Top 10 Tales From The Crypt Episodes

On the clips in the beginning you showed people who live in brass a few times.

Dude, you gotta tell us what happened in these episodes. Not many people are going to go out and purchase the VHS tapes of this series.

I remember watching this when i was little. God, i watched weird stuff when i was little, including reboot and beetlejuice. Watching it all agian i get the jokes better, and often find myself laughing so hard it hurts. I think i've gone mad.

i actually wanna watch this show now. looks so cool.

"The Secret" might be my favorite Crypt episode...but there are so many awesome ones in the first two seasons.

Whyyyyy is "And All Through the House" even on this list?
i'd really like to know, the woman just screams the whole episode, and the ending is terrible. I agree with almost everything you have to say in your reviews, but i'm just puzzled with this one.
Oh, and do more AVGN! :]

I totally agree with #1 >>>> I watch this episode all the time. It makes me laugh. I also love THe secret.

I seen all those episodes... like 17 years ago! Good shit!

what the fuck is this piece of shit? lolololol!!!!

Excellent top ten list here James. Very unexpected the ones you put. I like the theory you put behind them. Here's my top ten TFTC episodes.
The thing from the grave
House of Horror
Abra Cadaver
Dig that cat...He's real gone
Television Terror
Mournin' Mess
Dead Right
The Secret
Til' Death
Three's a crowd

Man when I was a kid, I used to watch the animated series of this Heheh, it was pretty cool and creepy but just enough for kids to handle, I remember a few episodes that FREAKED ME OUT LOL

I remember a few episodes in genera, then there was a wierd one witn the hosts being two puppets one slimey maggot and one blue cockroach heheh it was even weirder and some episodes were quite terrifying yet toootally rediculous

my favorite is bordello of blood

This is my own Top 10 TFTC episodes for anyone who wants a second opinion. For the sake of originality, none of James' picks are on my list; (though I do agree that Cutting Cards, Yellow, Carrion Death, & All Through The House are great shows.). James' list has one episode from Season 1, one episode from Season 7, everything else is Seasons 2, 3, & 4, with no mention of Seasons 5 or 6.

10. Let The Punishment Fit The Crime (S6) "This episode is like a nightmare. Non-stop craziness that goes from bad to worse."

9. 'Til Death (S2) "Amazing creature effects on Pam Glen's character."

8. What's Cooking (S4) "Once you get past the fact that this is a restaurant that serves steaks cut from human beings, the episode stops being horror, and becomes a success story of sorts. Really though, it's bullshit. At no point does a member of the wait staff, the guy who delivers potatoes/salad stuff, or the Health & Safety Inspector notice dead bodies in the meat freezer."

7. Dead Right (S2) "About a fortune teller who's never wrong, but her predictions are too vague ."

6. Top Billing (S3) "The cast of a production of Hamlet are INSANELY good."

5.(tie) Operation Friendship...99&44/100% Pure Horror (S6) "My sole dual entry because both make a great counterpart to Fight Club. One is about an imaginary friend, the other is about soap...(the yardstick of civilization). Awesome creature effect at the very end of 99&44/100%."

4.The Man Who Was Death (S1) "The pilot. William Sadler plays a jailer who loves to throw the switch on death row inmates. However, when the death penalty is abolished, he takes justice into his own hands. The first in many twist endings. How good was Bill Sadler in this episode? Look for him again in a season 7 intro/outro playing rock, paper, scissors with The Crypt Keeper. You'll find him in the intro/outro of TFTC Bordello Of Blood. Lastly, you can watch him as Brayker in TFTC Demon Knight."

3. Confession (S7) "A great cat-&-mouse story. Demonstrates how police can bully an innocent person to confess to a crime they didn't commit."

2. The Trap (S3) "Horror & humor. Directed by & featuring Michael J. Fox...as well as his Back To The Future co-star James Tolkan. This was the first episode where I realised death row inmates of this series ALWAYS get the electric chair...(with one exception)."

1. You, Murderer (S6) "An episode made in 1994, which stars Humphrey Bogart & features Alfred Hitchcock! Innovative, because the perspective is from the victims' P.O.V. Here's lookin' at you kid.".

One final thought. If you've never seen TFTC before, do not begin with the season 3 episode "Spoiled". It's just a relentless onslaught of penis and vagina references with an absurd premise.

yea when i was small i remember the cartoon tales of the crpyt but not really the real one episodes but i do remember the movie.anyways when the cartoon tales of the crypt was on tv every other show had something like it like there was one with bugs telling the stories in a diner and worm for another one and kids in the woods telling scary stories.but ya good times.

great list,i miss the show. Im surprised you didnt put ''the man who was death'' in there. great ep!!!

I remember the cartoon version "tales from the crypt keeper" but their was also a show just like it on rival networks with the same idea just it was animatronics hosts and, the host were a skeleton and worm or slug type thing, great childhood memories.

I completely agree with this list, which is good, but sort of creepy. I guess it's because there are certain things that everybody agrees on. Also the ending was the funniest part of Cutting Cards, if you're sick and twisted like me, I guess.

