Je commence à regarder Tales from the Crypt 1x04 "Collection Completed" #EnRegardant https://trakt.tv/shows/tales-from-the-crypt/seasons/1/episodes/4 #TalesFromTheCrypt #trakt
Tales from the Crypt 1x04 "Collection Completed"

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.

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Je commence à regarder Tales from the Crypt 1x03 "Lover Come Hack to Me" #EnRegardant https://trakt.tv/shows/tales-from-the-crypt/seasons/1/episodes/3 #TalesFromTheCrypt #trakt
Tales from the Crypt 1x03 "Lover Come Hack to Me"

Charles marries Peggy but only for her money, planning to kill her and make it look like an accident. One night, things change when her dead mother pays a visit and Peggy shows Charles her own family tradition.

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This looks like the beginning of a mediocre #TalesFromTheCrypt episode. 🤔

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The current rock and roll scene be like : 💀🎸

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Tales from the Crypt 1x02 "Only Sin Deep"

A call girl goes to a pawnshop to rob him of his jewelry. Instead the owner offers her 10,000 dollars for her beauty. She sells her beauty and lands a new job but discovers she is aging very fast.

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Je commence à regarder Tales from the Crypt 1x01 "The Man Who Was Death / And All Through the House / Dig That Cat... He's Real Gone" #EnRegardant https://trakt.tv/shows/tales-from-the-crypt/seasons/1/episodes/1 #TalesFromTheCrypt #trakt
Tales from the Crypt 1x01 "The Man Who Was Death / And All Through the House / Dig That Cat... He's Real Gone"

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.

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💀 Tales from the Crypt (1972) — 5 chilling tales of karma and horror, all tied together by the sinister Crypt Keeper. Which story freaked you out the most? 🪦

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I love Tales From the Crypt. I have for my entire life ever since I saw the Crypt Keeper bust out of a coffin the HBO series being rerun on the USA network (ah, memories).

Later I found out they made junior novelizations of stories featured in even older comic books.

Those books…

Listen: people really latched onto fairy tales but I missed that boat. I wasn’t raised with actual morality tales with violent repercussions of missteps - I was raised on Disney.

So a comic series that had moral lessons framed in horror where people got their just desserts was… well, it was awesome.

And I think if people wanted to try to trace back my love of philosophy and ethics, it would start right there with TFtC.

It was also a really interesting part in comic book history because it basically inspired the witch hunt from lazy parents looking to blame an external source for their kids being dickheads. Which led to *shudder* Silver Age comics. Goofy stuff.

Anyway, I guess they rebooted the TFtC comic and I was really excited to read it.

But then I read it.

Yeesh.

I don’t know what’s so hard about morality tales. Almost every story feels more like it belonged in Mad Magazine, not a horror comic.

There is one exception. One story that actually had teeth, but it was a weird duck.

The premise was that a guy was being tormented over and over in the afterlife because (it turns out) he was a suicide bomber and the victims in the bus he blew up get to deal with him for eternity.

So I guess the moral is don’t blow up a bus - or at least not while you’re in it as well.

As much as I love TFtC, this feels like a big swing and a miss.

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