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  1. #1 Worst Episode
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    Tales from the Crypt Season 7 Episode 7 - The Kidnapper
    5.2/10(604 votes)

    #1 - 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.

    Director:James H. Spencer
    Writer:Unknown

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  2. Tales from the Crypt Season 6 Episode 3 - Revenge Is the Nuts
    5.3/10(692 votes)

    #2 - 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.

    Director:Jonas McCord
    Writer:Unknown

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  3. Tales from the Crypt Season 7 Episode 8 - Report from the Grave
    5.4/10(549 votes)

    #3 - 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.

    Director:William Malone
    Writer:William Malone

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  4. Tales from the Crypt Season 7 Episode 9 - Smoke Wrings
    5.4/10(571 votes)

    #4 - 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.

    Director:Mandie Fletcher
    Writer:Unknown

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  5. Tales from the Crypt Season 6 Episode 7 - Staired in Horror
    5.5/10(687 votes)

    #5 - 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.

    Director:Stephen Hopkins
    Writer:Unknown

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  6. Tales from the Crypt Season 7 Episode 4 - Escape
    5.5/10(545 votes)

    #6 - 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.

    Director:Peter MacDonald
    Writer:Unknown

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  7. Tales from the Crypt Season 3 Episode 12 - Yellow
    5.6/10(923 votes)

    #7 - 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.

    Director:Robert Zemeckis
    Writer:Unknown

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  8. Tales from the Crypt Season 6 Episode 10 - Doctor of Horror
    5.6/10(627 votes)

    #8 - 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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  9. Tales from the Crypt Season 6 Episode 4 - The Bribe
    5.7/10(667 votes)

    #9 - 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.

    Director:Ramón Menéndez
    Writer:Unknown

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  10. Tales from the Crypt Season 7 Episode 2 - Last Respects
    5.7/10(608 votes)

    #10 - 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.

    Director:Freddie Francis
    Writer:Unknown

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  11. Tales from the Crypt Season 7 Episode 6 - Cold War
    5.9/10(618 votes)

    #11 - 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.

    Director:Andrew Morahan
    Writer:Unknown

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  12. Tales from the Crypt Season 7 Episode 12 - Ear Today... Gone Tomorrow
    5.9/10(520 votes)

    #12 - 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.

    Director:Christopher Hart
    Writer:Unknown

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  13. Tales from the Crypt Season 5 Episode 4 - Two for the Show
    6.0/10(749 votes)

    #13 - 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.

    Director:Kevin Hooks
    Writer:Unknown

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  14. Tales from the Crypt Season 2 Episode 7 - Four-Sided Triangle
    6.1/10(1225 votes)

    #14 - Four-Sided Triangle

    S2:E7

    Mary Jo is a young slave girl on a farm. One day while escaping to the fields she has a vision that a scarecrow comes to save her from the cruel couple. When her master discovers the identity of her new boyfriend, he decides to disguise himself as the man in straw.

    Director:Tom Holland
    Writer:Unknown

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  15. Tales from the Crypt Season 2 Episode 11 - Korman's Kalamity
    6.1/10(1176 votes)

    #15 - 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.

    Director:Rowdy Herrington
    Writer:Unknown

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  16. Tales from the Crypt Season 4 Episode 2 - Seance
    6.1/10(887 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.

    Director:Gary Fleder
    Writer:Unknown

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  17. Tales from the Crypt Season 6 Episode 11 - Comes the Dawn
    6.1/10(619 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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  18. Tales from the Crypt Season 7 Episode 3 - A Slight Case of Murder
    6.1/10(579 votes)

    #18 - A Slight Case of Murder

    S7:E3

    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

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  19. Tales from the Crypt Season 7 Episode 13 - The Third Pig
    6.1/10(645 votes)

    #19 - 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.

    Directors:Patrick A. Ventura, Bill Kopp
    Writer:Bill Kopp

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  20. Tales from the Crypt Season 4 Episode 9 - Split Personality
    6.2/10(967 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.

    Director:Joel Silver
    Writer:Unknown

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  21. Tales from the Crypt Season 5 Episode 11 - Till Death Do We Part
    6.2/10(758 votes)

    #21 - 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.

    Director:W. Peter Iliff
    Writer:Unknown

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  22. Tales from the Crypt Season 6 Episode 5 - The Pit
    6.2/10(664 votes)

    #22 - 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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  23. Tales from the Crypt Season 7 Episode 10 - About Face
    6.2/10(538 votes)

    #23 - About Face

    S7:E10

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

    Director:Thomas E. Sanders
    Writer:Unknown

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  24. Tales from the Crypt Season 3 Episode 1 - Loved to Death / Carrion Death / The Trap
    6.3/10(1136 votes)

    #24 - 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.

    Directors:Tom Mankiewicz, Steven E. de Souza, Michael J. Fox
    Writer:Unknown

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  25. Tales from the Crypt Season 4 Episode 8 - Maniac At Large
    6.3/10(836 votes)

    #25 - 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.

    Director:John Frankenheimer
    Writer:Unknown

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Worst Episodes Summary

"The Kidnapper" is the worst rated episode of "Tales from the Crypt". It scored 5.2/10 based on 604 votes. Directed by James H. Spencer and written by Unknown, it aired on 6/7/1996. This episode scored 0.1 points lower than the second lowest rated, "Revenge Is the Nuts".