About this Episode
We're in week two of Horror Month, and our guest Jarret Blinkhorn is here to talks us through the HBO horror/comedy anthology, Tales From the Crypt.
Based of the EC Comics that scandalized parents and senators in the mid-twentieth century, TFTC ran for seven seasons from 1989-1996 and translated comics into a super stylish, morally-depraved Twilight Zone, swapping out suave and detatched host Rod Serling for a rotting corpse of a Crypt Keeper who seems more interested in his characters getting mangled than learning a lesson. We focus on four episodes - Television Terror, Cutting Cards, And All Through the House, and The Ventriloquist's Dummy - to get a sense of what made the show a wicked delight: great guest directors and stars, a short-and-sweet run time, and a willingness to make big choices to capture the pulpy sleaze and atmosphere that made the comics such a scandal. And puns. Lots and lots of puns.