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Tales from the Crypt
MEANRANK
78/100
Every rating
Split
Lowest is Metacritic critics on 56, highest is Rotten Tomatoes viewers on 90. Critics average 69, everyone else 82.
See the TV shows the platforms disagree about most →"Tales from the Crypt" was a 1989 horror story anthology series based on the gruesome E.C. comic books of the 1950s presented by the legendary "Crypt Keeper", a sinister ghoul obsessed with gallows humor and horrific puns.
Details
- Created by
- Steven Dodd, William M. Gaines
- Released
- 10 June 1989
- Country
- United States
- Language
- English
- Episode length
- 25 min
- Rated
- TV-MA
- Episodes
- 81 across 7 seasons
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Cast
Full cast (22) →
Ronald (voice) (uncredited) / Dudley (voice) / Bailiff (voice) / Mr. Byrd's Puppet (uncredited)
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Trailer — Tales from the Crypt
×Full cast — Tales from the Crypt
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Ronald (voice) (uncredited) / Dudley (voice) / Bailiff (voice) / Mr. Byrd's Puppet (uncredited)
Doctor (segment "The Switch") / Bartender (segment "Cutting Cards") / Vic (segment "The Man Who Was Death")
