Season 4 Episode 4
Two con artists (Ben Cross and Cathy Moriarty) attempt to swindle a rich tycoon (John Vernon), but when they end up accidentally killing him, they turn to tricking his blind wife (Ellen Crawford) by acting as her medium and holding a mock séance.
Read more “Horror History: Saturday, July 4, 1992: “Tales From The Crypt” episode “Seance” premiered”Season 4 Episode 3
A rock star (Yul Vazquez) gets an unwanted chest tattoo from a mysterious artist (Heavy D) of his guitarist’s wife that he hates (Tia Carrere), which seems to have a life of its own and won’t go away even after he murders the object of his hatred.
Also starring Sherrie Rose as the rock star’s groupie, with special appearances by musicians Gregg Allman(as the club owner), Rudy Sarzo (uncredited as Exorcist’s bass player), and Steve Jones (as Exorcist’s roadie).
Read more “Horror History: Saturday, June 27, 1992: “Tales From The Crypt” episode “On a Deadman’s Chest” premiered”Season 4 Episode 2
A scientist (Dylan McDermott) decides to get revenge when he suspects that his own lab partners (Sonia Braga and Cleavon Little) have double-crossed him by purposely injecting him with a deadly experimental virus cell with no antidote.
Note: This was Cleavon Little’s final acting performance. He died four months after this episode aired.
Read more “Horror History: Saturday, June 27, 1992: “Tales From The Crypt” episode “This’ll Kill Ya” premiered”Season 4 Episode 1
A con man (Treat Williams) finds a new wealthy widow (Frances Sternhagen) excited to have his company, but it seems that someone is on to him as he soon gets a series of notes warning him to stop on what he’s doing or else risk facing the dire consequences. Boxing legend Sugar Ray Leonard makes a cameo appearance as the gravedigger.
Tom Hanks, who directed this episode, also makes a cameo appearance as the video dating service owner.
Read more “Horror History: Saturday, June 27, 1992: “Tales From The Crypt” episode “None but the Lonely Heart” premiered”Bill is worried that he is “different” from his sister and parents. They mix with other “upper class” people, while Bill is more down to earth. Even his girlfriend seems a bit odd. All is revealed when Bill returns home to find a party in full swing. Not for the weak of stomach.
Experience a more visually stunning picture in this restored version of Alien3! Three-time Academy Award nominee Sigourney Weaver returns in Alien3 as Officer Ripley, the sole survivor of the spaceship Nostromo’s encounter with a deadly extraterrestrial in Alien, and subsequent victor over the Alien Queen after an epic battle in the cargo hold of the military transport ship Sulaco in Aliens. After escaping from the alien planet, the ship carrying Ripley crashes onto a remote and inhabited ore refinery. While living in the ore refinery until she is rescued by her employers, Ripley discovers the horrifying reason for her crash: an alien stowaway. As the alien matures and begins to kill off the inhabitants, Ripley discovers that her true enemy is more than just the killer alien.
Read more “Horror History: Friday, May 22, 1992: Alien 3 was released in theaters”Bill Paxton stars in this humorous psychological thriller as an ambitious young executive whose life is turned upside-down by a derelict living across the street (Marshall Bell) and a thick-headed detective (Michael Ironside).
Read more “Horror History: Friday, May 15, 1992: The Vagrant was released in theaters”A young scanner (Liliana Komorowska, Screamers) with extraordinary telepathic powers transforms into a lethal killing machine after taking one of her father’s experimental drugs.
Read more “Horror History: Thursday, May 14, 1992: Scanners III: The Takeover was released in US theaters”Four students ditch their high school prom for a party at a summer home. However, there is a psychotic priest on the loose determined to punish sinners.
Read more “Horror History: Wednesday, May 13, 1992: Prom Night IV: Deliver Us from Evil was released direct-to-video”A brother and sister, Tom and Jackie, receive a mysterious sweepstake invitation worth one million dollars along with two free plane tickets to the contest site.
Read more “Horror History: Wednesday, May 6, 1992: Spellcaster was released direct-to-video”A seemingly harmless telephone service endows an evil teacher with powers from beyond the grave.
