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lizardsfromspace · 9 months

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Greetings, boils, ghouls, skele-thems and non-bone-ary individuals! Tonight's terror tale is called "I just finished watching Tales from the Crypt and here are my thoughts on the series". Horror pun

Season One

Season one was just six episodes, and aired in June 1989. The whole season, because the first three episodes aired on one night, which would be the case for every season but the last. This season isn't quite there yet, notably the Cryptkeeper animatronic is less expressive and the character himself is less silly.

Best Episode: "And All Through The Night". The most important episode, because it set the tone for the series (the premiere is good, but not very representative, being a crime story with a fourth-wall breaking protagonist). It's the story about a woman who kills her husband, and then finds herself stalked by a evil, killer Santa. All from the director of Back to the Future.

Honorable Mentions: "The Man Who Was Death", "Dig That Cat...He's Real Gone", "Collection Complete"

Worst Episode: idk "Lover Come Hack to Me" is p. forgettable

Season Two

Season two is a step up in length (18 episodes!), the Cryptkeeper (more expressive and more cackly), and stars (Arnold Schwarzenegger directs the second episode). It set the pattern for what the show was: a ghoulish, bloody horror anthology, done with high production values and featuring Hollywood's biggest stars and directors.

The one problem, and it's one that will haunt the rest of the show's run, is that Tales from the Crypt also features a fair chunk of non-horror crime stories, and they're pretty bland on the whole. Luckily, the show's producers know not to do them all the time...yet.

Best Episode: "Television Terror". Tales from the Crypt was rarely scary, or really trying to be. It leaned more towards "fun", and as for scare factor, well, these were adaptions of comic books designed to scare children (and even though it was a very R-rated HBO show, kids loved Tales from the Crypt, enough for it to get both a Saturday morning cartoon & a kid's game show spinoff). But "Television Terror" is one of the few episodes that actually tries for grim, serious horror, and it's the show's scariest episode. It also stars sleazy 80s talk show host Morten Downey, Jr. as a sleazy talk show host, real stretch of a role there.

Honorable Mentions: "Cutting Cards" is another of the show's best episodes; "Three's A Crowd" has one of its best dark twist endings; "For Cryin' Out Loud" features Lee Arenberg as a murderous band promoter taunted by his conscience, Sam Kinison; "Four-Sided Triangle" features Patricia Arquette as a woman in love with a scarecrow; "The Ventriloquist's Dummy" is a twist on the cliche featuring Don Rickles; "Lower Berth" is a romance between a circus freak and a cursed mummy, with a surprise twist; "Mute Witness to Murder" is one of the show's few great noir episodes; "My Brother's Keeper" is a story of Siamese twins.

Worst Episode: "Dead Right", the season premiere. Demi Moore is a gold digger who marries a man when a psychic tells her he'll inherit a large sum of money, then shortly die. There's a decent prophecy twist, but man, so much of this is devoted to showing off how gross the man she married was.

Season Three

Around season three, a spinoff called Two-Fisted Tales was proposed, which would've adapted EC Comics' pulp action & adventure stories. It was never picked up, but the pilot's segements were folded into Tales, with one in season three and two in season four.

Best Episode: "Abra Cadaver". Beau Bridges gets revenge for his brother's prank by trapping him in his own body. Great, ghoulish POV work here.

Honorable Mentions: "Carrion Death" features Kyle MacLachlan as a fugitive handcuffed to a dead cop who swallowed the key to the cuffs; "The Trap" is a crime story with a good twist; "Top Billing" features Jon Lovitz as a struggling actor who will do anything to get a part in Hamlet; "Easel Kill Ya" has Tim Roth as a starving artist turned killer; "Undertaking Palor" is a kids-on-bikes story featuring Aron Eisenberg and Ke Huy Quan; "Mournin' Mess" has the guy from Wings investigating a group helping the homeless whose name is literally GHOULS; "Yellow" is one of the Two-Fisted Tales stories, featuring Kirk Douglas as a WWI general and his son Eric as the general's cowardly son.

Worst Episode: "Spoiled". It's a soap opera parody. Enough said.

Season Four

Season four and five are the show's peak.

Best Episode: "Split Personality". Goofy horror-comedy. Joe Pesci is a con artist who pretends to be twins so he can marry a pair of twins who. Don't want to share.

