Tales from the Crypt: Season #2

Tales from the Crypt

Season #2

💋💋Episode #1: Dead Right💋💋 – A money-grubbing waitress marries an obese man because a fortune-teller predicts that he will inherit a fortune and then die. After visiting a fortune teller, a gold-digging waitress marries a fat grotesque man in the belief he will inherit a million dollars then die. A gold-digging secretary follows the advice of a fortune teller and marries a slob of a man after being told that he will die shortly after inheriting a large sum of money, but the fortune teller’s prediction comes true in a way that the gold-digger herself did not see coming. Opening Segment: “I look into the future, my darlings… and for you, I see something… grotesque. It will sicken and disgust you! It’s me! Tonight’s tale is a sickening stab at suspense, about a gold digger who wanted big bucks to buy baubles and bangles. Look out, Cathy! I see might just buy the big one!” Cathy is a woman who works as a secretary in an office, one day during her lunch, out of curiosity she visits a fortune teller who tells her that she will lose her job but will immediately get another one. When she offers to tell her more, Cathy becomes upset with disbelief and storms out rudely. She returns late from lunch is caught talking trash about her boss, who immediately fires her. Depressed she goes to a restaurant and is offered a job as a waitress. Having realized the fortune teller’s predictions were accurate, she pays her another visit. This time she tells Cathy that she will marry a man she will soon meet and he will inherit a large sum of money shortly before dying. Cathy is excited about the prospect until she meets Charlie, whose description matches the man in the teller’s vision. Though horrified at his hideous looks and large body, she romances him and soon marries him. After three months of a horrible marriage in a rundown apartment and barely enough money to get by she decides she’s had enough and when the fortune teller can’t provide any answers to when she’s going to get her money, Cathy decides to leave Charlie. On her way home she stops at a store and is stunned to find that she is the one millionth customer and is handed a check for one million dollars. She storms home and forcibly tells Charlie off, telling him she is leaving him and insulting him viciously. Charlie snaps, grabbing a kitchen knife as Cathy tries to talk him down. It doesn’t work and she is violently stabbed to death. Charlie is arrested for the murder and convicted to die by lethal injection, but not before inheriting his fortune from his dead wife, therefore making the fortune teller’s prediction true. Closing Segment: “Poor Cathy… she did buy the big one… and that Charlie, what a cut-up. Still, he wasn’t sad in the end. You see, when Charlie got his just desserts, he requested seconds! And now, I predict the future… next week, you’ll be at the same time, same place, same station, for another hideous, hateful hall of horror.”

Cathy wants a rich and successful life and fast. She visits a medium who tells her she will meet a man who will inherit a lot of money and die in a violent way soon after. When she meets grossly overweight Charlie who informs her of his rich relatives, she promptly marries him. As it turns out, the medium is always right. In 1950, the secretary Cathy is a gold digger that wants to marry a wealthy man. When she visits the clairvoyant Madame Vorma, she predicts that Cathy will be fired from her job and find a new job on the same day. Things happen exactly as foretold by Vorma and Cathy visits her again. Now the medium tells her that she will marry a man that will inherit a fortune and die in a violent way immediately after. When Cathy meets the repulsive overweight Charlie Marno, she learns that he has a wealthy uncle. Cathy gets married to him and soon she finds that the prediction of Madame Vorma was correct. Cathy wants a rich and successful life and fast. She visits a medium who tells her she will meet a man who will inherit a lot of money and die in a violent way soon after. When she meets grossly overweight Charlie who informs her of his rich relatives, she promptly marries him. As it turns out, the medium is always right. Dead right. Just not exactly in the way Cathy was expecting… The Keeper of the Crypt says that audience will look at something disgusting: Himself. Then, he says that we are gonna be nauseated by the story of the day. Cathy is a secretary who is eager to become a gold digger. Her friend Sally from the office, has recommended her a medium. Madame Vorma says that Cathy will have a different job by the end of the night. Cathy thinks that that’s impossible, as her boss is out of time. Back at the office, she tells he friend what a loss of time the medium was and insults her boss. He had come back to the office, so he hears Cathy’s comment. He dismisses her not because of her rude comment, but because it took her an hour and a half to have lunch. Out on the street, the owner of a strip joint fires a waitress, so he calls out to Cathy asking her whether she wants a job. Cathy accepts and she realizes that Madame Vorma was right. Vorma tells her that she’ll marry a man who will inherit a fortune and he’ll die of a violent death. Cathy meets Charlie Marno, a fat man with a face full of spots. That man is a bit freaky and scares Cathy into running away. Vorma reassures Cathy on her future: She only has to find the man who will marry her, inherit the money and kick the bucket soon afterwards. Cathy and her friend enjoy thinking about the horrible ways Charlie may die in the future. Cathy and Charlie start going out: He is unkempt, dances terribly badly, laughs out loud, is always eating Chinese fast food, stamps on the table when he laughs… Once, Charlie kisses Cathy, she can’t help but throw up as soon as she thinks he’s not watching. Finally, he asks her to marry him. She insists on knowing his background and he mentions a rich uncle. Knowing that, Cathy promises to marry him. The wedding night is a nightmare for Cathy, but she has to abide, as she’s married to him now. He’s rude and disgusting and uses her as a housemat/housewife. She even turns to alcohol to put up with everything. She says that she has got a migraine not to have sex with him. Inquiring further about that uncle of his, he says that his uncle has got a family of his own. Cathy runs to Vorma to complain. The medium insists that she’s always right. Leaving the place, Cathy is the one-millionth customer and she has won one million dollars. She is overjoyed when reporters surround her. Cathy goes back home only to pack her things. She tells Charlie what she really thinks about him. Charlie wants to say to her one last thing, so he picks up a huge knife and kills her. He stabs her over and over again, as if he can’t have her, nobody will. A reporter tells about Cathy’s life: Her husband was sentenced to die on the electric chair, but he had inherited the money from Cathy, now dead. Another customer visits Madame Vorma to ask how much it is. Vorma says that it’s 20 dollars, payable in advance.

