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The Best Episodes of Tales from the Crypt

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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...

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  1. Background image for What's Cookin'
    8.2/10(3 votes)

    #1 - What's Cookin'

    S4:E4

    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).

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    Director:Gilbert Adler
    Writer:Unknown
  2. Background image for Television Terror
    8.0/10(5 votes)

    #2 - Television Terror

    S2:E14

    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.

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    Writer:Unknown
  3. Background image for Dead Wait
    7.8/10(1.2k votes)

    #3 - Dead Wait

    S3:E4

    Red is a low life crook who is looking for a black pearl. He finds that it's on a island belonging to an ailing millionaire. He plans with the millionaire's 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 he'll never forget.

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    Director:Tobe Hooper
    Writer:Unknown
  4. Background image for My Brother's Keeper
    7.6/10(5 votes)

    #4 - My Brother's Keeper

    S2:E15

    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.

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    Writer:Unknown
  5. Background image for The Ventriloquist's Dummy
    7.5/10(12 votes)

    #5 - The Ventriloquist's Dummy

    S2:E8

    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.

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    Writer:Unknown
  6. Background image for The Reluctant Vampire
    7.4/10(1.1k votes)

    #6 - The Reluctant Vampire

    S3:E5

    A vampire is working at a blood bank as a night watchman. However, when the blood seems to be running low the vampire returns to getting blood the old fashion way. When the owner arrives at the vampire's lair he tries to black mail him, but as fate as would have it, the vampire's sexy secretary shows up and knocks him into the vampire's coffin. Some vampire hunters mistake him for the vampire and he gets a wonderful juicy stake.

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  8. Background image for The Man Who Was Death / And All Through the House / Dig That Cat... He's Real Gone
    7.3/10(14 votes)

    #7 - The Man Who Was Death / And All Through the House / Dig That Cat... He's Real Gone

    S1:E1

    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. 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. 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.

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  9. Background image for Abra Cadaver
    7.3/10(1.2k votes)

    #8 - Abra Cadaver

    S3:E2

    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?

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    Writer:Unknown
  10. Background image for Spoiled
    7.3/10(1.1k votes)

    #9 - Spoiled

    S3:E11

    Janet is a soap opera loving woman. She likes to watch soaps everyday. She even imitates them. One day she misses the end of her favorite soap opera when the TV goes on the fritz. She decides to get cable soon. Janet finds her self falling for the attractive cable installer. When her Surgeon husband discovers what's going on, he decides to make them part of his experiment.

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    Director:Andy Wolk
    Writer:Unknown
  11. Background image for The New Arrival
    7.3/10(3 votes)

    #10 - The New Arrival

    S4:E5

    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.

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    Director:Peter Medak
    Writer:Unknown
  12. Background image for Creep Course
    7.3/10(3 votes)

    #11 - Creep Course

    S5:E7

    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.

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    Director:Jeffrey Boam
    Writer:Unknown
  13. Background image for Let the Punishment Fit the Crime / Only Skin Deep / Whirlpool
    7.3/10(3 votes)

    #12 - Let the Punishment Fit the Crime / Only Skin Deep / Whirlpool

    S6:E1

    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. At a costume party, a young man falls in love with a sexy woman. They have a great time. He promises to keep quiet but the next day he spills the beans. The woman tells him not to be around while she's awake. He finds out that she's wearing that same mask. He tries to remove it only to learn that it's her horrible face. 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.

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  14. Background image for Dead Right / The Switch / Cutting Cards
    7.2/10(8 votes)

    #13 - Dead Right / The Switch / Cutting Cards

    S2:E1

    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. An elderly millionaire asks a plastic surgeon to give him the body of a younger man to win the girl of his dreams. Two rival long time gamblers meet up in a small town to have one last duel.

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  15. Background image for People Who Live in Brass Hearses
    7.2/10(4 votes)

    #14 - People Who Live in Brass Hearses

    S5:E3

    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.

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    Writer:Unknown
  16. Background image for Three's a Crowd
    7.1/10(8 votes)

    #15 - Three's a Crowd

    S2:E3

    For 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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  17. Background image for Mournin' Mess
    7.1/10(1.1k votes)

    #16 - Mournin' Mess

    S3:E8

    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 who's the next victim.

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    Director:Manny Coto
    Writer:Unknown
  18. Background image for Deadline
    7.1/10(971 votes)

    #17 - Deadline

    S3:E10

    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 it's his girlfriend Vicky. To make sure the paper's got enough evidence, he strangles her to death but the shock of the murder lands him in a mental hospital inside a padded cell.

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    Director:Walter Hill
    Writer:Unknown
  19. Background image for Undertaking Palor
    7.0/10(1.1k votes)

    #18 - Undertaking Palor

    S3:E7

    Four boys who have a talent for video taping uncover some weird things at the undertaker's. Soon revenge comes when one the boy's father becomes a victim. They begin video taping the undertaker's evil deeds which he soon discovers in horror.

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    Director:Michael Thau
    Writer:Unknown
  20. Background image for Came the Dawn
    7.0/10(3 votes)

    #19 - Came the Dawn

    S5:E8

    In this version of Alfred Hitchcock's 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.

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    Director:Uli Edel
    Writer:Unknown
  21. Background image for Top Billing
    6.9/10(1.1k votes)

    #20 - Top Billing

    S3:E3

    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.

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    Director:Todd Holland
    Writer:Unknown
  22. Background image for Death of Some Salesmen / As Ye Sow / Forever Ambergris
    6.8/10(4 votes)

    #21 - Death of Some Salesmen / As Ye Sow / Forever Ambergris

    S5:E1

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

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  23. Background image for Korman's Kalamity
    6.7/10(11 votes)

    #22 - Korman's Kalamity

    S2:E11

    Jim 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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    Writer:Unknown
  24. Background image for Confession
    6.7/10(512 votes)

    #23 - Confession

    S7:E11

    Evans, a sly horror screenwriter suspected in a series of grisly murders of women whose heads were taken by the killer as trophies is interrogated by Jack Lynch, a clever hardboiled homicide detective whom every cop idolizes.

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    Director:Peter Hewitt
    Writer:Unknown
  25. Background image for Mute Witness to Murder
    6.6/10(5 votes)

    #24 - Mute Witness to Murder

    S2:E13

    A 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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    Director:Jim Simpson
    Writer:Unknown
  26. Background image for Easel Kill Ya
    6.6/10(994 votes)

    #25 - Easel Kill Ya

    S3:E6

    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.

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    Director:John Harrison
    Writer:Unknown

Best Episodes Summary

"What's Cookin'" is the best rated episode of "Tales from the Crypt". It scored 8.2/10 based on 3 votes. Directed by Gilbert Adler and written by Unknown, it aired on 7/22/1992. This episode scored 0.2 points higher than the second highest rated, "Television Terror".