Simplistic Reviews Presents: Simply Horrifying featuring Tales from the Crypt Ep. 01
October is here and now is the time for the creeps and ghouls to infest your web browsers, and I"m not just talking about those adult sites that you frequent when your wife or husband aren't around. No judgement. But October is that time of the year where things get a little spooky and Simplistic Reviews welcomes everything creepy with open arms, paws, claws, webbed-feet, anything else that some mythical or murderous creature might have to grab things with.
HBO's "Tales from the Crypt" was a show that paid homage to the EC Comics from the 1950s. Grisly images, paired with tales of morality which caught the ire of the US Government who went as far as to hold Senate Hearings about how comics were corrupting the nation's youth and driving a hearse straight to Hell. Sounds like my type of comic books. William Gaines, creator of the Tales from the Crypt comic line, was a pioneer in the industry and you can call him the Stan Lee of Horror Comics. Come 1989, the geniuses at HBO decided it was time to pay tribute to EC and create a weekly half-horror horror show every Sunday, aptly named, "Tales from the Crypt." Running nearly 100 episodes, from 1989 to 1995, "Tales" were comics come to life way before we had the Marvel Comics films.
As this series progresses, your host, Matt, will present his favorite episodes from all seven seasons. The episodes will not be ranked and will only be classified by the season in which they appeared. It's like trying to pick your favorite child, unless its the child that cries in public, throws food on the floor, and wets the bed. That one is a winner!
So, in this first installment, "And All Through the House" is explained away. There are a lot of cool aspects to this episode, namely, director Robert Zemeckis helmed this episode, and this is the only episode from the series that uses Christmas as the backdrop.
Check out the video companion above and prepare to enter "Tales from the Crypt." If you dare.......