💋💋Episode #2: The Switch💋💋 – An elderly millionaire gets a mad doctor to give him the face, torso and limbs of a younger man to win the heart of the woman of his dreams. A rich elderly bachelor wants to impress a young woman by switching his body with a younger man. Unfortunately, becoming young again turns out to be very expensive. The millionaire Carlton Webster is infatuated by the gorgeous and young Linda who does not know that he is a wealthy man. When he proposes to her to get married, she tells him that he is too old for her and Carlton becomes obsessed with looking younger. He visits an infamous doctor that asks for one million dollars to switch his face with the younger Hans that will receive $900,000 dollars. When Carlton visits Linda again, she tells him that his torso is too old and the doctor now asks for two million dollars for a new surgery and his associate Hans again is the donator. But when Linda sees Carlton’s legs, she tells him that they are scrawny legs. Carlton goes to the doctor that asks for his last three million dollars for the surgery. Carlton becomes young with Hans’s body, but when he visits Linda, he finds that she has moved to a fancy neighborhood and soon he learns what she was looking for: Money, not looks. Opening Segment: In this opening, the Crypt Keeper is seen lifting a weight (which is femur with two skulls on the end), when Arnold Schwarzenegger himself shows up to encourage the Crypt Keeper to keep lifting weights because he doesn’t want to stay in that 90 pound body forever. Instead of the Crypt Keeper introducing the next story as always, Arnold takes a turn and opens the book to start the story. Crypt Keeper: “Welcome horror hooligans, this is your shiver chief. It’s disgusting what people will do to stay young. Arnold: What’s the matter with you? Want to keep that 90-pound corpse for the rest of your death? Keep pumping while I tell the story. Tonight’s story is about an old man who finds a new wrinkle in the fountain of youth. A twisted tale that we call “The Switch.” Arnold Schwarzenegger (himself) presses the Keeper of the Crypt to make exercise to keep young. He is going to tell the story of an old man who wanted to keep young as well. Carlton Webster is an old man with plenty of money. He is in love, but his butler Fulton recommends him to make sure that she loves him for himself, not for his money. Carlton needs a walking stick to walk, but the love of this young woman makes him feel younger, so he and his butler draw all the curtains. Linda doesn’t want to marry him as he’s too old and looks like her grandfather. However, Carlton doesn’t want to admit his failure to Fulton. The aesthetic surgery doctor Thorne is strongly recommended by other patients, says that he can only turn back time to a certain extent. As Carlton is not satisfied with that, the doctor sends him to another doctor. This new doctor asks for a million dollars. He says that he’ll pay $900,000 to the present “owner” of the nice young face Carlton Webster wants. Hans is really handsome, but very stupid as well. Linda is impressed by Carlton’s young face, but she rejects his old and “decrepit” body. Fulton says that he should think that she doesn’t really love him, but he convinces himself that love conquers all. The doctor asks for $2,000,000 dollars to get Carlton Webster a new torso. At first, he thinks it’s too much money, but in the end, he complies. Linda adores this hunky new body, but Carlton’s legs are wrinkled and skinny, as she discovers on the beach when he puts on a bathing suit. So, Carlton will have to let go of his mansion and Fulton – more a friend than an employee – to pay the last three million dollars – the “three” legs which will keep Linda satisfied. Carlton is now an Adonis but penniless. He runs to see Linda, but she moved to some fancy place uptown. Carlton hits a punk when he goes to meet Linda. Carlton asks Linda to marry him again. Linda wanted to marry for money and somebody who understood the value of it. Hans, with Carlton’s old body, has hired Fulton again and more importantly, has married Linda, who is perfectly satisfied with her success in life now. Closing Segment: The Crypt Keeper is back to close the story and mentions how the old man ended up with nothing despite being young again. Then he returns to work out again, but only this time, he wants to pump a recent victim’s body up. “Poor Carlton. Looks like he blew it. But no pain, no gain. I like a body that’s nice and strong. It’s your lucky day, fella. We want to pump you up.”

