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The Best Episodes of Tales from the Crypt

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  1. #1 Fan Favorite
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    Tales from the Crypt Season 3 Episode 12 - Yellow
    8.4/10(960 votes)

    #1 - Yellow

    S3:E12

    The general is ashamed when he learns that the rumors of the Lt. (who is also his son) being a coward are true. He offers his son a way out of the army if he can take part in one last mission. The Lt. panics and leaves while his comrades are killed by the enemy. His father sentences him to die by firing squad. Fortunately the guns are loaded with blanks, or so he says.

    Director:Robert Zemeckis
    Writer:Unknown

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  2. Tales from the Crypt Season 4 Episode 4 - What's Cookin'
    8.3/10(885 votes)

    #2 - What's Cookin'

    S4:E4

    Fred and Erma are workers at a squid cafe who find themselves in trouble because their business is failing and their landlord will kick them out. That is until one of the employees encourages them to serve meat. Suddenly business is getting better. Gaston decides to double cross Fred and Erma but he ends getting invited for dinner ... but not in the way he expects. (with optional commentary by John Kassir in character as the Cryptkeeper, the episode's writer Alan Katz, and Tales From the Crypt chronicler Digby Diehl).

    Director:Gilbert Adler
    Writer:Unknown

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  3. Tales from the Crypt Season 2 Episode 14 - Television Terror
    8.0/10(1141 votes)

    #3 - Television Terror

    S2:E14

    Horton Rivers is an arrogant television tabloid host. He is trying to get big ratings and decides to take his crew through a haunted house. The house is rumored to be haunted by an old woman who killed a number of men. Soon strange things start happening. Someone or something is stalking Horton and his camera crew. The ratings could take him to the top or to the bottom.

    Director:Charlie Picerni
    Writer:Unknown

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  4. Tales from the Crypt Season 2 Episode 8 - The Ventriloquist's Dummy
    7.6/10(1383 votes)

    #4 - The Ventriloquist's Dummy

    S2:E8

    A ventriloquist seeks out his old hero, Ingels, who he always admired. He soon meets up with his ventriloquist dummy Morty and discovers a shocking secret.

    Director:Richard Donner
    Writer:Unknown

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  5. Tales from the Crypt Season 2 Episode 15 - My Brother's Keeper
    7.6/10(1119 votes)

    #5 - My Brother's Keeper

    S2:E15

    Siamese twins, the timid and kind-hearted Frank and the other, reckless and sadistic Eddie, must make a decision on whether or not to allow an experimental surgery to have them separated, even though one of them doesn't want to be split from the other.

    Director:Peter S. Seaman
    Writer:Unknown

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  6. Tales from the Crypt Season 4 Episode 5 - The New Arrival
    7.6/10(975 votes)

    #6 - The New Arrival

    S4:E5

    An arrogant radio child psychologist is obsessed with proving to his manager that he is the best. He gets a new patient, a woman and her daughter. When he goes to her room, he assumes that the daughter is the woman's imaginary friend. He learns that her daughter died years ago but her mother's love keeps her alive.

    Director:Peter Medak
    Writer:Unknown

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  7. Tales from the Crypt Season 5 Episode 7 - Creep Course
    7.6/10(953 votes)

    #7 - Creep Course

    S5:E7

    Reggie is a college jock who is trying to pass a history test. He asks the class bookworm Stella Bishop to help tutor him. She goes to Finely's house to to get the answer sheet, but when she gets there, Finely and Reggie lock her in a mummy's tomb. Finely double crosses Reggie by poisoning him. Finely goes back to check his work, and gets a big surprise. Stella is not dead. She has been charming the mummy by impersonating his dead girlfriend making the mummy jealous and Reggie and Finely really take the wraps.

    Director:Jeffrey Boam
    Writer:Unknown

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  8. Tales from the Crypt Season 5 Episode 3 - People Who Live in Brass Hearses
    7.5/10(996 votes)

    #8 - People Who Live in Brass Hearses

    S5:E3

    Billy is a smalltime criminal who is bloody red for vengeance. Years ago, his boss at an icecream warehouse double crossed him by sending him to prison. Now he plans to frame his boss with the help of his disabled brother.

    Director:Russell Mulcahy
    Writer:Unknown

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  9. Tales from the Crypt Season 6 Episode 1 - Let the Punishment Fit the Crime / Only Skin Deep / Whirlpool
    7.4/10(838 votes)

    #9 - Let the Punishment Fit the Crime / Only Skin Deep / Whirlpool

    S6:E1

    An ambulance-chasing lawyer finds herself in a nightmare court when she is hauled in for having too many digits on her license plate. She finds her self going through the court several times and they have a way of throwing the book at her. At a costume party, a young man falls in love with a sexy woman. They have a great time. He promises to keep quiet but the next day he spills the beans. The woman tells him not to be around while she's awake. He finds out that she's wearing that same mask. He tries to remove it only to learn that it's her horrible face. A comic artist for Tales From The Crypt finds herself trapped inside a repetitious nightmare world. Everyday she lives through the same horrible episodes. First her boss rejects her latest idea then fires her. She goes to her boss and shoots him only to be caught by the police and shot to death.