Read more “Horror History: Wednesday, April 22, 1992: 976-Evil II was released direct-to-video”Based on the story by H.P. Lovecraft, a woman’s suspicion is aroused when her husband, a chemical engineer, receives deliveries that appear to be human remains.
Read more “Horror History: Wednesday, April 15, 1992: The Resurrected was released direct-to-video”Stephen King’s twist on the legend has mother and son stalking a beautiful virgin and turning a midwestern town upside down.
Read more “Horror History: Friday, April 10, 1992: Sleepwalkers was released in theaters”A botched bust on a pair of arms dealers inadvertently leads to the raising of a sixty year old demon with the power to bring toys to life as his personal minions. The demon is looking for a body to inhabit so he can increase his powers, and it just happens that one of the police officers, Judith Gray (Tracy Scoggins) is pregnant with the ideal host. As the murderous toys close in on their victims, the officer must not only fight for her life, but for the soul of her unborn child.
Read more “Horror History: Thursday, March 12, 1992: Demonic Toys was released direct-to-video”A scientist obsessed with perfecting virtual reality software experiments on a slow-witted gardener-who ends up turning into a frightening superhuman being.
Read more “Horror History: Friday, March 6, 1992: The Lawnmower Man was released in theaters”WELCOME TO THE FAMILY!
He’s back. He’s bad. And he’s a dad! Belial, everyone’s favorite beast-in-a-basket, is back in this sensational third film in the wildly macabre horror series. After being separated again from his conjoined twin brother Duane (Kevin Van Hentenryck), Belial finds out he’s going to be a deformed daddy! Mrs. Belial (Eve, played by Denise Coop) delivers a litter of bouncing baby monsters, but the blessed event turns into a nightmarish ordeal when the police kidnap the little critters. They should know it’s not safe to anger Belial! Attacking the cops in a climactic, gory rampage, everyone’s favorite mutant mauler stops at nothing to get his newborns back!
Read more “Horror History: Friday, February 21, 1992: Basket Case 3: The Progeny was released in theaters”It’s Roger Rabbit meets The Evil Dead as four sexy sorority girls agree to clean an old spooky house and wind up accidentally releasing a cartoon monster from an ancient book of demons. After the blood thirsty creature possesses one of the girls, it looks bleak for the rest of the busty gang until a ghostly presence (Hollywood legend David Carradine, Kung Fu) arrives to save the day in this comedy romp from director Fred Olen Ray, creator of the Cult Classic Hollywood Chainsaw Hookers.
Read more “Horror History: Wednesday, January 8, 1992: Evil Toons was released direct-to-video”Martin Scorsese brings heart-pounding suspense to this thriller about a psychopath (Robert De Niro) who emerges from prison with one mission — to seek revenge on his attorney (Nick Nolte).
Read more “Horror History: Friday, November 15, 1991: Cape Fear was released in theaters”horror – #HorrorHistory – #ThePeopleUndertheStairs –
Trapped inside a fortified home owned by a mysterious couple, a young boy is suddenly thrust into a nightmare. The boy quickly learns the true nature of the house’s homicidal inhabitants and the secret creatures hidden deep within the house.
Read more “Horror History: Friday, November 1, 1991: The People Under the Stairs was released in theaters”In George Romero’s The Facts In The Case Of Mr. Valdemar, a conniving wife and her lover use a hypnotic trance to embezzle a fortune from her dying husband, only to receive some chilling surprises from beyond the grave. Then in Dario Argento’s The Black Cat, a deranged crime scene photographer is driven to brutal acts of madness and murder by his girlfriend’s new pet.
Read more “Horror History: Friday, October 25, 1991: Two Evil Eyes was released in US theaters”A centuries old black magic curse turns the world’s most beautiful doll into the world’s most savage killing machine.
Read more “Horror History: Friday, October 18, 1991: Dolly Dearest was released in US theaters”After hearing that Andre Toulon’s puppets have no strings but rather seem to have a life of their own, Dr. Hess, a Nazi Gestapo henchman during World War II, sends soldiers to the theater to kidnap them. During the melee, Toulon’s wife ELSA is killed and Toulon the Puppet Master vows revenge and sends his living dolls to kill all who wronged him.
