Crypte show

I remember watching this show fondly growing up. It brings back a lot of memories and it is a good show to watch if you love horror anthologies. While some episodes were really good like Gorilla's Paw or While The Cat's Away, some were less memorable like Dead Men Don't Jump or Too Cool For School. The animation isn't fantastic by any means but it does give nostalgia to viewers who grew up with the show. Like with other horror anthologies each episode does deal with morality tales and because of that we see character growth and development from the characters and we also relate to them in certain ways.

That said, this series was an animated version of Tales From The Crypt. If anyone enjoys this series I also recommend watching the live action version of this show as it is just as good and they have more episodes based on the same comic books that came out in the 50s.

TALES FROM THE CRYPTKEEPER was an animated kid's show spin-off from the much better known TALES FROM THE CRYPT horror TV series. It ran over three seasons between 1993 and 1999, consisting of 39 episodes hosted by a green goblin-looking Cryptkeeper, voiced by the original John Kassir from CRYPT. Given that this is a family-friendly, gore-free show compared to the adult version, I found it surprisingly enjoyable when I sat through it this past week after it was uploaded to Amazon Prime.

The stories are fast and furious, typically involving child protagonists getting mixed up with various supernatural creatures or events. As is the norm in these shows, humans turn out to be the greatest monsters of all, and a lot of the beasts aren't so bad after all. Plenty of wince-inducing puns from the Cryptkeeper and his buddies, alongside workable animation and enthusiastic voice actors. I imagine teenagers today would be less than impressed as animation has got a lot more sophisticated these days, but as a child of the 1990s this brought back the era for me in an entertaining way.

This was an awesome cartoon! Great stories, quality animation and voice work, nice stories and monsters etc that did not talk down to us kids, it was great. Wooot wooooooooot!!

This is another under the radar gem, well not exactly as this show at the time was a hit but much like an old Crypt that hasn't been cleaned and looked after for a long while it's been a little bit forgotten. This is also another honorable mention in anthology horror shows in my book.

I was a kid in the 90's and I was always fascinated with anthology horror shows especially "Tales from the Crypt". Though the problem was there really wasn't many to any anthology horror shows for the young audience, let alone I wasn't allowed to watch "Tales from the Crypt" at the time. When I heard that there was going to be an animated adaptation, I was excited because it meant I would finally get to see an animated version of "Tales from the Crypt" and simply having an animated anthology horror in general which was a rarity, as this shows was the first and only one of its kind.

This show is a loose adaptation based on E. C. Comics Horror Anthology library, it's true due to this being an animated show for kids we won't have any of the gory details that those comics have been known for. However, this show isn't watered down as it still stays true to the spirit of the E. C. Comics from the spooky horror mood and atmosphere, humor, as well as the just deserts for the bad guys or anyone that fails to learn.

The animation is solid, it's nothing groundbreaking but good enough as there are good designs on the monsters. In this show I love that we not just have the Cryptkeeper who is played well by John Kassir. But we have two other hosts figures from the E. C. comics, The Old Witch and The Vaultkeeper voiced by Elizabeth Hanna and David Hemblen.

All three are just really funny as they each have unique mischievous personalities but have one thing in common, all three are never in short supply on wonderfully bad puns. It's just funny seeing all three of them always clashing to be the host of today's tale, their sort of a ghoulish Three Stooges. Even like we get to see a bit more of the Cryptkeeper's world which is just as dangerous as he and the other two are, from seeing a lot more of the interior of the Cryptkeer's mansion to even simply getting away from it.

Even like the show has a little of the theme song from the original show which is cool as I wouldn't want a theme song to the E. C. comics properties any other way.

The tales are all really solid, each of them are originals and I like that there are lots of monsters in the stories we get some of the usual classic variety from vampires and werewolves but I also like the show takes on monsters from folklore and mythology which gives this show some variety even makes it a little educational as it helped introduce a new generation to some of those old well known stories but also shows how broad the range of horror really is. Each of the tales had some of the usual E. C. comics humor as scary as they are they're not too serious but also in most of them had the twists at the end that the E. C. comics were known for, and these twists were clever ones that actually had weight and made sense with the story.

Three favorite tales of mine are "Game Over" on two slacker kids having to play for their lives as video game monsters zero in on them to make them zeros. "The Gorilla's Paw" which is pretty much this shows modern take on "The Monkey's Paw" folklore story, a bullied kid has possession of the mystical paw that grants wishes and of course things go to hell in a handbasket. "Cold Blood, Warm Hearts" as it's about a hunt of a sea monster but as a saying goes nothing is what it seems.

I personally would love to see an animated "Tales from the Crypt" again, but it could be for the adults with all the gore effects and beautifully gruesome details from the original E. C. comics. I would like a mix of some tales to be retellings of the tales from the comic property but also some of those tales can be original and even based on short stories from some horror authors if they all correlate with the E. C. tradition. And as long as they have all three hosts again with the same voice actors or new ones as long as they fit the roles; It's a thought to consider.

This animated classic is a crypt worth visiting, so enter if you dare.

Rating: 3 and a half stars.

I remember watching this show as a kid, I loved Tales from the Crypt so I didnt think much about the cartoon version but to my surprise I enjoyed the majority of these episodes and I like how at the end of each episode the bullies learn a valuable lesson and change their ways for the better. I happen to watch a few episodes on Tubi recently and even as a fully grown man now I still find these episodes entertaining. It's too bad kids nowadays can't experience watching these type of cartoons. Shows like Tales from the cryptkeeper, Goosebumps and Are you Afraid of the dark was basically my childhood.