💋💋Episode #3: Cutting Cards💋💋 – Reno and Sam are a pair of hardcore gamblers who don’t play for fun. They challenge each other in a simple game of cards and the end result could be deadlier then then they could’ve ever bargained for. The Crypt Keeper introduces the episode. “You know kiddies, after a night of slithering through the sickening slime of my crawly crypt, I take a tip from the Marquis de Sade. He likes to unwind with a little red hot poker. Tonight’s tale from my collection of terror tomes is about a couple of real sharpies who’ll do anything for a stab at the jackpot. So, ante up, fellows. The game’s about to begin.” Reno Crevice and Sam Forney are two die-hard gamblers. As one of them has returned without a penny, they want to set the answer to the question of who’s a better gambler forever. First, they play Russian Roulette, but it seems that the gun is broken, or something is the matter with it, because the gun won’t be shot and kill anybody. So, they look for another way to settle the question. They play chop Poker and every time any one of them loses a game, one part of their bodies is cut off. So, little by little they play one hand and another and another one… of Poker. First, a finger, then another finger… Cut to the meeting hall of some hospital. Crevice and Forney are face to face, playing Chess. None of them has arms or legs, because they cut them all off as the game progressed. They are still mad at one another and the game of Chess becomes a big deal. Cut to the Crypt. The Crypt Keeper closes the broadcast. He is cooking and shows to the audience what he’s cooking: A bunch of fried human fingers. “I’ve heard of giving someone the finger, but this is ridiculous. But at the risk of going out on a limb, I’ve got to hand it to Crevice and Forney… they’d do anything to elbow their way to the top. Dinner time!” Gambling cowboy Reno Crevice returns home after spending a year in Las Vegas… only to head right for the city casino. After gaining access to a high stakes Poker table, he gets a drink at the bar. The bartender warns Reno about the chip leader Sam Forney, but the cowboy is fearless, due to several previous encounters with the man. The cowboy walks to the table to find Sam playing Solitaire by himself (after bankrupting every player in town). They exchange taunts – Reno had previously won $10,000 from Sam and Sam had won a Cadillac off of Reno (which he had to explain to his wife). It’s clear how lost from reality these two are every time they make an outrageous bet against each other. Reno wants to play a game, despite being broke; Sam agrees on the condition that Reno leaves town should he lose. They agree and both roll a pair of dice – each rolling two 6’s. Reno then boldly suggests they play Russian Roulette. While Sam is hesitant at first, he caves and says he has a gun in his car. They relocate to the parking lot to retrieve his gun. Sam puts a bullet in one of the chambers and one by one, they pull the trigger and pass the gun back and forth. Eventually, they get it down to the last chamber, but Reno finds out the bullet is a dud. The frustrated men accuse each other of cheating, but Sam recommends a new game for them to settle this: Chop Poker. The two gamblers play a game of Five Card Poker in a secluded spot with two bodyguards and a dealer watching over them. Reno wins the first hand (3 Queens over a two pair) and chops off Sam’s pinky finger with a meat cleaver. As the dealer shuffles, Reno laughs at how Sam can never shuffle again. Reno wins another hand and chops off Sam’s right ring finger. After this, he jokes about pickling Sam’s fingers in a jar to show to his friends. Sam is angry and in massive pain, but he wins the next hand. Reno cowardly tries to trade Sam one of his fingers back, but a determined Sam chops off Reno’s left index finger. Some time later, the two are in the hospital playing Checkers. Both are missing their arms. They get into another heated argument over who’s the better Checker player and who has the more luck. Sam threatens to “pass the gun” and the two lifetime enemies butt heads as the episode ends. Realizing the town isn’t big enough for the both of them, two rival high stakes gamblers face off against one another in deadly games of “Russian Roulette” and “Chop Poker.”

