice trip and we managed to see a lot despite the fact that we didn't have much time and there was a lot of snow and ice.

I got back home at around half past five.