Tales from the Crypt

Name: Tales from the Crypt
Genre: Horror

1989–1996HBOHorror

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A crawl through a derelict house towards a coffin, which opens — Danny Elfman's theme, and a host who was a puppet.

Tales from the Crypt opens with a main title sequence of 82 seconds.

At 82 seconds, it opens well above the 50-second median for horror sequences in this catalogue.

It arrived on HBO in 1989, when The Hitchhiker, The Kids in the Hall and The Ray Bradbury Theater were also on the network.

The opening titles

82s

The title sequence.

1983–1988SyndicationHorror

George Romero's anthology, opened by pastoral countryside that turns to negative while a narrator explains why.

1987–1990SyndicationHorror

An antiques shop recovering cursed objects, sharing nothing with the films but a title.

1988–1990SyndicationHorror

An anthology hosted by Freddy Krueger, made while the films were still coming out and stranger than any of them.

1988–1991SyndicationHorror

A half-hour anthology from the Tales from the Darkside producers, with a creature in every episode and a budget for none of them.

1983–1991HBOHorror

HBO's first original series: an anthology introduced by a man on a road who never explains himself.

1980ITVHorror

Hammer's one television anthology, made after the films had stopped and shot on the same estate.