History NightmareFuel / TalesFromTheCrypt

* One of the worst was "For Cryin' Out Loud", where Lee Arenberg (Pintel from ''PiratesOfTheCaribbean'') played a nightclub owner whose conscience ''finally'' gets through to him after decades of trying - just in time to advise him against embezzling charity money in an abstract of ''Literature/TheTelltaleHeart'', but a bit more literally once [[spoiler: he murders his blackmailing banker]]. What pushes this into nightmare territory, though, is the final sequence. Marty has used Q-tips throughout the episode to try and clear the voice out of his head, and is shown at one point mashing them against his ears [[PlayedForLaughs in a funny way]]. But then he's shown wandering through the club, unable to hear anything but the persistent voice, and seeing people stare at him oddly. After blurting a confession to murder, the voice in his head has this to say, prompting Marty to [[spoiler: pull over '''half of a bloody Q-tip''' out of his left ear]].
-->'''Conscience''': Good, Marty! That was a lovely confession. Doesn't it feel better to get it off your chest? Hey! [[EarAche What's that in your ear]]? Hey Marty! Something just occurred to me. [[{{Troll}} Do you think that's what everybody was looking at all this time, and they could never really hear me?]] Oh Marty - that means if you'd [[EngineeredPublicConfession just kept your mouth shut]], [[KarmaHoudini you could have gotten away with it after all!]]

** And for bonus points, said voice was Creator/SamKinison, so the fact that [[spoiler: he'd been on death-row for '''years''' hearing only Kinison's voice adds another layer to the whole thing]]. No wonder he was so eager to die!

* One of the worst was "For Cryin' Out Loud", where Lee Arenberg (Pintel from ''PiratesOfTheCaribbean'') played a nightclub owner whose conscience ''finally'' gets through to him after decades of trying - just in time to advise him against embezzling charity money in an abstract of ''Literature/TheTelltaleHeart'', but a bit more literally once [[spoiler: he murders his blackmailing banker]]. What pushes this into nightmare territory, though, is the final sequence. Marty has used Q-tips throughout the episode to try and clear the voice out of his head, and is shown at one point mashing them against his ears [[PlayedForLaughs in a funny way]]. But then he's shown wandering through the club, unable to hear anything but the persistent voice, and seeing people stare at him oddly. After blurting a confession to murder, the voice in his head tells him that they're not looking at him because they hear the voice too... it's because he's got Q-tips shoved in his ears so far that ''he ruptured his eardrums''.
** And for bonus points, said voice was Creator/SamKinison, so the fact that [[spoiler: he'd been on death-row for '''years''' hearing only Kinison's voice adds another layer to the whole thing]].

* One of the worst was "For Cryin' Out Loud", where Lee Arenberg (Pintel from ''PiratesOfTheCaribbean'') played a nightclub owner whose conscience ''finally'' gets through to him after decades of trying - just in time to advise him against embezzling charity money in an abstract of ''Literature/TheTelltaleHeart'', but a bit more literally once [[spoiler: he murdered [[Creator/KateySagal his blackmailing banker]]]]. What pushes this into nightmare territory, though, is the final sequence. The guy has used Q-tips throughout the episode to try and clear the voice out of his head, and is shown at one point mashing them against his ears [[PlayedForLaughs in a funny way]]. But then he's shown wandering through the club, unable to hear anything but the persistent voice, and seeing people stare at him oddly. After blurting a confession to murder, the voice in his head tells him that they're not looking at him because they hear the voice too... it's because he's got Q-tips shoved in his ears so far that ''he ruptured his eardrums''.

* One of the worst was "For Cryin' Out Loud", where Lee Arenberg (Pintel from ''PiratesOfTheCaribbean'') played a nightclub owner whose conscience ''finally'' gets through to him after decades of trying - just in time to advise him against embezzling charity money in an abstract of ''Literature/TheTelltaleHeart'', but a bit more literally once [[spoiler: he murdered [[Creator/KateySegal his blackmailing banker]]]]. What pushes this into nightmare territory, though, is the final sequence. The guy has used Q-tips throughout the episode to try and clear the voice out of his head, and is shown at one point mashing them against his ears [[PlayedForLaughs in a funny way]]. But then he's shown wandering through the club, unable to hear anything but the persistent voice, and seeing people stare at him oddly. After blurting a confession to murder, the voice in his head tells him that they're not looking at him because they hear the voice too... it's because he's got Q-tips shoved in his ears so far that ''he ruptured his eardrums''.

* One of the worst was "For Cryin' Out Loud", where Lee Arenberg (Pintel from ''PiratesOfTheCaribbean'') played a nightclub owner whose conscience ''finally'' gets through to him after decades of trying - just in time to advise him against embezzling charity money in an abstract of ''Literature/TheTelltaleHeart''. What pushes this into nightmare territory, though, is the final sequence. The guy has used Q-tips throughout the episode to try and clear the voice out of his head, and is shown at one point mashing them against his ears [[PlayedForLaughs in a funny way]]. But then he's shown wandering through the club, unable to hear anything but the persistent voice, and seeing people stare at him oddly. After blurting a confession to murder, the voice in his head tells him that they're not looking at him because they hear the voice too... it's because he's got Q-tips shoved in his ears so far that ''he ruptured his eardrums''.

