Upon getting rid of the body, she is unexpectedly attacked by a hideous escaped mental patient played by L.A. Season 1, Episode 2 – Original Air Date: June 10, 1989Ī greedy philandering wife played by Die Hard‘s Mary Ellen Trainor kills her second husband (Marshall Bell) on Christmas Eve for his life insurance money. Without further ado, we count down the 13 best, most garish, gruesome, and downright terrifyingly fun episodes of HBO’s stellar anthology series, Tales From The Crypt.
It was truly a prestige show that embraced B-movie tropes. The list is endless, everyone from Sandra Bullock, Steve Coogan, Daniel Craig, Tim Curry, Benicio del Toro, Kirk Douglas, Brad Dourif, Whoopi Goldberg, and Brad Pitt to directors the likes of Zemeckis himself, Richard Donner, William Friedkin, Walter Hill, Tobe Hooper, and Mary Lambert.
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Robert Zemeckis, the man behind such classics as Back To The Future, Who Framed Roger Rabbit?, and Forrest Gump was one of the people behind the scenes of the show, and because of his reputation, the series landed a smorgasbord of star actors and directors. The Crypt Keeper would bookend each self-contained episode and featured comic book cover art by Mike Vosburg and Shawn McManus to illustrate the EC Comics origins of each story. John Kassir lent his vocal talents to the Crypt Keeper, solidifying those hackneyed, morbid puns in the minds of impressionable viewers for a generation. The series was hosted by the one and only Crypt Keeper, who popped out of his coffin with a cackling, iconic voice, and was an animatronic performed by puppeteers Van Snowden, Mike Elizalde, Franke Charles Lutkiss, Patty Maloney, Anton Rupprecht, Shaun Smith, David Stinnett, Mike Trcic, and Brock Winkless throughout the show’s run. Tales From The Crypt aired on HBO, and because of this premium cable freedom was allowed to really indulge in the naughtiness of the genre. Originally running from June of 1989 until July of 1996, the seven season, 93 episode horror anthology series was based on the 1950s EC Comics series of the same name. Everything from graphic violence, nudity, and morbid undertones as well as lots of profanity was all a-okay by HBO and we count off some of our favorite episodes from Tales From The Crypt.
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