Product Details

• Actors: John Kassir, Diane DiLascio, Stephen Liska, Peter Onorati, Sherrie Rose
• Directors: Elliot Silverstein, John Harrison, John Herzfeld, Jonas McCord, Larry Wilson
• Format: Box set, Closed-captioned, Color, DVD, Subtitled, NTSC
• Language: English
• Subtitles: English, Spanish
• Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only. Read more about DVD formats.)
  
• Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
• Number of discs: 3
• Studio: Home Box Office (HBO)
• DVD Release Date: July 24, 2007
• Run Time: 370 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 3.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (18 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B000P0J0E2
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #19,204 in Movies & TV (See Bestsellers in Movies & TV)

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It's that time of fear again! So if you've been missing the Crypt Keeper, here's a chance to improve your aim. But be warned: It'll be a fright to the finish. The cadaverous cut-up is your host for a 15-episode die-gest based on classic horror comics from back in the day and featuring a parade of characters who are variously merciless, clueless, topless and headless. Hank Azaria, Shelley Hack, Isaac Hayes, Richard Lewis, John Lithgow, Wayne Newton, Isabella Rossellini, Rita Rudner and Humphrey Bogart (you read that right) are among the stars. And vampires, mad doctors, killers, ghosts and adulterers are eager to come out and play. We could tell you more, but that would be wrong. You do know rot from wrong, don't you?

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13 of 14 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Not as superb as previous seasons, but great regardless, April 25, 2007

By	N. Durham "Big Evil" (Philadelphia, PA) - See all my reviews (TOP 50 REVIEWER)    (REAL NAME)

The sixth season of HBO's smashing horror anthology Tales From the Crypt marked a slight decline in terms of both horror and fun for the show, but it's still great regardless. Surprisingly, some of the best episodes of this season feature less horror elements than one would expect, including "Only Skin Deep", which features a control freak (Stephen Liska) who gets a big Halloween surprise after a one night stand with a mask wearing stranger (Sherrie Rose), as well as "The Bribe", in which a fire marshal (Terry O'Quinn) goes to extreme measures to ensure his daughter (Kimberly Williams) stays out of a sleazy club run by Esai Morales and a pre-Oscar winning Benicio Del Toro. "Staired in Horror" features D.B. Sweeney as a con on the run who holds up the house of an elderly woman for the night, and gets a big surprise. "Doctor of Horror" is a great episode featuring Hank Azaria and Travis Tritt as two night guards trying to make a quick buck from a doctor (Austin Pendleton) who thinks he can discover and harvest the human soul, while "Comes the Dawn" features Michael Ironside and Bruce Payne as two poachers in Alaska who come across demonic vampires (this episode pre-dates Steve Niles' comic book and upcoming film adaptation 30 Days of Night in terms of it's central idea). The standout episode however comes from executive producer and director Robert Zemeckis, hot off the success of Forest Gump. Using the computer imagery technology he used in stock footage in that film, he re-creates the face and voice of legendary actor Humphrey Bogart in the ultra campy, and enjoyable, "You, Murderer"; which also features John Lithgow and Isabella Rossellini. However, this season also has it's share of misses, including "Let the Punishment Fit the Crime" with Catherine O'Hara as a big city lawyer in some small town, big time trouble, "The Pit" which is lacking in terms of everything except for Wayne Newton screen time, and "The Assassin", which has an outcome you'll see coming a mile away. All in all, while the sixth season of Tales From the Crypt may not be as excellent as any of the previous seasons before it, it's great regardless, and definitely worth picking up.

6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The penultimate season, June 26, 2007

By	wolfgang731 - See all my reviews

Though I would agree that the sixth season marked the beginning of the end (both literally and artistically/creatively) for the TFTC franchise, there is still much to enjoy here. The low point episode here would definitely have to be "The Pit" which is about as frightening or funny or clever as a Partridge Family re-run. Without question, my least favorite episode of the first six seasons. The 7th season is in a separate category as the series' journey across the pond rendered it a mind-numbing exercise in boredom and desperation, with only a couple of good episodes eking their way out of that uninspired bog.





Incidentally, a couple of reviewers reference Stephen Liska as the control freak on the losing side of a one night stand in "Only Skin Deep." That's incorrect, that role was played by Peter Onorati. No big whoop, I know, but just wanted to give credit where credit's due.





Personal favorites from this season are, in no particular order, as follows:





* Only Skin Deep


* Let the Punishment Fit the Crime


* Staired in Horror


* Revenge is the Nuts


* Comes the Dawn


* Doctor of Horror





And I don't care what anybody says, I like "The Assassin" even if it is predictable. I love the whole Donna Reed/Susie Homemaker shtick that Shelley Hack serves up so straight-faced and the clever way everyone was "offed." Good fun. Tales from the Crypt: The Complete Sixth Season

12 of 15 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Greetings, Fright Fiends!, April 27, 2007

By	Sky (New York) - See all my reviews (TOP 1000 REVIEWER)

The Tales From The Crypt series was some of the best television airing back in the final years of the 80s and into the early 90s. Deliberately over the top. Deliberately funny. Deliberately campy at times. Deliberately scary. Deliberately gory. Deliberately one of HBO's finest creations.

The episodes are all based on EC Comics of old...mostly from the self titled Tales From the Crypt, Haunt of Fear and Vault of Horror comic books. But I'd guess that 90% of you reading this already know that, and you're here as I am delighted that it is finally out on DVD.

For those that have not seen these wonderfully entertaining episodes of dark humor and horror...if you're into the genre this collection and any of the other HBO seasonal Tales From the Crypt releases are for you. Alas...by the sixth season the directorial effort and actor ambition had waned, and The Tales From The Crypt series was startin' to look a bit long in the fang.

Airing first in 1989 and finishing out in 1996, season six of the seven-season series follows season 5...where the producers should have initially considered bringing in some adaptations of modern short stories from the likes of Stephen King and Dean R. Koontz, because the best EC Comic stories were done in seasons one through four. But I guess the producers felt it was taboo to stray from the EC Comics classics. (In my review of Tales 5 {that mirrors this review almost exactly, with the exception of the individual episode puns} a commenter said that, "part of the TV deal with William Gaines was that all of the Tales From The Crypt episodes had to be based on EC Comics stories."

That's too bad, because the following episodes were good...but just good. Not great...like seasons 1 - 4.

Season 6 gives you:

"Let the Punishment Fit the Crime" -- Hey, I'm a lawyer...trust me.
"Only Skin Deep" -- Double bagger...c'mon...we've all had one.
"Whirlpool" -- Deja vu.
"Operation Friendship" -- Imaginary friends don't like brown nosers.
"Revenge Is the Nuts" -- Do you see what I see?
"The Bribe" -- You're playing with fire when you shut down lap dancing.
"The Pit" -- Danke Schoen, oh, Danke Schoen.
The Assassin -- I'm a Demon Knight, not an assasian!
Staired in Horror -- Baby I need your lovin'.
In the Groove -- ...This is Howard Stern on drugs.
Surprise Party -- History has a nasty way of repeating itself.
Doctor of Horror -- Ya gotta have soul, man.
Comes the Dawn -- Vampires suck.
99 & 44/100% Pure Horror -- I love myself.
You, Murderer -- Doctor, doctor...gimmme the news...

I'm a big Tales fan, but the "Add to Cart" button was a bit hard to press for season 6. These'll really kill ya!