Honorable Mentions: "None But The Lonely Heart" is a story of a serial murderer of old women, directed by...Tom Hanks?; "On a Dead Man's Chest" is a tale of heavy metal and moving tattoos; "Seance" is another good noir episode; "Beauty Rest" is "Top Billing" but about a beauty pageant; "What's Cookin'" stars Christopher Reeve as a chef who discovers a new source of meat; "The New Arrival" is another of the show's legitimately scary episodes, featuring child psychologist David Warner going to the home of patient Zelda Rubinstein; "Strung Along" features Donald O'Connor as a puppeteer trying to make a comeback, but is his new assistant what he appears to be?

Worst Episode: "This'll Kill Ya". This one is just...bad? It opens with a protracted rip-off HOMAGE of the 1950 noir D.O.A., before diving into a boring weird science story, and ending with a contrived twist.

Season Five

Best Episode: "Death of Some Salesmen". TIM CURRY IN THREE ROLES!

Honorable Mentions: "Forever Ambergris" features Steve Buscemi and gnarly melting efffects; "Food for Thought" is a gothic circus story with Ernie Hudson and Joan Chen; "People Who Live in Brass Hearses" features Bill Paxton and Brad Dourif as crooks trying to rob a ice cream man; "House of Horror" features Wil Wheaton as a college student being put through ghostly hazing; "Creep Course" is a tale of mummies.

Worst Episode: "Came the Dawn". It's a worse Psycho, which means an evil-alternate-personality twist. Pass.

Season Six

OOF.

Season six starts fine, with two great episodes. Then...

OOF.

The show suddenly becomes comedy episodes and crime stories all the way down. Where are the ghouls? Where are the vampires? WHERE ARE THE WEREWOLVES??? (though the show never produced a great werewolf episode and I am Disappointed by that)

We do get some towards the end of the season, but this is the show's worst, by a lot.

It ends with "You, Murderer", a first-person story notable for resurrecting Humphrey Bogart (and, in the frame story, Alfred Hitchcock) via CGI. Which probably seemed more fun at the time, when it was a passing tech fad and not...a thing studios were actually trying to do

Best Episode: "Only Skin Deep". It's weird that such a silly season gave us one of the show's scariest episodes: the tale of a creep who picks up a masked woman at a costume party, and discovers it's the biggest mistake he'll ever make.

Honorable Mentions: "Let the Punishment Fit the Crime" is a Nothing But Trouble-y story of Catherine O'Hara as an ambulance-chasing lawyer facing strict justice in a small town; "Staired in Horror" is a gothic curse story with a goopy ending; "Comes the Dawn" features CREATURES in a proto-30 Days of Night; "99 & 44/100% Pure Horror" is a story of the wife of a soap manufacturer, and also has a goopy ending.

Worst Episode: Many contenders, but one obvious winner. "The Pit" is a story of MMA fighters being pushed into a cage match by their wives. Nobody dies, and nothing even slightly horrific happens. It's just. Boxing. I have no idea why the Cryptkeeper is telling me about this

Season Seven

The seventh and final season suddenly moves the show to London. Yes, the entire season is produced in Britain; if you're expecting big British 90s stars, though, think again - apparently, British actors refused to do the show in Britain because of high taxes. It does feature not-yet-famous actors like Ewan McGregor and Daniel Craig, though.

I was told this was the worst one, but while it's nowhere near the peak, it's...better? This season does something unique by merging the crime stories and the horror stories into one, leading to many episodes that start with criminals, who then encounter something paranormal. It's also tilted more towards Actual Horror

The Cryptkeeper segments in this one feel perfunctory, though; after they started to sprawl out in the last couple seasons, he's barely in these, and there's only two that are Britain-themed despite the show pushing the British setting hard (the show's never had so many establishing shots). But the Cryptkeeper gets his largest role of the series in the series finale, "The Third Pig", the show's only animated episode and the only one narrated by the Cryptkeeper.

Best Episode: "Horror in the Night". A man shot in a heist finds his way to a hotel, which quickly turns surreal. Another of the show's scary episodes, and one featuring a kind of hallucinatory horror it rarely did.

