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The 80s were a golden age of horror. Ultra violent, lewd, irreverent, and before CG effects started to take over. Tales from the Crypt is the perfect distillation of that era. Each episode was a self contained short story. Most episodes have lots of profanity, softcore nudity, gore, violence, but it never takes itself too seriously.
- Secrets of The Cryptkeeper's Haunted House
- Two-Fisted Tales
- Perversions of Science
- Tales from The Cryptkeeper/New Tales from The Cryptkeeper
- Tales from The Crypt
When ‘90s young adult horror, like Goosebumps, was en vogue, the usually gory Cryptkeeper was attempting to appeal to the countless “kiddies” he addressed with the CBS game show Secrets of the Cryptkeeper’s Haunted House. Taking a break from his “deadtime stories,” the Cryptkeeper and his co-host Digger challenged children to compete in horror-them...
Adapted from the EC comics sister series of the same name, in 1992, three episodes of Two-Fisted Tales found their way to television. Once published as a comic anthology covering war stories, the television series took liberties as it tried to replicate Tales from the Crypt’s TV success. Including introductions from a wisecracking host played by Wi...
Based on EC Comics’ far-out sci-fi anthologies, in 1997, Perversions of Science aired as Tales from the Crypt’s forgotten spinoff. With all the hallmarks of an EC series, including a colorful host to bookend its segments, Perversions of Science made sense as a successor to Tales from the Crypt, which ended a year prior. Airing for one season, HBO’s...
Before R.L. Stine’s Goosebumps came to television in 1995, the Cryptkeeper’s animated series, Tales from the Cryptkeeper, was there to scare Saturday mornings. With its initial run lasting until 1994, the Cryptkeeper later returned in 1999 with a follow-up to his cartoon anthologies withNew Tales from the Cryptkeeper. While each season varied, the ...
In 1989 Tales from the Crypt and its stars set the pace for future anthology series, such as American Horror Story. Although not the first adaptation of the EC Comics, with multiple movies predating it, it did define the series and brought high-quality gory horror stories to HBO. There’s a reason why even over three decades later, the delightfully ...
- The New Arrival (Season 4, Episode 7) Directed by: Peter Medak; Written by: Ron Finley; Original Air Date: July 25, 1992. “Ignore it…Ignore it…Ignore it.”
- People Who Lives in Brass Hearses (Season 5, Episode 5) Directed by: Russell Mulcahy; Written by: Scott Nimerfro; Original Air Date: October 13, 1993.
- Abra Cadaver (Season 3, Episode 4) Directed by: Stephen Hopkins; Written by: Jim Birge; Original Air Date: June 19, 1991. “Martin was wrong about one thing, the sense of touch isn’t the first thing to go… it’s the last!”
- Easel Kill Ya (Season 3, Episode 8) Directed by: John Harrison; Written by: Larry Wilson; Original Air Date: July 17, 1991. “They lack one thing, one supremely important thing: the artist’s touch his ability to interpret the horror of the world through the darkness of his own soul.
80% Tomatometer 10 Reviews 91% Audience Score Fewer than 50 Ratings Based on the EC Comics series of the same name, this campy and stylized anthology series recounts a string of horrific...
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- Lea Thompson
- Tom Holland
- June 10, 1989
Nov 5, 2020 · By Cathal Gunning. Published Nov 5, 2020. Many scary series have delighted TV fans over the years, but why does Tales from the Crypt remain the medium’s most successful horror anthology?
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Dec 5, 2014 · Cryptic Horror Triumph. Phil Brown | December 5, 2014. Tales from the Crypt / The Vault of Horror. Review Score: 9. Back in the ancient days of the 1970s, the British film industry cranked...
Tales from the Crypt, sometimes titled HBO's Tales from the Crypt, is an American horror anthology television series created by William Gaines and Steven Dodd that ran for seven seasons on the premium cable channel HBO, from June 10, 1989, to July 19, 1996, with a total of 93 episodes.
