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Freddy's Nightmares
1988 · Mystery · Sci-Fi & Fantasy
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Dead-on humor and horror.
Cadaverous scream legend the Crypt Keeper is your macabre host for these forays of fright and fun based on the classic E.C. Comics tales from back in the day. So shamble up to the bar and pick your poison. Will it be an insane Santa on a personal slay ride? Honeymooners out to fulfill the "til death do we part" vow ASAP?
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John Kassir
Crypt Keeper (voice), Larry, Narrator (voice)
Michelle Johnson
Liz Kelly-Dixon
Sugar Ray Leonard
Gravedigger (segment "None But the Lonely Heart")
Ben Cross
Benjamin A. Polosky
Madge Sinclair
Lucille
Al Hunter Ashton
Sgt. Cornwall
Roger Ashton-Griffiths
Valdemar Tymrak
Yvonne De Carlo
Mrs. Jones (segment "Death of Some Salesmen")
Kathy Ireland
Joyce
Ciarán Hinds
Jack Lynch
Joan Chen
Connie
Charles Fleischer
Carl Rechek
Natasha Richardson
Fiona Havisham
Moses Gunn
Uncle Ezra Thornberry
Lea Thompson
Sylvia Vane
Sam Waterston
G.G. Devoe (segment "As Ye Sow")
Finty Williams
Lucy
Gavan O'Herlihy
Richard
Jessica Harper
Marie
Twiggy
Bonnie
RottenPop
May 10, 2017
**The Man That Was Death** -- **5 Stars** > Aww, poor little fellas. When I think of their childhood, all those cute little maggots hahahahaha. Our story is about a man with nobler ambitions. He likes to kill human pests and he does it in front of an audience. Now that's entertainment hahahaha. So hang onto your hats kiddies, this one's a real shocker. Niles Talbot (William Sadler) is a prison executioner that is jus…
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June 28, 2020
Since Brandon covered episode one, I'll cover episode two! S01E02 _"And All Through the House"_ Source: _Vault of Horror_ Written by: Fred Dekker Directed by: Robert Zemeckis (_Back to the Future_, _Who Framed Roger Rabbit_) Original Air Date: June 10, 1989 Plot: A greedy philandering wife (Mary Ellen Trainor) kills her second husband (Marshall Bell) for his insurance money. Upon getting rid of the body, she is unexp…
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GenerationofSwine
January 12, 2023
This was one of those shows that SHOULD come back. American Horror Story tires to do it, only on a much larger scale with a new story each season that is supposed to be connected in a grandiose way...and that is fine but... Tales From the Crypt just offered a new and unique story each week, written and directed and acted by some very talented people. Some are science fiction, some were westerns, some were monster sto…
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