The Worst Episodes of Tales from the Crypt
Every episode of Tales from the Crypt ranked from worst to best. Explore 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 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?
Lowest Rated Episodes Summary
The worst episode of "Tales from the Crypt" is "The Kidnapper", rated 5.2/10 from 551 user votes. It was directed by James H. Spencer and written by N/A. "The Kidnapper" aired on 6/7/1996 and is rated 0.1 point(s) lower than the second lowest rated, "Whirlpool".
5.2/10 551 votes#1 - The Kidnapper
Season 7 Episode 7 - Aired 6/7/1996
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.
Director: James H. Spencer
Writer: N/A
5.3/10 628 votes#2 - Whirlpool
Season 6 Episode 3 - Aired 10/31/1994
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. In reality the whole thing turns out to be a comic and she really is his boss and he is her employee.
Director: Mick Garris
Writer: N/A
5.4/10 521 votes#3 - Smoke Wrings
Season 7 Episode 9 - Aired 6/21/1996
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.
Director: Mandie Fletcher
Writer: N/A
5.5/10 629 votes#4 - The Pit
Season 6 Episode 7 - Aired 11/30/1994
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: N/A
5.5/10 496 votes#5 - Escape
Season 7 Episode 4 - Aired 5/17/1996
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.
Director: Peter MacDonald
Writer: N/A
5.5/10 497 votes#6 - Report from the Grave
Season 7 Episode 8 - Aired 6/14/1996
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.
Director: William Malone
Writer: William Malone
5.6/10 569 votes#7 - In the Groove
Season 6 Episode 10 - Aired 12/21/1994
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: N/A
5.7/10 842 votes#8 - Deadline
Season 3 Episode 12 - Aired 8/14/1991
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: N/A
5.7/10 611 votes#9 - Operation Friendship
Season 6 Episode 4 - Aired 11/9/1994
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: N/A
5.7/10 552 votes#10 - Last Respects
Season 7 Episode 2 - Aired 4/26/1996
Three bickering sisters left in charge of their late father's struggling curiosity shop come into possession of a cursed monkey's paw, and try to use it to their advantage - with deadly results.
Director: Freddie Francis
Writer: N/A
5.9/10 632 votes#11 - Half-Way Horrible
Season 5 Episode 12 - Aired 12/1/1993
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.
Director: Gregory Widen
Writer: N/A
5.9/10 562 votes#12 - Cold War
Season 7 Episode 6 - Aired 5/31/1996
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.
Director: Andrew Morahan
Writer: N/A
6.0/10 716 votes#13 - Curiosity Killed
Season 4 Episode 14 - Aired 9/16/1992
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.
Director: Elliot Silverstein
Writer: N/A
6.0/10 678 votes#14 - Food for Thought
Season 5 Episode 4 - Aired 10/6/1993
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.
Director: Rodman Flender
Writer: N/A
6.0/10 471 votes#15 - Ear Today... Gone Tomorrow
Season 7 Episode 12 - Aired 7/12/1996
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.
Director: Christopher Hart
Writer: N/A
6.1/10 1,108 votes#16 - The Sacrifice
Season 2 Episode 7 - Aired 5/15/1990
Reed is a hotshot insurance agent who decides to kill his stubborn boss and marry his wife. The plan works until Reed's boss who happens to be Gloria's ex-husband arrives with pictures he has taken of the murder and blackmails Reed.
Director: Richard Greenberg
Writer: N/A
6.1/10 1,066 votes#17 - Judy, You're Not Yourself Today
Season 2 Episode 11 - Aired 6/12/1990
Donald and Judy are a couple who find themselves in a game of witchcraft. When a mysterious woman convinces Judy to try on a magical necklace, the old woman switches their souls. Soon Donald realizes that something is wrong. He tricks the witch into thinking that Judy has cancer and they switch back. Then Donald kills the witch and buries her. Years later, she comes back and this time she's got a special surprise for him.
Director: Randa Haines
Writer: N/A
6.1/10 801 votes#18 - This'll Kill Ya
Season 4 Episode 2 - Aired 6/27/1992
Sophie and Pack are workers at a medicine company. They are furious when their boss tells the papers that they are ready to test their new drug on humans. One day, while he is taking his shots they accidently inject him with the serum. George has only a few hours to live. He starts to have delusions and learns he's been set up and kills Pack. Sophie bursts in and tells him that the whole thing was just a joke.
Director: Robert Longo
Writer: N/A
6.1/10 563 votes#19 - Surprise Party
Season 6 Episode 11 - Aired 12/28/1994
A young man kills his father to inherit an old burned down house. When he arrives, he gets a very unusual surprise. He discovers that there's a party there waiting for him and he is the guest of honor. When one the sexy dancer's boyfriends gets jealous, the man kills him and tries to burn the evidence. The guests stop him and he realizes it's the same place his father burned down years ago and history has a nasty way of repeating it self.
Director: Elliot Silverstein
Writer: N/A
6.1/10 524 votes#20 - A Slight Case of Murder
Season 7 Episode 3 - Aired 5/3/1996
A game of cat and mouse ensues between a female mystery novelist and her jealous former husband when he accuses her of having a love affair with her nosy neighbor's son.
Director: Brian Helgeland
Writer: Brian Helgeland
6.1/10 589 votes#21 - The Third Pig
Season 7 Episode 13 - Aired 7/19/1996
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.
Director: Bill Kopp, Patrick A. Ventura
Writer: Bill Kopp
6.2/10 885 votes#22 - King of the Road
Season 4 Episode 9 - Aired 8/8/1992
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: N/A
6.2/10 689 votes#23 - Oil's Well That Ends Well
Season 5 Episode 11 - Aired 11/24/1993
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.
Director: Paul Abascal
Writer: N/A
6.2/10 486 votes#24 - About Face
Season 7 Episode 10 - Aired 6/28/1996
A sleazy minister in Victorian England gets a nasty surprise when he discovers he previously fathered twin daughters.
Director: Thomas E. Sanders
Writer: N/A
6.3/10 1,030 votes#25 - Loved to Death
Season 3 Episode 1 - Aired 6/15/1991
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?
Director: Tom Mankiewicz
Writer: N/A