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Join Top50.to for FREE cash and promotion! Season 1 (1989-90) Episode #1: "And All Through the House..." Directed By: Robert Zemeckis Teleplay By: Fred Dekker Adapted From EC Comic: The Vault of Horror Starring: Mary Ellen Trainor, Larry Drake, Lindsay Whitney Barry, Marshall Bell. Synopsis: It's Christmas Eve and almost everyone is in the holiday spirit. One adulterous housewife, however, has an ax to grind with her husband, and, in fact, uses an ax to put him in his place. Meanwhile, her young daughter is anxiously waiting upstairs for the jolly visitor from the North Pole. Santa is coming to town, but so is a dangerous lunatic who escaped from the nearby institution. Episode #2: "The Man Who Was Death" Directed By: Tom Holland Teleplay By: Michael McDowell Adapted From EC Comic: Tales From the Crypt #17 (Reprint #1, 1992) Starring: Bill Sadler, David Wohl, J.W. Smith, Dani Minnick, Gerrit Graham. Synopsis: Niles Talbot is an executioner who finds himself out of work after the death penalty is repealed. When he sees criminals literally getting away with murder, Talbot goes on a mission to prove that crime doesn't pay. The only problem is that freelance executions are illegal. Episode #3: "Dig That Cat.....He's Real Gone" Directed By: Richard Donner Teleplay By: Terry Black, from the story originally published by William M. Gaines in the comic magazine entitled "The Haunt of Fear." Adapted From EC Comic: Starring: Joe Pantoliano. Robert Wuhl, Gustav Vintas, Kathleen York. Synopsis: "Have you ever heard that old saying that a cat has nine lives?" asks mad scientist Dr. Manfred, who convinces a bum named Ulric that there actually is something in the cat's brain that defies death. Manfred promises to perform an intricate operation that will give Ulric nine lives, the next best thing to being immortal. They turn the experiment into a profit-making machine, as "Ulric the Undying" is able to survive everything from a shooting gallery to an electrocution. The crowds keep coming, but can Ulric count on fame forever? Episode #4: "Lover Come Hack to Me" Directed By: Tom Holland Teleplay By: Michael McDowell Adapted From EC Comic: The Haunt of Fear Starring: Amanda Plummer, Stephen Shellen. Richard Eden and Lisa Figus. Synopsis: Honeymooners Peggy and Charles wind up at a country mansion when their Mercedes breaks down. All signs point to a very romantic evening, until the couple is visited by a phantom...and not one from the opera! Charles soon discovers a skeleton in Peggy's closet. Talk about your mother-in-law problems -- her mother makes a surprise visit. Unfortunately, she's a ghost with murder on her mind. Episode #5: "...Only Sin Deep" Directed By: Howard Deutch Teleplay By: Fred Dekker Adapted From EC Comic: The Vault of Horror Starring: Lea Thompson, Britt Leech, Pamella D'Pella and Pamela Gordon. Synopsis: Drop-dead beauty Sylvia Vane wants to give up her profession - the world's oldest. She robs a pimp of his gold jewelry and goes to the local pawnshop. An aging pawnbroker instead offers young Sylvia ,000 to pawn her beauty. Sylvia is thrilled and leaves the strange pawnshop with money in her pocket. She gets dressed to kill and hooks her bait, handsome bachelor, Ronnie Price. But soon, mirror, mirror on the wall, casts a pall: Sylvia is aging at an abnormal rate. Beauty may only be skin deep, but Sylvia will do anything to save a face! Episode #6: "Collection Completed" Directed By: Mary Lambert Teleplay By: David Arnott and A. Whitney Brown, Jr. and Battle Davis & Randolph Davis Adapted From EC Comic: The Vault of Horror #14 Starring: M. Emmett Walsh and Audra Lindley. Synopsis: When Jonas retires from his job and finally has time to spend at home, he discovers that his wife lavishes too much attention on her pets. So Jonas takes up a bizarre new hobby - taxidermy. The family cat doesn't like it one bit. But, Anita gets revenge and finds a way to bring the family back together. Season 2 (1990-91) Episode #7: "Cutting Cards" Directed By: Walter Hill Teleplay By: Mae Woods & Walter Hill Adapted From EC Comic: Tales From the Crypt Starring: Lance Henriksen and Kevin Tighe. Synopsis: Longtime rival gamblers meet up in a small-town car hall. Agreeing that the town isn't big enough for the two of them, they decide to let fate decide who must leave. After a game of Russian roulette fails to settle the score, they play a few hands of high-stakes "chop poker." Episode #8: "The Thing from the Grave" Directed By: Fred Dekker Teleplay By: Fred Dekker Adapted From EC Comic: Tales From the Crypt Starring: Kyle Secor, Terri Hatcher and Miguel Ferrer. Synopsis: An idyllic love affair between a photographer and a gorgeous model comes to an end when an old friend emerges to kill off his rival. Can the photographer protect his love from harm - after death? Episode #9: "Til Death" Directed By: Chris Walas Teleplay By: Jeri Barchilon Adapted From EC Comic: The Vault of Horror Starring: