Tales from the Cryptkeeper

Think 'Tales from the Crypt' animated. This series was Saturday morning cartoon and aired in ABC. Being on ABC and on Saturday morning kept the show from living up to the live action show. It wasn't able to be as scary or funny with those restrictions. On it's own, I'd say it was an okay show; but compared to the live action show, it does not measure up.

Tales from the Cryptkeeper(1993-1999) is a 3 season animated series currently available on Amazon Prime. Much like Tales from the Crypt, the series is narrated by the Cryptkeeper and is made up of short stories with important lessons where if you're not on your best behavior, or you make the wrong decision, you may end up meeting the Cryptkeeper face to face.

The series is directed by Laura Shepherd (The Care Bears), Rick Marshall (Beetlejuice Animated Series), Mike Csunyoscka (The Ren & Stimpy Show) and Jessie Thomson (Caillou). The voices are primarily provided by John Kassir (Tales from the Crypt), Elizabeth Hanna (Mega Man Legends) and David Hemblen (Tommy Boy).

Each season is 13 episodes and the first season focuses more on ghosts and ghouls and takes place primarily in present day. Season 2 merges Tales from the Crypt with the 1950s comic book series The Vault Keeper and a witch from that series that was a lot of fun. Season 2 also added in different eras and a stronger focus on acting right or bad things will happen to you. Season 3 returns to the Cryptkeeper being the primary character and a continued focus on lessons learned and what can happen to you if you misbehave. The animation has a Ninja Turtles feel to it, ie early 90s, and who doesn't love a good animated horror cartoon?

Overall, this is a tremendous animated horror series that is an absolute must see. I would score this an 8/10 and strongly recommend it.

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!!

I got to say it was quite interesting to have a cartoon based on a TV show come to life (pun intended) with the same amount of macabre and frights that the live action Tales from the Crypt gave us. However, I really wish they never added the Old Witch or the Vault Keeper in Season 2 as I found them to be very annoying. And season three should have had the same animation from the first two seasons because the animation for season 3 looked like it was meant to be comedic and didn't really have the same frightening atmosphere.

i really liked this show when i was a kid so now when i watch it the nostalgia automatically makes me love it. it probably isn't to good if you didn't watch it as a kid but it is still a very good show. not to scary but since it was a kids show you cant expect much. Definitely worth a watch if you saw this show as a kid or just like the original. If i remember correctly the original voice of the cryptkeeper does the voice for this animated show as well.

As much as i love this show ill admit it was not as great as the original because of obvious reasons. but for a kid show it is damn good :)