Revenge is the Nuts story
Arnie Grunwald is the sadistic and psychopathic head caretaker at a home for the blind. He routinely goes out of his way to abuse the home's patients, Samuel, Armelia, and Osgood, by lining the walls with razor blades, walling off the bathrooms, spilling marbles on the floor, and unleashing his guard dog Bruno on them. When Shelia, a new patient, arrives at the home, Arnie agrees to tone down the borderline inhumane conditions at the home if she sleeps with him. Refusing to do so, Shelia teams up with the other patients and Arnie's abused brother Benny to ensure that Arnie gets his much deserved comeuppance. Note: This episode's plot is adapted from Blind Alleys which was told in Tales From The Crypt #46 while using the title of the Vault of Horror story listed above. Directed by: Jonas McCord. Story by: Shel Willens.
11 total · 3 choice · 5 major · 3 minor
| Theme | Level | Motivation |
|---|---|---|
| blindness | choice | The story is about four blind protagonists stuck in a home with a sadistic caretaker who exploited and harassed them. They eventually broke free and turned the tables on their tormentor. |
| human vs. captivity | choice | The story is about four blind protagonists stuck in a home with a sadistic caretaker who won't let them leave. They struggled to escape. |
| the desire for vengeance | choice | The story built up to Shelia and the other victims finally turned the tables on Arnie and subjected him to some of the very same tortures he had often inflicted on them. |
| brother and brother | major | Benny was under the thumb of his older brother, Arnie. |
| cruelty | major | Arnie Grunwald wantonly neglected the welfare of those under his care at a home for the blind. He forced the residents to cohabitate in a filthy common room without much in the way of proper sanitation, and denied them adequate nourishment at one point, the other sadistic tortures notwithstanding. |
| sadism | major | Arnie Grunwald had several sadistic games he played on the inmates in his "home for the blind". For example, he poured marbles out on the floor in front of their feet, menaced them with his vicious rottweiler, and one gathers made them walk through a narrow passage lined with razor blades. |
| sexual assault | major | Arnie sought to coerce Shelia into having sex with him by means of threats of various kinds. |
| what if I were in a tight spot | major | Sheila was given an ultimatum by the caretaker of the home for the blind to which she'd been newly admitted: Either sleep with him at his beckon call or else live under the same inhumane conditions as the other residents. |
| living corpse | minor | The story is presented by the Crypt Keeper, a cackling, wisecracking cadaver. |
| master and pet | minor | Arnie and Benny kept a rottweiler named Bruno and used it to menace the inhabitants of their "home for the blind". |