D.W. Moffett, Pamela Glen. Synopsis: An unscrupulous plantation owner uses a voodoo potion to snare a rich heiress - but he soon finds out there's no way to turn off the spell. Episode #10: "Three's a Crowd" Directed By: David Burton Morris Teleplay By: Kim Ketelsen and Annie Willette and David Burton Morris Adapted From EC Comic: Shock SuspenStories Starring: Gavan O'Herlihy, Rosa Desosa and Paul Lieber. Synopsis: A down-on-their-luck couple celebrate their tenth anniversary at the lush Pacific Island lodge of a rich friend. But the party takes a nasty turn when the husband commits a faux pas that takes all the fun out of a big surprise. Episode #11: "The Sacrifice" Directed By: Richard Greenberg Teleplay By: Ross Thomas Adapted From EC Comic: Shock SuspenStories Starring: Kevin Kilner, Kim Delaney and Michael Ironside. Synopsis: A slick insurance agent engineers a plot to kill off a wealthy tycoon and marry his beautiful wife. The plan seems flawless until the agent's boss comes into the picture with photographs of the crime. To avoid being turned in to the police, the agent agrees to share the beautiful wife with the boss -- until the torment becomes too great. Episode #12: "Dead Right" Directed By: Howard Deutch Teleplay By: Andy Wolk. Adapted From EC Comic: Shock SuspenStories #8 (Reprint #6, 1974) Starring: Demi Moore, Jeffrey Tambor. Synopsis: A gold-digging waitress marries a fat, unsightly man when a fortune teller tells her he will inherit millions and die. After three horrible months of marriage. she receives a big surprise. Episode #13: "The Switch" Directed By: Arnold Schwarzenegger Teleplay By: Richard Tuggle and Michael Taav Adapted From EC Comic: Tales From the Crypt Starring: William Hickey, Rick Rossovich and Kelly Preston. Synopsis: An elderly millionaire spends his fortune to trade bodies with a much younger man, all to win the affections of a beautiful woman. Only then does he discover what she really wants. Episode #14: "For Cryin' Out Loud" Directed By: Jeffrey Price Teleplay By: Jeffrey Price & Peter S. Seaman Adapted From EC Comic: Shock SupenStories Starring: Lee Arenberg, Katey Sagal and Sam Kinison. Synopsis: A shady show-biz promoter hosts a benefit concert starring rock 'n' roll great Iggy Pop. But who will really benefit from the deal? Episode #15: "Four-Sided Triangle" Directed By: Tom Holland Teleplay By: James Tugend and Tom Holland Adapted From EC Comic: Shock SupenStories #12 Starring: Patricia Arquette, Chelcie Ross and Susan J. Blommaert. Synopsis: A beautiful young farmhand is held prisoner at an isolated farm by a middle-aged lout and his polio-stricken wife. Apparently going mad, the girl claims a scarecrow in the cornfield is her lover. When the farmer disguises himself as the scarecrow to make love to the girl, his trick works all too well. Episode #16: "The Ventriloquist's Dummy" Directed By: Richard Donner Teleplay By: Frank Darabont Adapted From EC Comic: Tales From the Crypt Starring: Bob "Bobcat" Goldthwait, Don Rickles. Synopsis: A young man tracks down his childhood idol, "the world's greatest ventriloquist", in hopes of receiving advice and encouragement. Despite learning the retired master's horrible secret, the eager student is still willing to accept the old man's "helping hand." Episode #17: "Judy You're Not Yourself Today" Directed By: Randa Haines Teleplay By: Scott Nimerfro Adapted From EC Comic: Tales From the Crypt Starring: Carol Kane and Brian Kerwin. Synopsis: Judy and Donald are a slightly eccentric California couple. After a strange old woman takes control of Judy's body, can Donald tell which is his love and which is the witch? Episode #18: "Punishment" Directed By: Jack Sholder Teleplay By: Jonathan Kahn & Michael Kahn and Don Mancini Adapted From EC Comic: The Vault of Horror Starring: Moses Gunn, Jon Clair. Synopsis: A miserly funeral home director robs his corpses of gold fillings while using water in place of costly embalming fluid. When his orphaned 16- year-old nephew unexpectedly shows up one day, he offers the boy room and board in exchange for labor - testing out a new coffin! Episode #19: "Korman's Kalamity" Directed By: Rowdy Herrington Teleplay By: Terry Black Adapted From EC Comic: Tales From the Crypt #15 Starring: Harry Anderson, Cynthia Gibb and Colleen Camp. Synopsis: A cartoonist for "Tales From the Crypt" discovers his macabre illustrations come to life and commit deadly acts. A policewoman investigating the murders falls in love with the married artist, but their romance won't blossom until he draws one last sketch of his wife. Episode #20: "Lower Berth" Directed By: Kevin Yagher Teleplay By: Fred Dekker Adapted From EC Comic: Starring: Stefan Gierasch, Jeff Yagher, Lewis Arquette. Synopsis: The unscrupulous owner of a travelling sideshow learns that his horribly mutated attraction, Enoch, The Two-Faced Man, is suffering from a terminal illness. When a mysterious stranger offers him a stolen Egyptian mummy with a golden curse around