Tonight’s excursion into televised horror is the 2nd episode of the 7th season of HBO’s Tales From The Crypt! In Last Respects, three bickering sisters inherit not only a struggling store but also a monkey’s paw that grants wishes. Of course, as with all wish-granting monkey paws, there’s a catch!
This episode was directed by veteran British cinematographer and horror director, Freddie Francis!
It originally aired on April 26th, 1996.
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To be honest, tonight’s episode of HBO’s Tales From The Crypt isn’t really a horror story. Instead, it’s a somewhat satiric homage to film noir. But I’m going to share it anyway. Halloween is about more than just ghouls and ghosts and goblins, right?
You, Murderer is an experiment that doesn’t quite work but is interesting all the same. This episode is basically one long POV shot. Whenever our protagonist sees his reflection, we see Humphrey Bogart staring back at us. Actual footage of Bogart was used in the show. Sometimes it work, sometimes it just looks strange. But it’s always interesting!
This episode originally aired on January 25th, 1995. Enjoy!
For tonight’s excursion into televised horror, we present you the premiere episode of the 6th season of HBO’s Tales From The Crypt!
In Let The Punishment Fit The Crime, attorney Geraldine Ferrett (Catherine O’Hara) is pulled over while driving through a small town in upstate New York. It turns out that Geraldine didn’t have enough numbers on her licence plate. (That’s because she has a vanity plate that reads, “Sue me.”) It doesn’t sound like a huge crime but, as everyone at the courthouse keeps trying to warn her, she is in “a very strict town.” Let The Punishment Fit The Crime is a satirical look at our overregulated and overlitigious society.
This episode originally aired on October 31st, 1994 — hey, this is a Halloween episode!
Enjoy!
Tonight’s excursion into televised horror is the 10th episode of the 5th season of Tales From The Crypt!
Came The Dawn tells the twisted story of what happens when a mysterious hitchhiker (Brooke Shields) is picked up by a rich man (Perry King). This one is full of twists and turns as director Uli Edel pays homage to Hitchcock.
It originally aired on November 17th, 1993!
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For tonight’s excursion into televised horror, how about a little mummy-related terror!?
That’s what you get this episode of HBO’s Tales From The Crypt! From season 5, here is the ninth episode — Creep Course! What happens when you mix the principal from Ferris Bueller’s Day Off and the brain from the Breakfast Club with a mummy? Mayhem!
This episode originally aired on November 10th, 1993.
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.
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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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Through the Shattered Lens 