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Not every episode of Tales from the Crypt (1989–1996) is going to be top-tier, regardless of whatever season you’re watching. You can’t knock ‘em out of the park all the time. Even so, that first batch of stories lacks the extreme lows found later on. After dishing out what many consider to be a series […]

Episodes of Tales from the Crypt (1989–1996) have a tendency to revolve around immoral characters, which, when you think about it, is very fitting. This anthology series loved to dish out just desserts. Hardly do we ever find ourselves rooting for these awful people; more often it’s a matter of waiting for the inevitable, then […]

As a child, tuning into Tales from the Crypt (1989–1996) was a terrifying ritual—one I anticipated every week. From the walking (and punning) corpse that is the Crypt Keeper, to all the blood and violence, this was a show I often watched through my fingers. It was only once I got older and more comfortable […]

There was a time when Tales from the Crypt (1989–1996) was considered one of the most macabre shows on television. Admittedly, there wasn’t a ton of horror on the small screen back then, but even still, this series was gruesome. Its home of HBO had a lot to do with that; the permissive cable channel […]

While the multi-talented Tim Curry is an actor best known for his film roles, including those in The Rocky Horror Picture Show (1975), Clue (1985), and Legend (1985), he was also prolific on television. Not every single thing he did on TV was as renowned as, say, Pennywise in the original It (1990), but nonetheless, […]

The penultimate season of Tales from the Crypt (1989–1996) aired its first three episodes on October 31, so it’s understandable that at least one of those three stories is set on Halloween. Sandwiched between “Let the Punishment Fit the Crime” (Russell Mulcahy, Ron Finley) and “Whirlpool” (Mick Garris, A. L. Katz & Gilbert Adler) is […]

After Scream (1996) made a killing at the box office, as well as won over critics and audiences, a lot of folks in the movie biz thought they could do the same thing (and yield similar results). That thing, of course, being a slasher. Most of these opportunists wound up being pretty straightforward; they were […]

All good things must come to an end—yes, even Tales from the Crypt (1989–1996). That iconic horror show finally concluded after airing ninety-three episodes. As we all know, traditional anthologies aren’t too common to see on TV anymore, much less be that long, so this kind of endurance is even more impressive. Now, I would […]

Tales from the Crypt has been influential in keeping EC Comics alive in the public conscience, even after going off the air thirty years ago.

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