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The Best Episodes of Tales from the Crypt

Every episode of Tales from the Crypt ranked from best to worst. Let's dive into the Best Episodes of 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?

Genres:ComedyMysteryCrimeSci-Fi & Fantasy
Network:HBO

Top Episode Ratings Summary

The best episode of "Tales from the Crypt" is "What's Cookin'", rated 8.2/10 from 1246 user votes. It was directed by Gilbert Adler and written by N/A. "What's Cookin'" aired on 7/22/1992 and is rated 0.1 point(s) higher than the second highest rated, "Yellow".

  • What's Cookin'
    8.2/10 1,246 votes

    #1 - What's Cookin'

    Season 4 Episode 6 - Aired 7/22/1992

    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 episode's writer Alan Katz, and Tales From the Crypt chronicler Digby Diehl).

    Director: Gilbert Adler

    Writer: N/A

  • Yellow
    8.1/10 1,297 votes

    #2 - Yellow

    Season 3 Episode 14 - Aired 8/28/1991

    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.

    Director: Robert Zemeckis

    Writer: N/A

  • Television Terror
    7.9/10 1,341 votes

    #3 - Television Terror

    Season 2 Episode 16 - Aired 7/17/1990

    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.

    Director: Charlie Picerni

    Writer: N/A

  • Death of Some Salesmen
    7.9/10 1,106 votes

    #4 - Death of Some Salesmen

    Season 5 Episode 1 - Aired 10/2/1993

    A sneaky con man has a talent for killing people after he sells them phony tombstones. He soon learns that some for his new victims have a fortune buried in their cellar. He marries their daughter and kills the parents but when he goes down in the basement he gets a big surprise.

    Director: Gilbert Adler

    Writer: N/A

  • Abra Cadaver
    7.8/10 1,155 votes

    #5 - Abra Cadaver

    Season 3 Episode 4 - Aired 6/19/1991

    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 hasn't 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?

    Director: Stephen Hopkins

    Writer: N/A

  • And All Through the House
    7.7/10 2,270 votes

    #6 - And All Through the House

    Season 1 Episode 2 - Aired 6/10/1989

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

    Director: Robert Zemeckis

    Writer: N/A

  • The New Arrival
    7.7/10 999 votes

    #7 - The New Arrival

    Season 4 Episode 7 - Aired 7/25/1992

    An arrogant radio child psychologist is obsessed with proving to his manager that he is the best. He gets a new patient, a woman and her daughter. When he goes to her room, he assumes that the daughter is the woman's imaginary friend. He learns that her daughter died years ago but her mother's love keeps her alive.

    Director: Peter Medak

    Writer: N/A

  • Forever Ambergris
    7.7/10 885 votes

    #8 - Forever Ambergris

    Season 5 Episode 3 - Aired 10/2/1993

    Dalton is a seasoned combat photographer who finds himself falling for a beautiful women who just happens to be the wife of his friend. One day Ike sends Dalton into a disease warfare area. Dalton returns, but not the way he used to be. He soon writes a letter about how he was set up and his wife and friend also contract the same disease.

    Director: Gary Fleder

    Writer: N/A

  • The Ventriloquist's Dummy
    7.6/10 1,343 votes

    #9 - The Ventriloquist's Dummy

    Season 2 Episode 10 - Aired 6/5/1990

    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.

    Director: Richard Donner

    Writer: N/A

  • Cutting Cards
    7.5/10 1,564 votes

    #10 - Cutting Cards

    Season 2 Episode 3 - Aired 4/21/1990

    Two rival long time gamblers meet up in a small town to have one last duel.

    Director: Walter Hill

    Writer: N/A

  • People Who Live in Brass Hearses
    7.5/10 889 votes

    #11 - People Who Live in Brass Hearses

    Season 5 Episode 5 - Aired 10/13/1993

    Billy is a smalltime criminal who is bloody red for vengeance. Years ago, his boss at an icecream warehouse double crossed him by sending him to prison. Now he plans to frame his boss with the help of his disabled brother.

    Director: Russell Mulcahy

    Writer: N/A

  • Two for the Show
    7.5/10 794 votes

    #12 - Two for the Show

    Season 5 Episode 6 - Aired 10/20/1993

    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 wife's corpse. The detective follows him. The man switches trunks but when he opens the other one he gets a big surprise.

    Director: Kevin Hooks

    Writer: N/A

  • Top Billing
    7.4/10 1,073 votes

    #13 - Top Billing

    Season 3 Episode 5 - Aired 6/26/1991

    Barry Blye is a frustrated actor who will do anything to get a part. He's been rejected by every acting company because he doesn't have the right look. Bad luck follows him all over. First his girlfriend breaks up with him. Then he's kicked out of his apartment. Then his old rival Winton Robins, who has ""the look"", gets a part in a weird theater's production of Hamlet. Barry goes into a frustrated rage and strangles him to death to take the part. He is shocked when he learns that the theater is really a mental hospital.

