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The Worst Episodes of Tales from the Crypt

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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.

    Director:Roland Mesa
    Writer:Unknown
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  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.

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

    #4 - 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.

    Director:Walter Hill
    Writer:Unknown
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  5. Background image for In the Groove
    4.0/10(4 votes)

    #5 - 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.

    Director:Vincent Spano
    Writer:Unknown
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  6. Background image for Split Second
    4.5/10(4 votes)

    #6 - Split Second

    S3:E9

    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.

    Writer:Unknown
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  8. Background image for Spoiled
    4.5/10(4 votes)

    #7 - 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.

    Director:Andy Wolk
    Writer:Unknown
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  9. Background image for The Bribe
    4.5/10(4 votes)

    #8 - 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.

    Writer:Unknown
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  10. Background image for Loved to Death / Carrion Death / The Trap
    4.8/10(4 votes)

    #9 - Loved to Death / Carrion Death / The Trap

    S3:E1

    In Los Angeles, the aspirant screenwriter Edward Foster from Indiana has a crush on his neighbor Miranda Singer. However, the bimbo Miranda is an aspirant actress and gold digger and does not give attention to Edward. His unrequited love calls the attention of his creepy landlord Mr. Stronham that offers Edward a love potion to seduce Miranda. Will the potion work? A sadistic serial killer has unforeseen complications when pursued by a determined motorcycle cop in a barren desert. Indebted unhappy married couple, Lou and Irene, commit a life insurance fraud. Lou's brother Billy helps him fake his death and leave for Mexico. But Irene and Billy fall in love and when Lou returns, they claim they don't know him.

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  11. Background image for Dead Wait
    4.8/10(4 votes)

    #10 - 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.

    Director:Tobe Hooper
    Writer:Unknown
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  12. Background image for King of the Road
    4.8/10(4 votes)

    #11 - 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.

    Director:Tom Holland
    Writer:Unknown
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  13. Background image for The Kidnapper
    4.9/10(7 votes)

    #12 - 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.

    Writer:Unknown
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  14. Background image for Ear Today... Gone Tomorrow
    4.9/10(7 votes)

    #13 - Ear Today... Gone Tomorrow

    S7:E12

    A greedy safe cracker with a slight hearing loss gets entangled in a game between a mobster and his beautiful, exotic wife and ends up getting the auditory system he could only dream of. But there's a price.

    Writer:Unknown
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  15. Background image for Maniac At Large
    5.0/10(4 votes)

    #14 - 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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  16. Background image for Strung Along
    5.0/10(4 votes)

    #15 - 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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  17. Background image for Doctor of Horror
    5.0/10(3 votes)

    #16 - 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.

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

    #17 - 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.

    Director:John Herzfeld
    Writer:Unknown
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  19. Background image for Smoke Wrings
    5.0/10(7 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.

    Writer:Unknown
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  20. Background image for About Face
    5.1/10(8 votes)

    #19 - About Face

    S7:E10

    A sleazy minister in Victorian England gets a nasty surprise when he discovers he previously fathered twin daughters.

    Writer:Unknown
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  21. Background image for The Third Pig
    5.1/10(9 votes)

    #20 - The Third Pig

    S7:E13

    In this cartoon version of the Three Little Pigs story, Dudly, the smart pig, is framed for the murders of his brothers and sentenced to death. But, his brothers' spirits help him seek revenge on the wolf.

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  22. Background image for Food for Thought
    5.2/10(5 votes)

    #21 - 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.

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

    #22 - 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.

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

    #23 - 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.

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

    #24 - 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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  26. Background image for Report from the Grave
    5.3/10(7 votes)

    #25 - 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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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".