Honorable Mentions: "Cold War" seems to be a crime story, but with a paranormal twist (this is the one with Ewan McGregor, who's American); "Report from the Grave" features a parapsychologist whose experiments in afterlife contact turn fatal; "About Face" is a bit of gothic Victoriana about a corrupt priest's illegitimate daughters; "Confession" stars Eddie Izzard as a suspect in serial killings.

Worst Episode: "Last Respects". The director of the 1972 Tales from the Crypt film returns to direct...a much worse version of one of that film's segments? Not sure what happened here.

Anyway should you watch Tales from the Crypt in 2023? YES!!! Tales from the Crypt filters through just about every genre of horror at some point (there are even a couple episodes that are proto-found footage) and even if it's rarely 'scary' it's almost always fun. It's also cool to see such a high-profile horror show, such a unabashedly pulpy and gross horror show, made in a time where horror was increasingly a dirty word. Now if only they could work out the rights issues so we can get our boy the Cryptkeeper back on his throne (pronounced like bone)

#tales from the crypt #television

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burningexeter · 3 months

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NOW THIS IS JUST PURELY FOR FUN:

Most episodes of HBO's Tales From The Crypt along with its 1995 spin-off film Demon Knight all take place in the same universe as each other and somehow in some way, shape or form, the Cryptkeeper is somehow responsible for the events in every one of them, said episodes are literally all of the following that you see here right about.... now —

• The Man Who Was Death

• And All Through The House

• Dig That Cat... He's Real Gone

• Only Sin Deep

• Lover Come Hack To Me

• Collection Completed

• Cutting Cards

• Til Death

• Three's A Crowd

• The Thing From The Grave

• The Sacrifice

• For Cryin' Out Loud

• Four-Sided Triangle

• Judy, You're Not Yourself Today

• Fitting Punishment

• Korman's Kalamity

• Lower Berth

• Mute Witness To Murder

• Television Terror

• Carrion Death

• Abra Cadaver

• Top Billing

• Easel Kill Ya

• Undertaking Palor

• Mournin' Mess

• Split Second

• Deadline

• Yellow

• None But The Lonely Heart

• This'll Kill Ya

• On A Deadman's Chest

• Beauty Rest

• What's Cookin'

• The New Arrival

• Showdown

• King Of The Road

• Maniac At Large

• Split Personality

• Strung Along

• Death Of Some Salesman

• As Ye Sow

• Forever Ambergris

• People Who Live In Brass Hearses

• Two For The Show

• Well Cooked Hams

• Came The Dawn

• Half-Way Horrible

• Only Skin Deep

• Revenge Is The Nuts

• The Bribe

• The Assassin

• Staired In Horror

• Surprise Party

• 99 & 44/100% Pure Horror

• You, Murderer

• Fatal Caper

• Escape

• Horror In The Night

• Cold War

• The Kidnapper

• About Face

and finally coming to an end —

• Confession

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Demon Knight essentially serves as the grand finale to the whole universe at least on the Cryptkeeper's end while the universe itself keeps going because there's more to it than that. Considering that the show was developed and executive produced by A-list filmmakers Richard Donner, David Giler, Walter Hill, Joel Silver and Robert Zemeckis, it only makes sense some of their work would be in the same universe as Tales From The Crypt.

However, here are my choices on my end.

Here's what I can sharing the same universe as the "Crypt-Verse"....

#tales from the crypt #hbo #ec comics #Youtube #Spotify

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4everfinalgirl · 1 year

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#horror horrortv talesfromthecrypt

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may8chan · 3 years

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Tales from the Crypt Dig That Cat... He's Real Gone - Richard Donner 1989

#Tales from the Crypt #Dig That Cat... He's Real Gone #Richard Donner #John Kassir

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ladykissingfish · 2 years

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ya’ll ever see that season 1 Tales From The Crypt episode called “Dig That Cat, He’s Real Gone”? ok so basically it’s about a guy who’s talked into doing this experiment by this wacky doctor where the doctor takes some gland out of a cat, supposedly the gland that gives cats nine lives, and puts it into the man’s brain, giving HIM the extra lives. it works and they go to this carnival thing and start an act where people pay to see the man die or be killed, then “miraculously” resurrected ((via his magic nine lives thing, which the audience of course doesn’t know about)). this … is Kakuzu and Hidan. Kakuzu is the slightly crazed carnival owner offering up new and insidious ways for people to kill Hidan, and Hidan “dies” … then comes back to life. side character of Sasori being the “real” doctor that’s called in after every “death” to take Hidan’s vitals and “certify” that he has indeed died. only their act is better than the guy in the episode because that guy can only keep up the act until his extra lives run out, whereas Hidan can “die” (and profit) indefinitely. I mean, presumably, so long as he keeps up with his Jashin rituals in-between shows.

yeah.

