# Identify this horror/thriller movie (or short?) for me, from a fairly vague description. **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [August 11, 2014, 6:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/identify-this-horror-thriller-movie-or-short-for-me-from-a-fairly-vague-description/695323 "2014-08-11T18:41:47Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![mhendo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mhendo/32/3159_2.png) [@mhendo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mhendo)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2014, 6:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/identify-this-horror-thriller-movie-or-short-for-me-from-a-fairly-vague-description/695323/1 "2014-08-11T18:41:47Z")
OK, i know this might not be much to go on, but i’m hoping that the collective cultural experience of the Dope can help me out. When i was a kid, i stayed over at a friend’s place and we stayed up most of the night watching TV. I was about 9 or 10 years old, so this was in the late 1970s, or 1980 at the latest. My friend was a real fan of horror and the macabre, and one of the things we watched was a film—i think a short film—that occasionally pops up in my memory. I’m hoping that someone can help me identify it. The basic plot of the movie is about a husband and wife. The husband (i think; it could be the other way round) is constantly nagging at his wife to keep things neat and in order. At the end of the film, she snaps and puts a hammer through the top of his skull. The last scene is a neat, orderly row of jars with all the man’s organs and body parts, and the woman saying something like, “A place for everything, and everything in its place.” As i said, my memory of this is very hazy, to the extent that i can’t remember whether it was the man or the woman who does the killing. I sometimes think that it must be an episode of _The Twilight Zone_ or _The Outer Limits_, but in my memory at least, it seems far more gruesome than those shows ever were. I’m almost 100 percent sure that it was in black and white. When i was a kid, i lived in Australia, but i’m pretty sure that the movie/show itself was not a local production. So, can anyone help me out here? ---
**Author:** ![notquitekarpov](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/71c47a/32.png) [@notquitekarpov](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/notquitekarpov)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2014, 6:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/identify-this-horror-thriller-movie-or-short-for-me-from-a-fairly-vague-description/695323/2 "2014-08-11T18:44:57Z")
Could it one of the “Tales of the Unexpected” - dancing girl in silhouette at the credits? > **[List of Tales of the Unexpected episodes](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Tales_of_the_Unexpected_episodes)** > > This is a list of episodes of the British anthology drama series, Tales of the Unexpected. > Nine episodes. First broadcast: Saturdays on ITV – 24 March to 19 May 1979 > A young couple on holiday in Jamaica meet a mysterious old gentleman who makes one of them a macabre wager. Series 1 Episode 3 maybe? ---
**Author:** ![mhendo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mhendo/32/3159_2.png) [@mhendo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mhendo)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2014, 6:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/identify-this-horror-thriller-movie-or-short-for-me-from-a-fairly-vague-description/695323/3 "2014-08-11T18:45:38Z")
Sorry, i don’t remember anything about the credits at all. ---
**Author:** ![notquitekarpov](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/71c47a/32.png) [@notquitekarpov](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/notquitekarpov)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2014, 6:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/identify-this-horror-thriller-movie-or-short-for-me-from-a-fairly-vague-description/695323/4 "2014-08-11T18:52:21Z")
Well how about the synopsis to the episode I suggested then? Ring any bells? Or the actors involved via the links? ---
**Author:** ![mhendo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mhendo/32/3159_2.png) [@mhendo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mhendo)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2014, 6:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/identify-this-horror-thriller-movie-or-short-for-me-from-a-fairly-vague-description/695323/5 "2014-08-11T18:56:41Z")
> [@notquitekarpov](#): > > Well how about the synopsis to the episode I suggested then? Ring any bells? Or the actors involved via the links? That episode looks great, but i don’t think it’s the one. One a side note, i’d especially like to see it, because Elaine Stritch is in it. She’s awesome. Unfortunately, as a 10-year-old, i had very little consciousness of who the actors were. ---
**Author:** ![Miller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miller/32/481_2.png) [@Miller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miller)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2014, 6:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/identify-this-horror-thriller-movie-or-short-for-me-from-a-fairly-vague-description/695323/6 "2014-08-11T18:57:58Z")
It was the “Neat Job” segment of the _Vault of Horror_ anthology movie. [Scroll down for a screen cap.](http://www.shadowlocked.com/201210222870/lists/ten-classic-cinematic-horror-deaths.html) ---
**Author:** ![mhendo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mhendo/32/3159_2.png) [@mhendo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mhendo)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2014, 7:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/identify-this-horror-thriller-movie-or-short-for-me-from-a-fairly-vague-description/695323/7 "2014-08-11T19:03:54Z")
> [@Miller](#): > > It was the “Neat Job” segment of the _Vault of Horror_ anthology movie. [Scroll down for a screen cap.](http://www.shadowlocked.com/201210222870/lists/ten-classic-cinematic-horror-deaths.html) Yes! That’s it! Thanks a bunch! Although my memory of it being in black and white appears to be incorrect. It could be that my friend’s basement TV was black and white, though. Although i do seem to have remembered the catchphrase perfectly!