High points include "Only Sin Deep" where a struggling hooker pawns her beauty to the wrong man and in "The Man Who Was Death" a former executioner gives criminals a shocking end. The low point being the episode "Lover Come Hack to Me", a bloody and almost pointless affair of keeping one's love pure.
While abbreviated, the first season sets the ghoulish mood and humorous tone for future stories of the weird, the gruesome, and the ghastly.
An included special feature, the mini-documentary Tales From the Crypt: From Comic Books to Television compliments the set well with an in-depth look at the rise and fall of EC Comics publisher William Gaines and his horror/crime series. Comic book and entertainment insiders discuss the true story behind the success, downfall, and everlasting allure which the Tales From the Crypt comics created.
Buyer's Guide:
Available on a 2-disc DVD set
3 sinners get their pun-uppance out of 5
1 comment:
This makes me want to revisit Crypt now too.
I remember really enjoying this show when it came on at midnight on the weekend with back-to-back eps when I was 15 or 16. It was Friday or Sunday. I forget which. I think it was Sunday.
It was followed by The Outer Limits.
Anthology series goodness.
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