Shudder Day: 'Tales From The Crypt' - 'Lover Come Hack to Me!'

 An Episode with some interesting people behind the Scenes that made it happen.

It was Written by Michael McDowell, a prolific Author famous for co-Writing Beetlejuice, The Nightmare Before Christmas and the Film adaptation of Thinner.

The Director was Tom Holland, the guy behind Fright Night (and also Thinner) and NOT the Spider-Man one.

With big names behind it, let's see what we get with...

A man marries a rich lady (Amanda Plummer).

He makes it clear to the Aunt that he's taking the lady away and going to get all of the money.

Can you trust a guy who looks like a Samurai Cop?

Their honeymoon is derailed by bad weather and car issues.

They end up at her old House and the guy eventually gets her to come to bed with him.
Apparently, they have never even been undressed around each other.

It all goes well, even as he plans to kill her later that night.

He's woken by a strange sound and sees his new Wife meeting a guy outside.

He watches on in shock as they make love and she talks just like she did with him.

Unlike with him, she takes the nearby axe and kills him!
He tries to stop her, but can't make contact.

She's a ghost!

He's jolted awake by this and greeted by his new Wife.

He tells her what he saw and she doesn't dispute it.

She has the axe now and is going to kill him, since everything is 'perfect' and will only 'get worse.'

He confesses his plans to kill her, thinking that it will help, and draws the gun he brought.

He goes to fire, but there's no bullets and he's chopped up.

In the aftermath, Widow and Aunt talk about her future Daughter.
The End.

A simple, but twisted tale.

The Story itself is not some big, amazing one full of twists and turns.

Like most of these, it is adapted from a 50s-60s Horror Comic.

The thing that makes this one stand out more than it might otherwise is the execution.
Pun fully intended.

The way it is all framed, the bit with the ghost and the whole package really helps.

This is the key difference between just doing a Horror Story and doing one with a great Writer (who we lost in 1994) and Director.

It may not be anyone's favorite Tales from the Crypt Episode, but it went a step above for me.

A solid Episode and simple Premise that was definitely improved with the talent on board.  It's like using the really good, fancy cheese when you make lasagna.