    Directors:Russell Mulcahy, William Malone, Mick Garris
    Writer:Unknown

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  10. Tales from the Crypt Season 7 Episode 11 - Confession
    7.3/10(548 votes)

    #10 - Confession

    S7:E11

    Evans, a sly horror screenwriter suspected in a series of grisly murders of women whose heads were taken by the killer as trophies is interrogated by Jack Lynch, a clever hardboiled homicide detective whom every cop idolizes.

    Director:Peter Hewitt
    Writer:Unknown

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  11. Tales from the Crypt Season 5 Episode 8 - Came the Dawn
    7.2/10(771 votes)

    #11 - Came the Dawn

    S5:E8

    In this version of Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho, a young woman who is also a thief is picked up by a man driving by. He takes her up to his place. There she hears a message from his wife, but also learns that there is a killer nearby. When she goes to his room she gets a big surprise.

    Director:Uli Edel
    Writer:Unknown

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  12. Tales from the Crypt Season 1 Episode 1 - The Man Who Was Death / And All Through the House / Dig That Cat... He's Real Gone
    7.1/10(2452 votes)

    #12 - The Man Who Was Death / And All Through the House / Dig That Cat... He's Real Gone

    S1:E1

    Niles Talbot moved from the country to the big city to get a job as an electrian but ended up as an executioner. His trouble begins when he's suddenly uemployed and decides to take the law into his own hands. On Christmas Eve, a woman slaughters her husband and learns that she's on Santa's naughty list when an escaped maniac dressed as Santa Claus shows up at her doorstep with a special present for her. A bum named Ulric is given the chance of a lifetime when a scientist puts the gland of a cat inside his body. Soon Ulric becomes the main attraction at a sideshow.

    Directors:Robert Zemeckis, Walter Hill, Richard Donner
    Writer:Unknown

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  13. Tales from the Crypt Season 2 Episode 1 - Dead Right / The Switch / Cutting Cards
    7.0/10(1854 votes)

    #13 - Dead Right / The Switch / Cutting Cards

    S2:E1

    A gold digging waitress goes to a fortune teller who predicts that by the end of the day her boss will fire her and she will land a new job. When the prediction becomes reality, she goes back for more. The fortune teller predicts that she will marry a man who will inherit a fortune then die. She gets the money first and when she tells her husband to kiss off, he stabs her to death and ends up in the hot seat. An elderly millionaire asks a plastic surgeon to give him the body of a younger man to win the girl of his dreams. Two rival long time gamblers meet up in a small town to have one last duel.

    Directors:Howard Deutch, Walter Hill, Arnold Schwarzenegger
    Writer:Unknown

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  14. Tales from the Crypt Season 3 Episode 3 - Top Billing
    7.0/10(1225 votes)

    #14 - Top Billing

    S3:E3

    Barry Blye is a frustrated actor who will do anything to get a part. He's been rejected by every acting company because he doesn't have the right look. Bad luck follows him all over. First his girlfriend breaks up with him. Then he's kicked out of his apartment. Then his old rival Winton Robins, who has ""the look"", gets a part in a weird theater's production of Hamlet. Barry goes into a frustrated rage and strangles him to death to take the part. He is shocked when he learns that the theater is really a mental hospital.

    Director:Todd Holland
    Writer:Unknown

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  15. Tales from the Crypt Season 5 Episode 5 - House of Horror
    7.0/10(988 votes)

    #15 - House of Horror

    S5:E5

    Les Whilton is the president of a college fraternity. He decides to scare three pledges by daring them to spend a night in a haunted house. He and some of his friends have set up the place to look like it's haunted. Along for the ride is a group of sorority sisters. When everyone else turns up missing, everyone turns to Whilton. Whilton goes into the house alone and he gets a big surprise.