her neck, the circus impresario finds himself waist-deep in trouble - while Enoch is free to mate with the 4000-year-old cutie! Episode #21: "Mute Witness to Murder" Directed By: James Simpson Teleplay By: Nancy Doyne Adapted From EC Comic: Crypt of Terror #18 (Reprint Tales From the Crypt #2, 1992) Starring: Richard Thomas, Patricia Clarkson. Synopsis: A respected doctor cruelly kills his wife, and another woman witnesses the murder - but can do nothing since the shock of the incident has left her mute. Committed to a sanitarium by the very same doctor, the woman struggles to regain her voice, and exact vengeance on the despicable M.D. Episode #22: "Television Terror" Directed By: Charles Picemi Teleplay By: Greg Pruss Adapted From EC Comic: Starring: Morton Downey, Jr. Synopsis: A sensationalistic TV talk show host tries to score mega-ratings by taking viewers inside a "haunted house" where an old woman killed a dozen victims and then disappeared. Alone with the cameras - and a bevy of ghosts his crew can't see - the host soon realizes ratings aren't everything. Episode #23: "My Brother's Keeper" Directed By: Peter S. Seaman Teleplay By: Peter S. Seaman and Jeffrey Price Adapted From EC Comic: Starring: Timothy Stack, Jonathan Stark, Jessica Harper. Synopsis: Siamese twins prove that they are exactly alike when one of them commits a murder. Episode #24: "The Secret" Directed By: Michael Riva Teleplay By: Doug Ronning Adapted From EC Comic: The Haunt of Fear #24 Starring: Grace Zabriskie and Larry Drake. Synopsis: A 12-year-old orphan is adopted by a rich but eccentric couple who bring him home to an opulent mansion and give him everything he could possibly want -- except the freedom to come and go as he pleases. Soon the boy learns that his new parents harbor a dark secret -- one almost as terrifying as his own! Season 3 (1991-92) Episode #25: "The Trap" Directed By: Michael J. Fox Teleplay By: Scott Alexander Adapted From EC Comic: Shock SuspenStories Starring: Bruce McGill, Teri Garr, Bruno Kirby, Carroll Baker and Michael J. Fox. Synopsis: A debt-ridden loser schemes to bilk the insurance company by faking his death with help of his wife and brother, who's a coroner. Little does he know they have a plan of their own! Episode #26: "Abra Cadaver" Directed By: Steven Hopkins Teleplay By: Jim Birge Adapted From EC Comic: Tales From the Crypt Starring: Beau Bridges, Tony Goldwyn. Synopsis: A brilliant doctor suffers a debilitating heart attack when his brother pulls a macabre practical joke. Twelve years later, he turns the tables with a bizarre chemical experiment designed to put his "life after death" theory to the test. Episode #27: "Mournin' Mess" Directed By: Manny Coto Teleplay By: Manny Coto Adapted From EC Comic: Tales From the Crypt #22 Starring: Steven Weber, Vincent Shiavelli. Synopsis: Steven Weber stars as a newspaper reporter who gets a tip that could help him break the mystery of the "homeless killer" stalking the city. Episode #28: "Top Billing" Directed By: Todd Holland Teleplay By: Myles Berkowitz Adapted From EC Comic: Starring: Jon Lovitz, Bruce Boxleitner, John Astin, Sandra Bernhard, Louise Fletcher, Paul Benedict and Kimmy Robertson. Synopsis: A starving actor will do anything to land the lead role in a production of "Hamlet." When his one-time friend wins the part on the strength of his looks, the frustrated would-be star goes out of his skull and resorts to desperate measures. Episode #29: "Loved to Death" Directed By: Tom Mankewiecz Teleplay By: Joe Minion and John Mankewiecz Adapted From EC Comic: Starring: Andrew McCarthy, Mariel Hemingway. Synopsis: A young man finds himself hopelessly in love with a girl who doesn't know he exists. He gives her a love potion, and as a result, she falls in love with him, and her relentless passion drives him crazy. He tries to poison her, but accidentally drinks it himself and dies. She commits suicide to be with him for eternity. Episode #30: "Undertaking Pallor" Directed By: Michael Thau Teleplay By: Ron Finely Adapted From EC Comic: Starring: John Glover Synopsis: A group of boys uncover a scam between the town undertaker and pharmacist who are killing people and charging large burial fees. When one of the boy's father is killed, the boys seek to expose them by pitting them against each other. Episode #31: "Carrion Death" Directed By: Steven E. de Souza Teleplay By: Steve de Souza Adapted From EC Comic: Starring: Kyle MacLachlan, George Deloy. Synopsis: A bank robber on the run from the law is captured and handcuffed to a policeman, whom he kills. Before he dies, the policeman swallows the key to the cuffs. He carries the policeman's corpse on his back across the desert, until both he and it become the buzzards' next meal. Episode #32: "The Reluctant Vampire" Directed By: Elliot Silverstein Teleplay By: Terry Black Adapted From EC Comic: The Vault of Horror #9 Starring: Malcolm McDowell Synopsis: A vampire working as a night watchman for a blood bank is