DVD Review: Tales From The Crypt: The Complete Second Season  By Dave Dreher	Email this article  Printer friendly page
Source: Nov 7, 2005, 8:42 am

Tales From The Crypt – The Complete Second Season was release recently on DVD and is a must have for any fan of the show, the genre or just plain old high quality film making.  By the second season the HBO series had become hugely popular and began featuring some major star power.  The premiere episode stars Demi Moore who at the time was a major box office draw.  Also Jeffery Tambor of HBO’s The Larry Sanders Show was on hand.

 

The season also saw the directoral debut of Arnold Schwarzenegger in an episode titled The Switch.  Other genre heavy hitters also came on board for the second season including Fred Dekker, Chris Walas, Richard Donner and Tom Holland.  The production values in the second season up hold the same high standard that the debut season set in place.  If anything they may be just the slightest bit higher.  The writing is still very strong.  Actually the writing held strong the entire run of the show.  The folks behind this series were having fun and it shows.  There is really very little if anything not to like about this show. 

 

The second season comes on 3 discs which also features a Behind the Scenes Shockumentary and also a nifty little work titled Fright and Sound:  Bringing the Crypt experience to Radio.

 

Here are the official disc specs:

 

Studio: Warner Bros. Actors: Demi Moore, Kelly Preston, Patricia Arquette, Teri Hatcher Director: Arnold Schwarzenegger, Richard Donner, Tom Holland, Walter Hill Episode(s): Dead Right The Switch Cutting Cards 'Til Death Three's a Crowd The Thing From The Grave - 1 The Sacrifice For Cryin' Out Loud Four-Sided Triangle The Ventriloquist's Dummy Judy, You're Not Yourself Today Fitting Punishment - 2 Korman's Kalamity Lower Berth Mute Witness to Murder Television Terror My Brother's Keeper The Secret +EC - 3 Synopsis: Two scary! Welcome, fiends. Back for more deadtime stories, hmm? Then settle in with these devious die-monds of die-abolical delight - all 18 uncut (but variously stabbed, electro-volted, haunted, twisted, incarcerated, incarnated, voodoo-ized and even vampirized) episodes from two-riffic Season 2 of Tales from the Crypt! The Cryptkeeper is again your gleefully macabre host for a frightfest of classic E.C. Comics stories involving a for-the-money honey (Demi Moore) hoping for a big, fat inheritance; a cartoonist (Harry Anderson) whose creations come to life (and death); a ventriloquist (Don Rickles) and an idolizing wannabe (Bobcat Goldthwait); and poker players for whom a losing hand could mean exactly that. Ante up for these and more tales. We think you'll agree they're absolute monsterpieces. Special Features: Documentary Interactive Menus Other

Screen Aspect: Original Aspect Ratio - 1.33 Standard [4:3 Transfer] Sound Quality: English: Dolby Surround Stereo 2.0 - Subtitles: English, Espanol, Francais Media Quantity: 3 Media Sub Format: Multi Disc Packaging Type: Digi-Pack

The disc set is now available and would make a wonderful holiday gift for any horror fan.  The folks over at Warner Brothers has been cool enough to send us along a couple of copies of the disc to giveaway to you loyal readers.  If you would like to own a copy just answer this very simple trivia question and you'll be in the running.

Here is the question:

Name the FX wizard who created The Crypt Keeper.

Now, how easy is that?  Jeez.  Send your answer to me here.  I will collect up all the correct responses and pick 2 winners from all you who get it right.

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