Seriously I cannot recommend enough that **everyone** watch the first season of Tales From The Crypt, the stories are wild af. The first one, The Man Who Was Death, changed my f-ing life.

okay not really but damn it was good. also Sin Deep with Lea Thompson.

#kakuhida #kakuzu x hidan #kakuzu #hidan #sasori #tales from the crypt #dig that cat he’s real gone

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eigabaka · 5 years

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Tales from the Crypt: Dig That Cat… He's Real Gone (1989; Richard Donner)

#Tales from the Crypt #Dig That Cat… He's Real Gone #1989 #Richard Donner #television #Tales from the Crypt: Season 1

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diicktective · 5 years

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Get To Know the Muse:

Favorite things.

season: Fall pie: Cherry fruit: Limes ice cream flavor: Chocolate / Vanilla Swirl breakfast food: Pancakes, omelettes, hashbrowns -- the whole deal, just never in the MORNING ; his ACTUAL breakfast is just coffee, cigarettes, & aspirin. alcoholic drink: Straight whiskey, the cheaper the better ; dry gin martinis ; whatever soda flavor: Diet Coke scent: Leather, incense, ozone flowers: Roses animal: Cat movie: 2001: A Space Odyssey, Return of the Living Dead, The Faculty, & ALL the goofy B Sci Fi Flicks from the ‘50s tv show: The Twilight Zone & whatever trashy reality shows are running ; used to really dig The X - Files & Tales From the Crypt. book: War of the Worlds & The Invisible Man by H.G. Wells are old favorites ; can also recall bein’ real impressed with The Myth of Sisyphus by Albert Camus & ‘ A Cyborg Manifesto ’ by Donna Haraway when he sat - in on those Philosophy classes way back when fairy tale: He really doesn’t know fairy tales genre of music: New wave, industrial, goth rock, & ‘80s pop genre of movies: Sci - fi & horror, the campier the better genre of books: Mythology, sci - fi, & assorted non - fiction -- philosophy, criminology, popular science, religion, psychology, etc . . .

Pick one.

hot or cold juice or soda tv or movie movie or book late night talk shows or reality tv twitter or instagram trees or flowers philosophy or psychology ocean or lake water park or amusement park cats or dogs freshwater or sparkling water sugar or honey cookies or candy bath or shower morning or night running or walking piercings or tattoos frozen yogurt or ice cream vanilla or chocolate caramel or butterscotch art or music t-shirt or button down text or call ghosts or aliens

Have they ever.

ridden a motorcycle: ‘Course, seeing as he’s owned a few stolen something: He’s so goddamn GOOD at stealing eaten an entire pizza by themselves: Usually happens after coming off a bender & ends badly made a prank call: ... Yeah broken a bone: Ribs, clavicle, jaw, fingers, etc. , etc fallen asleep during a concert or movie: He’s fallen asleep to movies at HOME , but otherwise ? Nah walked out of a movie because it was so bad: Nope, he loves trash ! been on the phone with someone for longer than 2 hours: No dined & dashed: A few times, outta absolute necessity held a gun: Duh ding dong ditched: No, he thought that only happened in fable gone skinny dipping: Yeah cried during a movie: Sure, but mostly in absolute privacy smuggled food into a movie: Who the fuck wouldn’t ? lied to get a job: No practiced lines in from of a mirror: Nah tried to see how many marshmallows they can stuff in their mouth at once: No, but that’s not to say he WOULDN’T been kicked out of somewhere: God, yeah been on a blind date: No ghosted someone: Yes bragged about something they haven’t done: No said i love you without meaning it: ... Does it help his case that it was a strictly PROFESSIONAL , information - gathering thing ? No ? Alright gotten in a fight: Oh yeah fallen asleep on a bus: Yep.

