Oh yeah, I _love_ that episode too. The make-up was _amazing_ and I loved Yvonne DeCarlo's cameo. One of my personal favorites is "The Secret", which is about an orphaned 12-yr.-old boy named Theodore getting adopted by a wealthy childless couple who at first seem perfect (if a bit eccentric) giving him an insanely huge bedroom packed with the best toys and entertainment money can buy, all the food (primarily sweets) he can eat (he was starved a bit at the orphanage) and even his own classic-British-gentleman-father-figure butler. But things get suspicious when Theodore notices his parents never take him anywhere and only interact with him during the night and most unsettling of all, he finds himself _locked_ in his room complete with bars on his windows. They're _clearly_ up to something but what could it be...
"And all through the house" wrecked me as a kid. Terrifying Santa, slowly and patiently probing the house for an entry point, and then that ending is just a kick in the gut
Yeah, in my opinion that was the most genuinely scary episode of the series. I also like the one where Demi Moore marries the fat slob because the psychic told her she would marry a rich man. The plot twist is great.
He, to be fair, that Nefra student might've gotten arrested, but she did get an A on that project! That was my favorite episode, glad to see it brought up here.
How about "the ventriloquist's dummy" starring Bobcat Goldthwait and the legendary Don Rickles!? I saw that one as a kid and it freaked me out! Or "Strung Along", that one gave me nightmares!
There's also the animated spinoff "Tales from the cryptkeeper," which while a bit more kid friendly is still very hokey and fun with a few genuinely creepy ideas. Very good for getting into halloween spirit
Television Terror is definitely my favorite of the series. I could still remember the creepy intro and outro music from when I saw it as a kid, when I watched it again recently. So good.
You picked two of my favorites as well including your Number 1 choice! You have excellent taste, my good sir! :) I *almost* expected to see "Demon Knight" in your list but, yeah, that wouldn't have been an "episode" and (at least to my knowledge) wouldn't have been based on any of the original EC Comics. I'm not sure about that last supposition, though, as I can't recall who wrote it. Only that it starred an amazing Jada Pinkett (before she got famous and married Will Smith) and a truly memorable performance by Billy Zane. Oh, yeah, and the amazing "Amanda-Waller-to-be", CCH Pounder with her immortal line, "No, this is me giving you the finger."
This may sound strange to everyone, but my #1 episode is “Lower Berth”. It’s not the scariest, bloodiest, not the happiest of endings, but it does beg the question at the ending: were all these stories in that universe real? Or were they stories the Cryptkeeper heard from before and made them into more funnier and more frightening to live up to his poor family’s legacy? Makes you think when it comes to horror, doesn’t it?
I remember watching this as a little kid with my family and always covering my eyes during the intro. The Cryptkeeper popping out of the coffin always scared me as a kid. Now, the intro kicks ass and I understand it's a puppet, appreciating his cheesy one liners. Glad you finally made this video
I gotta admit this list takes me by surprise. There's good episodes here that I don't think would end up on many other's lists. Kudos for having a pretty interesting taste in episodes. It's pretty cool to hear your opinion.
'The Ventriloquist's Dummy' has Don Rickles giving a great performance. 'For Cryin' Out Loud' has Sam Kinison as a guy's inner conscience voice tormenting him.
"It felt like the Goonies"...and it included one if them. Surprised you didn't mention that. Lol. I do like the video though - and I've been watching a lot of "Tales from the Crypt" lately. Most of these I've seen...but not all - so thanks for the suggestions.
My favorite episodes are dig that cat he’s really gone, the ventriloquists dummy, abra cadaver, strung along, forever ambergris, revenge is the nuts, the third pig and yellow is the best non horror episode. Only skin deep is one that actually scared me
Finally a Tales From the Crypt list that includes my favourite episode - What’s Cookin’? I never get tired of rewatching that episode, an absolute masterpiece.
