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| Tales from the Crypt: The Complete Seventh Season | 
 enlarge | Actor: John Kassir
Studio: Home Box Office (HBO)
Category: DVD
List Price: $39.98
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Avg. Customer Rating:  6 reviews
Sales Rank: 13710
Format: Box Set, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, Dvd-video, Subtitled, Widescreen, Ntsc
Languages: English (Original Language), English (Subtitled), Spanish (Subtitled)
Number Of Items: 3
Running Time: 337
Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1
Dimensions (in): 7.6 x 5.2 x 0.7
MPN: 75409
UPC: 012569754096
EAN: 0012569754096
ASIN: B000SULWKO
Theatrical Release Date: June 10, 1989
Release Date: October 23, 2007
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Product Description
Greetings fiends! The last time you saw the Crypt Keeper...wait this is the last time. So turn out the frights the party's over. They say all ghoul things must end. But first let the ghoul times roll one gleeful last time with these 13 terrorific tales based on those classic moldy-but-goodie horror comics from back when. Among the die-lights: Natasha Richardson is a lawyer planning a Fatal Caper Ewan McGregor gets down and zombie for a Cold War and Daniel Craig finds out how the sneaky freaky ad biz really works in Smoke Wrings. Well time's up. Past our deadtime. Never say die kiddies (although we just did). It's the final season!Running Time: 337 min.Format: DVD MOVIE Genre: TELEVISION/SERIES & SEQUELS UPC: 012569754096 Manufacturer No: 75409
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Yay for TFTC! ..british? February 25, 2008
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
I really love the Tales from the Crypt! HUGE FAN! That's why I was disappointed to find all the last tales in London or wherever. I mean, I love the accent and all, but that was too much! Plus, TFTC is American based.. why did they film the last season on England?
Still loved most of the tales though.. and the last episode was kinda unexpected/funny.
whtig6 January 5, 2008
I enjoyed this season of Tales of the Crypt. The tales move from North America to Britain; its a new twist on the show. The is the last season of the series and I think its okay. Some of the stories are good, some are just okay but overall its a good purchase.
Not Scary But Probably The Best Written Stories Of The Series October 28, 2007
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I was going to give this season three stars, butthe writing is so good that I have to give it four stars. None of the episodes on this season are scary, none! That still doesn't mean that the episodes aren't good. England's best actors are featured in this season and the stories are so well written, you can forgive it for not having anything really scary. It tries to be scary on a couple of episodes, but the special effects are sub-par.
The end August 6, 2007
13 out of 15 found this review helpful
The seventh, and final, season of HBO's Tales From the Crypt was bittersweet to say the least. Though no one wanted to see the horror anthology's demise, the series had grown tired over the past couple seasons (and two feature films), and by the time the seventh season came to an end, it was good to see the show go without wearing out it's welcome. There are some exceptional episodes to be found here, including "Cold War" starring a pre-Jedi Ewan McGregor in a twisty role, "Ear Today...Gone Tomorrow" in which a safecracker seeking a new lease on his old job gets more than he bargained for, "Confession" which features Eddie Izzard as a suspect in a series of grisly serial killings, and the last episode, the fully animated "The Third Pig" which puts a grisly and gory spin on the the Three Little Pigs. Other episodes, like "Smoke Wrings" (featuring a young Daniel Craig), and "Fatal Caper" (featuring a cunning Natasha Richardson) are solid enough as well, so the overall season is a winner like the ones that came before it. All in all, the Cryptkeeper may have finally gotten laid to rest, but as the final season of Tales From the Crypt proves, he's still worth digging up now and again.
 Farewell, Fright Fiends! July 30, 2007
16 out of 17 found this review helpful
The Tales From The Crypt series was some of the best television airing back in the final years of the 80s and into the early 90s. Deliberately over the top. Deliberately funny. Deliberately campy at times. Deliberately scary. Deliberately gory. Deliberately one of HBO's finest creations.
The episodes are all based on EC Comics of old...mostly from the self titled Tales From the Crypt, Haunt of Fear and Vault of Horror comic books. But I'd guess that 90% of you reading this already know that, and you're here as I am delighted that the final season is finally out on DVD.
For those that have not seen these wonderfully entertaining episodes of dark humor and horror...if you're into the genre this collection and any of the other HBO seasonal Tales From the Crypt releases are for you. Alas...by the sixth season the directorial effort and actor ambition had waned, and The Tales From The Crypt series was startin' to look a bit long in the fang. Hence, The Cryptkeepr "killed" production of the show after season 7.
Airing first in 1989 and finishing out in 1996, by the fifth season I've always thought that it would have been cool if the producers considered bringing in some adaptations of modern short stories from the likes of Stephen King and Dean R. Koontz, because the best EC Comic stories were done in seasons one through four. But I guess the producers felt it was taboo to stray from the EC Comics classics. (In my review of Tales 5 {that mirrors this review almost exactly, with the exception of the individual episode puns} a commenter said that, "part of the TV deal with William Gaines was that all of the Tales From The Crypt episodes had to be based on EC Comics stories.")
That's too bad, because the following episodes were good...but just good. Not great...like seasons 1 - 4.
Season 7 gives you:
"Fatal Caper" -- Who's your brother's creeper?
"Last Respects" -- Monkeying around with the wrong paw.
"A Slight Case of Murder" -- That's what I call writing a book with a twist!
"Escape" -- The penalty for treason is...Death.
"Horror in the Night" -- Diamonds are a ghouls best friend.
"Cold War" -- Battle of the undead.
"Kidnapper" -- Don't throw a baby out with the bath water.
"Report From the Grave" -- Be careful what you wish for.
"Smoke Wrings" -- Where there's smoke, there's murder.
"About Face" -- Bless you, Father, for you have sinned.
"Confession" -- Life imitates art.
"Ear Today...Gone Tomorrow" -- Hear ye, kill ye!
"The Third Pig" -- The Three Little Poltergeists.
I'm a big Tales fan, but the "Add to Cart" button was really hard to press for season 6 & 7. Still...it was a terrific run for the series, and even the final seasons of Tales are better than most of the TV on the air today. So, at minimum, give season 7 a rent....These'll kill ya!
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