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The Worst 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 Operation Friendship
    3.5/10(4 votes)

    #1 - Operation Friendship

    S6:E2

    Nelson is a computer genius who is letting his boss take credit for his ideas. Meanwhile his childhood imaginary pal Eddie tries to get Nelson to stand up to his bullying coworker. That is, until Nelson falls in love with a beautiful next door neighbor. Eddie thinks that she will ruin their friendship, but Nelson tosses Eddies' good side out the window leaving Eddie to come back cold-hearted.

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    Director:Roland Mesa
    Writer:Unknown
  2. Background image for Curiosity Killed
    3.7/10(3 votes)

    #2 - Curiosity Killed

    S4:E12

    A man asks his friend to keep a youth potion away from his wife. When she suspects that they are trying to kill her, she kills them first and drinks the potion which she had switched. But she soon regrets it.

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  3. Background image for The Pit
    3.7/10(3 votes)

    #3 - The Pit

    S6:E5

    Two men who are longtime rivals go head to head in a grudge match. But, the real fight isn't between them, it's between their feuding wives. When the two men realize they don't hate each other, they decide to put their wives in the ring. With the help of a Las Vegas showman, they set them up as they watch them in a boxing match on live television.

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    Director:John Harrison
    Writer:Unknown
  4. Background image for In the Groove
    4.0/10(4 votes)

    #4 - In the Groove

    S6:E8

    Gary Grover is a frustrated talk radio DJ. His boss, who is also his sister, hired a sexy looker with a talent for talking dirty. One day Gary goes ballistic and his boss fires him. Val suggests that he take matters into his own hands, but he's been set up.

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    Director:Vincent Spano
    Writer:Unknown
  5. Background image for The Bribe
    4.5/10(4 votes)

    #5 - The Bribe

    S6:E4

    Zoeller is a fire marshal who wants a strip club closed down. He wants to get revenge on it's sneaky owner and his pal for letting his offspring dance there. Zoeller bribes an arsonist to burn the place but after he does it, he discovers that she was also in there. Little does he know that his daughter wasn't in the club when the fire happened. She left early to get married with her boyfriend.

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    Writer:Unknown
  6. Background image for King of the Road
    4.8/10(4 votes)

    #6 - King of the Road

    S4:E7

    A courageous drag racer challenges a cop who used to be a racer. When the cop refuses, the racer decides to make him change his mind and kidnaps his teenage daughter. Iceman proves that he hasn't lost his talent by tricking the racer into changing the course sending him to his doom.

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    Director:Tom Holland
    Writer:Unknown
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  8. Background image for Maniac At Large
    5.0/10(4 votes)

    #7 - Maniac At Large

    S4:E8

    A shy library clerk is obsessed with a serial killer fearing that she will be his next victim. She thinks that her boss, the security guard and a patron are the killer. One night, while she is working late, it turns out that she is really the killer and her victims were ones she thought were after her.

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  9. Background image for Strung Along
    5.0/10(4 votes)

    #8 - Strung Along

    S4:E10

    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.

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  10. Background image for Doctor of Horror
    5.0/10(3 votes)

    #9 - Doctor of Horror

    S6:E10

    Richard and Charlie are security guards working in a morgue. They are offered five hundred dollars by a doctor who is trying to capture the soul of each dying person before it goes to heaven. When their boss figures out what's happening Richard is forced to kill him but he kills Charlie too. The doctor succeeds in capturing Charlie's soul. Charlie comes back out for revenge.

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    Director:Larry Wilson
    Writer:Unknown
  11. Background image for Comes the Dawn
    5.0/10(5 votes)

    #10 - Comes the Dawn

    S6:E11

    Two poachers are out hunting bear in Alaska. They seek the help of a woman who leads them into a dorm. The men decide that they don't need her anymore but the Colonel double crosses his partner. She's been leading them to a lair full of hibernating vampires. Luckily it's dawn but there's one problem. Alaska is locked in cold darkness.

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    Director:John Herzfeld
    Writer:Unknown
  12. Background image for Food for Thought
    5.2/10(5 votes)

    #11 - Food for Thought

    S5:E2

    Zambini is a circus mind-controlling psychic who controls his beautiful helper with his telepathic powers. One day he learns that she has a crush on the fire eater. Zambini goes into a terrible rage and kills him. Connie flees in terror never to return. Zambini uses his powers to call her back but it contacts the pet gorilla instead.

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    Writer:Unknown
  13. Background image for 99 & 44/100% Pure Horror
    5.2/10(5 votes)

    #12 - 99 & 44/100% Pure Horror

    S6:E12

    Willa is a married artist who is pushed around by her ad campaign husband. When his company decides to drop her idea, Willa plans to come up with a new idea but nobody's interested. Willa wants revenge when a graffiti artist comes up with an idea and everyone is interested. Willa kills her husband and turns his body into soaps. She decides to shower with them but soon she regrets it.

