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Tales from the Crypt(TV show/series, 1989-1996)

25min per episode | Genres: Comedy, Mystery, Crime, Science-Fiction & Fantasy

Scripted Reality in 7 seasons with 93 episodes

Tales from the CryptRating: 4.0/5 (with 408 votes)
Tales from the Crypt, sometimes titled HBO's Tales from the Crypt, is an American horror anthology television series created by William Gaines and Steven Dodd that ran for seven seasons on the premium cable channel HBO, from June 10, 1989, to July 19, 1996, with a total of 93 episodes. The show's title is based on the 1950s EC Comics series of the same name, published by William Gaines and edited by Al Feldstein. Most of the program's episodes are based on stories that originally appeared in that comic or other EC Comics of the time, The Haunt of Fear, The Vault of Horror, Crime SuspenStories, Shock SuspenStories, and Two-Fisted Tales. The series is hosted by the Cryptkeeper, a wisecracking corpse performed by several puppeteers and voiced by John Kassir. Filmmakers Richard Donner, David Giler, Walter Hill, Joel Silver, and Robert Zemeckis formed the show's team of... ()
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About Tales from the Crypt

Cadaverous scream legend the Crypt Keeper is your macabre host for these forays of fright and fun based on the classic E.C. Comics tales from back in the day. So shamble up to the bar and pick your poison. Will it be an insane Santa on a personal slay ride? Honeymooners out to fulfill the "til death do we part" vow ASAP?

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Tales from the Crypt Seasons and Episodes

04/19/1996Season 7 - 13 episodes
#1 | 04/19/1996Fatal Caper
3.1/5 (with 7 votes)
Two adult brothers come to blows over the the fortune of their wealthy father, whose interests are protected by a lovely young woman with questionable loyalties.
#2 | 04/26/1996Last Respects
2.6/5 (with 6 votes)
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.
#3 | 05/03/1996A Slight Case of Murder
2.8/5 (with 5 votes)
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.
#4 | 05/17/1996Escape
2.6/5 (with 5 votes)
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.
#5 | 05/24/1996Horror in the Night
3.3/5 (with 5 votes)
A double-crossing jewel thief is shot and hides out in a hotel where he starts to hallucinate about a mysterious beautiful woman.
#6 | 05/31/1996Cold War
3.2/5 (with 7 votes)
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.
#7 | 06/07/1996The Kidnapper
2.2/5 (with 6 votes)
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.
#8 | 06/14/1996Report from the Grave
2.4/5 (with 6 votes)
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.
#9 | 06/21/1996Smoke Wrings
2.3/5 (with 6 votes)
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.
#10 | 06/28/1996About Face
2.7/5 (with 6 votes)
A sleazy minister in Victorian England gets a nasty surprise when he discovers he previously fathered twin daughters.
#11 | 07/05/1996Confession
3.6/5 (with 6 votes)
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.
#12 | 07/12/1996Ear Today... Gone Tomorrow
2.8/5 (with 6 votes)
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.
#13 | 07/19/1996The Third Pig
2.8/5 (with 8 votes)
In this cartoon version of the Three Little Pigs story, Dudly, the smart pig, is framed for the murders of his brothers and sentenced to death. But, his brothers' spirits help him seek revenge on the wolf.
10/31/1994Season 6 - 15 episodes
10/02/1993Season 5 - 13 episodes
06/27/1992Season 4 - 14 episodes
06/15/1991Season 3 - 14 episodes
04/21/1990Season 2 - 18 episodes
06/10/1989Season 1 - 6 episodes
03/09/1972Specials - 24 episodes

Additional Information

Production country: United States of America (USA)
Original language: English (EN)
Spoken languages: English (EN)
Translated into 24 languages: Bosnian (BS), Czech (CS), German (DE), Greek (EL), English (EN), Spanish (ES), Finnish (FI), French (FR), Hebrew (HE), Croatian (HR), Hungarian (HU), Italian (IT), Japanese (JA), Georgian (KA), Korean (KO), Dutch (NL), Polish (PL), Portuguese (PT), Romanian (RO), Russian (RU), Slovak (SK), Turkish (TR), Ukrainian (UK), Chinese (Mandarin) (ZH)
Status: Ended
First episode released on: 06/10/1989
Last episode released on: 07/19/1996
Alternative titles in other countries (from previews, ads etc.):
"Lendas do Além Túmulo"
"Im Horror-Kabinett"
"Masters of Horror - Tales from the Crypt"
"납골당의 미스터리"
"Байки зі склепу"

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WatchPlayStream ID: SHOWS:644, Added: 05/10/2018, Last updated: 03/23/2024