Season 2 Episode 18
A 12-year-old young orphan (Mike Simmrin) is adopted by a rich childless couple (William Frankfather and Grace Zabriskie) who harbor a dark secret. However, the couple themselves do not realize that the young orphan too has a dark secret of his own. Also stars Larry Drake, Georgann Johnson, Stella Hall, and Gary Schwartz as the voice of the werewolf.
Read more “Horror History: Tuesday, July 31, 1990: “Tales From The Crypt” episode “The Secret” premiered”Season 2 Episode 17
The relationship between Siamese twin brothers (Timothy Stack and Jonathan Stark) becomes strained when the good twin doesn’t want to be separated from the bad twin. When the later resorts to murder, the former finally changes his mind. Also starring Jessica Harper.
Read more “Horror History: Tuesday, July 24, 1990: “Tales From The Crypt” episode “My Brother’s Keeper” premiered”Just before Halloween, three young brothers alone in a big house are menaced by three escaped mental patients who have murdered some traveling circus clowns and taken their identities.
Read more “Horror History: Friday, July 20, 1990: Clownhouse was released in theaters”Season 2 Episode 16
A tabloid news show host (Morton Downey, Jr.) and his camera crew investigate an abandoned house which is allegedly haunted by the ghost of a woman who had killed seven men. The host and the crew get more than they bargained for when a chain of supernatural happenings indeed begin taunting and haunting them. All of this is aired on live TV.
Read more “Horror History: Tuesday, July 17, 1990: “Tales From The Crypt” episode “Television Terror” premiered”Season 2 Episode 15
After witnessing a brutal murder, a woman (Patricia Clarkson) goes mute and is cared for by a psychiatrist (Richard Thomas) who had committed the murder himself and soon finds out that this woman had witnessed the murder (and wants the woman to be silenced forever).
Read more “Horror History: Tuesday, July 10, 1990: “Tales From The Crypt” episode “Mute Witness to Murder” premiered”Season 2 Episode 14
A two-faced circus sideshow freak (Jeff Yagher) falls in love with a 4000-year-old mummy which is said to be cursed.
Also starring Lewis Arquette, Stefan Gierasch, and Mark Rolston as his abusive captors.
Read more “Horror History: Tuesday, July 3, 1990: “Tales From The Crypt” episode “Lower Berth” premiered”Season 2 Episode 13
An employee of the Tales from the Crypt comic (Harry Anderson) is put-upon by his shrewish wife (Colleen Camp) to take potent fertility pills. After a series of weird and bizarre monster attacks, an attractive policewoman (Cynthia Gibb) saved from a rapist (Richard Schiff) from a monster that emerged from a washing machine interrogates the cartoonist, believing that he is somehow making his stories come true. The cartoonist must figure out the cause of the threat while also struggling with his own personal feelings for the policewoman.
Tom Woodruff Jr. performs the utility monsters.
The Cryptkeeper makes a reference to Tales from the Crypt starting out as a magazine at the beginning of the episode.
Read more “Horror History: Tuesday, June 26, 1990: “Tales From The Crypt” episode “Korman’s Kalamity” premiered”Season 2 Episode 12
A funeral home director (Moses Gunn) cuts corners when it comes to his own line of work. Following a tragic car crash, he is made the legal guardian of his teenage nephew (Jon Clair). The nephew is eventually made as an apprentice mortician in order to earn his room and board and soon comes to resent the mean-spirited behavior and stinginess of his uncle. For the uncle, it may come full circle when he quotes the Bible often.
Read more “Horror History: Tuesday, June 19, 1990: “Tales From The Crypt” episode “Fitting Punishment” premiered”Sweethearts Billy and Kate leave Kingston Falls for the big city where they meet up once again with their Mogwai friend, Gizmo.
Read more “Horror History: Friday, June 15, 1990: Gremlins 2: The New Batch was released in theaters”Season 2 Episode 11
An elderly witch (Frances Bay) posing as a cosmetic salesman visits the home of a young vain and eccentric couple (Brian Kerwin and Carol Kane) and convinces the wife to try on a magic necklace that switches the wife’s body with hers.
Read more “Horror History: Tuesday, June 12, 1990: “Tales From The Crypt” episode “Judy, You’re Not Yourself Today” premiered”Season 2 Episode 10
A young ventriloquist (Bobcat Goldthwait) wants to improve his craft and seeks out help from his old hero (Don Rickles), but he soon finds out about his own hidden secret.
Read more “Horror History: Tuesday, June 5, 1990: “Tales From The Crypt” episode “The Ventriloquist’s Dummy” premiered”A medical student sets out to recreate his decapitated fiancée by building her a new body made of the body parts from Manhattan street hookers. Unfortunately, her brain is scrambled and she runs amok on 42nd Street, turning tricks and bringing high-voltage death to her customers!
Read more “Horror History: Friday, June 1, 1990: Frankenhooker was released in theaters”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”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”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”Kadeem Hardison, Bill Nunn and Samuel L. Jackson star in this sexy urban thriller about a Demonic Female Vampire!
Read more “Horror History: Friday, May 11, 1990: Def by Temptation was released in theaters”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”From Stephen King (Pet Sematary), Michael McDowell (Beetlejuice), George A. Romero (Night of the Living Dead) and Arthur Conan Doyle (creator of Sherlock Holmes), comes Tales From The Darkside: The Movie, an all-star horror anthology packed with fun and fright.
Read more “Horror History: Friday, May 4, 1990: Tales from the Darkside: The Movie was released in theaters”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”It’s every parent’s worst fear as a couple’s live-in babysitter’s true intentions are revealed and a battle for the newborn baby’s soul ensues.
Read more “Horror History: Friday, April 27, 1990: The Guardian was released in theaters”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”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”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”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”Catherine returns to her family castle in Italy after her father’s death & gets caught in a love triangle between a man & a creature of the night. With the help of her nanny & a ghost of a young girl, Catherine discovers a curse that threatens their lives.
Read more “Horror History: Friday, April 13, 1990: Meridian: Kiss of the Beast was released direct-to-video”Duane and mutant brother Belial return in this follow-up to cult classic “Basket Case”. After surviving a deadly fall, the brothers become media targets. When a snooping reporter discovers their hideout, the family must unite to keep their freedom a secret.
Read more “Horror History: Friday, March 2, 1990: Basket Case 2 was released in theaters”A young man finds out that his parents had been used in an atomic-weapons experiment shortly before he was born, and that the results have had some unexpected effects on him.
Read more “Horror History: Friday, February 23, 1990: Spontaneous Combustion was released in theaters”A troubled young man is drawn to a mythical place called Midian where a variety of monsters are hiding from humanity.
Read more “Horror History: Friday, February 16, 1990: Nightbreed was released in theaters”Kevin Bacon and Fred Ward are in a fight for their lives when they discover that their desolate town has been infested with gigantic man-eating creatures that live below the ground!
Read more “Horror History: Friday, January 19, 1990: Tremors was released in theaters”A psychological thriller from original “Twilight Zone” writer Charles Beaumont. In a showdown of man vs. machine, Rex Martin plunges into a chaotic nightmare trying to save his mind from a megalomaniacal corporation. Starring your two favorite Bills- Pullman and Paxton!
Read more “Horror History: Friday, January 19, 1990: Brain Dead was released in theaters”