forced back into killing victims for blood when he can no longer cover up the fact he's been stealing blood from the bank. The manager figures out his scheme and blackmails the vampire into killing for profit. He, in turn, is mistaken for the vampire and killed. Episode #33: "Easel Kill Ya" Directed By: John Harrison Teleplay By: Larry Wilson Adapted From EC Comic: The Vault of Horror #20 Starring: Tim Roth, William Atherton. Synopsis: An eccentric art dealer pays a starving artist big bucks to paint twisted portraits of the dead. After reluctantly painting several "still deaths," the artist gives up the gruesome gig. But, when his girlfriend gets hit by a bus, he must paint one final masterpiece to pay for her operation. Episode #34: "Dead Wait" Directed By: Tobe Hooper Teleplay By: A L Katz and Gilbert Adler Adapted From EC Comic: The Vault of Horror Starring: James Remar, Vanity, Whoopi Goldberg, John Rhys-Davies. Synopsis: A two-bit con-artist steals a precious black pearl from a man living on a strife-torn tropical island. When a gorgeous girl (Vanity) doublecrosses him, a "medicine woman" (Whoopi Goldberg) comes to the rescue. Episode #35: "Split Second" Directed By: Russell Mulcahy Teleplay By: Richard Christian Matheson Adapted From EC Comic: Shock SuspenStories Starring: Billy Wirth, Michelle Johnson, Brion James. Synopsis: A lumberjack's lonely life gets complicated when the sexy new bride (Michelle Johnson) of his mean-spirited boss tries to get into his overalls! It gets even tougher when the boss discovers them in the act and shows the young buck the meaning of the phrase, "love is blind." Episode #36: "Spoiled" Directed By: Andy Wolk Teleplay By: Connie Johnson and Doug Ronning Adapted From EC Comic: The Haunt of Fear Starring: Faye Grant, Alan Rachins, Anthony LaPaglia, Anita Morris, Annabelle Curwitch. Synopsis: A beautiful housewife, ignored by her workaholic surgeon husband, uses her favorite steamy soap opera as a model to spice up her deprived existence, engaging the cable TV installer in her own sexy sub-plot. When the lovers get caught by the genius doctor, they find themselves in a surgical snafu! Episode #37: "Deadline" Directed By: Walter Hill Teleplay By: Mae Woods and Walter Hill Adapted From EC Comic: Shock SuspenStories Starring: Richard Jordan, Marg Helgenberger, John Capodice. Synopsis: Hard-drinking Charlie is an ace crime reporter whose years of boozing cost him his job and reputation. After meeting an intoxicating beautyin a bar, Charlie pledges to turn his life around: He quits drinking, and the tabloid agrees to give him one more chance if can bring in a juicy story - a homicide - in a couple of days. Episode #38: "Yellow" Directed By: Robert Zemeckis Teleplay By: A L Katz & Gilbert Adler Adapted From EC Comic: Shock SuspenStories Starring: Kirk Douglas, Eric Douglas, Dan Aykroyd, Lance Henriksen. Synopsis: In the trenches of France during World War I, a general and his lieutenant son serve together. After he panics during battle, causing the deaths of several members of his outfit, the lieutenant is accused of being a coward and is disciplined accordingly by his father and the unit corporal. Episode #39: "Showdown" Directed By: Richard Donner Teleplay By: Frank Darabont Adapted From EC Comic: Starring: David Morse Synopsis: A wild west gunman finds himself in an eerie showdown when he's confronted by the ghosts of victims past. Episode #40: "King of the Road" Directed By: Tom Holland Teleplay By: J. Randal Johnson Adapted From EC Comic: Two-Fisted Tales Starring: Ray Barry, Michelle Johnson and Brad Pitt. Synopsis: A cop who used to be a slick street racer is forced into one last contest when his daughter is kidnapped. Season 4 (1992-93) Episode #41: "None But the Lonely Heart" Directed By: Tom Hanks Teleplay By: Donald Longtooth Adapted From EC Comic: Starring: Treat Williams, Frances Sternhagen, Henry Gibson, Bibi Osterwald. Synopsis: A greedy con man checks his conscience at the door in a series of deadly seductions, marrying wealthy older women he meets through a dating service - then killing them for their money. After receiving some mysterious notes that seem to indicate that someone is trying to blackmail him, the con man heads to the cemetery for a spooky rendezvous with a gravedigger (Sugar Ray Leonard) - and his ever-loving dead wives! Episode #42: "Beauty Rest" Directed By: Stephen Hopkins Teleplay By: Terry Black Adapted From EC Comic: Starring: Supermodel Kathy Ireland, Mimi Rogers. Jennifer Rubin and Buck Henry. Synopsis: Willing to kill to win, a beauty contestant finally gets the crown she covets - only to find that winning can be hazardous to your health! Episode #43: "The New Arrival" Directed By: Peter Medak Teleplay By: Ron Finley Adapted From EC Comic: Starring: Twiggy Lawson, Zelda Rubenstein, Joan Severence and David Warner. Synopsis: An arrogant child psychologist is forced to deal with a house that's haunted by a poltergeist who has a case of the "terrible