Tales from the Crypt

On Christmas Eve, a woman slaughters her husband and learns that shes on Santas naughty list when an escaped maniac dressed as Santa Claus shows up at her doorstep with a special present for her.

A call girl goes to a pawnshop to rob him of his jewelry. Instead the owner offers her 10,000 dollars for her beauty. She sells her beauty and lands a new job but discovers she is aging very fast.

After 47 year of tool sales, Jonas has finally found some time to relax and take a break. Or so he thinks. After he returns from his work, he finds out that his wife has been taking in stray animals. He decides to take up a new hobby...taxidermy.

An elderly millionaire asks a plastic surgeon to give him the body of a younger man to win the girl of his dreams.

An unscrupulous plantation owner looks to raise some cash to develop a worthless plot of inherited land by wooing a beautiful heiress to an island and using voodoo to make her his wife.

A young photographer falls in love with a supermodel who is being mistreated by her boyfriend. When the lover finds out about them, he kills the photographer and plans to kill her but he finds out that you cant destroy love even when its dead.

A rock promoter has been hearing voices inside his head for the past years. His doctor explains it to be too much time in the music biz. But when he tries to steal money at an Iggy Pop concert he learns the voices to be none other than his conscience. His banker shows up one night trying to blackmail him but he bumps her off. His conscience gets on his back so much that he blurts out her murder and goes to the hot seat to shut his conscience up for good.

A ventriloquist seeks out his old hero, Ingels, who he always admired. He soon meets up with his ventriloquist dummy Morty and discovers a shocking secret.

Bobby is an orphaned teenager who goes to live with his uncle Ezra. Ezra is a mortuary director who is very grumpy. One day he decides to fill his new casket by killing Bobby. Bobby is too tall to fit in it so he cuts off his feet but he soon regrets it.

Enoch is a two-faced man at a sideshow carnival. One day a new attraction arrives—a 4 century old mummy. When the owner learns that the mummy is not only ripped off but cursed, he swipes the jewels off the mummy but soon he regrets it. This episode also features the birth of The Cryptkeeper.

Horton Rivers is an arrogant television tabloid host. He is trying to get big ratings and decides to take his crew through a haunted house. The house is rumored to be haunted by an old woman who killed a number of men. Soon strange things start happening. Someone or something is stalking Horton and his camera crew. The ratings could take him to the top or to the bottom.

Theodore is a 12 year old orphan who gets adopted by an unusual couple who lock him up in the attic. They are always working and he never gets to go and have some fun. Little does he know that his new parents harbor a dark secret. Little do they know he harbors a secret of his own.

A sadistic serial killer has unforeseen complications when pursued by a determined motorcycle cop in a barren desert.

Carl and Marty are siblings who work at a hospital. Carl shows Marty his new way of proving that the brain lives after the body dies. The whole thing turns out to be a prank but the shock of the joke gives Marty a heart attack. Years later Marty hasnt forgiven Carl and plans a deadly revenge. Marty then reveals that it was an act of revenge on Carl and the whole thing was a joke ... or was it?

Red is a low life crook who is looking for a black pearl. He finds that its on a island belonging to an ailing millionaire. He plans with the millionaires mistress to steal the pearl but she turns on him. Fortunately a voodoo priestess comes to the rescue but she has something special for him that hell never forget.

Jack is an artist who has a strange talent for painting pictures of corpses. One day he falls for a beautiful girl who tempts him into painting more. Jack turns over a new leaf for his love. One day she is the victim of a hit and run. Jack kills a man outside the hospital to pay for her operation but she dies because the man he killed was the man who was going to perform her operation.

A regretful reporter is investigating some murders of homeless people. He meets up with a man who is the prime suspect in the murders but when he fails to deliver a story his boss fires him. He then discovers that the new cemetery by a group called Ghouls is the cause for all the deaths in the neighborhood and guess whos the next victim.

Charlie Mackenzie is an out of work reporter who wants his life back. One night while at his favorite bar hang out, Charlie meets a beautiful women who seems to turn his life around. He gets his job back, but his boss agrees to rehire him only if Charlie can bring in a murder story soon. One night while at Greek diner he overhears the owner strangle his girlfriend. Charlie interviews him and goes to where the body is, but she is not dead. Charlie discovers that its his girlfriend Vicky. To make sure the papers got enough evidence, he strangles her to death but the shock of the murder lands him in a mental hospital inside a padded cell.

The general is ashamed when he learns that the rumors of the Lt. (who is also his son) being a coward are true. He offers his son a way out of the army if he can take part in one last mission. The Lt. panics and leaves while his comrades are killed by the enemy. His father sentences him to die by firing squad. Fortunately the guns are loaded with blanks, or so he says.

Sophie and Pack are workers at a medicine company. They are furious when their boss tells the papers that they are ready to test their new drug on humans. One day, while he is taking his shots they accidently inject him with the serum. George has only a few hours to live. He starts to have delusions and learns hes been set up and kills Pack. Sophie bursts in and tells him that the whole thing was just a joke.

Con artists posing as mediums decide to use a man named Chalmers as their next victim. The woman hits on Chalmers and her male partner takes pictures of them in bed. One day Chalmers is killed in an accident. The con artists discover something else - Chalmers wife is blind. They decide to pull a fake seance on his wife. The plan works but not in the way they expect.

Fred and Erma are workers at a squid cafe who find themselves in trouble because their business is failing and their landlord will kick them out. That is until one of the employees encourages them to serve meat. Suddenly business is getting better. Gaston decides to double cross Fred and Erma but he ends getting invited for dinner ... but not in the way he expects. (with optional commentary by John Kassir in character as the Cryptkeeper, the episodes writer Alan Katz, and Tales From the Crypt chronicler Digby Diehl).

