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Greetings, Fright Fiends!
The Tales From The Crypt series was some of the best television airing back in the final years of the 80s and into the early 90s. Deliberately over the top. Deliberately funny. Deliberately campy at times. Deliberately scary. Deliberately gory. Deliberately one of HBO's finest creations. <
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>The episodes are all based on EC Comics of old...mostly from the self titled Tales From the Crypt, Haunt of Fear and Vault of Horror comic books. But I'd guess that 90% of you reading this already know that, and you're here as I am delighted that it is finally out on DVD. <
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>For those that have not seen these wonderfully entertaining episodes of dark humor and horror...if you're into the genre this collection and any of the other HBO seasonal Tales From the Crypt releases are for you. Alas...by the sixth season the directorial effort and actor ambition had waned, and The Tales From The Crypt series was startin' to look a bit long in the fang. <
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>Airing first in 1989 and finishing out in 1996, season six of the seven-season series follows season 5...where the producers should have initially considered bringing in some adaptations of modern short stories from the likes of Stephen King and Dean R. Koontz, because the best EC Comic stories were done in seasons one through four. But I guess the producers felt it was taboo to stray from the EC Comics classics. (In my review of Tales 5 {that mirrors this review almost exactly, with the exception of the individual episode puns} a commenter said that, "part of the TV deal with William Gaines was that all of the Tales From The Crypt episodes had to be based on EC Comics stories." <
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>That's too bad, because the following episodes were good...but just good. Not great...like seasons 1 - 4. <
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>Season 6 gives you: <
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>"Let the Punishment Fit the Crime" -- Hey, I'm a lawyer...trust me. <
>"Only Skin Deep" -- Double bagger...c'mon...we've all had one. <
>"Whirlpool" -- Deja vu. <
>"Operation Friendship" -- Imaginary friends don't like brown nosers. <
>"Revenge Is the Nuts" -- Do you see what I see? <
>"The Bribe" -- You're playing with fire when you shut down lap dancing. <
>"The Pit" -- Danke Schoen, oh, Danke Schoen. <
>The Assassin -- I'm a Demon Knight, not an assasian! <
>Staired in Horror -- Baby I need your lovin'. <
>In the Groove -- ...This is Howard Stern on drugs. <
>Surprise Party -- History has a nasty way of repeating itself. <
>Doctor of Horror -- Ya gotta have soul, man. <
>Comes the Dawn -- Vampires suck. <
>99 & 44/100% Pure Horror -- I love myself. <
>You, Murderer -- Doctor, doctor...gimmme the news... <
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>I'm a big Tales fan, but the "Add to Cart" button was a bit hard to press for season 6. These'll really kill ya! <
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Not as superb as previous seasons, but great regardless
The sixth season of HBO's smashing horror anthology Tales From the Crypt marked a slight decline in terms of both horror and fun for the show, but it's still great regardless. Surprisingly, some of the best episodes of this season feature less horror elements than one would expect, including "Only Skin Deep", which features a control freak (Stephen Liska) who gets a big Halloween surprise after a one night stand with a mask wearing stranger (Sherrie Rose), as well as "The Bribe", in which a fire marshal (Terry O'Quinn) goes to extreme measures to ensure his daughter (Kimberly Williams) stays out of a sleazy club run by Esai Morales and a pre-Oscar winning Benicio Del Toro. "Staired in Horror" features D.B. Sweeney as a con on the run who holds up the house of an elderly woman for the night, and gets a big surprise. "Doctor of Horror" is a great episode featuring Hank Azaria and Travis Tritt as two night guards trying to make a quick buck from a doctor (Austin Pendleton) who thinks he can discover and harvest the human soul, while "Comes the Dawn" features Michael Ironside and Bruce Payne as two poachers in Alaska who come across demonic vampires (this episode pre-dates Steve Niles' comic book and upcoming film adaptation 30 Days of Night in terms of it's central idea). The standout episode however comes from executive producer and director Robert Zemeckis, hot off the success of Forest Gump. Using the computer imagery technology he used in stock footage in that film, he re-creates the face and voice of legendary actor Humphrey Bogart in the ultra campy, and enjoyable, "You, Murderer"; which also features John Lithgow and Isabella Rossellini. However, this season also has it's share of misses, including "Let the Punishment Fit the Crime" with Catherine O'Hara as a big city lawyer in some small town, big time trouble, "The Pit" which is lacking in terms of everything except for Wayne Newton screen time, and "The Assassin", which has an outcome you'll see coming a mile away. All in all, while the sixth season of Tales From the Crypt may not be as excellent as any of the previous seasons before it, it's great regardless, and definitely worth picking up.

