I would watch this with my parents. Scared the shit outta me. Anyone else?

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whoisbill@reddit

The one episode i still think of today is this one where this scientist dude who was studying death, dies. And the problem is when we die our brains actually have enough activity left to still know what is going on. So he's aware of being put in a freezer and such.

But it turns out his friend just played a joke on him. He gave him a shot that makes it so he can't move. It wears off and he wakes up. He's so freaked out over the experience he has a heart attack and actually dies.

Turns out. He was right. That even in death you still experience everything. But you also feel pain. And it ends with them cutting open his head to study his brain and he screams in pain and the episode ends.

..have always thought how fucked up it would be if that was true. Like we die but there is enough brain power to know what is going on for awhile. Fucked up.

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Apprehensive_Hat8986@reddit

I thought that was an Outer Limits episode. I was never into the Cryptkeeper aesthetic, but watched the hell out of X-files and Outer Limits. They were my back-to-back Sunday night jam.

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whoisbill@reddit

Maybe I am remembering it wrong? Very possible! I'll have to look into that.

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Apprehensive_Hat8986@reddit

It could also be me. Ain't flesh memory grand? 😅

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whoisbill@reddit

So I looked it up. The episode ik taking about was from tales.

Outer limits had something similar, but was different. So we both right!

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whoisbill@reddit

Lol yes.

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NPC261939@reddit

Yup, I loved this show. Romero's Tales From the Darkside was great as well.

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scattershotdreams@reddit

It came on after my bedtime, so I would lie in bed and get the crap scared out of me hearing his voice. lol

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theluzah@reddit

I loved that and Tales from the Dark Side!!

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One-Faithlessness282@reddit

Got'em all on dvd.

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OG_Cryptkeeper@reddit

I have the whole series downloaded and still watch them from time to time.

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Blackbird136@reddit

Username tracks. 😂

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OG_Cryptkeeper@reddit

Weird, right? lol

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theRestisConfettii@reddit

Hello boys and ghouls!

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LeftHandedGuitarist@reddit

I had never heard of it until recently and feel like I should check it out given the talent involved!

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lavasca@reddit

Obsessed!

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J-littletree@reddit

I watched this way too young ..alone after my parents went to bed

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aboveaveragewife@reddit

I lived it! As a kid I always thought the Gremlins looked like they’d be so much fun to hang out with, I wanted to live with the Munsters or the Addam’s families, not to mention I thought (and still do) think Elvira is the epitome of sexiness…I’m a regular ass middle aged woman…go figure.

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Scherzkeks@reddit

The Bruce Davidson episode spoiled Fight Club for me.

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mrshelmstreet@reddit

My favorite show through my formative years

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selftaughtgenius@reddit

I watched it without my parents and loved it. But I was really into horror movies around that time, and I’ve always loved scary shit. So much fun!

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Northern_Lights_2@reddit

I wasn’t allowed.

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Plutoniumburrito@reddit

I’m soooo stoked it’s gonna be on Shudder! And no, never scary. Funny as hell. Love the comic books!

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Lurk_McGirt79@reddit

Not nearly as scary as Tales From The Darkside!

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Skipper0463@reddit

It would come on Sunday afternoons after cartoons or whatever. I never watched it. It terrified me. If I were older I might have appreciated the humor in it but as a little kid all I saw was the gore.

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areyouokeddie@reddit

The episode with the orphaned kid moving in with his mortician uncle...

Who kills him and cuts off his lower legs so he can fit inside a child's coffin.

Yeah, I had nightmares for weeks

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Real_Hour_1833@reddit

Yep… also Faces of Death… scared forever

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AdRadiant9379@reddit

My favorite episodes were the reluctant vampire, the western story, and the World War One story

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2PM2@reddit

If this shit came on in the middle of the day I race to turn it off. Just the intro gave me anxiety. I had to stop it before that gross ghoul got to laugh.