Miscellaneous.

how do they take their tea or coffee: Black. what is their ideal date: I’ve said it before & I’ll say it again : Swift’s got no concept of dating. But to pick something simple & traditional ? How ‘bout drinks & dancing ? Also wouldn’t mind going out to dinner as long as someone else is paying. what are some of their guilty pleasures: Bruce Springsteen’s music. Otherwise, Swift is pretty shameless about everything he enjoys. longest they’ve stayed up for: It’s not RARE for him to string a few days together with nothing but microsleeps in between. Usually lasts for 2 or 3 at a time, but his standing record is close to a week. greatest talent: Besides his talent for self - destruction & that stuff he can do with his mouth ? The cocktail of perceptiveness, stealth, adaptability, intuition, experience & inexplicably dogged persistence that makes him so goddamn GOOD at his job. strange habits: Talks to himself & inanimate objects CONSTANTLY when he’s alone, sometimes without knowing he’s doing it. Paces around when he’s thinking. Watches peoples’ faces A LOT . Cracks gum loud enough to deafen anyone standing too close. Publicly cleans his nails with a pocket knife when he’s bored & doesn’t care who knows it. Promptly & wordlessly slams his head into nearby hard surfaces whenever his memory ‘ jams. ’ can they do a handstand: He’s never tried, but, in theory ? If he were relatively sober & had a few tries, he could probably get there. can they cook: He can make eggs, grilled cheeses, & pasta fine, but that’s only if he’s feelin’ focused enough to fire up the range. Mostly lives on take - out, no - cook stuff, & microwaveables, in that approximate order. do they have allergies: Not that he knows of. He IS lactose intolerant, which has never had ANY bearing on what he will or won’t eat. do they believe in love in first sight: He believes in a certain intuitive PULL -- not LOVE so much as an early warning sign of it. & he might not even believe in that if he never EXPERIENCED it himself. have any special talents: Photographic . . . ISH memory. Pick - pocketing. A verifiable virtuoso at the pool table. Can hold a conversation in ASL. Actually knows most of the popular ballroom dances, along with having generally good rhythm. Can DOUBLE - KNOT a cherry step with his tongue.

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pirathotten · 3 years

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I just watched Tales from the Crypt 1x03 "Dig That Cat...He's Real Gone"

#trakt

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constantviewings · 5 years

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The TV Show Trials - Tales From the Crypt

Tales from the Crypt is an American horror anthology series that ran from 1989 to 1996 on HBO. The title is based on the 1950s EC Comics series of the same name that most of the content originated from.

Happy (early) Halloween kiddies! This month I decided to add a new element to my anthology TV Show Trials in the form of a numerical rating system. From now on, every episode of an anthology series will be given a numerical rating of 1-5 based on how much I enjoyed them. This will hopefully make comparisons between episodes clearer than they have been in the past.

Yellow

Set in 1918, the final year of World War I, Lieutenant Martin Kalthrob doesn’t want to be in the army anymore and asks his father, the general, for a discharge. After failing his last change to be transferred he is sentenced to death by firing squad. From within the night before the execution, the general tells his son that he has swapped the bullets with blanks, so that the son can survive the planned execution.

This is the only episode of the series that runs longer than thirty minutes, it was also the first episode I watched. That, paired with the fact that this episode is pretty boring compared to most of the others I watched, instilled a feeling of doubt that the entire show would be this average. That feeling was only somewhat removed by the end.

Rating: 3

Death of Some Salesman

A conniving con-man posing as a salesman finds new victims in the form of a strange hillbilly family with a fortune buried in their basement and a burning hatred for salesmen.

What the fuck is this episode? Not only does it open with straight-up soft-core porn, but also features a sex scene where Tim Curry, disguised as an ugly hillbilly basically rapes the main character…yeah I don’t know either. As bizarre as this episode is, I had a lot of fun watching it and Tim Curry’s performance; Tim Curry makes everything better, that’s a fact.

Rating: 4

Top Billing

An unattractive and unlucky actor kills off his competition in order to secure the title role in Hamlet, only to discover that the actors are escaped mental patients and that instead he’s to play the part of the long-deceased Yorick; for real.

Yikes… The exact thing I wrote upon finishing this episode was “mildly funny at best, horrifically boring at worst”. I think that’s all that needs to said.