Oh yeah. I really love this series and they are so many gory, scary, gruesome, and entertaining episodes from tales from the crypt. Not to mention it has an amazing intro with a memorable host.
My favorite episode is King of the Road. One of Brad Pitt's earliest roles, he is simultaneously awesome and chilling in this. The story is classic Crypt stuff and the episode's music is all by Warren Zevon. Such a great episode.
Linkara, this video has singlehandedly unearthed the long buried memories of me and my father watching reruns of this show after I came home from school. I can even recall seeing at least one of the episodes you've covered here at one point or another. It's nice to take this walk down memory lane like this, so thank you for reminding me of this again after all these years.
I think my favorite has to be "'Til Death." The way the woman looks as she rots is genuinely creepy (though her acting is humorous) and the ending is proof that some things are worse than death.
My favorites are "House of Horror", the fraternity episode, "Death of some Salesmen," with an amazing TRIPLE performance from Tim Curry, "Werewolf Concierto," because I love werewolves, and "Carrion Death."
Four-Sided Triangle with Patricia Arquette was good too. Farm settings are aesthetically pleasing to me because it reminds me of Halloweentime. The episode about the guy with the haunted tattoo was really great as well. And All Through the House goes without saying as how iconic it is. The episode where a kid is adopted by two vampires and they try to sweeten his blood by giving him excessive dessert only to find out he's a werewolf was amazing as well.
I entered this video with it having been viewed 665 times before. I'm sure I'll be fine. This was a very informative and inspiring list, giving food for thought and really gets into what makes each episode special even without having seen them. I'll have to look around for this sometime.
What I loved about Tales from the crypt was each episode had some dark karmic justice in them. Whether it's the executioner being executed, or the salesman being out played, the mother killing her husband only to be killed by an evil Santa. Or the janitor serving human steaks and becoming one himself. It's super hard to pick just 15 episodes because while yes it was a bit cheesy, the stories were actually told pretty well and had so many great actors in them. Such a groundbreaking show because for a mainstream show it had so much nudity, language and gore which in the late 80s and 90s was a bit more rare. Especially for a show that targeted not only adults but clearly kids too. The real test of time is how fondly the show is remembered.
Very unexpected to see this on the last day of February but I ain't complaining. Hopefully we will see more tales from the crypt stuff down the line after this video. A long shot but hey, I don't find any epsiode countdowns of this series here so this was a rare treat.
Wow. 'Mute Witness to Murder' is almost like The Invisible Man (2020). I just watched the film today and I pop this video on, I was like "Why does that sound familiar?"
You mentioned a few episodes that might be precursors of "Found Footage", I agree but I then some jackasses always says something about Cannibal Holocaust. Today I am the jackass!
My favorites in no order: only skin deep , oils well that ends well, people who live in brass hearses, death of some salesman, split personality, maniac at large, what's cooking, split second, easel kill ya, the reluctant vampire, top billing, loved to death, the ventriloquist dummy, cutting cards, the switch, dig that cat... He's real gone.
Still my favorite to this day, tied with *"Cutting Cards"* ... both these episodes star Lance Henriksen in great performances... And indeed I also expected *"Yellow"* to be number one, as it often is with these kinds of lists. Linkara must have tried to pick more than just the most famous ones & the usual classics... He is also surprisingly "forgiving" toward season 7, the season that everyone seems to hate ^^ (it's also my least favorite one...)
Randall Flagg Season 7 probably would have been better received if more episodes tried a pulpy approach like the one on this list to mitigate the much drier humor. Either that or do episodes that are horror versions of “The Full Monty”, in it’s humor and tone. Heck, they should have riffed *every* British/UK sub-genre from Agatha Christie style cozy mysteries (imagine a EC comics vampire story reimagined to be accusing parlor mystery with the vamps being killed off one-by-one in a secluded villa by one of the vampires playing innocent), to Victorian era gothic horror complete with fantastic period sets and clothing.