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Munchkin531@reddit

Yes! Looking back i probably should not have been watching this show at 8 years old but I loved it!! I need to rewatch it.

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leviathynx@reddit

All seven seasons start streaming on Shudder starting May 1st!

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GuerillaRiot@reddit

Holy shit THANKS! LoL, only reason I clicked here was to ask where I could watch it.

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leviathynx@reddit

If you love horror, shudder is worth it. I’ve been a subscriber for at least two years.

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GuerillaRiot@reddit

I've been considering it for a while. Will definitely pull the trigger on it now.

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CelticSith@reddit

Yes, finally!!

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_ism_@reddit

really was super jealous of kids allowed to watch this

rewatched it recently was disappointed it's so cheesy and nothing i needed protecting from!

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strider0075@reddit

Yes, kind of. Like the stories didn't mess with me (I grew up on skinemax, Friday the 13th and species, TftC was tame). It was oddly the intro that fucked with me. I'd have to cover my eyes till the cryptkeeper laugh stopped. Same issue with unsolved mysteries except it was plugging my ears til the intro stop (the music creeped me out).

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knowone1313@reddit

Loved this show, wish I could rewatch them and also wish they'd restart the show.

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ocarina_vendor@reddit

His laugh in the opening sequence was what creeped me out the most. But then, the Crypt Keeper would start making horror puns to introduce the episode, and all fright would flee my little body.

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UnrealizedLosses@reddit

Whoa Jesus I thought this was a picture of Mitch McConnell

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BrattyTwilis@reddit

I would watch the animated series, which was a more family friendly version of the show

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chubbuck35@reddit

I watched it at night, against the rules. Freaked me out

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BRketoGirl@reddit

Fun fact: there's the HBO version and the TV edited version. And since my parents had us watching these together as a family - my brother and I assumed the HBO versions were fine to watch, right? Right?

Go watch the Tim Curry (award winning) episode if you're interested in some serious trauma.

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SlowGoat79@reddit

Yep! I used to watch the broadcast version and “Almost Live” - it was awesome.

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_Mikey_Boy_@reddit (OP)

It was always the HBO version. I didn’t even know they had an edited for TV version.

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BRketoGirl@reddit

Wiki has that is broadcast on ABC in the United States, and then aired concurrently on HBO. Intended for children, Tales from the Cryptkeeper was significantly milder than its live-action counterpart, and all blood, gore, profanity and sexual content were completely removed in order to be more appropriate for the target audience.

That explains my family's innocent confusion as kids.

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Smokeythemagickamodo@reddit

When my parents were gone, this got played nonstop.

Great times

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davesmissingfingers@reddit

I would go to church Wednesday nights with my grandma just so I could go back to her place after and watch this.

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Dismal_Ad1749@reddit

My brother would cry the second this came on. He turns 40 this summer and I still give him shit.

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spanishpeanut@reddit

Loved this show but had a hard time getting to watch it because I was too scared to watch by myself. When I did watch it, though, I loved it. Scared myself so badly I couldn’t sleep, but it was worth it.

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ResurgentClusterfuck@reddit

Yes and some of the stories were genuinely scary. The one about the woman who was desperate to be beautiful and ended up being a beautiful corpse... I distinctly remember her being embalmed alive

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missnickypearl@reddit

Tales from the Darkside. The intro alone terrified me.

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Correct-Degree-6789@reddit

Thanks for the trigger! How about the intro to the 80s show, "The Hitch Hiker."

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Correct-Degree-6789@reddit

Oh, stop! To its credit that piercing screech was more scarier than the entire show. Great show, it had its high points. Now sure why the made a Saturday morning cartoon???

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ConnectKale@reddit

I’d watch this in the kitchen at the back of my maw-maws isolated farm house. She didn’t allow horror movies and this was crossing that line. We watched on an old black and white TV. We’d sit close to the TV so we could change the channel as soon as we heard footsteps.

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