Tales from the Crypt: House of Horror starts as three college pledges, Arling (Wil Wheaton), Waters (Keith Coogan) & Henderson (Jason London) prepare to take a fraternity initiation test, they have to complete a task inside a supposedly haunted house. The frat leader & serious idiot Wilton (Kevin Dillon) has rigged the house up but there is more inside than either he or the unlucky pledges had bargained for...
This Tales from the Crypt story was episode 7 from season 5, written & directed by Bob Gale I thought House of Horror was alright but not the show's best. The script was based on a story from 'The Haunt of Fear' comic book & is as clichéd a tale from the crypt as I've seen so far, the whole idea of a fraternity initiation gone wrong is old hat straight away, the supposed incidences that everyone thinks are jokes at first but turn out to be more sinister have been done to death already & while the twist is pretty cool it doesn't really save this tale from the crypt being decidedly average at best. There's no sense of black humour in this one either as it's played pretty straight although the Crypt Keeper (John Kassir) opening & closing segments entertain as usual, this time he's a judge & we are charged with 'watching too much Tales from the Crypt' & at the end of the show when the verdict comes in there's a 'hung jury'...
This one looks sort of average, the rundown house setting is OK but again a spooky boarded up old house had been done hundreds of times before & will probably be done hundreds of times in the future. The gore this time consists of a severed arm, a bin full of bloody bone & skull's & a decapitated head along with the expected blood splatter. The acting is alright but there's too many annoying teenagers here.
House of Horror is a decent watch in it's own right but too much of it felt too clichéd with the all teenage cast, the basic set up & the way this episode looks & feels.
This Tales from the Crypt story was episode 7 from season 5, written & directed by Bob Gale I thought House of Horror was alright but not the show's best. The script was based on a story from 'The Haunt of Fear' comic book & is as clichéd a tale from the crypt as I've seen so far, the whole idea of a fraternity initiation gone wrong is old hat straight away, the supposed incidences that everyone thinks are jokes at first but turn out to be more sinister have been done to death already & while the twist is pretty cool it doesn't really save this tale from the crypt being decidedly average at best. There's no sense of black humour in this one either as it's played pretty straight although the Crypt Keeper (John Kassir) opening & closing segments entertain as usual, this time he's a judge & we are charged with 'watching too much Tales from the Crypt' & at the end of the show when the verdict comes in there's a 'hung jury'...
This one looks sort of average, the rundown house setting is OK but again a spooky boarded up old house had been done hundreds of times before & will probably be done hundreds of times in the future. The gore this time consists of a severed arm, a bin full of bloody bone & skull's & a decapitated head along with the expected blood splatter. The acting is alright but there's too many annoying teenagers here.
House of Horror is a decent watch in it's own right but too much of it felt too clichéd with the all teenage cast, the basic set up & the way this episode looks & feels.