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Tales from the Crypt Season 2 Episodes
Season 2 Episode Guide
18 Episodes 1990 - 1990
Episode 1
Dead Right
Sat, Apr 21, 199028 mins
A ruthless secretary seeks a quick escape from poverty through an occult prophecy. When a medium guarantees a future of inherited wealth followed by immediate, bloody martyrdom, the desperate woman hunts her target. She locates a grotesque, abrasive partner and forces herself to endure his suffocating domestic squalor. Her naked ambition becomes her defining vice as she tolerates physical revulsion for a payoff that remains perpetually out of reach. The domestic friction escalates into a psychological war of attrition. A sudden shift in the family ledger reveals a crushing deception, shattering her fragile reality. Her frantic attempt to break free forces a brutal confrontation, demanding a final, catastrophic price for her greed.
Episode 2
The Switch
Sat, Apr 21, 199026 mins
Carlton Webster lives inside a mausoleum of wealth and denial. Humiliated by Linda's rejection, he chases radical surgery after surgery, trading pieces of himself for youth while convincing himself love waits on the other side of the next transformation. Each procedure strips away another layer of dignity, stability, and human connection. Fulton watches the collapse with exhausted loyalty, trying to drag Carlton back toward reality before obsession swallows him whole. By the time Carlton finally becomes the fantasy he imagined, the machinery of greed around him has already shifted direction, leaving him exposed, desperate, and spiritually gutted.
Episode 3
Cutting Cards
Sat, Apr 21, 199020 mins
Reno Crevice drifts back into town hollowed out by failure, still chasing the electrical rush of winning one more hand. Sam Forney sits buried inside his own kingdom of bitterness, guarding old humiliations like sacred wounds. Their reunion curdles instantly into ritual combat. Dice become Russian roulette. Poker becomes mutilation. Pride mutates into appetite. Each man keeps mistaking stubbornness for identity, dragging the other deeper because neither can survive surrender. The casino stops feeling like a business and starts resembling a private hell built specifically for compulsive men who only feel alive while risking annihilation.
Episode 4
'Til Death
Tue, Apr 24, 199026 mins
Logan Andrews (D. W. Moffett) faces financial ruin when quicksand compromises his luxury hotel project. Desperate for capital, he targets Margaret Richardson (Pamela Gien), a wealthy and abusive socialite who openly despises him. Logan turns to his former lover, a voodoo priestess named Psyche (Janet Hubert), who provides a compliance potion with strict dosage warnings. Driven by impatience and avarice, Logan ignores her instructions and pours a massive dose into Margaret's drink. The potion induces a terrifying, suffocating psychological fixation. Margaret dies from the chemical shock, but the magic violently overrides her mortality. She claws her way out of her grave, pursuing Logan as a rotting, unstoppable corpse determined to claim her eternal partner.
Episode 5
Three's a Crowd
Tue, May 1, 199030 mins
Richard (Gavan O'Herlihy) suffers a severe financial collapse, forcing him from the insurance industry into a humiliating bartending gig. This professional stagnation, combined with a decade of agonizing infertility, poisons his marriage to Della (Ruth de Sosa). Seeking to alleviate their misery, their affluent bachelor friend Alan (Paul Lieber) invites them to his opulent estate for their anniversary. Alan's ostentatious wealth immediately triggers Richard's latent feelings of masculine inadequacy. When Della receives an expensive fur coat from Alan and engages in secretive late-night behavior, Richard's jealousy mutates into a full-blown delusion of infidelity. Believing his wife and best friend are conspiring to abandon him, Richard spirals into a drunken, violent madness, ultimately executing them both.
Episode 6
The Thing from the Grave
Tue, May 8, 199022 mins
Swimsuit model Stacy (Teri Hatcher) endures systemic physical abuse from her volatile manager and fiancé, Mitch (Miguel Ferrer). Sensing her profound terror, photographer Devlin Cates (Kyle Secor) intervenes during a shoot, offering her the key to his apartment and a protective Mayan amulet as a pledge of absolute safety. Infuriated by this perceived betrayal, Mitch lures Devlin to a dark, secluded cabin and shoots him dead, burying the corpse in a shallow forest grave. A week later, Stacy uncovers Mitch's deception at Devlin's empty apartment. Mitch immediately subdues her with chloroform, binding her to a bed in the isolated cabin. As Mitch prepares to finish his torment, Stacy's cries awaken Devlin's decaying corpse, which rises from the earth to drag Mitch into the dirt.
