Tales From the Crypt
Broadcast Years: 2000
Circulating Episodes: 8
Produced by Seeing Ear Theater and originally offered on the Sci Fi Channel’s web site, the radio version of Tales From the Crypt is hosted by the same Crypt-Keeper (the voice of John Kassir) as on the HBO television show. The tales are adaptations of original EC comics stories. The programmes are targeted at adults and should be considered ‘R’ rated, many depicting not only gruesome murder, but creaky bed-springs as well.
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By the Fright of the Silvery Moon
(John Ritter) Something is killing cattle, then a farmer’s dog, then it starts on people. Is it the environmentalists, aliens, or a werewolf? [Adapted from TFTC #19]
Carrion Death
(Campbell Scott) A man escapes prison cuffed to his partner in crime. Until he kills him. Lost in the desert, partner in a wheel-barrow, the convict starts talking to the birds. Who eat him. [Adapted from Shock SuspenStories #9]
Fare Tonight, Followed by Increasing Clottiness
(Keith David) A cab driver helps Profesor Fleagle (vampire hunter) track down vampires who are unionizing! The cabbie helps because, as a brahmaparusha, he doesn’t want competition! Lots of squishing stakes! [Adapted from TFTC #6]
Isle of Death, The
(Gina Gershon, Luke Perry) An entrepreneur and his team crash on an island and are forced to play The Most Dangerous Game. Only their extensive knowledge of the classics can save them! [Adapted from Vault of Horror #13]
Little Stranger, A
A minister is asked to perform a wedding ceremony for a werewolf and a vampiress. Their underworld offspring envisions a new horizon [Adapted (loosely) From Haunt of Fear #14]
This Trick’ll Kill You
Two cons dodge the heat by joining the circus. They cut apart an addition to their performance during a song, but they really get hung up on the rope act. [Adapted from TFTC #33]
Tight Grip
(Tim Curry) A tale about a violin prodigy, as told by the one who “saves” her. Many plot twists lead us to her final, watery grave. And vengeance. Always vengeance. [Adapted from TFTC #22]
Zombie!
(Oliver Platt) A tale of Voodoo and classic zombies. A mambo curses a man who has filched money from starving Haitians, but her priestess-in-training falls in love. The man tries to make good on his thieving as a cure, but an overdose of tea brings the drums full circle. [Adapted From Vault of Horror #28]
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