Tales from the Crypt
"Tales from the Crypt" was a 1989 horror story anthology series with half-hour stories with many themes, including; horror, twists, black-magic, and science fiction Introduced by "The Crypt Keeper." A cross between "The Twilight Zone" (1959) and modern horror movies. Not suitable for the very young or squeamish.
- Metascore56
- 1989-1996
- 7 seasons
- HBO
- Comedy, Suspense, Fantasy, Horror
- TV-MA
"Tales from the Crypt" was a 1989 horror story anthology series with half-hour stories with many themes, including; horror, twists, black-magic, and science fiction Introduced by "The Crypt Keeper." A cross between "The Twilight Zone" (1959) and modern horror movies. Not suitable for the very young or squeamish.
Season 7 Episode Guide
13 Episodes 1996
Episode 1
Fatal Caper
Fri, Apr 19, 1996 29 mins
Two adult brothers come to blows over the fortune of their wealthy father, whose interests are protected by a lovely young woman with questionable loyalties.
Episode 2
Last Respects
Fri, Apr 26, 1996 26 mins
Three bickering sisters left in charge of their late father's struggling curiosity shop come into possession of a cursed monkey's paw, and try to use it to their advantage - with deadly results.
Episode 3
A Slight Case of Murder
Fri, May 3, 1996 27 mins
A game of cat and mouse ensues between a female mystery novelist and her jealous former husband when he accuses her of having a love affair with her nosy neighbor's son.
Episode 4
Escape
Fri, May 17, 1996 26 mins
A traitor in the second World War is restricted to a prison camp and one of the men he betrayed is transported to the camp and promises to reveal his identity.
Episode 5
Horror in the Night
Fri, May 24, 1996 27 mins
A double-crossing jewel thief is shot and hides out in a hotel where he starts to hallucinate about a mysterious beautiful woman.
Episode 6
Cold War
Fri, May 31, 1996 26 mins
After losing their friend Cutter in a botched robbery, Ford and Cammy, a wild young Londoner crime couple, split up and Cammy finds a new lover, Jimmy. Jealous, Ford shoots him and the trio discovers something shocking about one another.
Episode 7
The Kidnapper
Fri, Jun 7, 1996 25 mins
A young man takes in a pregnant woman and falls in love with her but becomes jealous when her baby is born so he sets out to get rid of the kid forever.
Episode 8
Report from the Grave
Fri, Jun 14, 1996 27 mins
A scientist named Elliot invents a way to read memories of the dead. To test the device, Elliot and his girlfriend Arianne break into the crypt of a dead serial killer.
Episode 9
Smoke Wrings
Fri, Jun 21, 1996 30 mins
A young man with a strange device is hired onto an advertising company by an esteemed executive--but what the exec doesn't know is that the young man is in cahoots with her enraged ex-partner who is out for revenge.
Episode 10
About Face
Fri, Jun 28, 1996 25 mins
The setting is Victorian England and a sleazy, two faced priest called Jonathan is in for the shock of his life. He learns he has twin daughters from a previous affair he had with a young lady in his service years ago. Even worse when it's revealed after taking them in that Leah, unlike her beautiful sister Angelica, was born with horribly malformed features. Not to mention that she is very upset with her irresponsible father.
Episode 11
Confession
Fri, Jul 5, 1996 25 mins
Evans, a sly horror screenwriter suspected in a series of grisly murders of women whose heads were taken by the killer as trophies, is interrogated by Jack Lynch, a clever hardboiled homicide detective whom every cop idolizes.
Episode 12
Ear Today... Gone Tomorrow
Fri, Jul 12, 1996 25 mins
A greedy safe cracker with a slight hearing loss gets entangled in a game between a mobster and his beautiful, exotic wife and ends up getting the auditory system he could only dream of. But there's a price.
Episode 13
The Third Pig
Fri, Jul 19, 1996 25 mins
An animated horror version of the Three Little Pigs story. When the third pig is tried and convicted for the murder of his two brothers by a wolf jury, he builds a zombie Frankenpig to take out his revenge on the actual murderer.
