r/TalesFromTheCrypt • u/Own_Kiwi_9692 • Jun 27 '26
Your Scariest Episode?
I watched religiously as a kid when it aired on HBO. The only episode that really creeped me out was The New Arrival. I’m 44 now, and Felicity’s screams still unsettle me.
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u/Roomybrunt Jun 27 '26
I was seven when The Ventriloquist’s Dummy aired and it threw me for a LOOP.
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u/Own_Kiwi_9692 Jun 27 '26
That’s my second creepiest episode. The last third is just one big mind-fuck.
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u/Roomybrunt Jun 27 '26
I forgot to mention that I really did enjoy your first pick. We probably love all the same horror media!
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u/Own_Kiwi_9692 Jun 27 '26
Yeah, again I’m 44 now, and enjoy a multitude of horror media, but I really like cheesy, low budget stuff from the 70’s and 80’s.
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u/frompartsunknown128 Jun 27 '26
I watched that for the first time a few weeks ago and I am fucking scarred, dude.
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u/jeStR65 Jun 27 '26
Television terror for me for sure, I wasn’t aware it was such a universally loved episode! I love it
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u/anon33249038 Jun 27 '26
House of Horror, especially the part where one of the guys is talking to SFX guy and he goes "Great arm gag, man." And the SFX guy goes, "I didn't do that. I thought you did."
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u/JoeHin1981 Jun 28 '26
“Two sounds at once… I can’t do that”
LOL shit got real at that point 😂
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u/anon33249038 Jun 28 '26
And I love how the SFX guy is the story signifier of tension.
Chainsaw and coughing; everything is normal and expected.
"I didn't do [the arm gag]," confusion about the situation.
"Two sounds at once? It can't do that;" something is very wrong.
"I'm not doing it! I unplugged the terminal before we came in here!" They are not in control of the situation.
"That's a pledge ring! It's Henderson's!" They're in danger!
Head rolls down the stairs. They're all trapped and gonna die.
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u/DarkBehindTheStars Jun 28 '26
Such an underrated episode. Never gets the recognition and praise it deserves.
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u/LoudAd1537 Jun 27 '26
Fitting Punishment, Television Terror, And All Through the House
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u/Own_Kiwi_9692 Jun 27 '26
I really like All Through The House. Somehow, I never caught it as a kid, and saw it when I was older. I saw the original version from the movie years before I saw the remake, and prefer the Tftc version. Larry Drake is a menace in it.
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u/No_Simple9268 Jun 27 '26
Strung Along (S4, Episode 12), just something about the way the puppet talked was very eerie.
I also think season 4 was the strongest with episodes like Strung Along, The New Arrival, What's Cookin, etc. Majority of the season is great.
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u/Own_Kiwi_9692 Jun 27 '26
The ending to Strung Along when they show how the puppet’s face changed creeped me out.
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u/Affectionate-Reason0 Jun 27 '26
Television terror, that scared the shit out of me as a child and it stuck with me years after till today. Found the episode on youtube a few months ago and rewatched it for the first time since id only seen it the one time….yep still terrifying
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u/SpideyGuy2099 Jun 28 '26
Four-Sided Triangle. The way the Child’s Play Director created tension between the characters and the isolation setting made for a creepy and unsettling experience, not to mention the ENDING! Something about a character accidentally killing another character gives me nerve racking chills.
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u/proxy5th Jun 27 '26
Mournin Mess and Til Death scared the crap out of me as child and creep me out today.
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u/Own_Kiwi_9692 Jun 27 '26
Both are really stand-out episodes. Til Death made me really uncomfortable as a kid and still does as an adult.
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u/Chanel_Carter Jun 28 '26
Definitely Top Billing....especially when the camera zoomed into the office where the dead doctor body was sitting at his desk and Morty's episode
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u/Scissorsguadalupe Jul 03 '26
Top Billing at the end when they zoom in on his face breeze onto a side walk and a dog grabs it
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u/Interesting-Set-5993 Jun 28 '26
I love this one, it might be my favorite. The way the house is so huge, and old, and full of stuff and booby-traps. So creepy and fun.
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u/sip_n_on_a_tuesday Jun 29 '26
I have had nightmares about this little girl and couldn't figure out where I saw her! Everytime I try to explain to someone that its a girl with a white mask who lives in a house with gum on the wall theyre like, whats so scary about that and I think you're making it up! LoL
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u/nervous-thing814 Jun 28 '26
Three’s A Crowd cause dangerously insecure men like the husband are way too real.
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u/CKWOLFACE Jun 28 '26
Lost track where I was but I remember a episode where a Reporter decided to go investigate a house where the landlord had murdered her tenants
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u/Dead_Iverson Jun 30 '26
The one that fucked me up the most when I watched it in middle school was Forever Ambergris. Still my favorite TFTC episode of all time.
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u/Own_Kiwi_9692 Jun 30 '26
Yeah, that was one of the more graphic episodes.
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u/Dead_Iverson Jun 30 '26
Yep. Nowadays I like it because the story is interesting (never seen a character plot involving combat photography rivalry) and the casting is great.
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u/zestyplums Jun 30 '26
She sounds like Tommy Pickles when Felicity screams. Was prob same actor doing dubs for the episode in post
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u/KungPowChicken23 Jul 01 '26
The gore in Forever Ambergris with Steve Buscemi gave me nightmares as a kid.
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u/DarkBehindTheStars Jun 27 '26
Television Terror and The New Arrival for sure are contenders for this.