* One of the worst was "For Cryin' Out Loud", where Lee Arenberg (Pintel from ''PiratesOfTheCaribbean'') played a nightclub owner that killed his partner - overall, it was a surrealist take on The Telltale Heart, with the voice of the victim nagging on him about his death, etc. What pushes this into nightmare territory, though, is the final sequence. The guy has used Q-tips throughout the episode to try and clear the voice out of his head, and is shown at one point mashing them against his ears [[PlayedForLaughs in a funny way]]. But then he's shown wandering through the club, unable to hear anything but the persistent voice, and seeing people stare at him oddly. After blurting a confession to murder, the voice in his head tells him that they're not looking at him because they hear the voice too... it's because he's got Q-tips shoved in his ears so far that ''he ruptured his eardrums''.

* One of the worst was "For Cryin' Out Loud", where Lee Arenberg (Pintel from ''PiratesOfTheCaribbean'') played a nightclub owner that killed his partner - overall, it was a surrealist take on The Telltale Heart, with the voice of the victim nagging on him about his death, etc. What pushes this into nightmare territory, though, is at the very end, the guy has used Q-tips throughout the episode to try and clear the voice out of his head, and is shown at one point mashing them against his ears in a funny way. But then he's shown wandering through the club, unable to hear anything but the persistent voice, and seeing people stare at him oddly. After blurting a confession to murder, the voice in his head tells him that they're not looking at him because they hear the voice too... it's because he's got Q-tips shoved in his ears so far that ''he ruptured his eardrums''.

* There's one where a wannabe model murders several rivals so that she can win a rigged beauty contest and become the new "face" of a mysterious company. She does win the pageant, but then it's time for her to appear in the "grand finale." Next thing we see is the pageant host singing a cheery song about how beauty is great, but "it's what inside that counts" as the winner is unveiled: she's been nailed to a board, completely eviscerated, and the audience oohs and aahs over her as she is now the reigning "Miss Autopsy 1992."

* The twist endings. The plot for "Ear Today Gone Tommorow" is about a thief who gets an operation that gives him the auditory system of an owl. Unfortunately, it also gives him other owl-like traits, and at the end his jaw ''cracks open'' and he develops an owl's beak.

* The episode where Ed Begley, Jr. plays this asshole cemetery plot salesman who gets kidnapped by a psychotic redneck family and gets raped by the redneck family's ugly daughter. Oh, and did I mention that the mother, father, and daughter in this redneck family are all played by Tim "Dr. Frankenfurter" Curry? Noted in that it is kind of similar to that movie Nothing But Trouble.

* "Television Terror" non-stop. The setting is a HauntedHouse, where an old woman murdered her elderly borders for their social security checks years earlier. TV host Horton Rivers enters with his cameraman to investigate the hauntings, despite a psychic consultant's warnings. Horton begins seeing flashes of the gruesome murders, and then the doors open and close on their own. When the psychic finally warns him to get out of there now, the cameraman is revealed to have been hanged and the ghostly victims come out in force. Horton fares worse, getting on the wrong end of a chainsaw wielded by the old woman's ghost before going out the window '''on live TV'''.

* Joe Pesci being cut in half with a chainsaw so a pair of psychotic twin sisters can each have him as "theirs." With close-up of his mutilated insides. Lovely...

* There's the show finale "The Third Pig", a rather twisted take on the classic fairy tale Three Little Pigs. It's also the only episode of the show to be animated as opposed to live-action.

* The twist endings. The plot for "Ear Today Gone Tommorow" is about a man who gets an operation that gives him the auditory system of an owl- unfortunately it also gives him other owl-like traits and at the end his jaw ''cracks'' and he develops an owl's beak.

* There's one where a wannabe model murders several rivals so that she can win a rigged beauty contest and become the new "face" of a mysterious company. She does win the pageant, but then it's time for her to appear in the "grand finale." Next thing we see is the pageant host singing a cheery song about how beauty is great but "it's what inside that counts" as the winner is unveiled - she's been nailed to a board, completely eviscerated, and the audience oohs and aahs over her as she is now the reigning "Miss Autopsy 1992."

* The zombies in "None But The Lonely Heart". [[spoiler: Two (whose deaths we saw in the episode) are recently deceased and just becoming discolored and slimy. The third is little more than a dried-up, mummylike husk. The fourth is a worm-ridden skeleton in a rotting wedding dress. The episode ends with all of them cornering him in a mausoleum and chowing down on him with a nauseating crunch.]]
* There's the show finale "The Third Pig", a rather twisted take on the classic fairy tale Three Little Pigs. It's also the only episode of the show to be animated as opposed to live-action.

