Shudder Day: 'Tales from the Crypt' - 'Only Sin Deep'

 Let me continue to cover this Anthology Show with more from Season 1.

In the 4th Episode, a woman is obsessed with her own beauty.
This won't end well.

Sylvia Vane (Lea Thompson) is a Hooker who is obsessed with herself.

She also wants to be rich.

And yes, her last name is Vane.
She's either in a Horror Show or a future Batman Villain.

She kills a Pimp who offends her and tries to get a way out by pawning his jewelry.

Desperate, she agrees to trade her beauty to the Pawn Shop Owner.
She must pay him back in 4 months.

With this money, she glams herself up and goes to meet a man at a fancy party.

The man- Brett Cullen- falls for her and everything is great.

She has everything she's ever wanted.

What could go wrong?

Her beauty starts to fade and she has no idea why.

She finally figures out why and pays the guy back...too late.

She needs more money, so she robs the guy she was with for all of this time.

He comes home and she kills him.

She tries to buy her beauty back, only to learn that if she gets it, she'll be convicted for murder and be executed.

What a choice.  The End.

A pretty simple tale of vanity, greed and anger.

These are never complex tales.  There's almost always a simple moral and ironic twist or two.

What matters is how they do it.

This one works thanks to Leia Thompson fully committing to the role.  She's willing to play against type and the Episode benefits from that.

Howard Deutch was the Director and is actually married to Thompson (they married the same Year that this Episode was made).  He gets a good performance out of her and the rest of the Cast.

The makeup work sells things without being too over the top.  Good stuff.

A good production and there is worse make-up work when it comes to stuff with Lea Thompson in it...

Next time, one of the most reliable Character Actors of all time is here.  This tale of obsession will also not end well.  See you then...