A murderous baboon with Red ass escapes from a Florida laboratory and roams the research building, and begins to kill some teenagers who are also in the building playing a live-action Dungeons-and-Dragons-esque game. Lame game doesn’t kill them, Shakma will!
Read more “Horror History: Friday, October 5, 1990: Shakma was released direct-to-video”Category: Horror History
Horror History: Friday, October 5, 1990: “The Hitchhiker” episode “Riding the Nightmare” premiered
Season 6 Episode 3
A woman obsessed with climbing the professional ladder eliminates her romantic rival much the same way she would eliminate a business rival.
Read more “Horror History: Friday, October 5, 1990: “The Hitchhiker” episode “Riding the Nightmare” premiered”Horror History: Friday, September 28, 1990: “The Hitchhiker” episode “Tough Guys Don’t Whine” premiered
Season 6 Episode 2
Mickey Black is a film director with everything going for him until he seduces a woman away from her gangster boyfriend. He promises her all the glory in the world, but things take a dangerous turn when her boyfriend refuses to give her up.
Read more “Horror History: Friday, September 28, 1990: “The Hitchhiker” episode “Tough Guys Don’t Whine” premiered”Horror History: Friday, September 21, 1990: “The Hitchhiker” episode “Fading Away” premiered
Season 6 Episode 1
When an ex-marine realises he is all on his own, he becomes convinced that he’s on a dangerous mission and has been abandoned by his commanding officers.
Read more “Horror History: Friday, September 21, 1990: “The Hitchhiker” episode “Fading Away” premiered”Horror History: Friday, September 14, 1990: Repossessed was released in theaters
A parody of “The Exorcist”. Linda Blair plays a housewife who becomes possessed by the Devil. Leslie Nielsen plays Father Mayii, who gets called to exorcise the intrusive being.
Read more “Horror History: Friday, September 14, 1990: Repossessed was released in theaters”Horror History: Friday, September 7, 1990: Slumber Party Massacre III was released direct-to-video
Seven California coeds are dressed to kill… and a murderer is, well, dressed to drill. He’s an insomno-maniac looking for luscious bods to bore and it looks like he’ll find them at the Slumber Party Massacre. The Driller Killer is back in Part III of the classic horror fest. This time Jackie, Diane and Martia are three high school girls who love a good time. When they party, they bust out their bikinis and break out the brews – but the driller killer’s out for a thrill with his drill… and he’s ready to kill!
Read more “Horror History: Friday, September 7, 1990: Slumber Party Massacre III was released direct-to-video”Horror History: Friday, September 7, 1990: Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer was released in theaters
Arriving in Chicago, Henry (Michael Rooker, in what is undoubtedly the finest performance of his patchy career), moves in with ex-con acquaintance Otis (Tom Towles) and starts schooling him in the ways of the serial killer.
Read more “Horror History: Friday, September 7, 1990: Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer was released in theaters”Horror History: Friday, August 17, 1990: The Exorcist III was released in theaters
A police lieutenant uncovers more than he bargained for as his investigation of a series of murders, which have all the hallmarks of the deceased ‘Gemini’ serial killer, lead him to question the patients of a psychiatric ward.
Read more “Horror History: Friday, August 17, 1990: The Exorcist III was released in theaters”Horror History: Friday, August 10, 1990: Flatliners was released in theaters
Kiefer Sutherland and Julia Roberts lead a talented group of medical students on a dangerous journey to the other side of death… and back.
Read more “Horror History: Friday, August 10, 1990: Flatliners was released in theaters”Horror History: Tuesday, July 31, 1990: “Tales From The Crypt” episode “The Secret” premiered
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”Horror History: Tuesday, July 24, 1990: “Tales From The Crypt” episode “My Brother’s Keeper” 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”Horror History: Friday, July 20, 1990: Clownhouse was released in theaters
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”Horror History: Tuesday, July 17, 1990: “Tales From The Crypt” episode “Television Terror” premiered
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”Horror History: Tuesday, July 10, 1990: “Tales From The Crypt” episode “Mute Witness to Murder” 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”Horror History: Tuesday, July 3, 1990: “Tales From The Crypt” episode “Lower Berth” 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”Horror History: Tuesday, June 26, 1990: “Tales From The Crypt” episode “Korman’s Kalamity” 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”Horror History: Tuesday, June 19, 1990: “Tales From The Crypt” episode “Fitting Punishment” 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”Horror History: Friday, June 15, 1990: Gremlins 2: The New Batch was released in theaters
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”Horror History: Tuesday, June 12, 1990: “Tales From The Crypt” episode “Judy, You’re Not Yourself Today” premiered
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”Horror History: Tuesday, June 5, 1990: “Tales From The Crypt” episode “The Ventriloquist’s Dummy” 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”Horror History: Friday, June 1, 1990: Frankenhooker was released in theaters
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”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: 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: 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: Friday, May 11, 1990: Def by Temptation was released in theaters
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”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 4, 1990: Tales from the Darkside: The Movie was released in theaters
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”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 27, 1990: The Guardian was released in theaters
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”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”