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”Joey Summerskill is an ambitious TV reporter whose life is changed forever when she witnesses the horrific death of a tormented teenage boy, torn apart by bloody chains. Determined to find the truth behind this gruesome vision, she discovers the Lament Configuration Box which opens the door to the Cenobites’ demonic world of pleasure and pain.
Read more “Horror History: Friday, September 11, 1992: Hellraiser III: Hell on Earth was released in theaters”Season 4 Episode 13
A group of guests at a hotel suspect that one of them may in fact be a werewolf at the time when the hotel manager (Dennis Farina) has hired a professional werewolf hunter (Timothy Dalton). Also starring Beverly D’Angelo, Reginald Veljohnson, Lela Rochon, Charles Fleischer, Walter Gotell, and Wolfgang Puck as the hotel’s master chef.
Read more “Horror History: Wednesday, September 9, 1992: “Tales From The Crypt” episode “Werewolf Concerto” premiered”Season 4 Episode 12
A game of deception ensues when a golden-age puppeteer (Donald O’Connor), with a young and dominant wife (Patricia Charbonneau), is given a chance to revive his act for a tribute show and takes on an animatronic puppeteer (Zach Galligan) as his new assistant.
Read more “Horror History: Wednesday, September 2, 1992: “Tales From The Crypt” episode “Strung Along” was released in theaters”The zombie-raising cemetary is back to its old tricks, this time, with new inhabitants.
Read more “Horror History: Friday, August 28, 1992: Pet Sematary II was released in theaters”Season 4 Episode 11
A con man (Joe Pesci) tricks a pair of reclusive twin sisters (Jacqueline Alexandra Citron and Kristen Amber Citron) into dating him so that he can steal their inheritance. However, he soon gets a nasty surprise when he shockingly discovers that the twins themselves are harboring a dark and dangerous secret.
Featuring brief appearances by Burt Young and Joe Pantoliano.
Read more “Horror History: Wednesday, August 26, 1992: “Tales From The Crypt” episode “Split Personality” premiered”Season 4 Episode 10
A librarian (Blythe Danner) becomes obsessed with a serial killer and believes that she is his next victim. Also starring Salome Jens, Clarence Williams III, Adam Ant, and Obba Babatunde.
Read more “Horror History: Wednesday, August 19, 1992: “Tales From The Crypt” episode “Maniac at Large” premiered”Season 4 Episode 9
A police officer (Raymond J. Barry) revives his past life as a street racer when a cocky young racer (Brad Pitt) kidnaps the officer’s daughter in order to blackmail him into one last street race. Note: The “Two-Fisted Tales” comic book cover shown in the episode is a spoof. This tale came from a script for a planned movie “Two-Fisted Tales” which was based on the comic book series of the same name along with TFTC stories “Yellow” and “Showdown.”
Read more “Horror History: Saturday, August 8, 1992: “Tales From The Crypt” episode “King of the Road” premiered”Season 4 Episode 8
After killing a Texas ranger (David Morse), a remorseless gunslinger (Neil Giuntoli) soon gets his comeuppance when all of his past victims come back to haunt him in the ghost town of where he takes residence in.
Read more “Horror History: Saturday, August 1, 1992: “Tales From The Crypt” episode “Showdown” premiered”Season 4 Episode 8
After killing a Texas ranger (David Morse), a remorseless gunslinger (Neil Giuntoli) soon gets his comeuppance when all of his past victims come back to haunt him in the ghost town of where he takes residence in.
Read more “Horror History: Saturday, August 1, 1992: “Tales From The Crypt” episode “Showdown” premiered”A vacuous high school cheerleader learns that she is the “chosen one” — a vampire slayer who is the sole hope of mankind (or at least her high school).
Read more “Horror History: Friday, July 31, 1992: Buffy the Vampire Slayer was released in theaters”