A gunman being is chased down by another quickdrawing gunslinger in an old abandoned western town. The gunman wins the duel but he soon learns a new meaning to the phrase ""ghost town"" as the spirits of all his victims come back to haunt him.

A shy library clerk is obsessed with a serial killer fearing that she will be his next victim. She thinks that her boss, the security guard and a patron are the killer. One night, while she is working late, it turns out that she is really the killer and her victims were ones she thought were after her.

An aging puppeteer gets a new assistant. When he learns that his wife has a boyfriend, the assistant promises hell do something about it. The puppeteer spends most of his time with is favorite puppet Koko. When he discovers that his assistant is his wifes lover, the two make him think that Koko has gone on a murderous rampage. Little do they know that Pinocchio isnt the only one with-out strings.

A man asks his friend to keep a youth potion away from his wife. When she suspects that they are trying to kill her, she kills them first and drinks the potion which she had switched. But she soon regrets it.

A husband hires a detective to spy on his wife whom he believes is cheating on him with a priest. When he learns that hes been conned, he decides to kill him himself. That day he learns that theyre was nothing going on between them and he is relieved. But he is mistaken for his wifes so called boyfriend and killed by the detective he hired.

Zambini is a circus mind-controlling psychic who controls his beautiful helper with his telepathic powers. One day he learns that she has a crush on the fire eater. Zambini goes into a terrible rage and kills him. Connie flees in terror never to return. Zambini uses his powers to call her back but it contacts the pet gorilla instead.

A man slaughters his wife who he believes is having an affair. He drags her body and puts it in the bathtub. The police arrive and he refuses to let them near the bathtub. He chops up the corpse and hops a train with a trunk containing his wifes corpse. The detective follows him. The man switches trunks but when he opens the other one he gets a big surprise.

A frustrated magician comes across a true genius. He decides to kill him and steal his magic, but he finds himself in big trouble and its going to be the last magic trick he will ever perform.

In this version of Alfred Hitchcocks Psycho, a young woman who is also a thief is picked up by a man driving by. He takes her up to his place. There she hears a message from his wife, but also learns that there is a killer nearby. When she goes to his room she gets a big surprise.

Roger Lassen is a manufacturer who kills his friend by burying him alive in the South American jungle to finish the development of a chemical preservative. Hes haunted by the memories of the incident. The earnings will make him rich but he cant get it past the FDA regulations. Soon his past returns and he starts seeing his dead friend everywhere he looks. A voodoo priestess offers to help exorcise his dark side. The spell works but at the most horrible cost.

An ambulance-chasing lawyer finds herself in a nightmare court when she is hauled in for having too many digits on her license plate. She finds her self going through the court several times and they have a way of throwing the book at her. Little does she know, that her lawyer has been dismissed for being stuck in the court too long. He treats himself with the chair of doom but she must stay to take his place.

A comic artist for Tales From The Crypt finds herself trapped inside a repetitious nightmare world. Everyday she lives through the same horrible episodes. First her boss rejects her latest idea then fires her. She goes to her boss and shoots him only to be caught by the police and shot to death. In reality the whole thing turns out to be a comic and she really is his boss and he is her employee.

A run-down shelter for the blind is owned by a cruel man. He abuses the patients there and wont give them respect. A new blind girl, Shelly, arrives the owner promises to lighten up if she agrees to sleep with him. Benny and the other patients give the owner from hell a taste of his own medicine.

Two men who are longtime rivals go head to head in a grudge match. But, the real fight isnt between them, its between their feuding wives. When the two men realize they dont hate each other, they decide to put their wives in the ring. With the help of a Las Vegas showman, they set them up as they watch them in a boxing match on live television.

Clyde is a fugitive who holes up in a house occupied by an elderly woman. One night he finds an attractive woman upstairs, but he discovers its the same woman. She tells him that a long time ago her spouse caught her having an affair and put a curse on the house. She must stay up stairs if she wants to be young forever. The same thing will happen to the man if he comes upstairs. The cops arrive and he goes upstairs to change his image but he finds himself getting weak and the woman turns back into a helpless infant unable to do anything but crawl.

A young man kills his father to inherit an old burned down house. When he arrives, he gets a very unusual surprise. He discovers that theres a party there waiting for him and he is the guest of honor. When one the sexy dancers boyfriends gets jealous, the man kills him and tries to burn the evidence. The guests stop him and he realizes its the same place his father burned down years ago and history has a nasty way of repeating it self.

Two poachers are out hunting bear in Alaska. They seek the help of a woman who leads them into a dorm. The men decide that they dont need her anymore but the Colonel double crosses his partner. Shes been leading them to a lair full of hibernating vampires. Luckily its dawn but theres one problem. Alaska is locked in cold darkness.

Lou Spinielli is an ex-criminal who wants to escape from his past. He hires Oscar, a plastic surgeon to sculpt his face in the form of Humphrey Bogarts. When his wife gets the pictures of his past in the mail, Oscar suggests that he kill Vivian. The plan backfires and when Lou returns home and he gets a surprise. Vivian and Oscar have been partners all along. They bump Lou off and take him far into the woods to bury him. Lous mistress, Erika, shows up and the couple become some murder victims themselves.

Three bickering sisters left in charge of their late fathers struggling curiosity shop come into possession of a cursed monkeys paw, and try to use it to their advantage - with deadly results.

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.

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.

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.

A sleazy minister in Victorian England gets a nasty surprise when he discovers he previously fathered twin daughters.

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 theres a price.

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