Tales from the Crypt: Season 3

1991 · 12 episodes · ★ 5.7

What Season 3 of Tales from the Crypt

The third season of Tales from the Crypt premiered on June 15, 1991 and ended on August 28, 1991, with a total of 14 episodes.

12episodes

Jun 15, 1991released

Aug 28, 1991final episode

6.7 hrtotal runtime

Season 3 Episodes

3x01 Loved to Death / Carrion Death / The Trap
Jun 15, 1991 · 80 min · ★ 5.0
In Los Angeles, the aspirant screenwriter Edward Foster from Indiana has a crush on his neighbor Miranda Singer. However, the bimbo Miranda is an aspirant actress and gold digger and does not give attention to Edward. His unrequited love calls the attention of his creepy landlord Mr. Stronham that offers Edward a love potion to seduce Miranda. Will the potion work?A sadistic serial killer has unforeseen complications when pursued by a determined motorcycle cop in a barren desert.Indebted unhappy married couple, Lou and Irene, commit a life insurance fraud. Lou's brother Billy helps him fake his death and leave for Mexico. But Irene and Billy fall in love and when Lou returns, they claim they don't know him.
Directing: Tom Mankiewicz, Steven E. de Souza · Writing: Steven E. de Souza, John Mankiewicz, Joe Minion · Starring: Kyle MacLachlan, George DelHoyo, Bruce McGill, Teri Garr
3x02 Abra Cadaver
Jun 19, 1991 · 30 min · ★ 5.5
Carl and Marty are siblings who work at a hospital. Carl shows Marty his new way of proving that the brain lives after the body dies. The whole thing turns out to be a prank but the shock of the joke gives Marty a heart attack. Years later Marty hasn't forgiven Carl and plans a deadly revenge. Marty then reveals that it was an act of revenge on Carl and the whole thing was a joke ... or was it?
Directing: Stephen Hopkins · Writing: Jim Birge · Starring: Tony Goldwyn, Beau Bridges, Hugh Holub, Peter Schuck
3x03 Top Billing
Jun 26, 1991 · 28 min · ★ 6.8
Barry Blye is a frustrated actor who will do anything to get a part. He's been rejected by every acting company because he doesn't have the right look. Bad luck follows him all over. First his girlfriend breaks up with him. Then he's kicked out of his apartment. Then his old rival Winton Robins, who has ""the look"", gets a part in a weird theater's production of Hamlet. Barry goes into a frustrated rage and strangles him to death to take the part. He is shocked when he learns that the theater is really a mental hospital.
Directing: Todd Holland · Writing: Myles Berkowitz · Starring: Kimmy Robertson, Louise Fletcher, John Astin, Sandra Bernhard
3x04 Dead Wait
Jul 3, 1991 · 30 min · ★ 5.2
Red is a low life crook who is looking for a black pearl. He finds that it's on a island belonging to an ailing millionaire. He plans with the millionaire's mistress to steal the pearl but she turns on him. Fortunately a voodoo priestess comes to the rescue but she has something special for him that he'll never forget.
Directing: Tobe Hooper · Writing: Gilbert Adler, A L Katz · Starring: Vanity, James Remar, John Rhys-Davies, Whoopi Goldberg
3x05 The Reluctant Vampire
Jul 10, 1991 · 30 min · ★ 6.2
A vampire is working at a blood bank as a night watchman. However, when the blood seems to be running low the vampire returns to getting blood the old fashion way. When the owner arrives at the vampire's lair he tries to black mail him, but as fate as would have it, the vampire's sexy secretary shows up and knocks him into the vampire's coffin. Some vampire hunters mistake him for the vampire and he gets a wonderful juicy stake.
Directing: Elliot Silverstein · Writing: Terry Black · Starring: Paul Gleason, Sandra Dickinson, George Wendt, Malcolm McDowell
3x06 Easel Kill Ya
Jul 17, 1991 · 28 min · ★ 6.0
