Season 5 Episode 10
A female hitchhiker and petty crook (Brooke Shields) catches a ride with a seemingly timid man (Perry King) who soon reveals a dark and dangerous secret to her while they spend the night together at his cabin. Also starring Michael J. Pollard.
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Season 5 Episode 9
A bookworm (Nina Siemaszko) is tricked by a jock (Anthony Michael Hall) and their evil Egyptologist professor (Jeffrey Jones) into becoming a virgin sacrifice for a long preserved mummy.
Read more “Horror History: Wednesday, November 10, 1993: “Tales From The Crypt” episode “Creep Course” premiered”Season 5 Episode 8
In a desperate attempt to spice up his act, a hack turn-of-the-century magician (Billy Zane) kills a rival magician (Martin Sheen) and steals his famed prop, the Box of Death. Also starring Maryam d’Abo.
Read more “Horror History: Wednesday, November 3, 1993: “Tales From The Crypt” episode “Well Cooked Hams” premiered”In Return of the Living Dead Part II, the chemical Trioxin turned people into flesh eating zombies. Now the government is trying to control these unstoppable cannibalistic killers.
Read more “Horror History: Friday, October 29, 1993: Return of the Living Dead 3 was released in theaters”Season 5 Episode 7
Three fraternity pledges (Wil Wheaton, Jason London, and Keith Coogan) are challenged to get to the top floor of a haunted house as a part of their initiation. However, when two of the pledges fail to return, the sadistic fraternity leader decides to head up to the top floor of the house in order to look for them himself, only to shockingly learn that a local sorority harbors a sinister secret involving the house.
Read more “Horror History: Wednesday, October 27, 1993: “Tales From The Crypt” episode “House of Horror” premiered”Rest In Peace, Mr. Price.
Read more “Horror History: Monday, October 25, 1993: Vincent Price passed away”Season 5 Episode 6
A murderous husband (David Paymer) and a cop with his own marital issues (Vincent Spano) get caught up in a deadly game of cat and mouse aboard a train. Also starring Traci Lords.
Read more “Horror History: Wednesday, October 20, 1993: “Tales From The Crypt” episode “Two for the Show” premiered”The Demonic Toys are back! Policewoman Judith Gray seeks the help of 12-inch tall Dollman and his 12-inch tall girlfriend Nurse Ginger. The Toys hole up in an evil deserted toy factory and it’s up to Dollman to keep the Toys from summoning the powers of darkness to the earth.
Read more “Horror History: Wednesday, October 13, 1993: Dollman vs. Demonic Toys was released direct-to-video”Season 5 Episode 5
A crook with an addiction to butter (Bill Paxton), with the help of his brother (Brad Dourif), sets out to get revenge on an ice cream truck driver (Michael Lerner) who had put him in prison years ago.
Read more “Horror History: Wednesday, October 13, 1993: “Tales From The Crypt” episode “People Who Live in Brass Hearses” premiered”Season 5 Episode 4
A carnival psychic and part-time cook named Sambini (Ernie Hudson) goes off the deep jealous end when he soon finds out that his wife and assistant (Joan Chen) is in love with the show’s fire-eater (John Laughlin). Also starring Phil Fondacaro.
Read more “Horror History: Wednesday, October 6, 1993: “Tales From The Crypt” episode “Food for Thought” premiered”Season 5 Episode 3
After playing second fiddle to an up-and-coming photographer named Isaac Forte (Steve Buscemi), a seasoned but washed-up combat photographer named Dalton (Roger Daltrey) cooks up a deadly scheme in order to take him out and get his beautiful wife (Lysette Anthony).
Read more “Horror History: Saturday, October 2, 1993: “Tales From The Crypt” episode “Forever Ambergris” premiered”Season 5 Episode 2
Thinking and believing that his own wife (Patsy Kensit) is cheating on him, a jealous husband (Héctor Elizondo) hires a detective (Sam Waterston) and is led to truly believe that she is indeed having an affair with the local priest (John Shea). Featuring cameos from Adam West and Miguel Ferrer.
Read more “Horror History: Saturday, October 2, 1993: “Tales From The Crypt” episode “As Ye Sow” premiered”Season 5 Episode 1
A sneaky cemetery plot salesman (Ed Begley, Jr.) finds new victims (triple role played by Tim Curry) in the form of a strange hillbilly family with a fortune buried in their basement and a burning hatred for conning salesmen. Also starring Yvonne De Carlo.