Tales is by far my favorite T.V. show. It's hard for me to pick favorites though, but I like the more over-the-top ones as well. The episodes like "Yellow" and "Showdown" are interesting though because they're completely different than what you're used to with Tales. Good picks though, "Cutting Cards" is a nice one :-)

When I was little, I used to leave when Tales From the Crypt came on. Mainly because I used to be scared shitless just when the Crypt Keeper popped out of the coffin and cackled like he did. Man...I was a real pussy when I was little.

Fortunately(?) we actually had cable with HBO when this originally aired, during the height of my interest in the horror genre.

I remember a few of these. Good choices.

As a kid , the intro gave me nightmares and never truely watch the whole series. But I remember some episodes like a wife kills her husand for money and melts his body in soap maker then she uses the soap in the shower and then her skin melts due to the stomach acid in the soap. Another one is a guy is escape artist and isn't getting much money for his acts. Something happens where he inherts a soul of a cat and his wife makes a will on his life. They both get money but then he needs more money everytime in which he has kill himself over and over again .He finally finds out that he lost all the cat's lives and just realizes this as about kill himself but its too late. and his wife and her new lover collects the will money.

Timothy Stack is the man. Now I have a sudden desire to watch Forrest Gump.

I'm curious about how you feel about Tales from the Darkside, or the followup, Monsters.

They're both pretty lighthearted by comparison, but I'm a real sucker for any sort of horror anthology.

Personally my favorite is a toss up between Korman's Kalamity and Three's a Crowd. Korman's Kalamity is about a horror comic artist whose drawlings come to life and tends to be on the comical side on the spectrum and Three's a Crowd is about a guy who thinks his wife and best friend are having an affair.

You left out Abra Cadaver, i love that episode such a great idea. I totally agree with all of your other choices though, especially number 1 that is my favorite episode also.

Do you remember the one where a comic book artist's drawings come to life? that one is good also.

HELL YEAH, blood and guts, what more can we ask for!

Well, there goes every hope of sleeping tonight.

Lance Henriksen is a LEGEND! He deserves a countdown of his own. (Pretty please?) He has been in so many movies and mini-movies in the past forty years, everything from Aliens and Terminator to Disney's Tarzan and Super Mario Bros, that you'd think more people would actually recognize his face and voice by now! He's such a prolific actor and a B-grade horror movie master! Thanks so much for seeing him at the top of this list for doing what he does best - making horror really horrible! <3 Awesome countdown that makes me really wanna go watch and rewatch these classics!

what shops can i buy this on dvd eg. HMV Goldendiscs etc

number 2 looks like the best one.

The wierdest one was the man with his Siamese brother on his hand.

You left out one of the best and first episodes, "The Man Who Was Death" with William Sadler. Great dialogue from him and a nice ending.

All great choices. Another early one I always liked was Dig That Cat, He's Real Gone.

"i cant watch it"

Oh come on, it's not THAT scary.

I don't mean to be nitpicky or anything, but Zemeckis isn't actually pronounced "Zemekis" like you said, James, but it's "Zemetʃkis", because it's a Lithuanian last name, and we pronounce the "C" as "tʃ" (ts).

Really cool top 10 as always, I always like them. :) Keep it up!

I watched this every night when i was 5 with my parents! it was on HBO at like 9:30 PM! Ive always like horror movies and never was really scared of them.

Yeah that show was awesome but a lot of those episodes are really disturbing that made it really good like the episode stared at horror in the 6th season that always haunts me

I hella have the comic of the episode Arny directed. ITs hella word-for-word accurate. the other story's are good too

oh man tales from the crypt such a prominent part of my childhood..
loved it absolutely as well as dream on which aired around the same time..loved hbo always did and still do..though i grow weary knowing of sum sort mass population tool ..such as subliminal messages ..especially through walt disney cartoons..as well as most movie enterprises..so i try to weed out all the indocturnating progams and try to look at the ones that are social commentaries and more informative of interdimensions and symbolism which is relevant ..
oops more about tales from the crypt ''lol i liked the lumberjack episode as well..and the one about the convict in the dessert that was showed....lol cant believe after all these years. i still remember the ending

even though i live in the yukon territory..all my life we still had american satellite..which i miss up untill 2003 or 04 when directv had cut down on pirating

This was the series that got me into the horror genre. i remember waiting after midnight to watch those on TV. i agree with your list aswell, well chosen episodes.

Aw, I was hoping the episode with Slash would be on here, or that he'd at least mention it.

Memories!
We was pretty young when it came out. With my dad being poor, we used to watch it at my moms house on the big screen. I think it came on at 9PM, maybe 8 on HBO.

My brother & i used to watch it all the time, man when your a kid like us (33 years old) it is a blast!

Good episodes.
I dont remember the last episode but I remember the others!

I honestly have some pretty fond memories of the cartoon series from when I was a kid, and compared to the other kids' horror shows that were on then, like "Goosebumps" and "Are you Afraid of the Dark?", "Tales from the Cryptkeeper" was pretty genuinely creepy and disturbing. Some of the episodes I saw still haunt me to this day.

Definitely worth checking out on DVD! I only saw the cartoon series when I was young, but I'm sure this is better!

There were two TFTC movies including Demon Knight and Bordello of Blood. Any chance of talking about it?