* The zombies in "None But The Lonely Heart".

* The twist endings. The plot for "Ear Today Gone Tommorow" is about a man who gets an operation that gives him the auditory system of an owl- unfortunately it also gives him other owl-like traits and at the end his jaw ''cracks'' and he develops an owl's beak. There's also the show finale "The Third Pig", a rather twisted take on the classic fairy tale Three Little Pigs.
* The episode "Dead Wait" is a definite example of this trope, though being directed by Creator/TobeHooper, this should come as no surprise. As if John Rhys-Davies' shirtless torso [[BodyHorror bulging with an assortment of tiny worms under his flesh]] was not enough, the antagonist performing an impromptu autopsy to remove an ingested pearl from his stomach is added for good measure. In classic Tobe Hooper style, the act is not seen (in favor of facial expression shots from a nearby onlooker), [[GoryDiscretionShot yet it still manages to be just as gruesome offscreen as it would be if actually filmed]].

* Tthe episode where Ed Begley, Jr. plays this asshole cemetery plot salesman who gets kidnapped by a psychotic redneck family and gets raped by the redneck family's ugly daughter. Oh, and did I mention that the mother, father, and daughter in this redneck family are all played by Tim "Dr. Frankenfurter" Curry? Noted in that it is kind of similar to that movie Nothing But Trouble.

* The zombies in "None But The Lonely Heart".

* One of the worst was one where Lee Arenberg (Pintel from ''PiratesOfTheCaribbean'') played a nightclub owner that killed his partner - overall, it was a surrealist take on The Telltale Heart, with the voice of the victim nagging on him about his death, etc. What pushes this into nightmare territory, though, is at the very end, the guy has used Q-tips throughout the episode to try and clear the voice out of his head, and is shown at one point mashing them against his ears in a funny way. But then he's shown wandering through the club, unable to hear anything but the persistent voice, and seeing people stare at him oddly. After blurting a confession to murder, the voice in his head tells him that they're not looking at him because they hear the voice too... it's because he's got Q-tips shoved in his ears so far that ''he ruptured his eardrums''.

* How about ''Abra-Kadaver''? A good deal of the episode is told from the POV of a man [[AndIMustScream trapped in his own body]] thanks to his vengeful brother, who is on the verge of getting cut apart at a medical school. Sure, it turns out to be a prank, but the final shot is of him about to get cut apart...while still feeling everything.

* "You Murderer" Could be considered this for those who fear what could happen to them after they die. They end up in an AndIMustScream situation.

* "Television Terror" non-stop. The setting is a HauntedHouse, where an old woman murdered her elderly borders for their social security checks years earlier. TV host Horton Rivers enters with his cameraman to investigate the hauntings, despite a psychic consultant's warnings. Horton begins seeing flashes of the gruesome murders, and then the doors open and close on their own. When the psychic finally warns him to get out of there now, the cameraman is revealed to have been hanged and the ghostly victims come out in force. Horton fares worse, getting on the wrong end of a chainsaw wielded by the old woman's ghost before going out the window '''on live TV'''.

* "Television Terror" non-stop. The setting is a HauntedHouse, where an old woman murdered her elderly borders for their social security checks years earlier. TV host Horton Rivers enters with his cameraman to investigate the hauntings, despite a psychic consultant's warnings. Horton begins seeing flashes of the gruesome murders, and then the doors open and close on their own. When the psychic finally warns him to get out of there now, the cameraman is revealed to have been hanged and the ghostly victims come out in force. Horton fares worse, getting on the wrong end of a chainsaw wielded by the old woman's ghost before going out the window on live TV.

* For starters there's the Crypt Keeper himself, in all his rotting corpse glory.

** In syndication, maybe, but the uncut HBO version shows it in all its {{Nausea Fuel}}ed glory. Definitely more gruesome.

* The episode "Dead Wait" is a definite example of this trope, though being directed by TobeHooper, this should come as no surprise. As if John Rhys-Davies' shirtless torso [[BodyHorror bulging with an assortment of tiny worms under his flesh]] was not enough, the antagonist performing an impromptu autopsy to remove an ingested pearl from his stomach is added for good measure. In classic Tobe Hooper style, the act is not seen (in favor of facial expression shots from a nearby onlooker), [[GoryDiscretionShot yet it still manages to be just as gruesome offscreen as it would be if actually filmed]].

* In one episode, a woman marries the boss of a gang of lumberjacks. She is so bored that she begins an affair with one of the other lumberjacks, but cries rape when her husband catches them, resulting in the husband attacking the guy with an axe and blinding him. The other workers' response is to kidnap the woman and her husband and place them inside hollow logs for the blind lumberjack to chop up; he realizes what is happening fairly early on, but joyfully goes through with it anyway. There's a lovely gory shot of the bodies chopped into four parts.