Rating: 2

Television Terror

A TV shock journalist and his camera crew investigate an abandoned house which is allegedly haunted by the ghost of a woman who had killed seven men. The host and the crew get more than they bargained for when a chain of supernatural happenings indeed begin taunting and haunting them. All of this is aired on live TV.

I loved this episode and it is easily the best episode I watched. I have my suspicions that this episode potentially inspired, or at least generated the idea, the BBC special Ghostwatch that premiered two years later; but that is just my suspicion.

Rating: 5

Split Second

A beautiful barmaid marries a rich lumberjack who offers her a comfortable lifestyle. When the marriage soon turns sour, especially in the bedroom, she brings his over the edge when she beings seducing another lumberjack in order to relieve her boredom.

Another average episode, none of the characters have established motivations, but the ending is pretty great.

Rating: 3

And All Through the House

A greedy philandering wife kills her husband for his insurance money. Upon getting rid of the body, she is unexpectedly attacked by an escaped mental patient dressed as Santa Claus who has been going around killing women. She soon realises that her young daughter is in danger from within the horrific situation.

Once again, this is another average episode. Though, it does pick up at the end when the daughter is in danger.

Rating: 3

Dig That Cat… He’s Real Gone

A carnival daredevil is buried alive for his grand finale. Through flashbacks, he tells the viewers 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, it’s too late.

This episode is tied with Television Terror for my favourite. The narrative device of cutting back to him in the coffin as the realisation dawns on him that he’s going to die is fantastic. Also, the closing line “It’s probably just a cat” is a great call back.

Rating: 5

Cutting Cards

Reno and Sam are a pair of hardcore gamblers who don’t play for fun. They challenge each other in a simple game of cards, and the end result could be deadlier than they could’ve ever bargained for.

From a great episode, to a terrible one. Do you want to watch two guys who we are told are rivals gamble for twenty minutes with an alright conclusion? Than this is the episode for you! But seriously, don’t watch this episode, it’s shit.

Rating: 1

The Ventriloquist’s Dummy

Amateur ventriloquist Billy Goldman wants to improve his craft and seeks out help from his old hero, but he soon finds out about his own hidden secret.

While, overall, this is a somewhat tolerable episode and the camp humour does accelerate it, it still isn’t good.

Rating: 2

Abra Cadaver

A doctor who plays too many pranks soon find out that revenge can be a harrowing event when his brother makes him the guinea pig for a new serum that mimics death.

This episode is basically opposite Re-Animator, imitating death instead of life, but not as cool.

Rating: 3

Mournin’ Mess

A journalist tries to solve the case of mysterious serial killer who’s been killing homeless people all across the city. What he doesn’t realise is how deep the conspiracy behind the murders goes.

I don’t remember much about this episode, plot wise, but I do remember really liking it.

Rating: 4

Collection Completed

An uptight elderly man retires and soon discovers his wife’s obsession with adopting animals into their home, leading him to use the animals for a hobby of his own.

Average episodes seem to be common with Tales from the Crypt, because this is another less-than-entertaining episode. I will admit, the practical effects are great and really gross; so yay!

Rating: 3

Easel Kill Ya

Painter Jack Craig gains himself a wealthy patron when he sells a morbid painting to a collector. He soon finds that in order to please his patron, he must continue to paint pictures of death, and this leads him down a murderous path.

If this plot sounds familiar, it is. This episode I just Bucket of Blood, go and watch that instead.

Rating: 3

What’s Cookin

A couple’s failing restaurant soon gets a huge boost in both sales and popularity when a mysterious drifter gives them a steak recipe that’s to die for.

This is another episode that I really liked, not as much as Television Terror or Dig That Cat, but it’s up there. I’ll be honest, I am giving it bonus points for featuring Judd Nelson and Meat Loaf…

Rating: 4

House of Horror

Three fraternity pledges 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 decided to head up in order to look for them himself, only to shockingly learn that a local sorority harbours a sinister secret inside the house.

This episode I basically a combination of Television Terror and Mournin Mess. It repeats tired tropes that had already been used within the show and doesn’t bring anything new to the table.

Rating: 2

As should be obvious by this point, I found the majority of the episodes I watched painfully average. Even the few episodes that I did thoroughly enjoy don’t change my overall feelings towards this series. I know many people love it, but I unfortunately am not one of those people.

Did I like this show? That could be debated

Will I continue watching? Unfortunately (but not really) not.

