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| Tales from the Crypt Episode Guide |
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Season 2 |
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#7 Dead Right (Originally aired on 4/21/90) |
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Starring:
Demi Moore, Jeffrey Tambor, Troy Evans and Natalia Nogulich |
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Directed by Howard Deutch |
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A money grubbing waitress marries an obese man because a fortune-teller predicts that he will inherit a fortune and then die violently. When she ends up being the one winning a large sum of money, she tries to leave him. Needless to say, the obese man does inherit the fortune from his wife when he murders her, then dies violently in the electric chair. |
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#8 The Switch (Originally aired on 4/21/90) |
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Starring:
William Hickey, Rick Rossovich, Kelly Preston, Roy Brocksmith, Ian Abercrombie and Arnold Schwarzenegger |
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Directed by Arnold Schwarzenegger |
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A wealthy old man, in love with a much younger woman, spends a fortune having a drastic surgery to trade faces and bodies with a handsome younger man. Sadly, the young woman was only interested in money and ends up with the young man (now with the elderly body and all of the money). |
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#9 Cutting Cards (Originally aired on 4/21/90) |
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Starring:
Lance Henriksen, Kevin Tighe and Roy Brocksmith |
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Directed by Walter Hill |
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Two rival high stakes gamblers face off against one another in a game of "chop poker". The rules are simple: every time one person loses a hand, their opponent chops off one of his fingers with a meat cleaver! |
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#10 'Til Death (Originally aired on 4/24/90) |
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Starring:
D.W. Moffett, Pamela Gien and Aubrey Morris |
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Directed by Chris Walas |
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A greedy young plantation owner slips a voodoo love potion to a rich Englishwoman. Unfortunately, he gives her too much and kills her. But she proves that love conquers all when she returns from the grave a rotted zombie to claim her man. |
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#11 Three's A Crowd (Originally aired on 5/1/90) |
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Starring:
Gavin O'Herlihy, Ruth deSosa and Paul Lieber |
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Directed by David Burton Morris |
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An unstable man believes that his wife is having an affair with a family friend during their anniversary getaway on a secluded island. In a drunken rage, the man murders his wife and friend, only to find out that they were sneaking around behind his back to plan a surprise anniversary party, in which the wife was going to reveal that she was carrying his child. |
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#12 The Thing from the Grave (Originally aired on 5/8/90) |
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Starring:
Miguel Ferrer, Teri Hatcher and Kyle Secor |
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Directed by Fred Dekker |
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A young photographer and supermodel fall in love, much to the displeasure of her jealous ex. The photographer gives his lady love a necklace with the promise that he will always protect her. When the psycho ex murders the young man, he returns from the grave to save the model's life from the killer. |
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#13 The Sacrifice (Originally aired on 5/15/90) |
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Starring:
Kim Delaney, Kevin Kilner, Don Hood and Michael Ironside |
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Directed by Richard Greenberg |
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A young insurance salesman teams up with a rich client's beautiful wife to off her husband and collect the insurance money. The salesman throws his client off a high building, but is busted when a nosy neighbor photographs the whole thing then blackmails him. The price: to be able to sleep with the wealthy widow whenever he pleases. |
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#14 For Cryin' Out Loud (Originally aired on 5/22/90) |
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Starring:
Lee Arenberg, Katey Sagal, Iggy Pop, Al White and Sam Kinison |
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Directed by Jeffrey Price |
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A conniving nightclub owner plans to make off with $1,000,000 of charity money, when his loud, obnoxious conscience shows up. When his banker shows up trying to blackmail him, he kills her, causing the voice in his head to get even louder. Trying to escape the club with the money, and while avoiding a nosy cop, his conscience tricks him into confessing over the nightclub loud speaker. |
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#15 Four-Sided Triangle (Originally aired on 5/29/90) |
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Starring:
Patricia Arquette, Chelcie Ross and Susan J. Blommaert |
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Directed by Tom Holland |
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A young runaway girl ends up trapped on the remote farm of a lecherous old man and his abusive, phychotic wife. After taking a bad blow to the head, the young girl falls in love with the couple's scarecrow out in the field. The old man dresses up as the scarecrow in an attempt to get in the girl's pants. The moment is interrupted by the wife who stabs the scarecrow repeatedly with a pitchfork to prove to the girl that it isn't real. She is shocked to find that she's killed her own husband. The young girl kills the wife and escapes from the farm. |
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#16 The Ventriloquist's Dummy (Originally aired on 6/5/90) |
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Starring:
