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Tales from the Crypt

  • TV-MA
  • 1989–1996
  • 7 seasons
  • Comedy, Mystery
  • 8.0

Dead-on humor and horror.

Cadaverous scream legend the Crypt Keeper is your macabre host for these forays of fright and fun based on the classic E.C. Comics tales from back in the day. So shamble up to the bar and pick your poison. Will it be an insane Santa on a personal slay ride? Honeymooners out to fulfill the "til death do we part" vow ASAP?

Episodes

11 episodes
  1. 1Death of Some Salesmen / As Ye Sow / Forever Ambergris

    84 minOct 2, 19936.7

    A sneaky con man has a talent for killing people after he sells them phony tombstones. He soon learns that some for his new victims have a fortune buried in their cellar. He marries their daughter and kills the parents but when he goes down in the basement he gets a big surprise. A husband hires a detective to spy on his wife whom he believes is cheating on him with a priest. When he learns that he's been conned, he decides to kill him himself. That day he learns that they're was nothing going on between them and he is relieved. But he is mistaken for his wife's so called boyfriend and killed by the detective he hired. Dalton is a seasoned combat photographer who finds himself falling for a beautiful women who just happens to be the wife of his friend. One day Ike sends Dalton into a disease warfare area. Dalton returns, but not the way he used to be. He soon writes a letter about how he was set up and his wife and friend also contract the same disease.

  2. 2Food for Thought

    25 minOct 6, 19935.2

    Zambini is a circus mind-controlling psychic who controls his beautiful helper with his telepathic powers. One day he learns that she has a crush on the fire eater. Zambini goes into a terrible rage and kills him. Connie flees in terror never to return. Zambini uses his powers to call her back but it contacts the pet gorilla instead.

  3. 3People Who Live in Brass Hearses

    27 minOct 13, 19937.0

    Billy is a smalltime criminal who is bloody red for vengeance. Years ago, his boss at an icecream warehouse double crossed him by sending him to prison. Now he plans to frame his boss with the help of his disabled brother.

  4. 4Two for the Show

    27 minOct 20, 19935.4

    A man slaughters his wife who he believes is having an affair. He drags her body and puts it in the bathtub. The police arrive and he refuses to let them near the bathtub. He chops up the corpse and hops a train with a trunk containing his wife's corpse. The detective follows him. The man switches trunks but when he opens the other one he gets a big surprise.

  5. 5House of Horror

    29 minOct 27, 19936.6

    Les Whilton is the president of a college fraternity. He decides to scare three pledges by daring them to spend a night in a haunted house. He and some of his friends have set up the place to look like it's haunted. Along for the ride is a group of sorority sisters. When everyone else turns up missing, everyone turns to Whilton. Whilton goes into the house alone and he gets a big surprise.

  6. 6Well Cooked Hams

    27 minNov 3, 19935.7

    A frustrated magician comes across a true genius. He decides to kill him and steal his magic, but he finds himself in big trouble and it's going to be the last magic trick he will ever perform.

  7. 7Creep Course

    28 minNov 10, 19937.2

    Reggie is a college jock who is trying to pass a history test. He asks the class bookworm Stella Bishop to help tutor him. She goes to Finely's house to to get the answer sheet, but when she gets there, Finely and Reggie lock her in a mummy's tomb. Finely double crosses Reggie by poisoning him. Finely goes back to check his work, and gets a big surprise. Stella is not dead. She has been charming the mummy by impersonating his dead girlfriend making the mummy jealous and Reggie and Finely really take the wraps.

  8. 8Came the Dawn

    26 minNov 17, 19936.6

    In this version of Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho, a young woman who is also a thief is picked up by a man driving by. He takes her up to his place. There she hears a message from his wife, but also learns that there is a killer nearby. When she goes to his room she gets a big surprise.

  9. 9Oil's Well That Ends Well

    27 minNov 24, 19935.6

    A con artist and his girlfriend plan their next caper by tricking some southern boys into thinking there is oil underneath a cemetery. Their plans work. She makes them think she has gotten jealous and killed her boyfriend, but when she goes to dig him up, she gets a big surprise. He and the boys have been partners all along. The last laugh is on her when it turns out that there really is oil and she blows them all to kingdom come.

  10. 10Half-Way Horrible

    29 minDec 1, 19935.1

    Roger Lassen is a manufacturer who kills his friend by burying him alive in the South American jungle to finish the development of a chemical preservative. He's haunted by the memories of the incident. The earnings will make him rich but he can't get it past the FDA regulations. Soon his past returns and he starts seeing his dead friend everywhere he looks. A voodoo priestess offers to help exorcise his dark side. The spell works but at the most horrible cost.

  11. 11Till Death Do We Part

    26 minDec 8, 19935.4

    A male escort is engaged to an aging woman. One day she discovers him flirting with a younger woman. She forces him to kill her in front of her. Instead he kills off her bodyguards, but he is even more surprised when the young lady turns against him. It turns out he's been fantasizing the whole thing and bumps her off himself.

Where to watch Tales from the Crypt

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Series cast

John KassirNarrator (voice)81 episodes
Cam ClarkeDudley (voice) / Bailiff (voice)3 episodes
Miguel FerrerMitch Bruckner3 episodes
Sherrie RoseVendetta (segment "On a Deadman's Chest")2 episodes
Marshall BellRock (segment "Forever Ambergris")2 episodes
Joe PantolianoUlric (segment "Dig That Cat... He's Real Gone")2 episodes
Lance HenriksenReno Crevice (segment "Cutting Cards")2 episodes
Michael IronsideJerry2 episodes
Larry DrakeSanta (segment "And All Through the House")2 episodes
William SadlerThe Grim Reaper2 episodes
Mark LowenthalDistrict Attorney (segment "The Man Who Was Death")2 episodes
Troy EvansAl (segment "Dead Right")2 episodes
Bobcat GoldthwaitBilly Goldman2 episodes
Roy BrocksmithVic (segment "The Man Who Was Death")2 episodes
Reginald D. HunterTow Truck Driver2 episodes
Tim AhernDetective2 episodes
Cindy RiegelAssistant2 episodes
Peter Van NordenBooth2 episodes

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