#Secret of the dark crypt series
The Cryptkeeper puppet was considered as the host for the series but it was ultimately decided that it might frighten youngsters, so instead an animated version was created John Kassir reprised his role.
Nelvana employed a child psychologist to review the scripts to ensure the episodes would be suitable for young viewers. Produced by Nelvana for ABC in the United States and YTV in Canada, the violence of the prime time series was substantially toned down and the gore was omitted. In 1993, a Saturday morning cartoon called Tales from the Cryptkeeper was spun off from the HBO series. The film Ritual (2002) was not produced as a Tales from the Crypt film, but is considered to be a third entry in the Tales series. Three weeks before starting prep on Demon Knight's intended follow up - a psychological thriller called "Dead Easy" - Universal changed its mind, canceled "Dead Easy" and had the creative team make Tales From The Crypt Presents: Bordello Of Blood instead. With a screenplay by Ethan Reiff, Cyrus Vorhis and Mark Bishop, Demon Knight became a commercial success. The first Crypt branded feature was Tales From The Crypt Presents Demon Knight (1995). The success of the series led Universal Pictures to make a three picture deal with the Crypt Partners to produce three Crypt-branded feature films. Comic book cover art was created by Mike Vosburg and Shawn McManus. Each episode was self-contained, and was bookended by an outro sequence, again involving the Cryptkeeper. The wisecracking Cryptkeeper (performed by puppeteers like Van Snowden, Mike Elizalde, Frank Charles Lutkus, Patty Maloney, David Arthur Nelson, Anton Rupprecht, Shaun Smith, David Stinnent, Mike Trcic, and Brock Winkless, and voiced by John Kassir) would then introduce the episode with intentionally hackneyed puns, e.g., his frequent greeting to viewers: "Hello, Boils and Ghouls" or "Hello, Kiddies". The Cryptkeeper is depicted as an animated corpse, as opposed to the original comics in which he was a living human being. The Cryptkeeper then pops out from his coffin, cackling wildly green slime pours down over the screen as the main title appears. Once inside, the camera pans down from the foyer to the hallways and stairways, finally descending into the basement. Main article: List of Tales from the Crypt episodesĮach episode begins with a tracking shot leading to the front door of the decrepit mansion of the Cryptkeeper, the show's host. While the series began production in the United States, in the final season filming moved to the United Kingdom, resulting in episodes which revolved around British characters. The series is subsequently edited for such content when broadcast in syndication or on basic cable. As a result, HBO allowed the series to include content that had not appeared in most television series up to that time, such as graphic violence, profanity, sexual activity, and nudity.
#Secret of the dark crypt full
The series is hosted by the Cryptkeeper, a wisecracking corpse performed by puppeteers and voiced by John Kassir.īecause it was aired on HBO, a premium cable television channel, Tales from the Crypt was allowed to have full freedom from censorship by network standards and practices. The show's title is based on the 1950s EC Comics series of the same name and most of the content originated in that comic or other EC Comics of the time ( The Haunt of Fear, The Vault of Horror, Crime SuspenStories, Shock SuspenStories, and Two-Fisted Tales). Adler and Katz ran Crypt through to its conclusion five seasons and 69 episodes later. Beginning the show's third season, HBO and the Crypt Partners hired Gilbert Adler and A L Katz to take over the show. The first two seasons were produced by William Teitler. It was executive produced by Joel Silver, Richard Donner, Robert Zemeckis, Walter Hill and David Giler (the Crypt Partners). Tales from the Crypt, sometimes titled HBO's Tales from the Crypt, is an American horror anthology television series that ran from June 10, 1989, to July 19, 1996, on the premium cable channel HBO for seven seasons with a total of 93 episodes. Secrets of the Cryptkeeper's Haunted House
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