    Director: Todd Holland

    Writer: N/A

  • Split Second
    7.4/10 1,093 votes

    #14 - Split Second

    Season 3 Episode 11 - Aired 8/7/1991

    Dixon is a lumberjack who marries a sexy barmaid named Liz Kelly. Soon after, he turns from sweet Dr. Jekyll into cruel Mr. Hyde. He is jealous of her when the boys find her attractive. One day a new lumberjack comes to town and Liz finds Ted attractive. When he catches them in the bed together, Dixon goes in a jealous rage and whacks him blinding him. The boys help him seek revenge on Dixon and Liz.

    Director: Russell Mulcahy

    Writer: N/A

  • Split Personality
    7.4/10 987 votes

    #15 - Split Personality

    Season 4 Episode 11 - Aired 8/26/1992

    Stetson is a con man who likes to date twins. He finds himself in the arms of twin sisters and creates a twin of his own. He weds both of them and decides to knock them off. Little does he know these twins share alike.

    Director: Joel Silver

    Writer: N/A

  • Creep Course
    7.4/10 774 votes

    #16 - Creep Course

    Season 5 Episode 9 - Aired 11/10/1993

    Reggie is a college jock who is trying to pass a history test. He asks the class bookworm Stella Bishop to help tutor him. She goes to Finely's house to to get the answer sheet, but when she gets there, Finely and Reggie lock her in a mummy's tomb. Finely double crosses Reggie by poisoning him. Finely goes back to check his work, and gets a big surprise. Stella is not dead. She has been charming the mummy by impersonating his dead girlfriend making the mummy jealous and Reggie and Finely really take the wraps.

    Director: Jeffrey Boam

    Writer: N/A

  • The Assassin
    7.4/10 701 votes

    #17 - The Assassin

    Season 6 Episode 8 - Aired 12/7/1994

    Janet is a suburban wife of an ex-CIA assassin. When a group of operatives invade her home, they seem to think her husband is up to his old tricks again. The leader tempts one of her men then kills him, then kills the other guy, then plans to do the same with Janet. But Janet has a nasty surprise for her that she will never forget.

    Director: Martin von Haselberg

    Writer: N/A

  • You, Murderer
    7.4/10 760 votes

    #18 - You, Murderer

    Season 6 Episode 15 - Aired 1/25/1995

    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 Bogart's. 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. Lou's mistress, Erika, shows up and the couple become some murder victims themselves.

    Director: Robert Zemeckis

    Writer: N/A

  • Dig That Cat...He's Real Gone
    7.3/10 1,777 votes

    #19 - Dig That Cat...He's Real Gone

    Season 1 Episode 3 - Aired 6/10/1989

    A bum named Ulric is given the chance of a lifetime when a scientist puts the gland of a cat inside his body. Soon Ulric becomes the main attraction at a sideshow.

    Director: Richard Donner

    Writer: N/A

  • Dead Right
    7.3/10 1,608 votes

    #20 - Dead Right

    Season 2 Episode 1 - Aired 4/21/1990

    A 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.

    Director: Howard Deutch

    Writer: N/A

  • My Brother's Keeper
    7.3/10 1,033 votes

    #21 - My Brother's Keeper

    Season 2 Episode 17 - Aired 7/24/1990

    Siamese 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.

    Director: Peter S. Seaman

    Writer: N/A

  • Carrion Death
    7.3/10 1,206 votes

    #22 - Carrion Death

    Season 3 Episode 2 - Aired 6/15/1991

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

    Director: Steven E. de Souza

    Writer: N/A

  • Strung Along
    7.3/10 813 votes

    #23 - Strung Along

    Season 4 Episode 12 - Aired 9/2/1992

    An aging puppeteer gets a new assistant. When he learns that his wife has a boyfriend, the assistant promises he'll do something about it. The puppeteer spends most of his time with is favorite puppet Koko. When he discovers that his assistant is his wife's lover, the two make him think that Koko has gone on a murderous rampage. Little do they know that Pinocchio isn't the only one with-out strings.

    Director: Kevin Yagher

    Writer: Yale Udoff, Kevin Yagher

  • House of Horror
    7.3/10 847 votes

    #24 - House of Horror

    Season 5 Episode 7 - Aired 10/27/1993

    Les Whilton is the president of a college fraternity. He decides to scare three pledges by daring them to spend a night in a haunted house. He and some of his friends have set up the place to look like it's haunted. Along for the ride is a group of sorority sisters. When everyone else turns up missing, everyone turns to Whilton. Whilton goes into the house alone and he gets a big surprise.

    Director: Bob Gale

    Writer: N/A

  • The Man Who Was Death
    7.2/10 2,087 votes

    #25 - The Man Who Was Death

    Season 1 Episode 1 - Aired 6/10/1989

    Niles Talbot moved from the country to the big city to get a job as an electrian but ended up as an executioner. His trouble begins when he's suddenly uemployed and decides to take the law into his own hands.

    Director: Walter Hill

    Writer: N/A