twos." Episode #44: "This'll Kill Ya" Directed By: Robert Longo Teleplay By: A L Katz and Gilbert Adler Adapted From EC Comic: Starring: Cleavon Little, Sonia Braga, and Dylan McDermott. Synopsis: A pair of researchers are on the threshold of a major medical breakthrough. Looking to teach their unscrupulous supervisor a lesson, they inject him with a substance he thinks will kill him, but is actually harmless. As the researchers soon learn, their supervisor just can't take a joke! Episode #45: "What's Cookin?" Directed By: Gilbert Adler Teleplay By: Gilbert Adler and A.L. Katz Adapted From EC Comic: Starring: Bess Armstrong, rocker Meat Loaf, Judd Nelson and Christopher Reeve. Synopsis: A rundown diner becomes a huge success when an employee introduces a tasty new steak recipe to the menu. What's his special ingredient? Episode #46: "Seance" Directed By: Gary Fleder Teleplay By: Harry Anderson Adapted From EC Comic: Tales From the Crypt #23 (Reprint #7, 1992 D) Starring: Ben Cross, Cathy Moriarty and John Vernon. Synopsis: A conniving couple tries to salvage an inheritance scam gone awry by "summoning" the ghost of a murdered man to persuade his widow to hand over a fortune. Episode #47: "Strung Along" Directed By: Kevin Yagher Teleplay By: Yale Udoff and Kevin Yagher Adapted From EC Comic: The Vault of Horror #33(Reprint #2, 1991) Starring: Donald O'Connor, Patricia Charbonneau and Zach Galligan. Synopsis: An aging puppeteer falls victim to a cruel trick by his unfaithful wife and her lover until his favorite puppet decides it's time to stand up and be counted. Episode #48: "On a Deadman's Chest" Directed By: William Friedkin Teleplay By: Larry Wilson Adapted From EC Comic: Starring: Yul Vasquez, Tia Carrere, Paul Hipp, Gregg Allman and Heavy D. Synopsis: Life's a party for Danny Dark, the lead singer of a heavy metal supergroup - except when he's dealing with Scarlett, the party-pooping wife of the band's guitarist. But if you think Scarlett gets under Danny's skin, wait'll you get a load of the new tattoo he's just received! Episode #49: "Maniac at Large" Directed By: John Frankenheimer Teleplay By: Mae Woods Adapted From EC Comic: Starring: Blythe Danher, rocker Adam Ant and Clarence Williams III. Synopsis: There's a maniac at large when a serial killer leaves a trail of dead men in the park near the library. After a nervous librarian gets a tip about the next victim, she becomes very suspicious. Episode #50: "Werewolf Concerto" Directed By: Steve Perry Teleplay By: Rita Mae Brown and Scott Nimerfro Adapted From EC Comic: The Vault of Horror #5 Starring: Timothy Dalton, Beverly D'Angelo, Dennis Farina, Walter Gotell and Charles Fleischer. Synopsis: A hotel is wracked by a series of killings that can only be the work of a werewolf. Not to fear: Among the guests is a werewolf hunter with the cunning to handle the job. Episode #51: "Curiosity Kills" Directed By: Eliot Silverstein Teleplay By: Stanley Ralph Ross Adapted From EC Comic: Starring: Margot Kidder, Kevin McCarthy, J.A. Preston and Madge Sinclair. Synopsis: A plot to keep her from sampling an eternal-youth potion leads an elderly woman to commit triple murder -- only to find her once-faithful dog suddenly gaining youthful strength for his own revenge. Episode #52: "Split Personality" Directed By: Joel Silver Teleplay By: Fred Dekker Adapted From EC Comic: Starring: Joe Pesci and Burt Young. Synopsis: A con man out for one last score persuades wealthy twins to marry him and his nonexistent twin. When the women discover the scam, they decide to share their new husband literally. Season 5 (1993-94) Episode #53: "Death of Some Salesmen" Directed By: Gil Adler Teleplay By: A L Katz & Gilbert Adler Adapted From EC Comic: Starring: Tim Curry, Ed Begley, Jr., Yvorme De Carlo and Kathe Weeks. Synopsis: A crooked salesman gets more than he bargained for when he pitches his latest gadget to a psychotic family who doesn't like salesmen. Episode #54: "Forever Ambergris" Directed By: Gary Fleder Teleplay By: Scott Rosenberg Adapted From EC Comic: Starring: Paul Dooley and Roger Daltrey, Lysette Anthony and Steve Buscemi. Synopsis: Having fallen in love with his friend's new wife, an opportunistic sailor arranges for his friend to contract a fatal disease so he can have the wife to himself, only to find out that the friend's wife has also contracted the disease. Episode #55: "As Ye Sow" Directed By: Kyle MacLachlan Teleplay By: Ron Finley Adapted From EC Comic: Starring: Hector Elizondo, Patsy Kensit, John Shea, Sam Waterston, Adam West and Miguel Ferrer. Synopsis: Believing his wife is being unfaithful with their priest, a wealthy man hires a killer to get rid of the priest. Episode #56: "People Who Live in Brass Hearses" Directed By: Russell Mulcahy Teleplay By: Scott Nimerfro Adapted From EC Comic: Starring: Bill Paxton, Lainie Kazan, Brad Dourif, Michael Lerner'. Synopsis: Trying to make it rich and get revenge for his incarnation, a brother plots to rob an ice cream warehouse