Read more “Horror History: Saturday, October 2, 1993: “Tales From The Crypt” episode “Death of Some Salesmen” premiered”Photographer Keyes Terry is given an old mirror from a homeless person who he photographs on the street. What he doesn’t know is that demonic forces project grisly visuals upon the mirror’s surface and exhibit them to those who look at their reflections.
Read more “Horror History: Wednesday, September 29, 1993: Amityville: A New Generation was released direct-to-video”He’s back and meaner than ever! Satan’s only son, the “Warlock” (Julian Sands) is plotting even greater mayhem in this spine tingling, pulse pounding shocker!
Read more “Horror History: Friday, September 24, 1993: Warlock: The Armageddon was released in theaters”Leland Gaunt comes to Sheriff Alan Pangborn’s pleasant little New England town, and opens a store. What this kindly Satan sells is whatever you need, from a surcease from pain to an object which you have always coveted. The Faustian price is, of course, corruption, and soon the poor sheriff’s town is wracked by jealousy, spite, and violence.
Read more “Horror History: Friday, August 27, 1993: Needful Things was released in theaters”Jason Voorhees, living, breathing essence of evil is back for one fierce, final fling! Tracked down & blown to bits by special FBI taskforce everyone now assumes that he’s finally dead.
Read more “Horror History: Friday, August 13, 1993: Jason Goes to Hell: The Final Friday was released in theaters”Three short stories in the horror genre. The first about a serial killer. The second about a hair transplant gone wrong. The third about a baseball player.
Read more “Horror History: Sunday, August 8, 1993: Body Bags premiered”The Maniac Cop returns from the dead once again when a female cop is shot down during an attempted hostage rescue.
Read more “Horror History: Wednesday, July 7, 1993: Maniac Cop III: Badge of Silence was released direct-to-video”A brilliant geneticist plans to expose a lethal virus to every human being on the planet. Her objective: to destroy humankind in favor of her new strain of prehistoric dinosaurs.
Read more “Horror History: Friday, May 21, 1993: Carnosaur was released in theaters”A precocious writer undergoes a grotesque operation which reveals a twin in his brain. The twin goes on a murderous rampage–leaving all of the evidence pointed at the writer.
Read more “Horror History: Friday, April 23, 1993: The Dark Half was released in theaters”When a Sumatran rat-monkey bites Lionel Cosgrove’s mother, she’s transformed into a zombie and begins killing (and transforming) the entire town while Lionel races to keep things under control.
Read more “Horror History: Friday, February 12, 1993: Dead Alive (Braindead) was released in US theaters”The neighboring town of Hemingford has discovered not only the gruesome massacre of Gatlin’s entire adult population, but also the orphaned children who refuse to participate in the human sacrifices.
Read more “Horror History: Friday, January 29, 1993: Children of the Corn II: The Final Sacrifice was released in theaters”A horrific Leprechaun goes on a rampage after his precious bag of gold coins is stolen. He uses all of his magical destructive powers to trick, terrorize and kill anyone who is unlucky enough to hinder his relentless search. In a frantic attempt to survive the wrath of the Leprechaun, Tori and her friends scramble to find the only weapon known to kill this Irish monster…a four-leaf clover.
Read more “Horror History: Friday, January 8, 1993: Leprechaun was released in theaters”A mad professor at a rural campus injects students with a drug to make them superhuman mutants.
Read more “Horror History: Wednesday, December 16, 1992: Hellmaster was released in theaters”Gary Oldman and Winona Ryder star in the tortured tale of a charismatic vampire, based on the tale of the Prince of Darkness.
Read more “Horror History: Friday, November 13, 1992: Bram Stoker’s Dracula was released in theaters”When the psychopathic son of a mass-murdering doctor escapes from a mental institution, he seeks revenge on the citizens of the town where his father was finally captured.
Read more “Horror History: Friday, October 23, 1992: Dr. Giggles was released in theaters”Student Helen Lyle (Virginia Madsen) learns of the terrifying local legend of The Candyman – a hooked serial killer who appears when you say his name in a mirror, five times.
Read more “Horror History: Friday, October 16, 1992: Candyman was released in theaters”A modern-day vampire tale about a beautiful vampire who only dines on bad guys and an undercover cop who’s infiltrated a vicious mafia family.
Read more “Horror History: Friday, September 25, 1992: Innocent Blood was released in theaters”Season 4 Episode 14
An elderly man (Kevin McCarthy) is let in on the secret of a youth potion whilst camping in the woods, and entrusts another couple (J.A. Preston and Madge Sinclair) to keep it from his own bitter, overbearing wife (Margot Kidder).
Read more “Horror History: Wednesday, September 16, 1992: “Tales From The Crypt” episode “Curiosity Killed” premiered”