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Tales from the Crypt finally returns to DVD with the complete season 6!
July 24, 2007 is the date and it couldn't have come quicker. With only season 7 to go WB is one more closer to completing the run. As a fan of this groundbreaking anthology sourced from the original EC Comics material I'm very happy it's all making it's way to DVD. On tap for the release will be... <
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>*Let the Punishment Fit the Crime <
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>An ambulance-chasing lawyer finds herself in a nightmare court when she is hauled in for having too many digits on her license plate... <
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>Starring: Catherine O'Hara & Peter MacNicol <
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>*Only Skin Deep <
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>At a costume party, a young man falls in love with a sexy woman wearing a disturbing mask... <
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>Starring: Sherrie Rose & Stephen Liska <
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>*Whirlpool <
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>A lackluster comicbook artist finds herself trapped in a hellish world that constantly repeats itself... <
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>Starring: Rita Rudner & Richard Lewis <
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>*Operation Friendship <
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>Nelson is a computer genius who is letting his boss take credit for his ideas. Meanwhile his childhood imaginary pal Eddie tries to get Nelson to stand up to his bullying coworker... <
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>Starring: Megan Cavanaugh, Tate Donovan & Ethan Suplee <
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>*Revenge Is the Nuts <
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>A run-down shelter for the blind is owned by a cruel man. He abuses the patients there and won't give them respect until a new blind girl named Shelly arrives... <
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>Starring: Bibi Besch, Isaac Hayes & Teri Polo <
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>*The Bribe <
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>Zoeller is a fire marshal who wants a strip club closed down. He wants to get revenge on it's sneaky owner and his pal for letting his daughter dance there... <
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>Starring: Kimberly Williams-Paisley & Terry O'Quinn <
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>*The Pit <
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>Two men who are longtime rivals go head to head in a MMA match. But, the real fight isn't between them, it's between their feuding wives... <
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>Starring: Wayne Newton, Mark Dacascos, Marjean Holden, Debbe Dunning & Stoney Jackson <
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>*The Assassin <
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>Janet is a suburban wife of an ex-CIA assassin. When a group of operatives invade her home, they seem to think her husband is up to his old tricks again... <
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>Starring: Corey Feldman & Shelley Hack <
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>*Staired in Horror <
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>Clyde is a fugitive who holes up in a house occupied by an elderly woman. One night he finds an attractive woman upstairs, but he discovers it's the same woman... <
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>Starring: D.B. Sweeney & R. Lee Ermey <
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>*In the Groove <
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>Gary Grover is a frustrated talk radio DJ. His boss, who is also his sister, hires a sexy looker with a talent for talking dirty that makes Gary go ballistic... <
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>Starring: Rusty Schwimmer, Wendie Malick & Miguel Ferrer <
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>*Surprise Party <
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>A young man kills his father to inherit an old burned down house. When he arrives, he gets a very unusual surprise... <
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>Starring: Adam Storke & Bette Ford <
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>*Doctor of Horror <
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>Richard and Charlie are security guards working in a morgue. They are offered five hundred dollars by a doctor who is trying to capture the soul of each dying person before it goes to heaven... <
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>Starring: Hank Azaria, Travis Tritt & Ben Stein <
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>*Comes the Dawn <
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>Two poachers are out hunting bear in Alaska. They seek the help of a woman who leads them into a dorm... <
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>Starring: Bruce Payne, Michael Ironside & Vivian Wu <
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>*99 & 44/100% Pure Horror <
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>A narcissistic, young artist feels horribly threatened when her soap-magnate husband informs her that his company is letting her go... <
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>Starring: Bruce Davison & Cristi Conaway <
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>*You, Murderer <
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>Lou Spinielli is an ex-criminal who wants to escape from his past. He hires Oscar, a plastic surgeon to sculpt his face in the form of Humphrey Bogart's... <
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>Starring: Sherilyn Fenn, John Lithgow & Isabella Rossellini <
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>+ Extras in the form of "A virtual comic book of the "Whirlpool" episode". <
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>After 7/24/07 it will be 6 down and 1 to go until Crypt is completed!