Don Rickles and Bobcat Goldthwait |
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Directed by Richard Donner |
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A young man who has dreamed of being a ventriloquist, gets embroiled in a murder mystery that surrounds his idol, a once famous ventriloquist who can no longer perform due to a hand injury. The young man discovers the horrible truth, that his idol has a deformed siamese twin growing where his "injured" hand should have been, and that the twin is responsible for the murders. |
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#17 Judy, You're Not Yourself Today (Originally aired on 6/12/90) |
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Starring:
Frances Bay, Carol Kane and Brian Kerwin |
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Directed by Randa Haines |
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A ditzy woman is tricked into trading bodies with an old witch. The woman's husband tricks the witch back into her own body and kills her. But the witch reaches out from beyond the grave for one more body switch with fatal results. |
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#18 Fitting Punishment (Originally aired on 6/19/90) |
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Starring:
Moses Gunn, Jon Clair and Teddy Wilson |
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Directed by Jack Sholder |
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A greedy mortician is forced to take in his nephew when the young man's parents are killed. After a fit of rage leaves the young man crippled, the mortician kills him to rid himself of the extra expense of having the crippled boy to take care of. The young man returns from the grave to exact revenge upon his evil uncle. |
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#19 Korman's Kalamity (Originally aired on 6/26/90) |
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Starring:
Harry Anderson, Cynthia Gibb and Colleen Camp |
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Directed by Rowdy Herrington |
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A comic book writer's creepy drawings come to life due to an experimental drug. After falling in love with a pretty policewoman, the writer draws a picture of his bitchy wife as a monster. The monster comes to life and takes out his wife, just as she was about to do him in. The writer and the cop live happily ever after. |
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#20 Lower Berth (Originally aired on 7/3/90) |
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Starring:
Lewis Arquette, Stefan Gierasch, Mark Rolston and Jeff Yagher |
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Directed by Kevin Yagher |
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A sideshow freak with two faces (literally) falls in love with an ancient mummy who wears a priceless necklace around her neck. The freak's keeper wants the neckless, but it carries a curse: whoever tried to remove it is castrated. He doesn't believe it and takes the necklace anyway, and of course ends up without his own family jewels. The freak and the mummy run off together, and turn out to be the parents of none other than the Cryptkeeper himself! |
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#21 Mute Witness To Murder (Originally aired on 7/10/90) |
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Starring:
Richard Thomas, Patricia Clarkson, Reed Birney, Kristine Nielsen and Rose Weaver |
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Directed by Jim Simpson |
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A woman witnesses a man killing his wife from her balcony window and is then unable to speak. Her husband has her committed, but sadly for her, the doctor turns out to be the man she saw commit murder. The doctor figures out what happened and plans to silence her forever, when he has an unexpected heart attack and dies at her feet due to her inability to call for help. After his death, we find that she really could speak all along. |
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#22 Television Terror (Originally aired on 7/17/90) |
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Starring:
Morton Downey Jr., Dorothy Parke and Peter Van Norden |
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Directed by Charles Picerni |
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A pompous talk show host does a live investigation inside a supposedly haunted house. After wronging his producer, she refuses to call for help when he discovers that the house really is haunted by blood thirsty ghosts. The ratings for the talk show go through the roof, but the host ends up going through the window and dies. |
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#23 My Brother's Keeper (Originally aired on 7/24/90) |
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Starring:
Timothy Stack, Jonathan Stark, Jessica Harper, Ron Orbach and Valerie Bickford |
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Directed by Peter S. Seaman |
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This tale features a set of siamese twins - one good, one bad. The bad one decides to trick his brother into having a risky surgery to separate them by hiring a woman to pretend to be in love with the good brother. The woman really does fall in love with the good one and tells him not to have the surgery as it's too risky. The bad one goes nuts and kills the woman, knowing that he'll get away with it because they can't sentence him to the gas chamber attached to his brother. The good brother drugs the bad one and has the surgery done, leaving his brother to be hauled off to jail. |
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#24 The Secret (Originally aired on 7/31/90) |
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Starring:
Larry Drake, Grace Zabriskie, Mike Simmrin, Georgann Johnson, Stella Hall and William Frankfather |
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Directed by Michael Riva |
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A troubled little boy is adopted by a rich couple who keep him locked in his room with their butler for company, and feed him only sugary junk food. It turns out that the parents are really vampires, who were trying to fatten him up for dinner. But the boy has a secret to: he's a werewolf, and he ends up destroying the parents. |
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