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”Season 3 Episode 8
An artist (Tim Roth) who can’t seem to sell any of his work soon encounters a mysterious collector of morbid artwork (William Atherton), but he has to keep producing ghoulish artworks in order to satisfy his new customer, which soon leads him down a dark and dangerous path.
Read more “Horror History: Wednesday, July 17, 1991: “Tales From The Crypt” episode “Easel Kill Ya” premiered”Season 3 Episode 7
A vampire (Malcolm McDowell) eschews the tradition of attacking mortals, satiating his need for blood by working as a night watchman at a blood bank, but the owner (George Wendt) soon realizes that his own business is being sucked dry and warns of bankruptcy. The vampire must return to his old ways in order to replete his “embezzlement”, so he tries to solve his quandary by attacking dangerous criminals, all whilst struggling with the romantic advances of a cute secretary (Sandra Dickinson).
Also starring Michael Berryman and Paul Gleason.
Read more “Horror History: Wednesday, July 10, 1991: “Tales From The Crypt” episode “The Reluctant Vampire” premiered”Season 3 Episode 6
A thug (James Remar) who’s working for a plantation owner (John Rhys-Davies) teams up with the owner’s mistress (Vanity) in order to steal a highly valuable black pearl. He later double-crosses the mistress only to be double-crossed himself by a mysterious priestess.
Also starring Whoopi Goldberg as the mysterious priestess who also appears as herself in the outro being interviewed by the Crypt Keeper.
Read more “Horror History: Wednesday, July 3, 1991: “Tales From The Crypt” episode “Dead Wait” premiered”In the quest to save souls, the Spanish Inquisition will stop at nothing and knows no boundaries for evil. Under the direction of Torquemada (LANCE HENRIKSEN – “Alien,” “Pumpkinhead,” “Millennium”) the Grand Inquisitor of Spain, Maria, a young baker’s wife, is falsely accused of witchcraft and dragged before the Inquisition and the Cardinal (OLIVER REED – “Gladiator,” “Three Musketeers”). Torquemada is enchanted by Maria’s beauty and subjects her husband Antonio to heinous tortures hoping to prove that his own desires for her are a result of her magic, that she has “bewitched him.” With the help of Esmeralda, Maria’s cellmate and confessed witch, Maria must find the power to save Antonio from Torquemada’s ultimate machine of torture: the inevitable, razor sharp PENDULUM poised over the inescapable PIT of hell.
Read more “Horror History: Thursday, June 27, 1991: The Pit and the Pendulum was released in theaters”Season 3 Episode 5
A struggling actor (Jon Lovitz) kills off his competition (Bruce Boxleitner) in order to secure a part in a strange production of Hamlet, only to discover that the actors are escaped mental patients (and criminals) and that instead he’s to play the part of the long-deceased Yorick — for real.
Also starring John Astin, Paul Benedict, Kimmy Robertson, Louise Fletcher, and Sandra Bernhard.
Read more “Horror History: Wednesday, June 26, 1991: “Tales From The Crypt” episode “Top Billing” premiered”Season 3 Episode 4
A doctor (Tony Goldwyn) who plays too many pranks soon finds out that revenge can be a harrowing event when his brother (Beau Bridges) (also a doctor) makes him the guinea pig of a new serum that mimics death.
Note: Based on the story “Dead Right!” renamed for television
Read more “Horror History: Wednesday, June 19, 1991: “Tales From The Crypt” episode “Abra Cadaver” premiered”Season 3 Episode 3
A scheming jerk (Bruce McGill) who cannot hold down a job and is verbally and physically abusive to his wife (Teri Garr) hatches a plan to fake his own death and collect his life insurance money, unaware that both his long-suffering wife and brother (Bruno Kirby) are planning to double-cross him.
Michael J. Fox, who directed this episode, plays the prosecutor, and James Tolkan plays a policeman investigating the “murder scene”.
Read more “Horror History: Saturday, June 15, 1991: “Tales From The Crypt” episode “The Trap” premiered”Season 3 Episode 2
An escaped con (Kyle MacLachlan) who is running for the Mexican border ends up killing a state trooper (George Del Hoyo), but in the process is cuffed to him (after he has swallowed the key) and has to drag the heavy corpse across the desert to freedom whilst being stalked by a hungry vulture.
Read more “Horror History: Saturday, June 15, 1991: “Tales From The Crypt” episode “Carrion Death” premiered”Season 3 Episode 1
A writer (Andrew McCarthy) has a neighbor (Mariel Hemingway) who is his own object of personal desire. He is aided by his landlord (David Hemmings) who gives him a love potion. He finally gains over the woman’s affections, only to regret his choice after the woman’s obsessive love and their torrid affair becomes too much for him to take and handle.
