Tales from the Crypt : The TV Show

[Guest Staravenger]

I was surprised to see the Cheers guy in the Vampire episode play such a mean/serious character instead of the normal comedy routine.

 

Reading the Humphry Boggart/Alfred Hitchcock description had me cracking up. How did THAT episode work out?

 

Also it's funny that ARNOLD SCHWARZENEGGER directed one of the early episodes I think.

[LaParkaYourCar 0]

The Bogart/Hitchcock episode was pretty cool. Bogart's face was basically put onto a dead body and he played a corpse, but the story was nararated by a Bogart sound-alike (and maybe some actual audio clips). It was done from the corpse's point of view so you only saw Bogart's face in mirrors. Thing is I don't remember where Hitchcock came in though.

 

It sounds cheesy, but I think that was the point and it came off pretty well.

[Guest Staravenger]

Wow...I can't believe it...I didn't spell Bogart right! Now I must inject a random experimental drug into myself that appears in every third episode.

[Guest Staravenger]

Just recently picked up two old copies of Tales From The Crypt tapes from a video store that was closing down. One features the first three episodes aired.../

 

#1 The Man Who Was Death (Originally aired on 6/10/89)

 

Starring:

Bill Sadler, Gerrit Graham and Dani Mannick

 

Niles Talbot is an executioner who finds himself out of work when the death penalty is repealed. When he sees criminals literally getting away with murder and offs them in various "shocking" ways. When the law finally catches up with him, the death penalty is reinstated, and it's Niles' turn to be in the "hot seat".

 

#2 And All Through the House (Originally aired on 6/10/89)

 

Starring:

Mary Ellen Trainor, Larry Drake, Marshall Bell and Lindsey Whitney Barry

 

A woman murders her husband on Christmas Eve and is stalked by an axe wielding escaped mental patient dressed in a Santa Claus suit. Unable to call for help due to her husband's corpse lying in the front yard, she learns there is a penalty for being naughty instead of nice.

 

#3 Dig That Cat...He's Real Gone (Originally aired on 6/10/89)

 

Starring:

Joe Pantoliano, Robert Wuhl, Kathleen York and Gustav Vintas

 

Ulric is given the chance of a lifetime when a mad scientist implants a cat's gland inside his brain, allowing him to gain the cat's nine lives. He joins the circle and becomes Ulric the Undying, being killed onstage and coming back to life right before their very eyes. Unfortunately for Ulric, sometimes nine lives isn't enough

 

 

 

The other tape features some decent episodes, but nothing great in my opinion. First three episodes from the Second Season.

 

#7 Dead Right (Originally aired on 4/21/90)

 

 

Starring:

Demi Moore, Jeffrey Tambor, Troy Evans and Natalia Nogulich

 

A money grubbing waitress marries an obese man because a fortune-teller predicts that he will inherit a fortune and then die violently. When she ends up being the one winning a large sum of money, she tries to leave him. Needless to say, the obese man does inherit the fortune from his wife when he murders her, then dies violently in the electric chair.

 

#8 The Switch (Originally aired on 4/21/90)

 

Starring:

William Hickey, Rick Rossovich, Kelly Preston, Roy Brocksmith, Ian Abercrombie and Arnold Schwarzenegger

 

A wealthy old man, in love with a much younger woman, spends a fortune having a drastic surgery to trade faces and bodies with a handsome younger man. Sadly, the young woman was only interested in money and ends up with the young man (now with the elderly body and all of the money).

 

#9 Cutting Cards (Originally aired on 4/21/90)

 

Starring:

Lance Henriksen, Kevin Tighe and Roy Brocksmith

 

Two rival high stakes gamblers face off against one another in a game of "chop poker". The rules are simple: every time one person loses a hand, their opponent chops off one of his fingers with a meat cleaver!

[Black Lushus 0]

#9 Cutting Cards (Originally aired on 4/21/90)

 

Starring:

Lance Henriksen, Kevin Tighe and Roy Brocksmith

 

Two rival high stakes gamblers face off against one another in a game of "chop poker". The rules are simple: every time one person loses a hand, their opponent chops off one of his fingers with a meat cleaver!

Ah! How could I forget that one, that was a great one! Don't they both end up in some hospital with no limbs at all? just their torsos and heads and they're playing checkers at the end?

[Guest Staravenger]

That's about right. They have nothing past the elbow joints and thighs and have to play by moving pieces with their mouths.

 

Entertaining episode too. The Russian Roulette with the gun was cool, and I can't help but get squeamish seeing them cut each others fingers off with a clever.

[Jericholic82 0]

do any of you remember the tftc sat morning cartoon from the early 90s? basically it had some scary animated tales, but dumbed down for kids

[Guest Staravenger]

I watched it probably twice, and never again. One episode was so bad, I can't help mocking the horrible animation. It's some fat kid holding a giant sandwich, and he's got this shit eating grin on his face. AND ITS FROZEN LIKE THAT FOR 10 SECONDS.

[Jericholic82 0]

lol star

 

yea it was pretty bad, well a lot bad to be certain

[Guest Paul H.]

The Bogart/Hitchcock episode was pretty cool.  Bogart's face was basically put onto a dead body and he played a corpse, but the story was nararated by a Bogart sound-alike (and maybe some actual audio clips).  It was done from the corpse's point of view so you only saw Bogart's face in mirrors.  Thing is I don't remember where Hitchcock came in though.

 

It sounds cheesy, but I think that was the point and it came off pretty well.

Yeah there was some hoopla about that and i remember it came out before that Pepsi commercial with him.

 

The one directed by the Arnold was the one with some old-rich dude paying a mad scientist to transplant his brain in some body-builder just so he could get the attention of some blonde whore.The twist is the whore likes $$$ and the operation left him broke so she went with the boydbuilder who taxed the old man for the exchange.