In some ways, it was the series’ raison d’être. Watching twelve terror tales working the glorious, tricky intersection of horror and comedy that never even threaten to wander into Cinemax territory only highlighted how intensely Tales From the Crypt’s approach to horror and storytelling is nudity-based.Ĭopious, wonderfully gratuitous nudity wasn’t just a prominent feature of Tales from the Crypt. Where the Crypt-Keeper was a huge presence in Tales From the Crypt The Creep is something closer to a pure mascot.Ĭreepshow deviates from Tales from the Crypt in other, more substantive manners as well. The Creep’s appearances in Creepshow are far more fleeting than the Crypt-Keeper’s revered introductory and closing segments. But he has a slightly different name and there are minor differences in their look as well. Sure, the Creep shares the Crypt-Keeper’s love for wordplay that is horrific in multiple ways and he looks so much like the Crypt-Keeper that his design could easily pass for an early, rejected model for the iconic puppet that amused audiences nearly as much as he entertained himself.

To give the show credit, The Creep is not EXACTLY like the Crypt-Keeper.

The Creep returns as the host in Shudder’s Creepshow adaptation. Creepshow’s vignettes of wildly varying quality were tied together with comic book wraparound segments featuring a fiendish, pun-loving ghoul known as The Creep created in the undead image of beloved Tales From the Crypt hosts like the Crypt-Keeper but also his less famous contemporaries The Old Witch and the Vault-Keeper, who were shut out of the HBO series but jockeyed for supremacy with The Crypt-Keeper in Tales From the Crypt-Keeper, its animated, kid-friendly spin-off.

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