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    Writer:Unknown
  14. Background image for The Kidnapper
    5.2/10(580 votes)

    #13 - The Kidnapper

    S7:E7

    A young man takes in a pregnant woman and falls in love with her but becomes jealous when her baby is born so he sets out to get rid of the kid forever.

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    Writer:Unknown
  15. Background image for Werewolf Concerto
    5.3/10(3 votes)

    #14 - Werewolf Concerto

    S4:E11

    A man is killed outside the woods of a hotel. His death is suspected to be the work of a werewolf. The manager says that there is a werewolf hunter who will deal with the problem. Among the guests is a smooth talking man and an attractive female guest. It turns out that Lokai is the werewolf but much to his surprise he discovers that Janice is also a creature of darkness.

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    Director:Steve Perry
    Writer:Unknown
  16. Background image for Well Cooked Hams
    5.3/10(3 votes)

    #15 - Well Cooked Hams

    S5:E6

    A frustrated magician comes across a true genius. He decides to kill him and steal his magic, but he finds himself in big trouble and it's going to be the last magic trick he will ever perform.

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  17. Background image for Seance
    5.4/10(5 votes)

    #16 - Seance

    S4:E2

    Con artists posing as mediums decide to use a man named Chalmers as their next victim. The woman hits on Chalmers and her male partner takes pictures of them in bed. One day Chalmers is killed in an accident. The con artists discover something else - Chalmers' wife is blind. They decide to pull a fake seance on his wife. The plan works but not in the way they expect.

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    Director:Gary Fleder
    Writer:Unknown
  18. Background image for Report from the Grave
    5.4/10(525 votes)

    #17 - Report from the Grave

    S7:E8

    A scientist named Elliot invents a way to read memories of the dead. To test the device, Elliot and his girlfriend Arianne break into the crypt of a dead serial killer.

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  19. Background image for Smoke Wrings
    5.4/10(548 votes)

    #18 - Smoke Wrings

    S7:E9

    A young man with a strange device is hired onto an advertising company by an esteemed executive--but what the exec doesn't know is that the young man is in cahoots with her enraged ex-partner who is out for revenge.

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    Writer:Unknown
  20. Background image for The Thing From The Grave
    5.5/10(12 votes)

    #19 - The Thing From The Grave

    S2:E4

    A 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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    Director:Fred Dekker
  21. Background image for Split Personality
    5.5/10(4 votes)

    #20 - Split Personality

    S4:E9

    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.

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    Director:Joel Silver
    Writer:Unknown
  22. Background image for Two for the Show
    5.5/10(6 votes)

    #21 - Two for the Show

    S5:E4

    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.

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    Director:Kevin Hooks
    Writer:Unknown
  23. Background image for Oil's Well That Ends Well
    5.5/10(4 votes)

    #22 - Oil's Well That Ends Well

    S5:E9

    A con artist and his girlfriend plan their next caper by tricking some southern boys into thinking there is oil underneath a cemetery. Their plans work. She makes them think she has gotten jealous and killed her boyfriend, but when she goes to dig him up, she gets a big surprise. He and the boys have been partners all along. The last laugh is on her when it turns out that there really is oil and she blows them all to kingdom come.

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    Director:Paul Abascal
    Writer:Unknown
  24. Background image for Half-Way Horrible
    5.5/10(4 votes)

    #23 - Half-Way Horrible

    S5:E10

    Roger Lassen is a manufacturer who kills his friend by burying him alive in the South American jungle to finish the development of a chemical preservative. He's haunted by the memories of the incident. The earnings will make him rich but he can't get it past the FDA regulations. Soon his past returns and he starts seeing his dead friend everywhere he looks. A voodoo priestess offers to help exorcise his dark side. The spell works but at the most horrible cost.

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    Director:Gregory Widen
    Writer:Unknown
  25. Background image for Staired in Horror
    5.5/10(2 votes)

    #24 - Staired in Horror

    S6:E7

    Clyde is a fugitive who holes up in a house occupied by an elderly woman. One night he finds an attractive woman upstairs, but he discovers it's the same woman. She tells him that a long time ago her spouse caught her having an affair and put a curse on the house. She must stay up stairs if she wants to be young forever. The same thing will happen to the man if he comes upstairs. The cops arrive and he goes upstairs to change his image but he finds himself getting weak and the woman turns back into a helpless infant unable to do anything but crawl.

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    Writer:Unknown
  26. Background image for Escape
    5.5/10(523 votes)

    #25 - Escape

    S7:E4

    A traitor in the second World War is restricted to a prison camp and one of the men he betrayed is transported to the camp and promises to reveal his identity.

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    Writer:Unknown

Worst Episodes Summary

"Operation Friendship" is the worst rated episode of "Tales from the Crypt". It scored 3.5/10 based on 4 votes. Directed by Roland Mesa and written by Unknown, it aired on 11/9/1994. This episode scored 0.2 points lower than the second lowest rated, "Curiosity Killed".