Episode 7
The Sacrifice
Tue, May 15, 199028 mins
James Reed, an insurance salesman, enters a polished Los Angeles high-rise to secure a lucrative policy from arrogant tycoon Sebastian Fielding. Inside, he encounters Gloria, Sebastian's younger wife, whose quiet detachment quickly destabilizes his professional composure. A bribe and a flirtation collapse into an affair that turns predatory in its intensity. As desire hardens into conspiracy, James and Gloria conspire to remove Sebastian permanently. The murder succeeds, but their bond fractures under surveillance, obsession, and blackmail from a watching intermediary. The relationship decays into psychological captivity, forcing a fatal escape that exposes deeper betrayal beneath the surface romance.
Episode 8
For Cryin' Out Loud
Tue, May 22, 199028 mins
Marty Slash (Lee Arenberg), a burned-out concert promoter with severe hearing damage, prepares to flee with one million dollars stolen from a charity concert fund. After his banker, Ms. Kilbasser (Katey Sagal), discovers the scheme and demands half the money, Marty murders her backstage with a guitar and hides the body inside a drum case. Simultaneously, a shrieking inner conscience begins tormenting him with accusations and mockery. Desperate to silence the voice, Marty mutilates his own ear with medication and a cotton swab, triggering total psychological collapse. Convinced the entire concert crowd can hear his guilt, he publicly confesses to murder and theft before realizing the humiliation existed entirely inside his own unraveling mind.
Episode 9
Four-Sided Triangle
Tue, May 29, 199028 mins
Mary Jo (Patricia Arquette), caught stealing and blackmailed into unpaid labor on an isolated farm, endures constant intimidation from George Yates (Chelcie Ross) and his embittered wife Luisa Yates (Susan Blommaert). George watches her constantly, pressing himself into her physical space while Luisa enforces obedience through humiliation and violence. After George knocks her unconscious during a failed assault, Mary Jo begins behaving as though she has fallen in love with a scarecrow in the nearby cornfield. The Yates interpret her fixation as mental collapse, but the shifting balance inside the farmhouse slowly exposes hidden appetites, territorial panic, and a growing desperation neither spouse can contain.
Episode 10
The Ventriloquist's Dummy
Tue, Jun 5, 199024 mins
An awkward middle-aged ventriloquist pursues validation from the aging performer who inspired his career. The older man, isolated and defensive after abandoning show business decades earlier, reluctantly watches the amateur act collapse before a hostile audience. Their connection deepens through humiliation, pity, and shared obsession with performance. Strange acts of violence begin orbiting the older entertainer, pushing the admirer toward suspicions tied to an unsolved tragedy from childhood. Inside the recluse's deteriorating home, the fantasy of stage illusion gives way to something physical and parasitic, forcing the aspiring performer into an escalating struggle over control, identity, and dependency that threatens to consume both mentor and disciple.
Episode 11
Judy, You're Not Yourself Today
Tue, Jun 12, 199030 mins
A status obsessed couple hides mutual contempt beneath theatrical manners and shared routines built around control. While her husband indulges his fixation with firearms and intimidation, the isolated wife drifts through an ornate house that feels more like a museum than a home. An elderly cosmetics saleswoman enters that stagnant environment and immediately senses vulnerability. After a supernatural exchange leaves identities destabilized, the husband becomes trapped between suspicion, attraction, and self preservation. Their attempts to regain control only deepen the corruption already embedded inside the marriage. Fear mutates into excitement, intimacy becomes inseparable from violence, and ordinary domestic gestures begin carrying the weight of mortal threat.
Episode 12
Fitting Punishment
Tue, Jun 19, 199030 mins
An orphaned teenager arrives at his uncle's funeral home seeking shelter, only to be forced into unpaid labor. The uncle runs a deceptive operation, harvesting gold teeth, skimping on embalming fluids, and weaponizing distorted biblical verses to justify his extreme stinginess. Tension escalates into violence when a costly inventory mistake enrages the mortician, who brutally beats the boy and leaves him permanently disabled. Burdened by subsequent medical bills and terrified of exposure, the businessman orchestrates a second, fatal staircase fall. He then alters the corpse to fit a cheap coffin, but the assistant deserts him, leaving the isolated killer to face a surreal, physical manifestation of his crimes in the dark basement.