Great seeing more EC content. My favorites are Easel Kill Ya and All Through The House which I watch every Christmas and consider one of the best Christmas horrors.
Ah! I was just watching your AQLA episodes on the Amityville movies the other day. I thought this sub series was dead. I always enjoy your more relaxed discussions on stuff, this and your movie VLOGS included.
My favorites: Reluctant Vampire-Malcolm Mcdowell was so cute in that one. A shame there wasn't a fanfic about that one; I wanted to read about what happened next! The Man Who was Death Lower Berth-That was mean how they kept Two Face locked up and beat him. The Cryptkeeper was a cute baby, though. That episode reminded me of the X-Files episode, Postmodern Prometheus, a take on The Elephant Man and the Cher movie, Mask. Staired in horror-Teller the magician co-wrote that one. Cool episode! Revenge is the Nuts You, Murderer-the one with "Humphrey Bogart" and "Alfred Hitchcock". #2-Television terror-Gotta love Morton Downey Jr.! The one with John Kassir and Priscilla Presley that I forgot the title. It ends with a bang, or a BOOM! I loved how The Cryptkeeper rewound the tape of the John Kassir character saying, "I'll be damned!" The one with Demi Moore and Jeffrey Tambor?, who played a fat man and went to the electric chair at the end for killing the Demi Moore character. I think it was called, Sin Deep/Skin Deep.
“Sin Deep” was about a man with anger issues meets a masked woman who thrives on abuse through internal means... but externally, she has a thing for keeping different masks... of other men.
Good selection! Maniac at large is probably at the top for me. One of my own personal favorites is the Leah Thompson episode in the first season, ‘Only Sin Deep’. Since watching this video I can’t help thinking of so many that I just love that you didn’t mention but....at the same time all the ones you picked are among my favorites also...
Tales of the Crypt is one of those shows i activelly knew about, yet i sleept on, not entirely sure why. But now i have a great place to start, thank you for the list :D
"The goonies" reference you made at the 17:33 mark cracked me up. the kid who played data was the kid in that tales from the crypt episode. That's why it was funny 😆 If you intentionally did that....I tip my 🎩to you sir. Good job lol😆
OMG!!! The frequent caller has haunted me for years! I remember seeing it when I was younger, but could never remember where it came from! The attic scene with the fan still gives me nightmares!! Thanks!!
I admit I never really watched the show but I knew of it and for some reason I was terrified of the Crypt Keeper, like I remember seeing a preview of the animated series for kids in a magazine and I immediately turn the page because I was afraid of seeing him (even though the animated Crypt Keeper obviously didn't look exactly the same as the live action one.) Obviously now I've gotten over that and even with my love/hate relationship with horror, maybe I might check some of these episodes out, maybe around Halloween. Great list man, happy to see another "A Quick Look At..." from you.
This was cool. I know with your weekly schedule it would be hard to find the extra time to make a smaller video like this. But I would love to see more of these smaller videos if you can find the time.
Sleepovers at my friend Justin's place were the best. His family had all the best cable channels, & a tv we could watch Tales From the Crypt, The Outer Limits, & MST3K on without his parents intervening.
You know what I wasn’t disappointed by? This episode! Keep making this kind of nice, quick content my man, since sometimes I don’t have the endurance to watch one of your comic reviews but I just need to hear your amazing voice. Oh, and speaking of comics, you should take a look at Ignited. Its a horribly biased comic book that I think needs to be burned atop the fourth wall!
One of my personal favorites has always been “The Assassin”. It was one of the first TFTC episodes I saw as a kid, and I found the twist very entertaining.
Love a list with so many of my favorites, most of which I saw when they were first coming out. Lovitz, BTW was also in the first few minutes of the Todd Solondz film Happiness. Never forgot it.