Jack is an artist who has a strange talent for painting pictures of corpses. One day he falls for a beautiful girl who tempts him into painting more. Jack turns over a new leaf for his love. One day she is the victim of a hit and run. Jack kills a man outside the hospital to pay for her operation but she dies because the man he killed was the man who was going to perform her operation.
Directing: John Harrison · Writing: Larry Wilson · Starring: Tim Roth, William Atherton, Debra Mooney, Mary McKuen
3x07 Undertaking Palor
Jul 24, 1991 · 26 min · ★ 6.5
Four boys who have a talent for video taping uncover some weird things at the undertaker's. Soon revenge comes when one the boy's father becomes a victim. They begin video taping the undertaker's evil deeds which he soon discovers in horror.
Directing: Michael Thau · Writing: Ron Finley · Starring: Ke Huy Quan, Graham Jarvis, Aron Eisenberg, Jason Marsden
3x08 Mournin' Mess
Jul 31, 1991 · 27 min · ★ 5.8
A regretful reporter is investigating some murders of homeless people. He meets up with a man who is the prime suspect in the murders but when he fails to deliver a story his boss fires him. He then discovers that the new cemetery by a group called Ghouls is the cause for all the deaths in the neighborhood and guess who's the next victim.
Directing: Manny Coto · Writing: Manny Coto · Starring: Vincent Schiavelli, Rita Wilson, Steven Weber, Ally Walker
3x09 Split Second
Aug 7, 1991 · 28 min · ★ 5.6
Dixon is a lumberjack who marries a sexy barmaid named Liz Kelly. Soon after, he turns from sweet Dr. Jekyll into cruel Mr. Hyde. He is jealous of her when the boys find her attractive. One day a new lumberjack comes to town and Liz finds Ted attractive. When he catches them in the bed together, Dixon goes in a jealous rage and whacks him blinding him. The boys help him seek revenge on Dixon and Liz.
Directing: Russell Mulcahy · Writing: Richard Christian Matheson · Starring: Michelle Johnson, Billy Wirth, Brion James, Tony Pierce
3x10 Deadline
Aug 14, 1991 · 28 min · ★ 4.1
Charlie Mackenzie is an out of work reporter who wants his life back. One night while at his favorite bar hang out, Charlie meets a beautiful women who seems to turn his life around. He gets his job back, but his boss agrees to rehire him only if Charlie can bring in a murder story soon. One night while at Greek diner he overhears the owner strangle his girlfriend. Charlie interviews him and goes to where the body is, but she is not dead. Charlie discovers that it's his girlfriend Vicky. To make sure the paper's got enough evidence, he strangles her to death but the shock of the murder lands him in a mental hospital inside a padded cell.
Directing: Walter Hill · Writing: Walter Hill, Mae Woods · Starring: Rutanya Alda, Richard Jordan, Richard Herd, John Capodice
3x11 Spoiled
Aug 21, 1991 · 29 min · ★ 4.5
Janet is a soap opera loving woman. She likes to watch soaps everyday. She even imitates them. One day she misses the end of her favorite soap opera when the TV goes on the fritz. She decides to get cable soon. Janet finds her self falling for the attractive cable installer. When her Surgeon husband discovers what's going on, he decides to make them part of his experiment.
Directing: Andy Wolk · Writing: Doug Ronning, Connie Johnson · Starring: Annabelle Gurwitch, Anita Morris, Faye Grant, Tristan Rogers
3x12 Yellow Season Finale
Aug 28, 1991 · 40 min · ★ 7.7
The general is ashamed when he learns that the rumors of the Lt. (who is also his son) being a coward are true. He offers his son a way out of the army if he can take part in one last mission. The Lt. panics and leaves while his comrades are killed by the enemy. His father sentences him to die by firing squad. Fortunately the guns are loaded with blanks, or so he says.
Directing: Robert Zemeckis · Writing: Gilbert Adler, A L Katz, John Thomas · Starring: Eric Douglas, Lance Henriksen, Kirk Douglas, Dan Aykroyd