Read more “Horror History: Thursday, October 17, 1991: Puppet Master III: Toulon’s Revenge was released direct-to-video”In this sixth return to the horrifying world of Nightmare on Elm Street, the town of Springwood decides to forever end Freddy Krueger’s deadly hold on their dreams.
Read more “Horror History: Friday, September 13, 1991: Freddy’s Dead: The Final Nightmare was released in theaters”Season 3 Episode 14
Set in 1918, the final year of World War I, a general’s (Kirk Douglas) son (Eric Douglas) is branded yellow for causing the death of a platoon under his command because he had failed to do his job of warning them in case of an enemy sneak attack and is sentenced to death by firing squad. From within the night before the execution, the general tells the son that he has swapped the bullets with blanks, so that the son can survive the planned execution.
Also starring Dan Aykroyd and Lance Henriksen.
Read more “Horror History: Wednesday, August 28, 1991: “Tales From The Crypt” episode “Yellow” premiered”Season 3 Episode 13
A housewife (Faye Grant) who is quite very obsessed with soap operas (especially with the concepts of both passion and romance) and watches them religiously is personally annoyed that her own husband (Alan Rachins) (a doctor obsessed with experimenting on a rabbit) doesn’t spend much time with her, so she begins a steamy affair with a cable guy (Anthony LaPaglia). The doctor soon wonders if maybe he could try his experiment on human subjects.
Read more “Horror History: Wednesday, August 21, 1991: “Tales From The Crypt” episode “Spoiled” premiered”Season 3 Episode 12
When a down-on-his-luck alcoholic reporter (Richard Jordan) swears to give up drinking in order to get his old job back, he soon meets a woman (Marg Helgenberger) and the two begin having a fling. Also starring Richard Herd and Jon Polito.
Read more “Horror History: Wednesday, August 14, 1991: “Tales From The Crypt” episode “Deadline” premiered”Season 3 Episode 11
A beautiful but loose barmaid (Michelle Johnson) marries a rich lumberjack (Brion James) who offers her a comfortable lifestyle. When the marriage soon turns sour, especially in the bedroom due to her husband’s violent jealous streak, she brings him over the edge when she begins seducing another lumberjack (Billy Wirth) in order to relieve her boredom. Also starring Rita Wilson, Ally Walker, and Vincent Schiavelli.
Read more “Horror History: Wednesday, August 7, 1991: “Tales From The Crypt” episode “Split Second” premiered”After losing his arm in a car accident, a criminal psychologist has it replaced with a limb that belonged to a serial killer.
Read more “Horror History: Friday, August 2, 1991: Body Parts was released in theaters”Season 3 Episode 10
A down-on-his-luck reporter (Steven Weber), who is currently investigating several bizarre homeless murders, soon discovers that the murders themselves may in fact be related to an organization called the Grateful Homeless Outcasts and Unwanted Layaway Society (G.H.O.U.L.S.), whose charitable façade hides a horrific secret. Also starring Rita Wilson, Ally Walker, and Vincent Schiavelli.
Read more “Horror History: Wednesday, July 31, 1991: “Tales From The Crypt” episode “Mournin’ Mess” premiered”Season 3 Episode 9
A group of young local kids (Jason Marsden, Scott Fults, Aron Eisenberg, and Jonathan Ke Quan), aspiring to be horror filmmakers, break into the local mortuary in order to see a real dead body. However, they soon stumble upon a sinister conspiracy of murder and greed involving the town’s pharmacist (Graham Jarvis) and a local mortician (John Glover), in which the boys themselves plan to expose by taking the law into their own hands and film evidence of the mortician’s murderous dealings, all whilst the situation itself becomes quite very personal for one of the boys as he seeks to avenge his late father, who had died in the past from poisoned asthma medicine.
Read more “Horror History: Wednesday, July 24, 1991: “Tales From The Crypt” episode “Undertaking Palor” premiered”
