There was a time when “Tales from the Crypt” was the jewel in HBO’s crown. Primarily based on ultra-gory, super-lascivious EC Comics from the Fifties, “Tales from the Crypt” was a depraved, bloody anthology collection that boasted “Twilight Zone”-like morality tales, solely with extra cussing, intercourse, gore, and nudity. The collection was hosted by a pun-enthused rotting corpse known as the Cryptkeeper, voiced by John Kassir, and he would learn tales out of his fortress basement, desirous to see the protagonists get dismembered. The collection was an enormous hit, and it attracted gigantic stars regularly. Tom Hanks appeared on the present, and Arnold schwarzenegged directed one. Certainly, throw a rock in a room filled with actors who have been lively within the early Nineties, and you may hit somebody who was on “Tales from the Crypt.”
Someway this nasty little present grew to become one of many flagship exhibits of HBO within the Nineties, and it spawned a kingdom of merch, pinball machines, toys, a Christmas report, and (finally) films. Certainly, it was profitable sufficient to encourage a number of spinoffs. The kiddies have been handled to the animated collection “Tales from the Cryptkeeper” in addition to the “Double Dare”-like sport present “Secrets and techniques of the Crytpkeeper’s Haunted Home.” In 1997, there was a short-lived sci-fi spinoff known as “Perversions of Science,” additionally based mostly on old-school EC Comics. That present was hosted by an oversexed CGI android named Chrome (Maureen Teefy).
Few could bear in mind, although, the tried 1992 “Crypt” spinoff known as “Two-Fisted Tales.” It, too, was based mostly on Fifties EC Comics, particularly its well-liked battle, Western, and motion titles. The star lineup of “Crypt” producers — that’s: Richard Donner, Walter Hill, Joel Silver, and Robert Zemeckis – constructed a TV pilot for “Two-Fisted Tales” constructed of three 30-minute segments. The pilot starred such actors as Brad Pitt, David Morse, Dan Aykroyd, and Kirk Douglas. William Sadler performed the host, Mr. Rush, the ghost of a Western gunslinger.
The pilot, sadly, was by no means picked up, and solely aired as soon as in 1992 as a TV film.