and the man who put him behind bars. Episode #57: "Well Cooked Hams" Directed By: Eliot Silverstein Teleplay By: Andrew Keven Walker Adapted From EC Comic: Starring: Martin Sheen, Billy Zane and Maryam D'Abo. Synopsis: A novice magician attempts to kill a fellow magician for his amulet and another magician for the secrets to his act. But are these magicians really dead? Episode #58: "House of Horror" Directed By: Bob Gale Teleplay By: Bob Gale Adapted From EC Comic: The Vault of Horror #50 (Reprint #4, 1993) Starring: Kevin Dillon and Wil Wheaton. Synopsis: Joining a fraternity is quite difficult when the overbearing pledgemaster is a slave driver. This fraternity boasts a wall of shame for those pledges afraid to take the final test. What happens when this pledgemaster's scare tactics backfire? Episode #59: "Two for the Show" Directed By: Kevin Hooks Teleplay By: A L Katz & Gilbert Adler Adapted From EC Comic: Starring: Vincent Spano, David Paymet and Traci Lords. Synopsis: After killing his unfaithful wife, a man is haunted and taunted by the police. He packs the dead wife into a steam trunk and puts it on a train to Chicago, only to discover that his police pursuer is also on the train. He switches the tags of his trunk, but is shocked to discover that the trunk he switched it with also has a dead body in it. Episode #60: "Creep Course" Directed By: Jeffrey Boam Teleplay By: Jeffrey Boam Adapted From EC Comic: Starring: Anthony Michael Hall, Nina Siemaszko, Damon Hines and Julius Carry. Synopsis: Tricked by her college professor into becoming the human sacrifice to an ancient mummy, a young girl uses the situation to her advantage to get revenge and a good grade. Episode #61: "Till Death Do We Part" Directed By: Peter Iliff Teleplay By: Peter Iliff Adapted From EC Comic: Starring: Eileen Brennan, Kate Vernon, John Stamos and Frank Stallone. Synopsis: A kept gigolo is forced to kill the woman he is having an affair with in front of the woman who keeps him. But, will he fight for the woman he loves? Episode #62: "Came the Dawn" Directed By: Uli Edel Teleplay By: Ron Finley Adapted From EC Comic: Starring: Brooke Shields, Perry King and Michael J. Pollard. Synopsis: After breaking up with his girlfriend, a very rich and handsome man picks up a very beautiful stranded motorist with a sordid past. On the trip, they find out intimate things about each other. Episode #63: "Food For Thought" Directed By: Rodman Flender Teleplay By: Larry Wilson Adapted From EC Comic: Starring: Ernie Hudson, Joan Chen and John Laughlin. Synopsis: An egomaniacal clown whose wife reads his mind during his act, arranges the death of his wife's lover, but then faces the same fate when he's involved in an accident which leaves him at his wife's mercy. Episode #64: "Halfway Horrible" Directed By: Gregory Widen Teleplay By: Gregory Widen Adapted From EC Comic: The Vault of Horror #26 (Reprint #15, 1996) Starring: Clancy Brown, Martin Kove, Costas Mandylor, Charles Martin Smith, Jon Tenny and Cheech Marin. Synopsis: The owner of a chemical business is forced to kill his friend to develop a preserving chemical for his personal financial gain. Unfortunately, he is haunted by his evil half. Episode #65: "Oil's Well Ends Well" Directed By: Paul Abascal Teleplay By: David Schow Adapted From EC Comic: Tales From the Crypt #34 (Reprint #18) Starring: Priscilla Presley, Lou Diamond Phillips and Rory Calhoun. Synopsis: A con artist. partnership goes bad when one of the partners falls for a woman. The lovers decide to build their own "con dynasty" by killing the other partners. But who's conning whom? Season 6 (1994-95) Episode #66: "100% Pure Horror" Directed By: Rodman Flender Teleplay By: Rodman Flender Adapted From EC Comic: Starring: Bruce Davison Synopsis: An embittered wife of a soap-company mogul decides the best way to "dissolve" their marriage is to wash that man right out of her life-- literally. Episode #67: "Let the Punishment Fit the Crime" Directed By: Russell Muchahy Teleplay By: Ron Finley Adapted From EC Comic: The Vault of Horror #33 (Reprint #2, 1991) Starring: Peter MacNichol and Purdy Lee Dreyfus. Synopsis: An ambulance chasing lawyer finds herself in legal hell when she gets pulled over in a town where justice is meted out on a scale of bad, worse, and you-don't-want-to-know. Episode #68: "Only Skin Deep" Directed By: Bill Malone Teleplay By: Dick Beebe Adapted From EC Comic: Starring: Peter Onorati and Sherrie Rose. Synopsis: A man with a history of violent behavior picks up the wrong girl at a costume party. Episode #69: "Whirlpool" Directed By: Mick Garris Teleplay By: A L Katz & Gil Adler Adapted From EC Comic: Starring: Rita Rudner and Richard Lewis. Synopsis: A comic book writer finds herself caught in a creative nightmare when she keeps reliving the same story she's been writing. Episode #70: "Operation Friendship" Directed By: Roland Mesa Teleplay By: A L Katz & Gil Adler Adapted From EC Comic: Starring: Tate Donavan, John