Tales from the Crypt is no Sopranos, but in its day it was HBO’s most popular original series. Based on the EC Horror comics of the 1940s and 1950s, these short shock-and-suspense stories with twist (and often twisted)…
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Tales from the Crypt: Robert Zemeckis Collection
The Twilight Zone, Vol. 21
Volume 21 of The Twilight Zone DVD collection is a real keeper, beginning with “Mirror Image,” a classic first-season episode starring Vera Miles as a woman whose sense of reality is shattered when she encounters her exact double…
The Twilight Zone, Vol. 22
Twilight Zone, Vol. 22 kicks off with “A World of Difference,” a memorable episode written by frequent contributor Richard Matheson. The story gives Howard Duff a rare opportunity to prove his underrated talent, playing an average businessman who…
The Twilight Zone, Vol. 23
An above-average edition in the Twilight Zone DVD collection, Volume 23 begins with “Long Live Walter Jameson,” starring Kevin McCarthy as a Methuselah-like history teacher whose lessons are based on personal experience–but his secret of longevity is discovered…
The Twilight Zone, Vol. 15
At least one of the episodes collected on volume 15 of The Twilight Zone DVD offerings is an all-time classic–if by classic we mean the kind of show that still produces a shudder of recognition years after viewing.…
The Twilight Zone, Vol. 20
Volume 20 of The Twilight Zone DVD collection opens with “Elegy,” a first-season episode in which three astronauts are forced to land on an Earthlike asteroid where all of the people seem frozen in time. The only exception…
The X-Files Mythology: Vol. 4 – Super Soldiers
The fourth and final volume of the X-Files Mythology series picks up in season 8, with Agent John Doggett (Robert Patrick of Terminator 2) entrenched as the partner of Agent Dana Scully (Gillian Anderson). That leads to some…
The Twilight Zone, Vol. 27
“He’s Alive”
Dennis Hopper (Easy Rider, Blue Velvet) turns in a very powerful and charismatic performance as an American neo-Nazi, Peter Vollmer, bent on doing what he has to do in order to get his message of hatemongering…
Tales from the Crypt Presents Bordello of Blood
Private eye Rafe Guttman (Dennis Miller) is hired by repressed, born-again Katherine (Erika Eleniak) to find her missing bad-boy brother. The trail leads him to a whorehouse run by a thousand-year-old vampire (Angie Everhart) and secretly backed by…
The Twilight Zone, Vol. 36
“The Chaser”
Based on a story by John Collier, this comic tale of ill-gotten love features a spurned lover (George Grizzard) gaining the affections of his phlegmatic coquette (Patricia Barry) through the agency of a love potion–with not…

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