    Director:Bob Gale
    Writer:Unknown

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  16. Tales from the Crypt Season 5 Episode 1 - Death of Some Salesmen / As Ye Sow / Forever Ambergris
    6.9/10(1257 votes)

    #16 - Death of Some Salesmen / As Ye Sow / Forever Ambergris

    S5:E1

    A sneaky con man has a talent for killing people after he sells them phony tombstones. He soon learns that some for his new victims have a fortune buried in their cellar. He marries their daughter and kills the parents but when he goes down in the basement he gets a big surprise. A husband hires a detective to spy on his wife whom he believes is cheating on him with a priest. When he learns that he's been conned, he decides to kill him himself. That day he learns that they're was nothing going on between them and he is relieved. But he is mistaken for his wife's so called boyfriend and killed by the detective he hired. Dalton is a seasoned combat photographer who finds himself falling for a beautiful women who just happens to be the wife of his friend. One day Ike sends Dalton into a disease warfare area. Dalton returns, but not the way he used to be. He soon writes a letter about how he was set up and his wife and friend also contract the same disease.

    Directors:Gilbert Adler, Gary Fleder, Kyle MacLachlan
    Writer:Unknown

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  17. Tales from the Crypt Season 7 Episode 5 - Horror in the Night
    6.9/10(605 votes)

    #17 - Horror in the Night

    S7:E5

    A double-crossing jewel thief is shot and hides out in a hotel where he starts to hallucinate about a mysterious beautiful woman.

    Director:Russell Mulcahy
    Writer:Unknown

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  18. Tales from the Crypt Season 4 Episode 6 - Showdown
    6.8/10(1404 votes)

    #18 - Showdown

    S4:E6

    A gunman being is chased down by another quickdrawing gunslinger in an old abandoned western town. The gunman wins the duel but he soon learns a new meaning to the phrase ""ghost town"" as the spirits of all his victims come back to haunt him.

    Director:Richard Donner
    Writer:Frank Darabont

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  19. Tales from the Crypt Season 2 Episode 11 - Korman's Kalamity
    6.7/10(1230 votes)

    #19 - Korman's Kalamity

    S2:E11

    Jim Korman is a cartoonist for Tales From The Crypt. He has talent for creating horrible creatures - they are all inspired by his harassing wife. Little does he know that his creations are coming to life and creating havoc. A female detective pursues the creator and suddenly falls for him. Korman decides to finally take his wife out of the picture.

    Director:Rowdy Herrington
    Writer:Unknown

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  20. Tales from the Crypt Season 1 Episode 4 - Collection Completed
    6.6/10(1823 votes)

    #20 - Collection Completed

    S1:E4

    After 47 year of tool sales, Jonas has finally found some time to relax and take a break. Or so he thinks. After he returns from his work, he finds out that his wife has been taking in stray animals. He decides to take up a new hobby...taxidermy.

    Director:Mary Lambert
    Writer:A. Whitney Brown

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  21. Tales from the Crypt Season 2 Episode 2 - 'Til Death
    6.6/10(1868 votes)

    #21 - 'Til Death

    S2:E2

    An unscrupulous plantation owner looks to raise some cash to develop a worthless plot of inherited land by wooing a beautiful heiress to an island and using voodoo to make her his wife.

    Director:Chris Walas
    Writer:Unknown

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  22. Tales from the Crypt Season 2 Episode 3 - Three's a Crowd
    6.6/10(1795 votes)

    #22 - Three's a Crowd

    S2:E3

    For their tenth anniversary, a couple heads down to a cabin owned by their friend. When she and her friend start sneaking around the husband gets jealous and assumes that they are having an affair.

    Director:David Burton Morris
    Writer:Unknown

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  23. Tales from the Crypt Season 3 Episode 7 - Undertaking Palor
    6.6/10(1160 votes)

    #23 - Undertaking Palor

    S3:E7

    Four boys who have a talent for video taping uncover some weird things at the undertaker's. Soon revenge comes when one the boy's father becomes a victim. They begin video taping the undertaker's evil deeds which he soon discovers in horror.

    Director:Michael Thau
    Writer:Unknown

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  24. Tales from the Crypt Season 6 Episode 6 - The Assassin
    6.6/10(683 votes)

    #24 - The Assassin

    S6:E6

    Janet is a suburban wife of an ex-CIA assassin. When a group of operatives invade her home, they seem to think her husband is up to his old tricks again. The leader tempts one of her men then kills him, then kills the other guy, then plans to do the same with Janet. But Janet has a nasty surprise for her that she will never forget.

    Director:Martin von Haselberg
    Writer:Unknown

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  25. Tales from the Crypt Season 7 Episode 1 - Fatal Caper
    6.6/10(646 votes)

    #25 - Fatal Caper

    S7:E1

    Two adult brothers come to blows over the the fortune of their wealthy father, whose interests are protected by a lovely young woman with questionable loyalties.

    Director:Bob Hoskins
    Writer:Unknown

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Best Episodes Summary

"Yellow" is the best rated episode of "Tales from the Crypt". It scored 8.4/10 based on 960 votes. Directed by Robert Zemeckis and written by Unknown, it aired on 8/28/1991. This episode scored 0.1 points higher than the second highest rated, "What's Cookin'".