My favorites (In order of appearance): "And All Through the House" * "Dig That Cat... He's Real Gone" "Cutting Cards" * "Three's a Crowd" "Television Terror" "Loved to Death" "Reluctant Vampire" * "Mournin' Mess" "None but the Lonely Heart" "What's Cookin'" "Maniac at Large" * "Forever Ambergris" "House of Horror" "Came the Dawn" * "Only Skin Deep"
IMO "All through the House" should be the #1 spot. I agree with you on "Television Terror" Was always a great one and who knew Downey could act...at least I thought he was good!
0:50 Actually, I heard of your channel from a friend. I was complaining about an old comic I read once, my friend made a reference to another bad old comic, I asked him how he knew about that book since I didn't think he read comics, and he told me he knew of it from this guy named Linkara on RU-vid. Been subscribed ever since.
Holy crap, the return of "A Quick Look At!" Finally had a spare afternoon to make it, huh? And man, for something made in the height of 90s cheese, it looks like the best episodes really deliver on the screams. I think I'll stick to the TV game show that they inexplicably made with kids running around the Keeper's haunted house. XD (No, seriously, this existed and I watched it religiously on Saturdays for a while. It was fun, what can I say?)
My favorite include asides from those you mentioned, The Thing from the Grave, Only Sin Deep, korman's kalamity, loved to death, the secret, People who live in brass hearses, let the punishiment fit the crime, only skin deep
I met John Glover at a con in Mississippi last year and blew his mind when I went over his episode Tales and brought up that he was in that with Aron Eisenberg who was on DS9 which he also guest starred on. He so funny and friendly.
"Mournin' Mess," "What's Cookin'" and "The Man Who Was Death." That last one was one of three in the 90-minute pilot "movie" and it really set the tone for the series. Bill Sadler did an excellent job carrying that half hour all by himself. I'm looking forward to seeing him in _Bill & Ted Face the Music._
I appreciate your content and presentation. I remember staying up and recorded the whole 1st 2 season's from Friday at 9:00 pm until Monday at 6:00 am. Then less than a month later l let someone watch it and they recorded the Highlander movie over it. I was like OJ seething with rage
This makes me want to see if I can find any of the old Tales from the Crypt comics. I grew up reading the horror comics my dad had collected as a kid, so this hits me right in the nostalgia.
I remember seeing the episode Abra Cadaver as a child and always thought I would never know where those memories came from. Then I saw this video on my recommend list and was shocked to finally learn that my childhood memories came from this show. So thank you :)
I work at a small library and every so often, when I work the evening shift (and for whatever reason have to go down to the basement) Maniac At Large will pop into my head. Needless to say I have creeped myself out more than once. Also, Television Terror is my favorite episode.
I've seen pretty every episodes of it on RU-vid and I love this show ! I couldn't stop watching it. It's kinda like a Goosebumps for adults but way much fun.
Great choices! One of my favorites is Death of Some Salesmen, that so very Tales From the Crypt balance of grotesque and funny. Ed Begley Jr. is surprisingly good at playing such a sleazebag. I'm also a sucker for Tim Curry under prosthetic makeup. What amused me about the latter is that as far as the three roles, Curry looks more like himself as the women than as the man.
My grandfather sent me little electronic talking things for Halloween. One is a hanging cript keeper head. His eyes and teeth rattle, then he lets out his signature laugh. It's fun in a retro way.
Out of all the "Tales From The Crypt" episodes, which frightened me the most, it was "Mornin' Mess". The ending of this one took at least 5 years off of my life.. :( p.s. Great list, and homage to this CLASSIC series.
When my brothers left the house I would inherit their comic books, and among Marvel, DC, Lucky Luke and Transformers they also had a lot of Tales From the Crypt comics. The story that I remember best was about a prisoner who was planning on faking his own death and be smuggled out in a coffin (I don't recall how he planned to get out before getting buried). Over the course of the story we saw him and the other inmates build a structure, but none of them knew what it was for. It's only when the prisoner feels the heat rising that he realizes his coffin has been placed in the prison's new crematorium. Was that ever made into an episode?
