Tag: Tales From The Crypt
Horror History: Tuesday, May 29, 1990: “Tales From The Crypt” episode “Four-Sided Triangle” premiered
Season 2 Episode 9
A young farmhand (Patricia Arquette) suffers a head injury and soon believes in a delusional state that a scarecrow is her lover.
Also starring Chelcie Ross and Susan Blommaert as her abusive employers, one of whom also tries to have an affair with the pretty farmhand.
Read more “Horror History: Tuesday, May 29, 1990: “Tales From The Crypt” episode “Four-Sided Triangle” premiered”Horror History: Friday, May 24, 1996: “Tales From The Crypt” episode “Horror in the Night” premiered
Season 7 Episode 5
A jewel thief (James Wilby) hides out in a hotel after being shot and meets a beautiful woman (Elizabeth McGovern) that only he can see.
Also stars Peter Guinness.
Read more “Horror History: Friday, May 24, 1996: “Tales From The Crypt” episode “Horror in the Night” premiered”Horror History: Tuesday, May 22, 1990: “Tales From The Crypt” episode “For Cryin’ Out Loud” premiered
Season 2 Episode 8
A greedy rock promoter (Lee Arenberg) plans to run off with all of the donation money that was raised and accumulated from within a series of “Save the Amazon Rainforest” charity benefit concerts, but things unexpectedly get complicated when it turns out that his hearing problems were nothing more than his own hidden conscience (voiced by Sam Kinison). To make matters worse, a greedy banker (Katey Sagal) soon blackmails the promoter. He has to get rid of her and then confesses his mistakes to a cop.
Also starring Iggy Pop as himself.
Read more “Horror History: Tuesday, May 22, 1990: “Tales From The Crypt” episode “For Cryin’ Out Loud” premiered”Horror History: Friday, May 17, 1996: “Tales From The Crypt” episode “Escape” premiered
Season 7 Episode 4
During World War II, two Germans, a traitor (Martin Kemp), and the man he had betrayed are trapped in a British prison camp, where they must work together as a team in order to escape.
Read more “Horror History: Friday, May 17, 1996: “Tales From The Crypt” episode “Escape” premiered”Horror History: Tuesday, May 15, 1990: “Tales From The Crypt” episode “The Sacrifice” premiered
Season 2 Episode 7
An insurance agent (Kevin Kilner) kills his obnoxious client (Don Hood) in a plot to take his money and his wife (Kim Delaney). He soon finds out however that this will be quite very difficult for him when someone (Michael Ironside) shows up to blackmail him for the murder.
Read more “Horror History: Tuesday, May 15, 1990: “Tales From The Crypt” episode “The Sacrifice” premiered”Horror History: Tuesday, May 8, 1990: “Tales From The Crypt” episode “The Thing From the Grave” premiered
Season 2 Episode 6
A supermodel (Teri Hatcher) and her photographer (Kyle Secor) fall in love. When the model’s abusive boyfriend (Miguel Ferrer) learns of their affair, he sets out to kill the two of them. However, he soon gets a nasty surprise as love proves to be quite very strong, even in death itself.
Read more “Horror History: Tuesday, May 8, 1990: “Tales From The Crypt” episode “The Thing From the Grave” premiered”Horror History: Friday, May 3, 1996: “Tales From The Crypt” episode “A Slight Case of Murder” premiered
Season 7 Episode 3
A game of cat and mouse ensues between a female mystery novelist (Francesca Annis) and her jealous husband (Christopher Cazenove) when he accuses her of cheating on him with her nosy neighbor’s son.
Read more “Horror History: Friday, May 3, 1996: “Tales From The Crypt” episode “A Slight Case of Murder” premiered”Horror History: Tuesday, May 1, 1990: “Tales From The Crypt” episode “Three’s a Crowd” premiered
Season 2 Episode 5
A down-on-their-luck couple (Gavan O’Herlihy and Ruth de Sosa) are invited to a cabin owned by their wealthy former best man (Paul Lieber), but the unstable husband is convinced that his wife is having an affair. He finds that he was wrong about many things, towards the end of the show.
Read more “Horror History: Tuesday, May 1, 1990: “Tales From The Crypt” episode “Three’s a Crowd” premiered”Horror History: Friday, April 26, 1996: “Tales From The Crypt” episode “Last Respects” premiered
Season 7 Episode 2
Three sisters named LaVonne (Emma Samms), Delores (Kerry Fox), and Marlice (Julie Cox) think they have found a way out of their own troubles when they soon discover a monkey’s paw that grants them their own personal wishes.
Read more “Horror History: Friday, April 26, 1996: “Tales From The Crypt” episode “Last Respects” premiered”Horror History: Tuesday, April 24, 1990: “Tales From The Crypt” episode “‘Til Death” premiered
Season 2 Episode 4
A land owner (D. W. Moffett) woos a haughty rich woman (Pamela Gien) with a potion from a voodoo priestess (Janet Hubert) that contains a deadly warning. Things go awry when he does not listen to the warnings.
Also starring Aubrey Morris.
Read more “Horror History: Tuesday, April 24, 1990: “Tales From The Crypt” episode “‘Til Death” premiered”Horror History: Saturday, April 21, 1990: “Tales From The Crypt” episode “Cutting Cards” premiered
Season 2 Episode 3
Two rival gamblers (Lance Henriksen and Kevin Tighe) face off in a series of gruesome games in order to see on who’ll leave town when all is said and done.
