The Joy of Positivity pick of the day is the 1972 British Adaptation of Tales From the Crypt

Even without puppets and ghoulish wordplay, the British adaptation of Tales From the Crypt kicked ass.

In the framing device of the 1972 British adaptation of Tales from the Crypt, a group of strangers finds itself in a mysterious crypt kept by a hooded figure, played by Ralph Richardson.

Richardson’s Crypt-Keeper shows the sinners how they’ll die. First up is Joanne Clayton (Joan Collins), a stunning black widow who repays her hubby’s Christmas kindness with murder. Robert Zemeckis adapted the same story with Larry Drake as the killer Santa in one of the best episodes of the much-loved HBO horror anthology.

She’s a sick twist who thinks nothing of offing her much older hubby. Even more horrifyingly, she does so with her daughter in the house.

The predator becomes prey when she learns a man has escaped from a local hospital for the criminally insane, dressed as Santa Claus. This sinister Saint Nick tries to enter the merry widow’s home and give her the gift of murder.