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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 Deadline
    4.0/10(4 votes)

    #1 - 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
  2. Background image for Split Second
    4.5/10(4 votes)

    #2 - 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.

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

    #3 - 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
  4. Background image for Loved to Death / Carrion Death / The Trap
    4.8/10(4 votes)

    #4 - 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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    4.8/10(4 votes)

    #5 - 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
  6. Background image for The Kidnapper
    4.9/10(7 votes)

    #6 - 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
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  8. Background image for Ear Today... Gone Tomorrow
    4.9/10(7 votes)

    #7 - 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.

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    Writer:Unknown
  9. Background image for Smoke Wrings
    5.0/10(7 votes)

    #8 - 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
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    5.1/10(8 votes)

    #9 - About Face

    S7:E10

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

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    Writer:Unknown
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    5.1/10(9 votes)

    #10 - 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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    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 Well Cooked Hams
    5.3/10(3 votes)

    #12 - 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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    5.3/10(662 votes)

    #13 - Revenge Is the Nuts

    S6:E3

    A run-down shelter for the blind is owned by a cruel man. He abuses the patients there and won't give them respect. A new blind girl, Shelly, arrives the owner promises to lighten up if she agrees to sleep with him. Benny and the other patients give the owner from hell a taste of his own medicine.

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    Director:Jonas McCord
    Writer:Unknown
  15. Background image for Report from the Grave
    5.3/10(7 votes)

    #14 - 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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  16. Background image for Two for the Show
    5.5/10(6 votes)

    #15 - 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
  17. Background image for Oil's Well That Ends Well
    5.5/10(4 votes)

    #16 - 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
  18. Background image for Half-Way Horrible
    5.5/10(4 votes)

    #17 - 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
  19. Background image for The Bribe
    5.6/10(637 votes)

    #18 - 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
  20. Background image for Staired in Horror
    5.6/10(655 votes)

    #19 - 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
  21. Background image for Doctor of Horror
    5.6/10(601 votes)

    #20 - 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
  22. Background image for Last Respects
    5.6/10(7 votes)

    #21 - Last Respects

    S7:E2

    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.

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    Writer:Unknown
  23. Background image for Escape
    5.7/10(6 votes)

    #22 - 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
  24. Background image for Abra Cadaver
    5.8/10(4 votes)

    #23 - 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
  25. Background image for Mournin' Mess
    5.8/10(4 votes)

    #24 - 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
  26. Background image for Till Death Do We Part
    5.8/10(4 votes)

    #25 - Till Death Do We Part

    S5:E11

    A male escort is engaged to an aging woman. One day she discovers him flirting with a younger woman. She forces him to kill her in front of her. Instead he kills off her bodyguards, but he is even more surprised when the young lady turns against him. It turns out he's been fantasizing the whole thing and bumps her off himself.

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    Writer:Unknown

Worst Episodes Summary

"Deadline" is the worst rated episode of "Tales from the Crypt". It scored 4/10 based on 4 votes. Directed by Walter Hill and written by Unknown, it aired on 8/14/1991. This episode scored 0.5 points lower than the second lowest rated, "Split Second".