Episode 13
Korman's Kalamity
Tue, Jun 26, 199027 mins
Trapped in a sterile marriage, cartoonist Jim Korman endures the relentless berating of his wife, Mildred, who forces him to ingest unapproved fertility supplements. Soon after, his gruesome ink drawings of predatory creatures begin manifesting across the city, committing acts of spectacular violence. Pragmatic police officer Lorelei Phelps connects the string of bizarre urban attacks to Korman's published panels and confronts him. As Jim realizes the pills unlock a terrifying externalization of his subconscious stress, a clandestine bond forms between him and the investigator. When an enraged Mildred intercepts a call and threatens violence, Jim sits at his drafting table to sketch one final, personal nightmare to confront his domestic tormentor.
Episode 14
Lower Berth
Tue, Jul 3, 199025 mins
During the American Depression, a sideshow performer named Enoch, who possesses a vestigial second face, endures daily abuse from his cruel handler, Mr. Sickles. When a manipulative Englishman named Dr. Zachary Cling brings a four thousand year old mummy named Myrna to the exhibit, Enoch becomes obsessed with the silent, ancient figure. After Sickles attempts to steal the mummy's priceless necklace, he triggers a lethal curse. Enoch intervenes, killing his tormentor before fleeing into the night with his beloved. A year later, their bodies are discovered in a hidden cave, where a malformed child survives, destined to host the macabre tales that follow.
Episode 15
Mute Witness to Murder
Tue, Jul 10, 199030 mins
Susan Hastings attends an anniversary celebration with her husband, Paul Hastings. While stepping onto a balcony, Susan witnesses a violent crime unfolding in a nearby apartment. The shock leaves her unable to speak or explain what she has seen. Paul seeks medical help, and respected physician Dr. Carl Trask enters the situation. As Susan struggles to communicate, decisions about her treatment place her in an increasingly vulnerable position. Meanwhile, Anne Hargis grows skeptical of the official explanations and begins questioning the circumstances surrounding Susan's condition. Pressure mounts as Susan searches for a way to reveal the truth before her chance disappears.
Episode 16
Television Terror
Tue, Jul 17, 199021 mins
Horton Rivers, a fame-hungry shock journalist, forces his production crew into the abandoned Ritter Home Boarding House to film a sensationalized special. Despite warnings from psychic Roland Wershafter, Horton persists, driven by his producer Sam to capture authentic terror for live television. As the crew explores, the house manifests violent supernatural phenomena, replaying the grisly history of the former owner, Ada Ritter. The environment turns hostile, isolating the team as the boundaries between performance and reality dissolve. While the network demands continuous coverage, the structure exerts a lethal, coordinated force, trapping the journalist in a claustrophobic cycle of spectral violence that ultimately ends in a harrowing, public demise.
Episode 17
My Brother's Keeper
Tue, Jul 24, 199030 mins
Frank Duran and Eddie, played by Timothy Stack and Jonathan Penner, are conjoined twins who move through adulthood locked into constant physical and emotional friction. Frank leans toward caution and structure, while Eddie thrives on chaos and provocation, pulling them into escalating conflicts in public spaces and private encounters. Their shared body forces cooperation in moments of danger, yet their instincts constantly collide. Marie Hilton becomes emotionally entangled with Frank, complicating the brothers' already fragile balance as external pressure builds around the question of surgical separation.
Episode 18
The Secret
Tue, Jul 31, 199025 mins
Miss Hagstead runs an icy, disciplined orphanage where young Theodore feels like an outsider. When the eccentric Colberts arrive to adopt him, the boy is thrust into a luxurious but claustrophobic estate. Tobias, the house butler, attempts to comfort the boy, but Theodore soon uncovers a grisly truth regarding his new parents. The couple reveals themselves as ancient vampires seeking to feast upon the child. As the pursuit intensifies within the surrounding woods, Theodore reveals a hidden heritage of his own.