Caponera. Peter Dobson and Michelle Renee Thomas. Synopsis: A young computer nerd's alter ego - his imaginary childhood friend - turns murderous when he fears the computer nerd doesn't need him any more. Episode #71: "Revenge is the Nuts" Directed By: Jonas McCord Teleplay By: Shel Willens Adapted From EC Comic: Starring: Anthony Zerbe, Teri Polo, John Savage, Isaac Hayes and Tim Sampson. Synopsis: The inhabitants of a run-down home for the blind plot their revenge on the evil man who runs the place. Episode #72: "The Bribe" Directed By: Ramon Menendez Teleplay By: Scott Nimerfro Adapted From EC Comic: Starring: Terry O'Quinn, Kimberley Williams, Esai Morales and Benecio Del Toro. Synopsis: A fire inspector finds himself caught between a rock and a hard place when the sleazy strip joint owner he wants to close down makes him an offer he cannot refuse. Episode #73: "The Pit" Directed By: John Harrison Teleplay By: John Harrison Adapted From EC Comic: Starring: Mark Dacascos, Debbe Dunning, Marjean Holden, Stoney Jackson and Wayne Newton. Synopsis: The ultimate fighting event of the century is about to happen in Las Vegas between the strongest fighters in the world, but the real event in the pit stars their respective wives. Episode #74: "Assassin" Directed By: Martin Von Hasselberg Teleplay By: Scott Nimerfro Adapted From EC Comic: Starring: Shelley Hack, Corey Feldman, Jonathan Banks. Marshall Teague and Chelsea Field. Synopsis: The perfect housewife is under siege by a group of covert operatives who think her husband is a CIA hitman gone AWOL. Episode #75: "Staired in Horror" Directed By: Stephen Hopkins Teleplay By: Colman deKay & Teller Adapted From EC Comic: Starring: D.B. Sweeney, Rachel Ticotin, R. Lee Ermey. Synopsis: A young hood on the run from the police holes up in a remote ante-bellum mansion with a curse on it. Episode #76: "Doctor of Horror" Directed By: Larry Wilson Teleplay By: Larry Wilson Adapted From EC Comic: The Vault of Horror #2 Starring: Travis Tritt, Hank Azaria, Austin Pendleton and Ben Stein. Synopsis: Two losers hook up with a strange doctor and help him with his research - until one of the losers decides his pal is just what the doctor is looking for. Episode #77: "In the Groove" Directed By: Vincent Spano Teleplay By: Colman deKay & Teller Adapted From EC Comic: Crime SuspenStories #21 (Reprint Tales From the Crypt #3, 1991 D) Starring: Miguel Ferrer, Linda Doucett and Wendie Malick. Synopsis: A disc jockey at a small radio station resorts to murder when his old writing partner and lover leads him to believe his newfound success is being threatened by his wife. Episode #78: "Surprise Party" Directed By: Elliot Silverstein Teleplay By: Tom Lyons Adapted From EC Comic: Starring: Adam Storke, Clare Hoak, Jake Busey, Rance Howard, Michele Landry, Bette Ford and Constance Wiggins. Synopsis: Having dubiously inherited a piece of rural property from his father, a young man receives a hell-raising welcoming party from some unexpected guests. Episode #79: "Comes the Dawn" Directed By: John Herzfeld Teleplay By: Scott Nimerfro Adapted From EC Comic: Starring: Michael Ironside Synopsis: A blowhard ex-Army colonel and his scurrilous ex-sergeant arrive in Alaska to poach a grizzly - and end up getting "trapped" by a gorgeous Desert Storm vet! Episode #80: "You, Murderer" Directed By: Robert Zemeckis Teleplay By: A L Katz, Gil Adler Adapted From EC Comic: Starring: Humphrey Bogart, John Lithgow, Isabella Rossellini and Sherilyn Fenn. Synopsis: A murder story told from the point of view of a corpse - who's played by Humphrey Bogart. Episode #81: "Escape" Directed By: Peter MacDonald Teleplay By: A L Katzand and Gilbert Adler Adapted From EC Comic: The Vault of Horror Starring: Martin Kemp, Nickolas Grace, Nick Reding, Roy Dotrice Synopsis: A betrayal ruins German POW's plan to escape. Episode #82: "Last Respects" Directed By: Freddie Francis Teleplay By: Scott Nimerfro Adapted From EC Comic: Tales From the Crypt #23 (Reprint #7, 1992) Starring: Emma Samms, Kerry Fox, Julie Cox, Michael Denison, Dulcie Gray Synopsis: A magic monkey paw prompts rivalry among three sisters. The trouble begins when one sister wishes for a million pounds, only to have it come true when a second sister is killed and her insurance policy is for...a million pounds. Episode #83: "Horror in the Night" Directed By: Russell Mulcahy Teleplay By: John Harrion Adapted From EC Comic: The Vault of Horror Starring: Elizabeth McGoevern, James Wilby, Ronan Vibert, Edward Tudor Pole, Peter Guiness Synopsis: Checking in could mean checking out, when a jewel thief/hit man double-crosses his partner and hides out in a very peculiar hotel. There, the fugitive on the run meets the "ghoul" of his dreams, a woman he killed in the same hotel five years earlier. . Episode #84: "The Kidnapper" Directed By: James Spencer Teleplay By: John Harrison and Scott Nimerfro Adapted From EC Comic: Shock SuspenStories Starring: Steve Coogan, Julia Sawalha, Tim