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”Season 6 Episode 14
A neo-fascist cannot relax because he cannot forget about his past.
Read more “Horror History: Friday, January 11, 1991: “The Hitchhiker” episode “Homecoming” premiered”Season 6 Episode 13
A Parisien con artist meets his match and learns that there is no such thing as the perfect con.
Read more “Horror History: Friday, December 14, 1990: “The Hitchhiker” episode “Tourist Trap” premiered”Season 6 Episode 12
Two men kidnap a young woman for a night out in Paris.
Read more “Horror History: Friday, December 7, 1990: “The Hitchhiker” episode “White Slaves” premiered”Based on the novel by Stephen King. Successful romantic novelist, Paul Sheldon, who just had his life saved by his No.1 fan…now lives to regret it. When Ann Wilkes discovers that her favorite character, Misery Chastain, has been killed off in his latest novel she’ll do anything to make sure he brings her back to life. Now Paul Sheldon must write as if his life depended on it…because it does.
Read more “Horror History: Friday, November 30, 1990: Misery was released in theaters”Season 6 Episode 11
After a housewife shoots her philandering husband, she goes after the other woman.
Read more “Horror History: Friday, November 30, 1990: “The Hitchhiker” episode “Working Girl” premiered”Season 6 Episode 10
After spending all of his time with his paintings, an artist begins to believe that his art and life are melding together.
Read more “Horror History: Friday, November 23, 1990: “The Hitchhiker” episode “Windows” premiered”A police chief discovers that an invisible creature — an extraterrestrial big game hunter known as the Predator — is killing off criminals and cops and has targed him as its next victim.
Read more “Horror History: Wednesday, November 21, 1990: Predator 2 was released in theaters”A fanged monster that won’t stay on the movie screen. Something ominous lurking in the basement. No matter what your biggest fear is, no one knows It better than Stephen King.
Read more “Horror History: Sunday, November 18, 1990: Stephen King’s It debuted on television”Season 6 Episode 9
A con man who preys on wealthy, older women soon learns that one day everyone must pay the piper.
Read more “Horror History: Friday, November 16, 1990: “The Hitchhiker” episode “Trust Me” premiered”horror – #HorrorHistory – #PsychoIVTheBeginning –
Before The Terror Can End, See How It All Began
Anthony Perkins, Henry Thomas and Olivia Hussey star in this chilling prequel to the classic Hitchcock thriller.
A seemingly rehabilitated Norman Bates (Perkins) is drawn to a late night radio show where the host (CCH Pounder, Tales From The Crypt Presents: Demon Knight) encourages him to share his views on the topic of matricide. Reliving his childhood, Norman recounts his trials of a young boy (Thomas, Ouija 2) living with his widowed schizophrenic mother (Hussey, the original Black Christmas). These haunting memories are more than just disturbing visions of the past; they threaten to rekindle his killing urge in this spine-tingling thriller directed by Mick Garris (The Stand, Masters of Horror).
Read more “Horror History: Saturday, November 10, 1990: Psycho IV: The Beginning premiered”Chuckie’s back as the doll possessed by the soul of a serial killer, butchering all who stand in his way of possessing the body of a boy.
Read more “Horror History: Friday, November 9, 1990: Child’s Play 2 was released in theaters”Season 6 Episode 8
After an office manager accidentally kills the boss’s wife, she has to find a way to cover up the murder and keep herself out of jail.
Read more “Horror History: Friday, November 9, 1990: “The Hitchhiker” episode “A Function of Control” premiered”
