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5. Revenge Is the Nuts

The residents of a county home for the blind plot poetic justice against the sadistic owner who torments them.

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Arnie Grunwald ( Anthony Zerbe ) 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 ( Isaac Hayes, Bibi Besch, and Tim Sampson), by lining the walls with razor blades, walling off the bathrooms, spilling marbles on the floor, and unleashing his tormented Rottweiler guard dog Bruno (whom he loves to starve constantly) on them. When Shelia ( Teri Polo ), 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 long abused younger brother Benny ( John Savage ) 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.

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