Stern, Serena Gordon Synopsis: A pawnshop owner falls in love with a pregnant girl. When the girl has her baby, the owner becomes jealous of it stealing her attention, and decides something must be done. He hires a kidnapper to abduct the baby, but instead of the kidnapping being the solution to his problems,it is only the beginning. Episode #85: "A Slight Case Of Murder" Directed By: Brian Helgeland Teleplay By: Brian Helgeland Adapted From EC Comic: The Vault of Horror #33 (Reprint #2, 1991) Starring: Francesca Annis, Christopher Cazenove, Elizabeth Spriggs, Patrick Barlow Synopsis: A neighbor sets up a mystery writer's murder. Episode #86: "Cold War" Directed By: Andy Morhan Teleplay By: Scott Nimerfro Adapted From EC Comic: Tales From the Crypt Starring: Ewan McGregor, Jane Horrocks, Colin Salmon, John Salthouse, Willie Ross Synopsis: After a lovers' spat, a zombie picks up a vampire in a neighborhood bar. Season 7(199"-9") Episode #87: "Fatal Caper" Directed By: Bob Hoskins Teleplay By: Colman deKay and Al Katz & gilbert Adler, from the story originally published by William M. Gaines in the Comic Magazine entitled "Tales From The Crypt" Adapted From EC Comic: Starring: Natasha Richardson, Bob Hoskins, Greg Wise, James Saxon, Leslie Philips Synopsis: An elderly, wealthy British lord decides to change his will to include his third son whom he had disowned 15 years earlier. his two other sons, who must wither locate their brother before inheriting any money, or whom may inherit the fortune if they are the sole surviving heir, become obsessed with killing each other. however, the third brother reappears to have the last laugh. . Episode #88: "Confession" Directed By: Peter Hewitt Teleplay By: Scott Nimerfro, from a story originally published by William M. Gaines in the comic magazine entitled "Tales From the Crypt." Adapted From EC Comic: Starring: Eddie Izzard, Ciaran Hinds, Alun Armstrong, John Benfield Synopsis: A detective believes a screenwriter decapitated three women. The two become embroiled in an intense "head" game as they try to outwit each other. Episode #89: "Report From Grave" Directed By: William Malone Teleplay By: William Malone, from the story originally published by William M. Gaines in the Comic Magazine entitled "Tales from the Crypt." Adapted From EC Comic: Starring: James Frain, Siobhan Flynn, Jonathan Firth, Gordon Peters, Roger Ashton-Griffiths Synopsis: A young scientist wants to uncover the thoughts of the dead man, who happens to be the nastiest serial killer in history!. Episode #90: "Ear Today... Gone Tomorrow" Directed By: Christopher Hart Teleplay By: Ed Tapia, from the story originally published by William M. Gaines in the Comic Magazine entitled "Tales from the Crypt." Adapted From EC Comic: Starring: Robert Lindsay, Gretchen Palmer, Richard Johnson, Phil Davis, David Grant Synopsis: A deaf safecracker discovers it's not nice to fool with Mother Nature when he agrees to a radical surgery: to receive the auditory system of an owl. Episode #91: "About Face" Directed By: Tom Sanders Teleplay By: Larry Wilson and A L Katz & Gil Adler, from the story originally published by William M. Gaines in the Comic Magazine entitled "The Haunt of Fear." Adapted From EC Comic: Starring: Anthony Andrews, Imelda Staunton, Anna Friel Synopsis: A philandering preacher abandons twin girls he fathered. Years later, the girls return - one is a sweet, loving innocent, but the other is a Bible-quoting, hideous monster. Thank hell for little girls!. Episode #92: "Smoke Wrings" Directed By: Mandie Fletcher Teleplay By: Lisa Sandoval, from the story originally published by William M. Gaines in the Comic Magazine entitled "The Vault of Horror." Adapted From EC Comic: Starring: Ute Lemper, Chis Stanton, Denis Lawson, Tres Hanley, Daniel Craig, Gayle Hunnicutt Synopsis: In the cut-throat world ofadvertising, success can lead to a big downfall. The owner of an ad agency hires Barry, a young upstart. At a client presentation, barry criticizes the work of the creative director. Barry is then given 24 hours to come up with his own presentation. Barry then meets with the former agancy owner who is out for revenge and who gives him an innovative new invention: a microchip that uses sound waves to talk to people's subconscience to heighten their existing predispositions. But the plan goes awry when the microchip is used on Barry, a convicted murderer. Episode #93: "The Third Pig" Directed By: Bill Kopp and Pat Ventura Teleplay By: Bill Kopp Adapted From EC Comic: Tales From the Crypt Starring: the voices of Bobcat Goldthwait, Cam Clarke, Charlie Adler, Brad Garrett, Cory Barton, Jim Cummings, John Kassir Synopsis: This twisted adaptation of "The Three Little Pigs" is an animated fairytale from the crypt. history's most famous serial killer, the big bad wolf, finally has made a pig of himself. Now he must face the revenge of a real Franken-swine, a zombiekiller pig. (animated)
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