I watched this episode just a week before Christmas and I have to admit that the timing was most excellent. This was Tales From The Crypt’s first Christmas-themed episode and I found it to be a little disappointing.
The opening of the episode was superb. The Crypt Keeper was great as was the wonderful Christmas music which took up the first minute or so of the episode. It was a nice, warm start to what would be a bloody TV show.
Be careful what you ax for, kiddies. You just may GET IT.
The episode focuses on a wife who kills her husband in the living room and calls what I would presume is her lover and tells him the good news, that she did it and they’ll be free, with all of his money. There wasn’t anything original about the story of course.
Through quite a coincidence, another killer is on the loose, a guy who broke out of the mental institute has dressed up as Santa and has killed numerous people in the area.
Much of this episode featured bizarre coincidences that made it difficult to take this episode’s plot even remotely believable. Heck, even the snow was fake as hell. I know we’re talking about 1989 fake snow here, but I’m sure better stuff was available. The snow flakes were larger than shredded coconut you’d buy in the grocery store.
Still, the episode did have a few good moments. I thought there were a few genuinely tense, exciting moments here, but by and large, this episode was a big disappointment. It didn’t come anywhere near the pilot. I did like seeing Marshall Bell though. He’s been in a lot of TV shows and movies and I just don’t see him very often.
Rating: 5.3
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