Tag: Tales From The Crypt
Horror History: Wednesday, November 17, 1993: “Tales From The Crypt” episode “Came the Dawn” premiered
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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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).
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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.
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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.
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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).
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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”Horror History: Saturday, August 8, 1992: “Tales From The Crypt” episode “King of the Road” 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.”
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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.
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Season 4 Episode 7
A psychologist (David Warner) attempts to boost his sagging radio show ratings by doing a series of episodes from the home of a strange woman (Zelda Rubenstein) who wants help for her deeply disturbed child. Also starring Joan Severance, Twiggy, and Robert Patrick.
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Season 4 Episode 6
A couple’s (Christopher Reeve and Bess Armstrong) failing restaurant soon gets a huge boost in both sales and popularity when a mysterious drifter (Judd Nelson) gives them a steak recipe that’s made of human flesh. Also starring Meat Loaf.
Read more “Horror History: Wednesday, July 22, 1992: “Tales From The Crypt” episode “What’s Cookin’” premiered”Horror History: Saturday, July 11, 1992: “Tales From The Crypt” episode “Beauty Rest” premiered
Season 4 Episode 5
An aging model (Mimi Rogers) resorts to murdering her younger rivals (Kathy Ireland and Jennifer Rubin) in order to revive her own modeling career. She soon gets her big break as a contestant in a rather macabre “autopsy” beauty pageant.
Also starring Buck Henry.
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