Tales from the Crypt (1989)
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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Episode 1 - Dead Right
Release Date: 1990-04-21A gold digging waitress goes to a fortune teller who predicts that by the end of the day her boss will fire her and she will land a new job. When the prediction becomes reality, she goes back for more. The fortune teller predicts that she will marry a man who will inherit a fortune then die. She gets the money first and when she tells her husband to kiss off, he stabs her to death and ends up in the hot seat.
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Episode 2 - The Switch
Release Date: 1990-04-21An elderly millionaire asks a plastic surgeon to give him the body of a younger man to win the girl of his dreams.
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Episode 3 - Cutting Cards
Release Date: 1990-04-21Two rival long time gamblers meet up in a small town to have one last duel.
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Episode 4 - 'Til Death
Release Date: 1990-04-24An 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.
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Episode 5 - Three's a Crowd
Release Date: 1990-05-01For their tenth anniversary, a couple heads down to a cabin owned by their friend. When she and her friend start sneaking around the husband gets jealous and assumes that they are having an affair.
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Episode 6 - The Thing From The Grave
Release Date: 1990-05-08A 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 can't destroy love even when it's dead.
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Episode 7 - The Sacrifice
Release Date: 1990-05-15Reed is a hotshot insurance agent who decides to kill his stubborn boss and marry his wife. The plan works until Reed's boss who happens to be Gloria's ex-husband arrives with pictures he has taken of the murder and blackmails Reed.
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Episode 8 - For Cryin' Out Loud
Release Date: 1990-05-22A 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.
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Episode 9 - Four-Sided Triangle
Release Date: 1990-05-29Mary Jo is a young slave girl on a farm. One day while escaping to the fields she has a vision that a scarecrow comes to save her from the cruel couple. When her master discovers the identity of her new boyfriend, he decides to disguise himself as the man in straw.
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Episode 10 - The Ventriloquist's Dummy
Release Date: 1990-06-05A 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.
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Episode 11 - Judy, You're Not Yourself Today
Release Date: 1990-06-12Donald and Judy are a couple who find themselves in a game of witchcraft. When a mysterious woman convinces Judy to try on a magical necklace, the old woman switches their souls. Soon Donald realizes that something is wrong. He tricks the witch into thinking that Judy has cancer and they switch back. Then Donald kills the witch and buries her. Years later, she comes back and this time she's got a special surprise for him.
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Episode 12 - Fitting Punishment
Release Date: 1990-06-19Bobby 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.
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Episode 13 - Korman's Kalamity
Release Date: 1990-06-26Jim Korman is a cartoonist for Tales From The Crypt. He has talent for creating horrible creatures - they are all inspired by his harassing wife. Little does he know that his creations are coming to life and creating havoc. A female detective pursues the creator and suddenly falls for him. Korman decides to finally take his wife out of the picture.
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Episode 14 - Lower Berth
Release Date: 1990-07-03Enoch 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.
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Episode 15 - Mute Witness to Murder
Release Date: 1990-07-10A woman witnesses a man slaughter his wife. The man lives across the street from her. When her husband calls their doctor, she's even more horrorfied to learn that the doctor is also the killer.
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Episode 16 - Television Terror
Release Date: 1990-07-17Horton 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.
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Episode 17 - My Brother's Keeper
Release Date: 1990-07-24Siamese twins, the timid and kind-hearted Frank and the other, reckless and sadistic Eddie, must make a decision on whether or not to allow an experimental surgery to have them separated, even though one of them doesn't want to be split from the other.
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Episode 18 - The Secret
Release Date: 1990-07-31Theodore 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.