The BEST episodes of Tales from the Crypt season 6

Every episode of Tales from the Crypt season 6, ranked from best to worst by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The best episodes of Tales from the Crypt season 6!

Based on the legendary and gruesome EC Comics from publisher William Gaines, this horror anthology featured stories of murder, the super natural, gore and humor and always had a twist ending of sorts. Some of Hollywood's biggest names took part, either working in front or behind the camera. Hosting duties fell to everyone's favorite decaying corpse, the Crypt Keeper. The success of this series spawned a Saturday morning cartoon series (Tales From the Cryptkeeper), a short lived Saturday morning gameshow on CBS (Secrets of the Cryptkeeper's Haunted House) and lots of merchandise. Two feature films (Demon Knight and Bordello of Blood) were also produced. Two other movies based on the EC Comics (Tales From the Crypt and The Vault of Horror) were released back in 1972 and 1973 respectively. But they are not connected to this series and will not be listed here! Tales from the Crypt has aired on HBO, Fox, in syndication and the Sci-Fi Channel. Most recently, the series has bee

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The Assassin
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7.86
167 votes

#1 - The Assassin

Season 6 - Episode 8 - Aired 12/7/1994

Janet is a suburban wife of an ex-CIA assassin. When a group of operatives invade her home, they seem to think her husband is up to his old tricks again. The leader tempts one of her men then kills him, then kills the other guy, then plans to do the same with Janet. But Janet has a nasty surprise for her that she will never forget.

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Only Skin Deep
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7.61
186 votes

#2 - Only Skin Deep

Season 6 - Episode 2 - Aired 10/31/1994

At a costume party, a young man falls in love with a sexy woman. They have a great time. He promises to keep quiet but the next day he spills the beans. The woman tells him not to be around while she's awake. He finds out that she's wearing that same mask. He tries to remove it only to learn that it's her horrible face. She gives him the most shocking punishment.

Directors: William Malone
Writer: Dick Beebe
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Staired in Horror
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7.60
141 votes

#3 - Staired in Horror

Season 6 - Episode 9 - Aired 12/14/1994

Clyde is a fugitive who holes up in a house occupied by an elderly woman. One night he finds an attractive woman upstairs, but he discovers it's the same woman. She tells him that a long time ago her spouse caught her having an affair and put a curse on the house. She must stay up stairs if she wants to be young forever. The same thing will happen to the man if he comes upstairs. The cops arrive and he goes upstairs to change his image but he finds himself getting weak and the woman turns back into a helpless infant unable to do anything but crawl.

Directors: Stephen Hopkins
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Let the Punishment Fit the Crime
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7.34
180 votes

#4 - Let the Punishment Fit the Crime

Season 6 - Episode 1 - Aired 10/31/1994

An ambulance-chasing lawyer finds herself in a nightmare court when she is hauled in for having too many digits on her license plate. She finds her self going through the court several times and they have a way of throwing the book at her. Little does she know, that her lawyer has been dismissed for being stuck in the court too long. He treats himself with the chair of doom but she must stay to take his place.

Directors: Russell Mulcahy
Writer: Ron Finley
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Doctor of Horror
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7.01
162 votes

#5 - Doctor of Horror

Season 6 - Episode 12 - Aired 1/4/1995

Richard and Charlie are security guards working in a morgue. They are offered five hundred dollars by a doctor who is trying to capture the soul of each dying person before it goes to heaven. When their boss figures out what's happening Richard is forced to kill him but he kills Charlie too. The doctor succeeds in capturing Charlie's soul. Charlie comes back out for revenge.

Directors: Larry Wilson
Writer: Larry Wilson
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The Bribe
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6.93
135 votes

#6 - The Bribe

Season 6 - Episode 6 - Aired 11/23/1994

Zoeller is a fire marshal who wants a strip club closed down. He wants to get revenge on it's sneaky owner and his pal for letting his offspring dance there. Zoeller bribes an arsonist to burn the place but after he does it, he discovers that she was also in there. Little does he know that his daughter wasn't in the club when the fire happened. She left early to get married with her boyfriend.

