
Tales from the Crypt
1989 · TVThe Crypt Keeper hosts weekly horror pulled from the EC Comics catalog, complete with outstanding practical effects and a very mean sense of humor.
Horror and comedy share the same nervous system. Both work by building tension and releasing it, just in different directions. Curated dark comedy horror lives in the films that do both at once, sometimes in the same scene. Funny and deeply unsettling are not mutually exclusive.

The Crypt Keeper hosts weekly horror pulled from the EC Comics catalog, complete with outstanding practical effects and a very mean sense of humor.

A stranger carrying something ancient and valuable is cornered in a boarding house, and the creature outside will destroy anyone to get it.

Ray Peterson takes a week off work, stays home, and becomes convinced his new neighbors are doing something terrible in their basement. His equally curious friends are happy to help investigate.

Carlos and Ana's ordinary life is permanently altered by a catastrophic domestic event. The film documents the aftermath and what that horror does to their domestic routines.

Two ruthless siblings build a pharmaceutical empire on a deal that gives them everything they wanted. When their children start dying one by one, the bill comes due.

After sixteen years in prison, Dolores Roach returns to a Washington Heights she doesn't recognize and takes desperate measures to survive in a neighborhood that's been gentrified out from under her.

Lewis Barnavelt moves in with his eccentric uncle Jonathan after his parents die and finds a house full of magic, secrets, and a clock hidden in the walls.

Exclusive guests at a remote island restaurant discover that Chef Slowik's tasting menu involves a form of service they didn't agree to.

Osgood Perkins adapts Stephen King's The Monkey with the dark comedy register fully engaged. Brothers discover a childhood toy with a deadly connection.

A cozy horror game where you craft plants for late-night customers and manage a small shop. The customers who come after dark aren't quite what you'd expect.

Two workers accidentally release a gas at a medical warehouse. By nightfall the cemetery next door has a problem.

Four teenagers survive a prom night car crash in rural Texas and wind up spending the night with a family that makes the Sawyers look like normal neighbors.

Brad and Janet take shelter from a storm in a nearby castle where the host has a science project almost ready to unveil and guests are welcome to stay for it. It's deliberately absurd and entirely committed to that.

PSX-styled grindhouse horror in the crime-soaked sprawl of Carrion City. Detective Dick Slater and his rookie partner are on a case, and the city has a habit of getting under your skin.

Joanna Eberhart's career implodes and her husband relocates the family to the perfect suburb of Stepford. The wives there seem engineered rather than merely content.

Sue Morrow injects the Substance and creates a second younger version of herself. The two halves must share existence within the program's strict rules.

Ms. Appleton was always a wellspring of kindness, until The Voice started talking to her and gave her very specific ideas about her next supper.

A radio DJ accidentally broadcasts audio evidence of a murder on live air. The Sawyer family now knows who has it.

Elvira lives in the shadow of her beautiful stepsister in a Norwegian Cinderella retelling where the fairy tale's embedded violence is treated as something real.

A cop flies to a remote island looking for a missing girl at his ex-fiancée's request. The island's pagan community is not especially helpful.
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