Also starring Roy Brocksmith.
Read more “Horror History: Saturday, April 21, 1990: “Tales From The Crypt” episode “Cutting Cards” premiered”Horror History: Saturday, April 21, 1990: “Tales From The Crypt” episode “The Switch” premiered
Season 2 Episode 2
A rich elderly bachelor (William Hickey) wants to impress a young woman (Kelly Preston) and meets up with a doctor who helps him switch his body with a younger man (Rick Rossovich). He realizes his mistake at the very end.
Also starring Ian Abercrombie, Mark Pellegrino and Roy Brocksmith. Arnold Schwarzenegger, who directed this episode, appears in the cold open with the Cryptkeeper introducing the story.
Read more “Horror History: Saturday, April 21, 1990: “Tales From The Crypt” episode “The Switch” premiered”Horror History: Saturday, April 21, 1990: “Tales From The Crypt” episode “Dead Right” premiered
Season 2 Episode 1
A gold-digging secretary (Demi Moore) follows the advice of a fortune teller (Natalia Nogulich) and marries a slob of a man (Jeffrey Tambor) after being told that he will die shortly after inheriting a large sum of money, but the fortune teller’s prediction comes true in a way that the gold-digger herself does not see coming.
Also starring Kate Hodge and Linda Cohn.
Read more “Horror History: Saturday, April 21, 1990: “Tales From The Crypt” episode “Dead Right” premiered”Horror History: Friday, April 19, 1996: “Tales From The Crypt” episode “Fatal Caper” premiered
Season 7 Episode 1
Mycroft (Leslie Phillips), an elderly rich man, adds a stipulation in his will stating that his two sons must find their long-lost brother or else risk having their own inheritance be given away to charity.
Also features Natasha Richardson and Bob Hoskins.
Read more “Horror History: Friday, April 19, 1996: “Tales From The Crypt” episode “Fatal Caper” premiered”Horror History: Saturday, October 2, 1993: “Tales From The Crypt” episode “Forever Ambergris” premiered
Season 5 Episode 3
After playing second fiddle to an up-and-coming photographer named Isaac Forte (Steve Buscemi), a seasoned but washed-up combat photographer named Dalton (Roger Daltrey) cooks up a deadly scheme in order to take him out and get his beautiful wife (Lysette Anthony).
Read more “Horror History: Saturday, October 2, 1993: “Tales From The Crypt” episode “Forever Ambergris” premiered”Horror History: Saturday, October 2, 1993: “Tales From The Crypt” episode “As Ye Sow” premiered
Season 5 Episode 2
Thinking and believing that his own wife (Patsy Kensit) is cheating on him, a jealous husband (Héctor Elizondo) hires a detective (Sam Waterston) and is led to truly believe that she is indeed having an affair with the local priest (John Shea). Featuring cameos from Adam West and Miguel Ferrer.
Read more “Horror History: Saturday, October 2, 1993: “Tales From The Crypt” episode “As Ye Sow” premiered”Horror History: Saturday, October 2, 1993: “Tales From The Crypt” episode “Death of Some Salesmen” premiered
Season 5 Episode 1
A sneaky cemetery plot salesman (Ed Begley, Jr.) finds new victims (triple role played by Tim Curry) in the form of a strange hillbilly family with a fortune buried in their basement and a burning hatred for conning salesmen. Also starring Yvonne De Carlo.
Read more “Horror History: Saturday, October 2, 1993: “Tales From The Crypt” episode “Death of Some Salesmen” premiered”Horror History: Saturday, August 1, 1992: “Tales From The Crypt” episode “Showdown” premiered
Season 4 Episode 8
After killing a Texas ranger (David Morse), a remorseless gunslinger (Neil Giuntoli) soon gets his comeuppance when all of his past victims come back to haunt him in the ghost town of where he takes residence in.
Read more “Horror History: Saturday, August 1, 1992: “Tales From The Crypt” episode “Showdown” premiered”Horror History: Friday, July 19, 1996: “Tales From The Crypt” episode “The Third Pig” premiered
Season 7 Episode 13
In this show’s animated version of The Three Little Pigs, the Big Bad Wolf (voiced by Bobcat Goldthwait) slaughters Drinky Pig (voiced by Brad Garrett) and Smokey Pig (Charlie Adler), leaving the third pig Dudley (voiced by Cam Clarke) accused of the murders and found guilty by a jury of wolves. With the ghosts of his dead brothers helping him to escape, Dudley plans to take revenge on the Big Bad Wolf where he uses a laboratory owned by the previous mad scientist to create a zombie pig (also voiced by Brad Garrett) to help him. While John Kassir was also credited as the narrator and Cam Clarke voicing the Bailiff Wolf, this episode also features the voices of Corey Burton and Jim Cummings as different characters.
Read more “Horror History: Friday, July 19, 1996: “Tales From The Crypt” episode “The Third Pig” premiered”Horror History: Friday, July 12, 1996: “Tales From The Crypt” episode “Ear Today… Gone Tomorrow” was released in theaters
Season 7 Episode 12
Glenn (Robert Lindsay), a gambling safecracker with a slight hearing loss, finds himself getting entangled in a deadly game between a mobster and his exotic wife. He soon finds he has the auditory system of an owl.
Read more “Horror History: Friday, July 12, 1996: “Tales From The Crypt” episode “Ear Today… Gone Tomorrow” was released in theaters”