Sebastian

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Sebastian

Background

Sebastian is a magician. He is married to Inez.

During the events of The Vault of Horror (1973) played by Curd Jurgens

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 Sebastian tells them about a dream he had.

Sebastian and Inez are walking through a market in India when they come to a magic act being performed by a Fakir with the help of an Indian Girl. The Fakir performs the magic basket trick where he has a young boy named Akbar step into a basket apparently blessed by the gods and then stabs a sword multiple times through the basket. The Fakir then opens the basket and Akbar stands up in perfect health. He then performs a trick to show supernatural power of the human body to ignore pain. He takes a long knife and stabs it through one side of his cheek to the other side. A member of the crowd exclaims it is a trick and after the Fakir says it is not, Sebastian walks up to the Fakir and shows the crowd, the real knife is in the Fakir's sleeve. He then spins the basket around to the show it has an opening in which Akbar could climb out of. Sebastian assures the crowd there is no magic involved and identified himself as a fellow magician. The crowd then laughs at the Fakir and Indian Girl looks angrily at Sebastian as he and Inez walk away. Sebastian and Inez go back to their hotel room and Inez wants to leave due to them not finding any new magic, while Sebastian wants to stay for another day or two. As Sebastian is walking through the market at night, he hears a flute playing and sees the Indian Girl performing the magic rope from the jar trick. He watches as the rope rises into the sky and Indian Girl climbs it. Sebastian fiddles with the rope to try and figure out how she did it and offers to pay her to learn the trick. The Indian Girl tells him there is no trick and it is all due to the rope and Sebastian offers to buy the rope, but the Indian Girl refuses to sell it. He goes back to his hotel room and tells Inez about the trick. The next evening, Sebastian returns to the Indian Girl and offers to pay her money to perform the magic for his sick wife. The Indian Girl and Sebastian go to his hotel room and the Indian Girl performs the trick for Inez as Sebastian locks the door. As the Indian Girl performs the trick, Sebastian stabs her in the back and he and Inez put her body in the closet. They try and figure out the trick and as Sebastian uses the flute, the rope starts to rise. Inez climbs the rope and as she reaches the top, screams and disappears. A red blood stain starts to spread along the ceiling and the rope starts to attack Sebastian. He tries to run away, but it eventually catches and straggles him.

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.