#The TV Show Trials #Tales From the Crypt

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quetzalcoatlustastic · 6 years

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3117: The End

I didn’t blog about all of them, and may not get to, as starting tomorrow I’m attempting to start my first nanowrimo novel, but I did at least watch 31 movies/shows in the horror vein. Here’s the list, followed by some conclusions: 1. Species 2. The Eyes Of My Mother 3. Stake Land 4. Coraline 5. Strange Events 6. Black Mirror (”White Bear”) 7. The Craft 8. The Dark Below 9. Killer Pinata 10. The Nightmare 11. Corpse Bride 12. Galaxy Of Horror 13. Friday The 13th: The Final Chapter 14. Eerie Indiana (”America’s Scariest Home Video”, “Heart On A Chain”) 15. Hocus Pocus 16. A Cure For Wellness 17. The Belko Experiment 18. XX 19. The Real Ghostbusters (”The Collect Call Of Cathulhu”, “When It Was Halloween Forever”) 20. Pumpkinhead 2: Bloodwings 21. The Babysitter 22. The Houses October Built 23. Tales From The Crypt (”Dig That Cat, He’s Real Gone”, “Lover Come Hack To Me”, “Only Sin Deep”) 24. Cube 25. Holidays 26. Donnie Darko 27. Mystery Science Theater 3000 (”Zombie Nightmare”) 28. Night Watch 29. Day Watch 30. The Amityville Horror 31. The Old Dark House Favorite New Discovery: XX

Worst Movie: Probably Killer Pinata, but I was still entertained.

Total Horror Pack films watched: eight

Films involving vampires: 3 (Stake Land, Night Watch, Day Watch)

Films involving witches: 6 (The Craft, Hocus Pocus, Night Watch, Day Watch, the Halloween segment of Holidays, and I’m gonna go and count Bee from The Babysitter as a witch)

Films Involving Zombies: Somewhere between one and four. No zombie apocalypse movies at all, and the only undead creature that’s categorically called a zombie is in Zombie Nightmare. I suppose Jason Vorhees, Pumpkinhead, and Emily (the titular Corpse Bride) all fit some definition of “zombie”.

Films where the only danger is violent/insane people: four (The Eyes Of My Mother, The Belko Experiment, The Dark Below, The Old Dark House)

Most creative “killer inanimate object”: Surprisingly not Killer Pinata, but the Strange Events segment “Toothbrush”, involving a killer toothbrush

#31 in 31

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gbhbl · 7 years

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TV Series Review: Tales from the Crypt - Season 1

TV Series Review: Tales from the Crypt – Season 1

Tales from the Crypt was a horror anthology series that ran from 1989 to 1996. A total of 7 seasons were completed. Based off the 1950’s EC comic of the same name as well as other EC comics. The content was both mature & often quite graphic.

The episodes were always book-ended by short scenes with The Crypt Keeper who would introduce the story, often with a groan-worthy pun. One of the most…

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geekade · 7 years

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Rising From the Crypt: Dig that Cat… He’s Real Gone

We’re back again with the third episode of Tales from the Crypt. If we keep this pace up we’re going to burn through the entire series way too soon! Geekade’s 31 Days of Halloween continues to roll on my Gravediggers and Undertakers with an all new chilling tale from the Crypt Keeper (oh my God that’s where they got the name!)

Tales from the Crypt

Season 1 Episode 3 “Dig that Cat… He’s Real Gone”

Directed by Richard Donner

Starring Joe Pantoliano, Robert Wuhl, Kathleen York

Originally aired: June 10th 1989

Sourced from: Haunt of Fear #21

The final of the triple premiere night episodes, “Dig that Cat… He’s Real Gone” was directed by Richard Donner. We’re talking Superman, Goonies, Lethal Weapon series director Richard Donner! You better believe when he decides to do a TV show after the success of his movies, it’s something special.

This episode starts with Arliss, I mean Robert Wuhl as a ringleader of a sideshow carnival. He’s pandering to a TY crew as he’s about to bury Ulrich the Undying. Inside the coffin is Ulrich, played by Joe Pantoliano (aka Joey Pants), who tells us of his story, beginning as a drunk, homeless bum. While in his cardboard bed, he’s approached by a scientist that offers him plenty of cash to undergo a single experiment.