Directors: Ramon Menendez
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Operation Friendship
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6.92
170 votes

#7 - Operation Friendship

Season 6 - Episode 4 - Aired 11/9/1994

Nelson is a computer genius who is letting his boss take credit for his ideas. Meanwhile his childhood imaginary pal Eddie tries to get Nelson to stand up to his bullying coworker. That is, until Nelson falls in love with a beautiful next door neighbor. Eddie thinks that she will ruin their friendship, but Nelson tosses Eddies' good side out the window leaving Eddie to come back cold-hearted.

Directors: Roland Mesa
Writer: Rob Ross
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In the Groove
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6.89
132 votes

#8 - In the Groove

Season 6 - Episode 10 - Aired 12/21/1994

Gary Grover is a frustrated talk radio DJ. His boss, who is also his sister, hired a sexy looker with a talent for talking dirty. One day Gary goes ballistic and his boss fires him. Val suggests that he take matters into his own hands, but he's been set up.

Directors: Vincent Spano
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Surprise Party
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6.88
138 votes

#9 - Surprise Party

Season 6 - Episode 11 - Aired 12/28/1994

A young man kills his father to inherit an old burned down house. When he arrives, he gets a very unusual surprise. He discovers that there's a party there waiting for him and he is the guest of honor. When one the sexy dancer's boyfriends gets jealous, the man kills him and tries to burn the evidence. The guests stop him and he realizes it's the same place his father burned down years ago and history has a nasty way of repeating it self.

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The Pit
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6.76
163 votes

#10 - The Pit

Season 6 - Episode 7 - Aired 11/30/1994

Two men who are longtime rivals go head to head in a grudge match. But, the real fight isn't between them, it's between their feuding wives. When the two men realize they don't hate each other, they decide to put their wives in the ring. With the help of a Las Vegas showman, they set them up as they watch them in a boxing match on live television.

Directors: John Harrison
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You, Murderer
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6.72
123 votes

#11 - You, Murderer

Season 6 - Episode 15 - Aired 1/25/1995

Lou Spinielli is an ex-criminal who wants to escape from his past. He hires Oscar, a plastic surgeon to sculpt his face in the form of Humphrey Bogart's. When his wife gets the pictures of his past in the mail, Oscar suggests that he kill Vivian. The plan backfires and when Lou returns home and he gets a surprise. Vivian and Oscar have been partners all along. They bump Lou off and take him far into the woods to bury him. Lou's mistress, Erika, shows up and the couple become some murder victims themselves.

Directors: Robert Zemeckis
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Revenge is the Nuts
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6.72
165 votes

#12 - Revenge is the Nuts

Season 6 - Episode 5 - Aired 11/16/1994

A run-down shelter for the blind is owned by a cruel man. He abuses the patients there and won't give them respect. A new blind girl, Shelly, arrives the owner promises to lighten up if she agrees to sleep with him. Benny and the other patients give the owner from hell a taste of his own medicine.

Directors: Jonas McCord
Writer: Shel Willens
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Comes the Dawn
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6.18
134 votes

#13 - Comes the Dawn

Season 6 - Episode 13 - Aired 1/11/1995

Two poachers are out hunting bear in Alaska. They seek the help of a woman who leads them into a dorm. The men decide that they don't need her anymore but the Colonel double crosses his partner. She's been leading them to a lair full of hibernating vampires. Luckily it's dawn but there's one problem. Alaska is locked in cold darkness.

Directors: John Herzfeld
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Whirlpool
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6.05
170 votes

#14 - Whirlpool

Season 6 - Episode 3 - Aired 10/31/1994

A comic artist for Tales From The Crypt finds herself trapped inside a repetitious nightmare world. Everyday she lives through the same horrible episodes. First her boss rejects her latest idea then fires her. She goes to her boss and shoots him only to be caught by the police and shot to death. In reality the whole thing turns out to be a comic and she really is his boss and he is her employee.

Directors: Mick Garris
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99 & 44/100% Pure Horror
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5.61
160 votes

#15 - 99 & 44/100% Pure Horror

Season 6 - Episode 14 - Aired 1/18/1995

Willa is a married artist who is pushed around by her ad campaign husband. When his company decides to drop her idea, Willa plans to come up with a new idea but nobody's interested. Willa wants revenge when a graffiti artist comes up with an idea and everyone is interested. Willa kills her husband and turns his body into soaps. She decides to shower with them but soon she regrets it.

Directors: Rodman Flender
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