Tales from the Crypt

Name: Tales from the Crypt
Genre: Fantasy, Horror, Science Fiction
Released: June 10, 1989
Rating: 56
Cast: John Kassir

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HBO | Release Date: June 10, 1989

Starring: John Kassir

Summary: Based on the legendary and gruesome 1950's EC Comics from publisher, William M. Gaines, this horror anthology featured stories of murder, greed, lust, gore and the supernatural, with touches of humor sprinkled throughout, usually with a twist ending of sorts. Some of Hollywood's biggest names including Demi Moore, Tom Hanks, ArnoldBased on the legendary and gruesome 1950's EC Comics from publisher, William M. Gaines, this horror anthology featured stories of murder, greed, lust, gore and the supernatural, with touches of humor sprinkled throughout, usually with a twist ending of sorts. Some of Hollywood's biggest names including Demi Moore, Tom Hanks, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Whoopi Goldberg and Michael J. Fox were featured, either in front or behind the camera. Hosting duties fell to everyone's favorite decaying corpse, the Crypt Keeper.
The episodes were based on several comic books by Gaines, which were The Vault of Horror, The Haunt of Fear, Crime SuspenStories, Shock SuspenStories, and, of course, Tales from the Crypt, to name a few.
The success of this series spawned a Saturday morning cartoon series, Tales from the Cryptkeeper, a short-lived Saturday morning gameshow on CBS, Secrets of the Cryptkeeper's Haunted House, and lots of merchandise. A short-lived TV series based on the EC Comics' Weird Science series, entitled Perversions of Science, was also produced in 1997, following the same anthology format as Tales from the Crypt, with wraparound segments featuring a female android named Chrome. In addition, two feature films, Demon Knight (1995) and Bordello of Blood (1996), were also produced. In 2006, Ritual, a third film originally released overseas (without the Crypt Keeper wraparounds) in 2001, was finally released on DVD. Two other movies based on the EC Comics Tales From the Crypt and The Vault of Horror were released back in 1972 and 1973 respectively. They are not connected to this series in any way, other than the original source.
Since its cancellation, Tales from the Crypt had aired in syndication on HBO, Fox, the Sci-Fi Channel, AMC, DirectTV's Chiller Network, Zone Horror in the UK and in Canada on CBC and the Space Channel.… Expand

Genre(s): Fantasy, Horror, Science Fiction

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David Friedman

Jun 9, 2015

Season 1 Review: Tales From the Crypt scared the living bejesus out of me...We are talking major league fright time here, folks. [9 June 1989, p.5]

Craig Tomashoff

Jun 25, 2013

Season 4 Review: It's the gleeful goriness that sets the series apart. This is a show with plenty of guts. Read full review

Ken Tucker

Jun 10, 2013

Season 4 Review: The fourth-season opener of Tales from the Crypt finds this horror anthology in good, nasty form. Read full review

Ken Tucker

Jun 7, 2013

Season 3 Review: An anthology series in which each episode brings a new cast and crew is inevitably uneven, and so it is with the usually clever Tales From the Crypt. Read full review

Rick Kogan

Jun 9, 2015

Season 1 Review: Certainly, these pioneering jaunts have a stylishness and sophistication lacking in most mainstream televison shows. But at this point, for all their nifty good looks, they just aren't special or scary enough. [9 June 1989, p.C-1]

Chris Willman

Jun 9, 2015

Season 1 Review: Much as horror fans might revere HBO for spending good dough and hiring top-rank directors and crew members for the series, the initial results are mixed. Read full review

Tom Shales

Jun 9, 2015

Season 1 Review: There is no specific credit for "bad taste," but there's plenty for everyone to share -- just as Donner, Hill, Zemeckis and others listed as executive producers will eventually share in the profits...Blood money, if you ask me. [10 June 1989, p.C1]

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Seasons & Episodes

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Series Overview
Season 7

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- Season 7 Overview
  Air Date: April 19, 1996
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  S7:E13. The Third Pig
  Air Date: July 19, 1996
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  S7:E12. Ear Today... Gone Tomorrow
  Air Date: July 12, 1996
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  S7:E11. Confession
  Air Date: July 5, 1996
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  S7:E10. About Face
  Air Date: June 28, 1996
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  S7:E9. Smoke Wrings
  Air Date: June 21, 1996
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  S7:E8. Report from the Grave
  Air Date: June 14, 1996
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  S7:E7. The Kidnapper
  Air Date: June 7, 1996
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  S7:E6. Cold War
  Air Date: May 31, 1996
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  S7:E5. Horror in the Night
  Air Date: May 24, 1996
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  S7:E4. Escape
  Air Date: May 17, 1996
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  S7:E3. A Slight Case of Murder
  Air Date: May 3, 1996
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  S7:E2. Last Respects
  Air Date: April 26, 1996
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  S7:E1. Fatal Caper
  Air Date: April 19, 1996
Season 6

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- Season 6 Overview
  Air Date: October 31, 1994
Season 5

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- Season 5 Overview
  Air Date: October 2, 1993
Season 4

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- Season 4 Overview
  Air Date: June 27, 1992
Season 3

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- Season 3 Overview
  Air Date: June 15, 1991
Season 2

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- Season 2 Overview
  Air Date: April 21, 1990
Season 1

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- Season 1 Overview
  Air Date: June 10, 1989