Back at his lab, the scientist, Dr. Emil Manfred, explains that he’s discovered a gland in the brains of cats that allow them to have nine lives. Completely crap science aside, Ulrich agrees, and awakens from the surgery, unsure if it worked or not. Manfred decides there’s only one way to test it, and shoots Ulrich in the head (life #1). A short while later, Ulrich revives, and instead of approaching the scientific community with their discovery, Manfred and Ulrich go to the circus to make money.

They go to Arliss and make an agreement for a new show, Manfred earns 60% and Ulrich 40%. Ulrich is drowned in a vat similar to the dunk tanks (life #2), but before he can revive most of the audience leaves. Finally coming to, the audience returns to celebrate Ulrich, who instantly gets the ‘lovely assistant’ as his girl. At this point, I feel the need to point out that it feels like Robert Wuhl is doing his best Dan Aykroyd impression in some of these scenes for whatever reason, and it’s great.

They make a decent amount of money, and garner some attention, meaning the next show has to be even bigger. This time, they setup a big western feel for the show, and Ulrich is hung (life #3). His girlfriend, Coralee, the assistant, refuses to pull the lever to hang him, so Ulrich does it himself. Shortly after he resurrects to much fanfare from the crowd. Looking at Coralle actress, Kathleen York’s IMDB page, I see that she’s done so much that I’ve never seen, but I feel like she’s one of those actors that many people will recognize.

Ulrich discusses the arrangement that he and Manfred have together, and Joey Pants really plays up that his throat was damaged during the hanging, it is spectacular in its stupidity.

Driving in the rain with Manfred, Ulrich crashes the car so he can kill Manfred, and get the full 100% of the profits. This of course kills Ulrich as well (life #4), but that’s no skin off his back, right?

The next show, for some reason is an Asian stereotype-themed event, and Ulrich is chained to an electrocution machine. An elderly woman from the crowd volunteers to throw the switch, killing Ulrich (life #5). His resurrection time takes longer than normal, and Ulrich is taken to the morgue. He’s about to be embalmed when Coralee barges in, and stalls him long enough for Ulrich to come back.

The next show, crowd members ‘get’ to pay $1,000 for a literal shot at Ulrich. They get to shoot an arrow at Ulrich as he’s pulled back and forth on stage. A sailor steps up for a shot, but can’t pay the fee. A nerd steps up and pays, but misses wildly. Next an obnoxious man offers to pay for his young son to kill Ulrich, but the son doesn’t want to. Forced to take the shot, he shoots a board in front of Ulrich. An archery state fair champion is next, and he kills Ulrich (life #6) with a direct shot to the heart.

Each show, Ulrich makes more and more money, but he tires of dying. He proposes the he and Coralee go on vacation. She agrees, but instead stabs him in the back (literally) killing him (life #7), and taking the money and fleeing.

With only one extra life left, Ulrich needs to recoup his money fast. So he blackmails Arliss (I really hope you all know who I keep referring to with the Arliss reference) into earning the entire ticket sales of the night, leaving him with whatever concession sales he can make. This is his final show, so they play it up big. We get back to where the episode started, and Ulrich is buried, and will be dug up in 12 hours, all while being recorded by the TV crew.

While waiting to die, Ulrich laments about the events that led him to this, and thanks the cat for giving it’s life so he can gain its abilities. That’s when he realizes one of the nine lives was already wasted, and his count was off by one. He has no more extra lives, and he’s going to die in the coffin for real.

Probably should have thought this one through.

On to the rating…

This is the most star studded cast so far for the series, and my rating may be skewed because I like Arliss and Joey Pants. Kathleen York was beyond annoying in this episode, but that was exactly what the role called for. I don’t know if this is the actress’ normal style, but for this, it worked.

Despite the science being completely unbelievable, you can still tell this story is being told by someone who knows what they’re doing. Richard Donner, really is (was?) an amazing director, and he showed it in this 30 minute episode. It wasn’t scary by any means (the only thing keeping it from the full ‘6 Feet Deep’ rating), but it was a great example of what this series could be. We’re halfway through the first season already, and we’re also about halfway through the month. Before you know it, it’ll be Christmas time and we’ll be looking at season 2.

But before that, come back next week for “Only Sin Deep” an episode that crafts prostitution and voodoo together. What can go wrong1?

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