Season 1 Episode 6
An uptight elderly man (M. Emmet Walsh) retires and soon discovers his wife’s (Audra Lindley) obsession with adopting animals into their home, leading him to use the animals for a hobby of his own.
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A newlywed couple (Amanda Plummer and Stephen Shellen) retreats to the mansion of the wife’s aunt in which the husband plans to kill her for her inheritance, but he soon learns that his wife’s family has a dark past and that the wife herself is not who she seems to be.
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A young self-obsessed prostitute (Lea Thompson) “sells” her looks to a voodoo-dabbling pawnbroker (Britt Leach) so that she can use the money in order to snag a rich bachelor (Brett Cullen), but she soon regrets it four months later when her own face begins to shockingly and unexpectedly age at an accelerated rate.
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A carnival daredevil (Joe Pantoliano) is buried alive for his grand finale. Through flashbacks, he tells the viewers on how he was formerly a homeless man who had undergone a doctor’s experiment in order to transfer a cat’s nine lives into him. He suddenly remembers that he forgot that he only has eight lives, because the cat had to die the first time. However its too late.
Also starring Robert Wuhl.
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A greedy philandering wife (Mary Ellen Trainor) kills her second husband (Marshall Bell) for his insurance money. Upon getting rid of the body, she is unexpectedly attacked by a hideous escaped mental patient (Larry Drake) dressed as Santa Claus who has been going around killing women. She soon realizes that her own young daughter is in complete danger from within the horrific situation.
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A prison executioner named Niles Talbot (William Sadler) is laid off from his job and begins administering his own style of justice to acquitted murder suspects. He gets caught and soon after that, is executed by his former colleaugues.
Also starring Gerrit Graham and Roy Brocksmith.
Read more “Horror History: Saturday, June 10, 1989: “Tales From The Crypt” episode “The Man Who Was Death” premiered”Five strangers get lost in a crypt and, after meeting the mysterious Crypt Keeper, receive visions of how they will die.
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