The BEST episodes of Tales from the Crypt season 7

Every episode of Tales from the Crypt season 7, ranked from best to worst by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The best episodes of Tales from the Crypt season 7!

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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About Face
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7.60
167 votes

#1 - About Face

Season 7 - Episode 10 - Aired 6/28/1996

Jonathan is a priest who discovers that he has two long lost daughters: beautiful Angelica and ugly Leah. Leah fears that because of her ugliness their father will leave them again. Jonathan plans to abandon them again but he is forced to kill Leah and gets a big surprise.

Directors: Tom Sanders
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Horror in the Night
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7.31
137 votes

#2 - Horror in the Night

Season 7 - Episode 5 - Aired 5/24/1996

Jewel thief Nick double-crosses his partner then holes up inside a hotel. But, he maybe going out of his mind when he starts to see visions of a mysterious woman. It turns out that she's his ex-girlfriend. Along with his presumed dead partner they give him a taste of his own medicine.

Directors: Russell Mulcahy
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Fatal Caper
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7.06
175 votes

#3 - Fatal Caper

Season 7 - Episode 1 - Aired 4/19/1996

A dying elderly man decides to not leave his estate to his greedy sons. His lawyer convinces him to change his will so that unless they find their long lost brother Frank, the money goes to charity. Evelyn plots with her to double cross Justin but he get a big surprise. Their father is alive. His lawyer also has a surprise for him that he'll never forget.

Directors: Bob Hoskins
The Third Pig
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7.01
175 votes

#4 - The Third Pig

Season 7 - Episode 13 - Aired 7/19/1996

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.

Writer: Bill Kopp
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Ear Today... Gone Tomorrow
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6.99
165 votes

#5 - Ear Today... Gone Tomorrow

Season 7 - Episode 12 - Aired 7/12/1996

A safecracker hires a specialist to fix his hearing so he can return to his old days of safecracking for his boss. However, he soon discovers something shocking about the surgery.

Directors: Christopher Hart
Writer: Ed Tapia
A Slight Case of Murder
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6.86
144 votes

#6 - A Slight Case of Murder

Season 7 - Episode 3 - Aired 5/3/1996

Sharon is a mystery novelist who just can't stand her nosy neighbor. One day her envious ex shows up. She tries to throw him out but he makes the first move. Mrs Trask sends her son to dig her up. As her son plans to do away with Sharon's ex, she comes alive and everyone kills each other. The whole thing was plotted by Trask to get some research for her next book.

Directors: Brian Helgeland
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Escape
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6.72
169 votes

#7 - Escape

Season 7 - Episode 4 - Aired 5/17/1996

A traitor in the second World War is restricted to a prison camp. One of the men he betrayed is transported to the camp. Badly scarred, he promises to reveal the traitor's identity. When he recovers, the traitor kills the patient then stows away in the back of a truck but he finds himself ambushed.

Directors: Peter MacDonald
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Last Respects
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6.71
184 votes

#8 - Last Respects

Season 7 - Episode 2 - Aired 4/26/1996

Dorles, Marlys and Lavone are three sisters who think they have found a way out of their troubles. They discover a monkey's paw that grants them their wishes. Soon they learn the penalty of the wishes they make.

Directors: Freddie Francis
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Confession
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6.70
155 votes

#9 - Confession

Season 7 - Episode 11 - Aired 7/5/1996

A terrible killer is the rampage slicing off every women's head in the city. A screenwriter finds himself as the prime suspect.

Directors: Peter Hewitt
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Cold War
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6.58
164 votes

#10 - Cold War

Season 7 - Episode 6 - Aired 5/31/1996

Cammy is fed up with her boyfriend's robbery plans always backfiring. One day, she walks out on him and meets an attractive black man at a bar. Jimmy happens to be a vampire, but he discovers something else: Cammy and Ford are also among the living dead.

Directors: Andy Morhan
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Smoke Wrings
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6.48
124 votes

#11 - Smoke Wrings

Season 7 - Episode 9 - Aired 6/21/1996

An ad executive hires Barry and she's pleased to find out that she's got her opponent Frank running scared. Barry doesn't know anything about advertising until an ex-employee comes to help him with subliminal advertising. Jacqueline gives Barry Frank's position but Alistair has some nasty tricks up his sleeve.

Directors: Mandie Fletcher
The Kidnapper
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6.44
130 votes

#12 - The Kidnapper

Season 7 - Episode 7 - Aired 6/7/1996

A pawnbroker falls in love with a pregnant girl. After the child is born, he gets jealous. He plans to kidnap the child, but after the abduction, his girlfriend becomes worse than with the child. He tries to buy the child back from the people he hired but it's no use. He tries to steal another woman's child only to learn that it was his ex-girlfriend's child.

Directors: James H. Spencer
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Report from the Grave
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5.91
159 votes

#13 - Report from the Grave

Season 7 - Episode 8 - Aired 6/14/1996

Elliot thinks he has the talent for collecting thoughts from the dead. He decides to create a killer with his girlfriend but something goes terrible wrong. Elliot is now obsessed with resurrecting her which works but at the most horrible cost.

Directors: William Malone
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