7.4
Viewer Rating
Combines user and critic ratings from four sources
Tales from the Crypt (1989)
Bias Rating
Analyzing...
Leans Traditional
Viewer Rating
Rating: 7.4
Overview
Cadaverous scream legend the Crypt Keeper is your macabre host for these forays of fright and fun based on the classic E.C. Comics tales from back in the day. So shamble up to the bar and pick your poison. Will it be an insane Santa on a personal slay ride? Honeymooners out to fulfill the "til death do we part" vow ASAP?
Starring Cast
Bias Dimensions
Political: Center
Diversity: Low
Christianity: Negative
Overview
Cadaverous scream legend the Crypt Keeper is your macabre host for these forays of fright and fun based on the classic E.C. Comics tales from back in the day. So shamble up to the bar and pick your poison. Will it be an insane Santa on a personal slay ride? Honeymooners out to fulfill the "til death do we part" vow ASAP?
Starring Cast
Detailed Bias Analysis
Analyzing...
Leans Traditional
Primary
Tales from the Crypt is a horror anthology that primarily explores individual moral corruption and its gruesome, ironic consequences, rather than promoting specific political ideologies or critiquing systemic issues. Its focus on universal human vices and poetic justice renders it politically neutral.
The film features a cast that is primarily traditional, reflecting the era's mainstream casting without intentional race or gender swaps. Its narrative focuses on classic horror morality tales, where character flaws drive the plot, rather than offering a critique of traditional identities or explicitly incorporating DEI themes.
Secondary
The series frequently portrays Christian characters, including clergy, as hypocritical, corrupt, or driven by malice, ultimately facing gruesome comeuppance. The narrative uses Christian settings and iconography to underscore human depravity and ironic horror, rather than affirming the faith's virtues.
The anthology horror series "Tales from the Crypt" does not feature identifiable LGBTQ+ characters or themes as central or even incidental elements within its various episodes. The show's narratives primarily focus on moralistic tales of greed, lust, and revenge, without engaging with queer identity or experiences.
The television series 'Tales from the Crypt' does not feature any identifiable transsexual characters or themes. Its anthology horror format focuses on dark humor, moral comeuppance, and supernatural elements, without engaging with topics related to transsexual identity.
The movie does not contain any action or adventure elements.
The anthology series primarily adapts standalone horror stories from EC Comics. While the host, the Crypt Keeper, maintains his original male gender, there are no widely recognized or significant instances of named, plot-relevant characters from the source material being portrayed as a different gender in the show.
Tales from the Crypt is an anthology series where each episode features new characters. The recurring Crypt Keeper is a non-human puppet. There are no established legacy human characters whose race was canonically or widely defined in the source material and then changed in the series.
Viewer Rating Breakdown
User Ratings
8.0
8.0
Critic Ratings
8.2
5.6
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