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    12 Episodes That Left Viewers Shocked In "Tales From The Crypt"

    These episodes are spooky and just in time for Halloween.

    Celina De Jesus
    by Celina De Jesus

    BuzzFeed Staff

    Earlier this month we asked the BuzzFeed Community to let us know their favorite episodes from Tales From The Crypt.

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    And here are their favorites below.

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    1. "Dead Right" (Season 2, Episode 1)

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    "I love the one with Demi Moore! She went to a psychic & the psychic tells her to marry this man who is super unattractive and she will become rich shortly after. She ends up winning the lotto after marrying him (her winning had nothing to do with him) so she decides to leave him, but does it by saying these awful things about him. He ends up killing her and he ends being the millionaire."

    —queenmariahx0

    2. "Oil’s Well That Ends Well" (Season 5, Episode 11)

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    "Priscilla Presley just nails the ending as the exhausted con artist, and her delivery of the last line is perfect. Basically every character in this episode is an absolute a-hole, but I found myself rooting for her anyway."

    —dig_if_you_will_a_picture

    3. "And All Through The House" (Season 1, Episode 2)

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    "Watching 'All Through The House' around christmas is a tradition for me as well. Hands down the best episode."

    —dns88

    4. "Death of Some Salesman" (Season 5, Episode 1)

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    "Tim Curry is creepy AF as Ma, Pa, and daughter Winona Brackett. Ed Begley Jr. is perfect as the sleezy pompous salesman. Winona was so disgustingly perfect and something made up from my worst nightmares. It’s defiantly a must see!"—sarahr4150dc3d1

    5. "Lover Come Hack to Me" (Season 1, Episode 5)

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    "The first one I thought of was the one with Mimi Rogers who kills to get into a pageant and then finds out to late it wasn't a pageant you wanted to win. The other was a one with Amanda Plummer who come from an unstable line of women who get pregnant on their wedding nights and then ax kill the new husband, I loved this show!"

    —klynn214

    6. "Forever Ambergris" (Season 5, Episode 3)

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    "'Forever Ambergris' had some of the best special effects I have ever seen. Which made the whole thing so much more disturbing."

    —seashbridge

    7. "Easel Kill Ya" (Season 3, Episode 8)

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    "I recall the one with Tim Roth plays an artist without inspiration until he kills a neighbor, a prostitute who sells herself to a voodoo doctor, a man switching his body with a younger man, there were plenty of good episodes with many great actors. In the same vein of Hammer TV and Friday the 13th series, it was a good time for the horror fix. Creepshow on Shudder follows the same formula, quite good."

    —tempestuousraven

    8. "Dig that Cat…He’s Real Gone" (Season 1, Episode 3)

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    "Otherwise known as the Christmas episode. Absolute classic episode and a tradition to watch around the holidays. So many great episodes. Tales from the Crypt was much watch stuff in the early to mid 90s. It felt like you were getting away with something." —daredevil717

    9. "What's Cookin'?" (Season 4, Episode 6)

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    "I remember my first episode was 'What's Cookin'?' It has Christopher Reeve in a failing restaurant until he tries a new recipe. Television Terror with the reporter going through the haunted house had the extra Halloween feel to it. It's also one of the more critically favored episodes."—matthewschonmorgan

    10. "The Ventriloquist's Dummy" (Season 2, Episode 10)

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    "'The Ventriloquist's Dummy' is a great episode. Bobcat Goldthwait plays an aspiring ventriloquist and he reaches out to his hero, played by Don Rickles, for help with his act. Rickles has a murderous secret I won't spoil here. The actors both play against type which is nice to see. The episode has not one, but two horrific twists. A must watch."

    —adamjunrein

    11. "Split Personality" (Season 4, Episode 11)

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    "The one with Joe Pesci as a traveling salesman who marries a set of twins by pretending to be twins too... he thought he could split his life, the girls have slice."

    —sharonstoned

    12. "Abra Cadaver" (Season 3, Episode 4)

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    "With the scientists/brothers who play tricks on each other, until one of them pulled the wrong one. Good one!"

    —heygirllove

    Psst! Did you hear that Tasty has its very own Halloween TV special? Snoop & Martha's Very Tasty Halloween is streaming now on Peacock. Check it out!

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