Shudder has announced that all seven seasons of HBO's horror anthology series Tales From the Crypt will begin streaming on the platform for the first time ever, starting with Season 1 on May 1. Additional seasons will roll out weekly every Friday until June 12. The series, hosted by the Crypt Keeper voiced by John Kassir, features self-contained stories inspired by 1950s EC Comics.
Shudder revealed plans to bring the long-absent Tales From the Crypt to streaming devices. The rollout begins May 1 with Season 1, followed by weekly Friday releases of subsequent seasons through June 12, making all 93 episodes available by the end of that period. A teaser for the series accompanies the announcement from the streaming service, a specialist in horror content. The show originally aired on HBO from June 1989 to July 1996. Each episode delivers a standalone tale with unrestricted gore, profanity, and dark irony, often ending in twisted moral lessons for characters driven by greed, lust, or moral decay. The Crypt Keeper, a wisecracking corpse voiced by John Kassir, introduces the stories with his signature macabre puns. Tales From the Crypt boasts an impressive roster of guest stars, including Brad Pitt, Demi Moore, Michael J. Fox, John Lithgow, Christopher Reeve, Catherine O'Hara, Steve Buscemi, and Brooke Shields. Directors of note include Robert Zemeckis, Tobe Hooper, William Friedkin, Tom Hanks, Arnold Schwarzenegger, and others. The franchise also spawned three films: Tales From the Crypt Presents: Demon Knight in 1995, Tales From the Crypt Presents: Bordello of Blood in 1996, and Ritual in 2002.