Also starring Kathleen Freeman as the next door neighbor.
Read more “Horror History: Saturday, June 15, 1991: “Tales From The Crypt” episode “Loved to Death” premiered”A villainous carnival owner traps a young werewolf to include in his growing menagerie of inhuman exhibits.
Read more “Horror History: Thursday, June 13, 1991: Howling VI: The Freaks was released direct-to-video”This gory and entirely visual film tells the surreal tale of the death and rebirth of gods.
Read more “Horror History: Wednesday, June 5, 1991: Begotten was released in theaters”The antichrist returns, this time as a little girl in this telefilm sequel, when a prominent couple unknowingly adopts the daughter of Damien from the original Omen.
Read more “Horror History: Monday, May 20, 1991: Omen IV: The Awakening debuted on television”Jim Norman moves back to his hometown with his wife Sally and son after accepting a teaching job at the local high school. The town holds dark memories for Jim who moved away years earlier following the murder of his brother. The young men responsible for the murder met with their own horrific deaths and now those restless spirits have come back for revenge. Based on a Stephen King short story.
Read more “Horror History: Tuesday, May 7, 1991: Sometimes They Come Back premiered on TV”Doctors Herbert West and Dan Cain discover the secret to creating human life and proceed to create a perfect woman from dead tissue.
Read more “Horror History: Friday, February 22, 1991: Bride of Re-Animator was released in US theaters”Season 6 Episode 20
An actress proves that she is willing to do anything for a shot at the big time.
Read more “Horror History: Friday, February 22, 1991: “The Hitchhiker” final episode “New Blood” premiered”Season 6 Episode 19
A cuckolded husband is the victim of a murder-for-insurance-money scheme at the hands of his wife and her lover.
Read more “Horror History: Friday, February 15, 1991: “The Hitchhiker” episode “Secrets” premiered”Jodie Foster and Anthony Hopkins deliver sensational, Oscar-winning performances in this “shockingly powerful thriller” (New York). “Stunning” (Los Angeles Times) and “spellbinding” (The Hollywood Reporter), this terrifying masterpiece garnered five Academy Awards, including Best Picture. A psychopath nicknamed Buffalo Bill is murdering women across the Midwest. Believing it takes one to know one, the FBI sends Agent Clarice Starling (Foster) to interview a demented prisoner who may provide clues to the killer’s actions.
Read more “Horror History: Thursday, February 14, 1991: The Silence of the Lambs was released in theaters”Season 6 Episode 18
A meek and mild-mannered young man allows his mother to dictate life to him and embarrass him, until he finally snaps.
Read more “Horror History: Friday, February 8, 1991: “The Hitchhiker” episode “Offspring” premiered”You can’t keep a good man down or a Puppet Master buried as Tunneler, Leech Woman, Pinhead and the rest of the puppets return to exhume their beloved creator in Puppet Master II, the sequel to the hit horrorfest, Puppet Master. This time, the little devils are after the special fluid that keeps them alive, which is only found in…You guessed it…human brains.
Read more “Horror History: Thursday, February 7, 1991: Puppet Master II was released direct-to-video”A campy movie marathon turns into an endless night of terror when a crazed killer decides to make a horror movie of his own.
Read more “Horror History: Friday, February 1, 1991: Popcorn was released in theaters”Season 6 Episode 17
A man in Witness Protection becomes more and more paranoid that he’ll be found, and goes to a plastic surgeon to change his face.
Read more “Horror History: Friday, February 1, 1991: “The Hitchhiker” episode “A Whole New You” premiered”Martin is a total loser who makes a deal with the devil to become the greatest rock star in the world.
Read more “Horror History: Thursday, January 31, 1991: Shock ‘Em Dead was released direct-to-video”Season 6 Episode 16
A boss who does nothing for his employees soon finds himself the victim of their black magic.
Read more “Horror History: Friday, January 25, 1991: “The Hitchhiker” episode “Made In Paris” premiered”Season 6 Episode 15
When a bartender takes a stolen shopping card on a shopping spree he realises that sometimes the best life to live … is one’s own.
Read more “Horror History: Friday, January 18, 1991: “The Hitchhiker” episode “Living a Lie” premiered”A warlock and witch-hunter time travel from the 1600s to the 1990s, as the warlock searches for ultimate control of Satan’s Bible and the destruction of all creation.
Read more “Horror History: Friday, January 11, 1991: Warlock was released in US theaters”
