Tales from the Crypt: Season 7

1996 · 13 episodes · ★ 5.7

What Season 7 of Tales from the Crypt

The seventh season of Tales from the Crypt premieres on HBO on April 19, 1996 and runs through July 19 with thirteen episodes. As in the rest of the anthology, each story adapts a comic published by EC Comics in the 1950s, and the Crypt Keeper introduces it with irony and gruesome detail. The stories don't share characters, so each episode starts from scratch. Siblings must search for a missing brother to claim a fortune, three sisters crushed by debt receive a monkey's paw, and a novelist fears her jealous husband. Two Nazis, one a traitor and the other betrayed, become trapped in a prison. Add to that thieves, advertising executives, and a screenwriter accused of murder.

13episodes

Apr 19, 1996premiered

Jul 19, 1996latest episode

5.7 hrtotal runtime

Season 7 Episodes

7x01 Fatal Caper
Apr 19, 1996 · 29 min · ★ 6.5
Two adult brothers come to blows over the the fortune of their wealthy father, whose interests are protected by a lovely young woman with questionable loyalties.
Directed by: Bob Hoskins · Written by: Gilbert Adler, A L Katz, Colman deKay · Starring: Natasha Richardson, Bob Hoskins, Greg Wise, James Saxon
7x02 Last Respects
Apr 26, 1996 · 25 min · ★ 5.7
Three bickering sisters left in charge of their late father's struggling curiosity shop come into possession of a cursed monkey's paw, and try to use it to their advantage - with deadly results.
Directing: Freddie Francis · Writing: Scott Nimerfro · Starring: Dulcie Gray, Julie Cox, Emma Samms, Kerry Fox
7x03 A Slight Case of Murder
May 3, 1996 · 27 min · ★ 6.1
A game of cat and mouse ensues between a female mystery novelist and her jealous former husband when he accuses her of having a love affair with her nosy neighbor's son.
Directed by: Brian Helgeland · Written by: Brian Helgeland · Starring: Patrick Barlow, Elizabeth Spriggs, Christopher Cazenove, Francesca Annis
7x04 Escape
May 17, 1996 · 26 min · ★ 5.7
A traitor in the second World War is restricted to a prison camp and one of the men he betrayed is transported to the camp and promises to reveal his identity.
Directing: Peter MacDonald · Writing: Gilbert Adler, A L Katz · Starring: Al Hunter Ashton, Martin Kemp, Roy Dotrice, Murray McArthur
7x05 Horror in the Night
May 24, 1996 · 27 min · ★ 6.7
A double-crossing jewel thief is shot and hides out in a hotel where he starts to hallucinate about a mysterious beautiful woman.
Directed by: Russell Mulcahy · Written by: John Harrison · Starring: Elizabeth McGovern, Ronan Vibert, Edward Tudor-Pole, James Wilby
7x06 Cold War
May 31, 1996 · 26 min · ★ 6.5
After losing their friend Cutter in a botched robbery, Ford and Cammy, a wild young Londoner crime couple, split up and Cammy finds a new lover, Jimmy. Jealous, Ford shoots him and the trio discovers something shocking about one another.
Directing: Andrew Morahan · Writing: Scott Nimerfro · Starring: Colin Salmon, Jane Horrocks, John Salthouse, Ewan McGregor
7x07 The Kidnapper
Jun 7, 1996 · 25 min · ★ 5.0
A young man takes in a pregnant woman and falls in love with her but becomes jealous when her baby is born so he sets out to get rid of the kid forever.
Directed by: James H. Spencer · Written by: Scott Nimerfro, John Harrison · Starring: Julia Sawalha, Serena Gordon, Steve Coogan, Tim Stern
7x08 Report from the Grave
Jun 14, 1996 · 27 min · ★ 5.3
A scientist named Elliot invents a way to read memories of the dead. To test the device, Elliot and his girlfriend Arianne break into the crypt of a dead serial killer.
Directing: William Malone · Writing: William Malone · Starring: Roger Ashton-Griffiths, James Frain, Siobhan Flynn, Jonathan Firth
7x09 Smoke Wrings
Jun 21, 1996 · 26 min · ★ 5.5
A young man with a strange device is hired onto an advertising company by an esteemed executive--but what the exec doesn't know is that the young man is in cahoots with her enraged ex-partner who is out for revenge.
Directing: Mandie Fletcher · Writing: Lisa Sandoval · Starring: Daniel Craig, Ute Lemper, Gayle Hunnicutt, Denis Lawson
7x10 About Face
Jun 28, 1996 · 26 min · ★ 4.9
A sleazy minister in Victorian England gets a nasty surprise when he discovers he previously fathered twin daughters.
Directed by: Thomas E. Sanders · Written by: Gilbert Adler, A L Katz, Larry Wilson · Starring: Finty Williams, Anthony Andrews, Anna Friel, Pip Torrens
7x11 Confession
Jul 5, 1996 · 28 min · ★ 7.0
Evans, a sly horror screenwriter suspected in a series of grisly murders of women whose heads were taken by the killer as trophies is interrogated by Jack Lynch, a clever hardboiled homicide detective whom every cop idolizes.
Directed by: Peter Hewitt · Written by: Scott Nimerfro · Starring: Ciarán Hinds, Alun Armstrong, Suzy Eddie Izzard, John Benfield
7x12 Ear Today... Gone Tomorrow
Jul 12, 1996 · 27 min · ★ 4.9
A greedy safe cracker with a slight hearing loss gets entangled in a game between a mobster and his beautiful, exotic wife and ends up getting the auditory system he could only dream of. But there's a price.
Directing: Christopher Hart · Writing: Ed Tapia · Starring: Richard Johnson, Gretchen Palmer, Phil Davis, Robert Lindsay
7x13 The Third Pig Season Finale
Jul 19, 1996 · 25 min · ★ 4.7
In this cartoon version of the Three Little Pigs story, Dudly, the smart pig, is framed for the murders of his brothers and sentenced to death. But, his brothers' spirits help him seek revenge on the wolf.
Directing: Patrick A. Ventura, Bill Kopp · Writing: Bill Kopp · Starring: Cam Clarke, Brad Garrett, Bobcat Goldthwait, Charlie Adler