Tonight’s excursion into televised horror is the 8th episode of the 5th season of HBO’s Tales From The Crypt!
In Well Cooked Hams, Billy Zane is a magician who murders an older magician (Martin Sheen) and steals that magician’s prized prop! Zane quickly learns that it’s called a Box of Death for a reason. Zane has a lot of fun being sleazy and Sheen’s over the top Russian accent simply has to be heard!
Thus episode originally aired on November 3rd, 1993!
Tonight’s excursion into televised horror is the 7th episode of the 5th season of HBO’s Tales From The Crypt!
House of Horrors has everything that you could possibly want from a Tales From The Crypt episode! A dumbass idiot frat boy (played by Kevin Dillon) forces three pledges to enter a supposedly haunted house. Mayhem ensues. This episode is full of atmosphere, dark humor, plot twists, and unexpected turns and it features two wonderfully over-the-top performances, one from Dillon and one from Meredith Salenger as a Southern-accented sorority president who may have a secret of her own.
This episode originally aired on October 27th, 1993.
Enjoy!
For tonight’s excursion into televised horror, we present to you the 13th episode of the 4th season of HBO’s Tales From The Crypt!
Werewolf Concerto originally aired on September 9th, 1992. It deals with what happens when a group of hotel guests believe that there might be a werewolf in the area. Fortunately, Timothy Dalton is also in the area and he claims to be a professional werewolf hunter!
Or is he….?
You’ll have to watch to find out!
Enjoy!
Tonight’s excursion into televised horror is the 4th episode of the 4th season of HBO’s Tales From The Crypt.
In Seance, two con artists (Cathy Moriarty and Ben Cross) make the mistake of trying to cheat a wealthy man played by John Vernon. Things don’t go as planned and, as so often happens when things get complicated, it all leads to a fake séance that turns out to be not quite as fake as was originally believed.
Seance is a lot of fun. Despite being in color, it’s shot in the style of an old school film noir and nobody played heartless with quite as much panache as John Vernon.
Seance was directed by Gary Fleder and originally aired on July 4th, 1992.
Enjoy!
Tonight’s excursion into the world of televised horror is the 10th episode of the 3rd season of HBO’s Tales From The Crypt!
Steven Weber plays an alcoholic reporter who thinks that he has found the story of his career! Someone is preying on the homeless and our reporter is determined to find out who and why. (Not because he actually cares about the homeless, of course. He just needs a big story to save his career.) However, the reporter quickly discovers that 1) all charities are not charitable and 2) you should always be careful about biting off more than you can chew…
This well-acted episode was directed and written by Manny Coto and it originally aired on July 31st, 1991.
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For tonight’s excursion into televised horror, we have the 8th episode of the 3rd season of HBO’s Tales From The Crypt!
Easel Kill feels a bit like a remake of Color Me Blood Red. Tim Roth plays a painter who appears to have lost his talent. Apparently, he has recently stopped drinking and he’s just not that inspired when he’s sober. (However, he’s just as angry as he’s always been. He’s the type of neighbor who will push someone off of a fire escape if they’re playing their music too loud.) Fortunately, once he starts painting with blood, people are suddenly interested in his paintings.
The only problem is getting the blood…
This episode originally aired on July 17th, 1991.
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Since I’ve been reviewing so many Dracula films as of late, it seems only appropriate that tonight’s excursion into televised horror should be about a vampire as well!
The Reluctant Vampire was the 7th episode of the 3rd season of HBO’s Tales From The Crypt! It stars Malcolm McDowell as a vampire who is a little bit too nice for his own good. Seriously, you can’t go wrong with Malcolm McDowell as a vampire.
The Reluctant Vampire originally aired on July 10th, 1991.
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Tonight’s excursion into televised horror is a pretty good one. Carrion Death, which originally aired on June 15th, 1991, was the second episode of the third season of HBO’s Tales From The Crypt.
Kyle MacLachlan plays a serial killer named Earl Raymond Digs. After Earl escapes from custody, he finds himself stuck in the middle of the desert, handcuffed to a corpse. As Earl walks through the desert, dragging a corpse alongside him, he discovers that he’s being watched…
Carrion Death is a gory, little story that has an enjoyably nasty little ending. Kyle MacLachlan does a surprisingly good job as the dangerous but none too bright Earl. And, of course, there’s the bird. That bird does a great job…
Enjoy!
Tonight’s excursion into televised horror is the 16th episode of the 2nd season of HBO’s Tales From The Crypt!
Television Terror, which originally aired on July 17th, 1990, tells the story of Horton Rivers (Morton Downey, Jr.) Horton has his own television show, one where he hunts for ghosts and seeks proof of the supernatural. Needless to say, Horton’s a big fake, a nonbeliever who loathes his audience. It’s kind of like Ghost Hunters, except for the fact that — over the course of this episode — Horton actually finds something. Or perhaps we should say that something find Horton…
Needless to say, things do not end well.
Television Terror has a lot of atmosphere and, with its theme of venal television hosts and gullible audiences, it’s probably even more relevant today than when it was first broadcast.
Enjoy!
Believe it or not, I was planning on sharing more than just episodes from Tales From The Crypt this October but seriously, these old shows are just so much fun!
For instance, consider tonight’s episode! In Korman’s Kalamity, Jim Korman (Harry Anderson) is an artist who works on the popular and famous comic book … Tales From The Crypt! (Needless to say, his name should also make you think of Roger Corman, as well.) After his wife (Colleen Camp) orders him to take an experimental fertility pill, his drawings suddenly start to come to life!
Since Korman specializes in drawing monsters, you see how this could be a problem…
Korman’s Kalamity is a self-referential delight. Needless to say, it’s all played for laughs and sentiment so be sure to sit back and enjoy!
This episode was directed by Rowdy Herrington (who also directed that cable mainstay, Road House) and originally aired on June 26th, 1990.
Through the Shattered Lens 