Rogers (The Vault of Horror)

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Rogers

Background

Harold Rogers is a resident of England. His sister is Donna.

During the events of The Vault of Horror (1973) played by Daniel Massey

Rogers gets into an elevator and presses the button to go down to the ground floor. The door opens and Maitland gets inside of the elevator and it continues downward. This continues as Sebastian, Critchit and Moore get on the elevator. They become startled when it stops at the subbasement level and the door opens into a room with five chairs surrounding a table with bottles of liquor and glasses. They decide to sit at the table and Rogers tells them about a dream he had.

Rogers answers the door and Clive walks into his hotel room. Rogers asks him if he found Donna and Clive demands money. Rogers gives him money and Clive hands him a piece of paper with an address on it. Rogers then strangles Clive with his tie and takes his money back. He goes to the house listed on the address, but no one answers the door. He sees a restaurant across the street and as he is walking towards it, is told by Passerby on Street that he should get inside as it is getting dark. Rogers sits down at a table at the restaurant and is told by Old Waiter that they are closing, due to it getting dark soon. Rogers walks back to Donna's house and this time she answers the door. She asks him what he wants and he tells her he came to see her and asks why everyone is afraid of the dark. She tells him it is because of "Them", and seventeen bodies have been found drained of their blood. He tells her their father died four weeks ago and she inherited all of the money as she was their father's favorite. Rogers then stabs Donna to death with a knife. He takes a rose from a bushel Donna had on her table and leaves the house. He sees a group of people go into the now reopened restaurant and goes back inside. He takes a seat at a table and Waiter suggests he get the table d'hote. The Waiter brings Rogers what he thinks is tomato juice, but has a weird taste. He is next served a reddish colored soup and the Waiter asks him how he wants his roast clots served. Rogers spits out his soup and the Waiter pulls back a large curtain to reveal a mirror. The Waiter and the patrons and then Rogers notices he is the only one visible in the mirror. He is then grabbed by the other patrons as Donna walks in holding the knife Rogers had left embedded in her. Rogers is tied up and a keg tap is placed into his neck. Donna and the other patrons are then served blood from Rogers' tapped neck.

After everyone has told their dream or nightmare, Sebastian wonders if their dreams are a warning of what may happen, but Critchit thinks it is nonsense. The elevator door opens, but instead of an elevator, it leads to a graveyard. The five men walk out into the graveyard and disappear one by one until Sebastian is the last one and he realizes that due to their evil deeds they will be forced to relay their stories for eternity.