Tales from the Crypt

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Based on the legendary and gruesome 1950's EC Comics from publisher, William M. Gaines, this horror anthology featured stories of murder, greed, lust, gore and the supernatural, with touches of humor sprinkled throughout, usually with a twist ending of sorts. Some of Hollywood's biggest names including Demi... more »

Based on the legendary and gruesome 1950's EC Comics from publisher, William M. Gaines, this horror anthology featured stories of murder, greed, lust, gore and the supernatural, with touches of humor sprinkled throughout, usually with a twist ending of sorts. Some of Hollywood's biggest names including Demi Moore, Tom Hanks, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Whoopi Goldberg and Michael J. Fox were featured, either in front or behind the camera. Hosting duties fell to everyone's favorite decaying corpse, the Crypt Keeper.
The episodes were based on several comic books by Gaines, which were The Vault of Horror, The Haunt of Fear, Crime SuspenStories, Shock SuspenStories, and, of course, Tales from the Crypt, to name a few.
The success of this series spawned a Saturday morning cartoon series, Tales from the Cryptkeeper, a short-lived Saturday morning gameshow on CBS, Secrets of the Cryptkeeper's Haunted House, and lots of merchandise. A short-lived TV series based on the EC Comics' Weird Science series, entitled Perversions of Science, was also produced in 1997, following the same anthology format as Tales from the Crypt, with wraparound segments featuring a female android named Chrome. In addition, two feature films, Demon Knight (1995) and Bordello of Blood (1996), were also produced. In 2006, Ritual, a third film originally released overseas (without the Crypt Keeper wraparounds) in 2001, was finally released on DVD. Two other movies based on the EC Comics Tales From the Crypt and The Vault of Horror were released back in 1972 and 1973 respectively. They are not connected to this series in any way, other than the original source.
Since its cancellation, Tales from the Crypt had aired in syndication on HBO, Fox, the Sci-Fi Channel, AMC, DirectTV's Chiller Network, Zone Horror in the UK and in Canada on CBC and the Space Channel.less «

• Discussion: John Kassir Interview 10/26/07

  Can't believe this completely slipped by almost a year ago. http://www.movieweb.com/dvd/news/36/23936.php Interest...more »

  Can't believe this completely slipped by almost a year ago. http://www.movieweb.com/dvd/news/36/23936.php Interesting points: -Kassir's rich. 'Nuff said. -He's apparently a huge fan of Season 7. Also really liked The Man Who Was Death. -The idea for the Crypt Keeper having his own show was tossed around but ultimately didn't work. Nice to know he still cares so much about this role. less «

  Spongemario Last online 4 days ago
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• Tales from the Crypt Makes It's Political Pick

  So, here I am, surfing fark. And I notice an article about Sarah Palin's newest magazine cover.... Sarah...more »

  So, here I am, surfing fark. And I notice an article about Sarah Palin's newest magazine cover.... Sarah's speech balloon says "Didn't we get rid of you guys in the 50s?" The publisher is taking a stand against her previous discussion with an Alaska librarian who she appointed then fired when she would not discuss the possibility of banning books with her. (The link goes to a discussion from Snopes over the rumor that theres a list of books she tried to get banned. While that isn't true, the idea of her discussing censorship and banning with a librarian is outlined further down the page). Thoughts? less «

  lamdnjchem Last online 46 minutes ago
  5 comments, last one Jun 15, 2009 + Add Comment

• The Tales' Stars

  So has anyone met any of the stars from Tales from the Crypt? Please share your experiences if you have any.

  So has anyone met any of the stars from Tales from the Crypt? Please share your experiences if you have any.less «

  CryptCory Last online Apr 19, 2009
  2 comments, last one May 24, 2009 + Add Comment

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  10 Perfect

  This is a favorite show. hide « show »

  This is a favorite show. I always watch it at 5 and 5:30 every night monday-friday. All of the episodes never get old. They get better every time that I watch them. I always freack my self out when watching the show. I can never get enough of it. Can't wait till later on tonight when I get home cause I will be able to watch the show. Why not have it on all day long all night long and everyday of the week and the weekend. I would Love it. The show would not get old for me at all. Thats how much I love this show.

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  heathledgerfan Added Feb 1, 2008 All my reviews
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  9.2 Superb

  This show used to scare me to death! hide « show »

  Tales From the Crypt was very original. It was very twisted and creepy! I don't know how many hours of sleep this show caused me to lose! The Crypt Keeper was so scary! Freaky! The episodes were really scary too! The writers had some extremely twisted minds. But I have to admit they were original. One of my favorite episodes is where guy trades places with a cat. And he gets nine lives and starts doing all kinds of fatal stunts. And while doing his final stunt (being burried alive) he thinks he still has one life left. But it turns out that he miscounted and that he's using up his last life. The episode is better than I made it out to be. Anyways, I was just summarizing the episode to prove how original the series was. Truly a classic. Tales From the Crypt will continue to scare me throughout the rest of my life.

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  LOSTismylife Added Jun 5, 2007 All my reviews
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  10 Perfect

  It has horror and gore an is funny at the same time. Who doesn't love that!!! hide « show »

  Tales from the crypt are stories told by the cryptkeeper. The stories are horror stories with some gore and are also very funny. You have to love the oneliners from the cryptkeeper. There are also a numbre of movies from tales from the crypt like bordello of blood. there are a lot of episodes with famouse actors like whoopi goldberg, billy zane, ... The tales are based on some gruesome comics from the 50's.
  The first episode was aired on the 10th jone of 1989.
  The show was nominated for 7 Emmy's. the shows are about one hour each and are very fun the watch.

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  aleidis Added Jun 1, 2007 All my reviews
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  7.7 Good

  The reason i lost so many hours of sleep as a kid hide « show »

  I loved this show when I was a little kid. I would stay up really late on weekends and catch this show watching it alone in the dark in my room. It would scare the heck out of me and then I would shut the tv off and lay in bed wondering why I would want to do this to myself every weekend. The show wasn’t really that scary unless of course your really young, but the stories always seemed to be able to creepy me out. This is a throwback that really reminds me of being a young kid. The crypt would come out and talk about the story that was about to unfold and I knew I would be in for another long sleepless night.

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  Nellyson Added Mar 24, 2007 All my reviews
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  10 Perfect

  Amazing! hide « show »

  Oh man, I miss this show so very much. I wish upon oh so many stars for them to bring it back. *sigh*
  
  There aren't many shows EVER to have a whole new storyline every episode. And for the ones there are, none of them can even begin to compare with this one. It had EVERYTHING; humor, horror, drama, and an amazing, original host to start each episode off: The Cryptkeeper.
  
  There may be other shows that are similar, but none will ever have anything like the Cryptkeeper. When I was younger, I was terrified of him. But as I got older I listened more to what he said and realized how hilarious he was. Not because his jokes were funny, but more because of how corny they are, but yet he thinks they are just the funniest things in the world.
  
  The thing is is that if you haven't seen this show then you diffitely need to go out and buy the episodes. And if you don't feel like taking a big step like that, go rent them, then you can buy them. I, myself, am waiting eagorly for them to put the rest of the seasons on DVD so I can have a HUGE marartron of nothing but "Tales From the Crypt"!

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  luckydagangsta Added Mar 3, 2007 All my reviews