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The Best Episodes of Tales from the Crypt

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

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).

    Director:Gilbert Adler
    Writer:Unknown
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  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.

    Writer:Unknown
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  3. Background image for Yellow
    8.0/10(3 votes)

    #3 - Yellow

    S3:E12

    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.

    Writer:Unknown
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  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.

    Writer:Unknown
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  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.

    Writer:Unknown
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  6. Background image for The Man Who Was Death / And All Through the House / Dig That Cat... He's Real Gone
    7.3/10(15 votes)

    #6 - 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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  8. Background image for The New Arrival
    7.3/10(3 votes)

    #7 - 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.

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

    #8 - 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.

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

    #9 - 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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  11. Background image for Confession
    7.3/10(7 votes)

    #10 - 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.

    Director:Peter Hewitt
    Writer:Unknown
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  12. Background image for Dead Right / The Switch / Cutting Cards
    7.2/10(8 votes)

    #11 - 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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  13. Background image for People Who Live in Brass Hearses
    7.2/10(4 votes)

    #12 - 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.

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

    #13 - 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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  15. Background image for Came the Dawn
    7.0/10(3 votes)

    #14 - 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.

    Director:Uli Edel
    Writer:Unknown
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  16. Background image for Easel Kill Ya
    6.8/10(4 votes)

    #15 - 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.

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

    #16 - 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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  18. Background image for Horror in the Night
    6.8/10(6 votes)

    #17 - Horror in the Night

    S7:E5

    A double-crossing jewel thief is shot and hides out in a hotel where he starts to hallucinate about a mysterious beautiful woman.

    Writer:Unknown
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  19. Background image for Only Sin Deep
    6.7/10(12 votes)

    #18 - Only Sin Deep

    S1:E2

    A call girl goes to a pawnshop to rob him of his jewelry. Instead the owner offers her 10,000 dollars for her beauty. She sells her beauty and lands a new job but discovers she is aging very fast.

    Director:Howard Deutch
    Writer:Unknown
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  20. Background image for Korman's Kalamity
    6.7/10(11 votes)

    #19 - 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.

    Writer:Unknown
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  21. Background image for Mute Witness to Murder
    6.6/10(5 votes)

    #20 - 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.

    Director:Jim Simpson
    Writer:Unknown
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  22. Background image for House of Horror
    6.5/10(4 votes)

    #21 - House of Horror

    S5:E5

    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:Unknown
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  23. Background image for Cold War
    6.5/10(8 votes)

    #22 - Cold War

    S7:E6

    After losing their friend Cutter in a botched robbery, Ford and Cammy, a wild young Londoner crime couple, split up and Cammy finds a new lover, Jimmy. Jealous, Ford shoots him and the trio discovers something shocking about one another.

    Writer:Unknown
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  24. Background image for Collection Completed
    6.4/10(9 votes)

    #23 - Collection Completed

    S1:E4

    After 47 year of tool sales, Jonas has finally found some time to relax and take a break. Or so he thinks. After he returns from his work, he finds out that his wife has been taking in stray animals. He decides to take up a new hobby...taxidermy.

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  25. Background image for Lower Berth
    6.4/10(5 votes)

    #24 - Lower Berth

    S2:E12

    Enoch 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.

    Director:Kevin Yagher
    Writer:Unknown
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  26. Background image for Fatal Caper
    6.4/10(8 votes)

    #25 - Fatal Caper

    S7:E1

    Two adult brothers come to blows over the the fortune of their wealthy father, whose interests are protected by a lovely young woman with questionable loyalties.

    Director:Bob Hoskins
    Writer:Unknown
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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".