Horror History: Wednesday, January 8, 1992: Evil Toons was released direct-to-video

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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.

Horror History: Friday, November 15, 1991: Cape Fear was released in theaters

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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).

Horror History: Friday, November 1, 1991: The People Under the Stairs was released in theaters

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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.

Horror History: Friday, October 25, 1991: Two Evil Eyes was released in US theaters

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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.

Horror History: Friday, October 18, 1991: Dolly Dearest was released in US theaters

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A centuries old black magic curse turns the world’s most beautiful doll into the world’s most savage killing machine.

Horror History: Thursday, October 17, 1991: Puppet Master III: Toulon’s Revenge was released direct-to-video

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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.

Horror History: Friday, September 13, 1991: Freddy’s Dead: The Final Nightmare was released in theaters

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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.

Horror History: Wednesday, August 28, 1991: “Tales From The Crypt” episode “Yellow” premiered

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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.

Horror History: Wednesday, August 21, 1991: “Tales From The Crypt” episode “Spoiled” premiered

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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.

Horror History: Wednesday, August 14, 1991: “Tales From The Crypt” episode “Deadline” premiered

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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.

Horror History: Wednesday, August 7, 1991: “Tales From The Crypt” episode “Split Second” premiered

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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.

Horror History: Friday, August 2, 1991: Body Parts was released in theaters

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After losing his arm in a car accident, a criminal psychologist has it replaced with a limb that belonged to a serial killer.

Horror History: Wednesday, July 31, 1991: “Tales From The Crypt” episode “Mournin’ Mess” premiered

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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.

Horror History: Wednesday, July 24, 1991: “Tales From The Crypt” episode “Undertaking Palor” premiered

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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.

Horror History: Wednesday, July 17, 1991: “Tales From The Crypt” episode “Easel Kill Ya” premiered

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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.

Horror History: Wednesday, July 10, 1991: “Tales From The Crypt” episode “The Reluctant Vampire” premiered

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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.

Horror History: Wednesday, July 3, 1991: “Tales From The Crypt” episode “Dead Wait” premiered

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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.

Horror History: Thursday, June 27, 1991: The Pit and the Pendulum was released in theaters

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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.

Horror History: Wednesday, June 26, 1991: “Tales From The Crypt” episode “Top Billing” premiered

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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.

Horror History: Wednesday, June 19, 1991: “Tales From The Crypt” episode “Abra Cadaver” premiered

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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

Horror History: Saturday, June 15, 1991: “Tales From The Crypt” episode “The Trap” premiered

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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”.

Horror History: Saturday, June 15, 1991: “Tales From The Crypt” episode “Carrion Death” premiered

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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.

Horror History: Saturday, June 15, 1991: “Tales From The Crypt” episode “Loved to Death” premiered

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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.

Horror History: Thursday, June 13, 1991: Howling VI: The Freaks was released direct-to-video

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A villainous carnival owner traps a young werewolf to include in his growing menagerie of inhuman exhibits.

Horror History: Wednesday, June 5, 1991: Begotten was released in theaters

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This gory and entirely visual film tells the surreal tale of the death and rebirth of gods.

Horror History: Monday, May 20, 1991: Omen IV: The Awakening debuted on television

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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.

Horror History: Tuesday, May 7, 1991: Sometimes They Come Back premiered on TV

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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.