💋💋Episode #4: ‘Til Death💋💋 – Logan is an unscrupulous gold digger who would do anything to catch the right woman with lots of money, including dabble into Voodoo. When he meets Margaret, a sexy and rich widow on vacation, he immediately asks his partner, a Voodoo Priestess to conjure up a love potion for him which she takes unknowingly, she falls in love with him. How long will she love him for is the question? A hustling owner of a swampy plantation uses a Voodoo potion to gain the love of a rich woman but fails the directions and learns first-hand, love never dies. The gold-digging landowner of a Caribbean villa attempts to woo a haughty rich young woman with the aid of a potion made by his ex-lover, a Voodoo Priestess. But trouble ensues when he ignores the warnings about the potion. Logan Andrews (D.W. Moffett) is an ambitious businessman. He and his business partner Freddy (Aubrey Morris) talk about the possibility of opening a new luxurious hotel in a plot of land which Logan has bought. While they are talking about it, a psyche (Janet Hubert) disagrees with the possibility of using the land taken from the native tribe for commercial purposes which won’t respect the local culture and customs. The psyche does some Voodoo and suddenly, there appears some moving sands on Logan’s plot. They will swallow everything. That night, Logan is desperate for cash, because he will need loads and loads of money to build there. However, that night he meets Margaret Richardson (Pamela Glen), a recently widowed millionaire. She is snobbish, conceited and rude to everybody, in fact, she despises Logan and rejects to invest in the building of the hotel. Logan asks the psyche for help. She gives him a potion: If Margaret drinks from it once, she will fall in love with him for a short time; if she drinks from it twice, she will fall in love with him forever. Logan uses the potion. Margaret gets the hots from him suddenly, but after they make love that love disappears. Logan uses the potion twice and Margaret immediately gets a desperate obsession for him. She is jealous and looks possessed when the potion starts to work on her. Logan has to ask Freddy for some advice, as he can’t control Margaret. Margaret is dead now. He buries her. Logan is waiting happily. However, Margaret wakes up. She behaves as if nothing had happened before. She is as obsessed with Logan as before. Logan accepts Margaret who looks more energetic than ever, although he complains that there is a funny smell. The next morning, Logan gets terrified as Margaret’s skin starts to rot and peel off. Logan tries to run away from her. Margaret looks worse and worse by the second. She runs after him because of her undying love for Logan. Logan sets fire to her and puts her dead body on the moving sands of his plot of land. Still burning, Margaret is swallowed up. Logan breathes, but when he thinks everything is over, the disgusting skeleton of Margaret appears. The skeleton takes Logan with it, in proof of eternal love and both are swallowed by the sands, this time forever. The Crypt Keeper (John Kassir) talks about the undying lover.

“Ah! Welcome to my cozy crypt. Have I got a story for you! A tacky, tropical tale of love and lust, greed and ghouls and my personal favorite -death. But I’m warning you, it’s not a pretty picture. So, pack up your passport and prepare for this torrid tale of putrification in paradise. I’m sure you’ll find it appealing.” A gold-digging planation owner named Logan Andrews finds that the land is he is to build a fabulous hotel resort on is a huge quicksand swamp. To build on the land will cost a fortune, far more money than Logan has. So, he tries to land the biggest and richest catch of them all, an English woman named Margaret. When Margaret rejects him a few times, Logan gives up “traditional methods” and turns to the Voodoo powers of his jealous ex-girlfriend, named Psyche, a Voodoo High Priestess. Psyche gives Logan a love potion that will make anyone fall head over heels for him, but it comes with a warning, “Give her one drop, she’ll be your wife, but give her two drops she’ll be yours for life.” After Logan uses the tonic on Margaret, she winds up dying due to some meddling by his angry ex. After a while, Logan forgets his troubles with a bottle of booze and a trip to Margaret’s grave, where he meets none other than Margaret, who literally rises from the dead. As time progresses, Margaret starts smelling funny and her skin starts drying up. It turns out that she is still dead but has risen from the grave because her love is eternal, no matter what Logan does to try to kill her. When nothing works, Logan turns to suicide, but he awakens in Psyche’s bedroom where he learns that Margaret will always be his forever and ever. “Well, Psyche can work that old black magic on me anytime she wants. And how about Maggie? Girls like that are pretty hard to dig up. Anyway, looks like poor old Logan’s got himself a zombie. I think I’ll have one, too.”