This episode is based on the story that originally appeared in Shock SuspenStories #6, written by William Gaines and Al Feldstein and drawn by Jack Kamen. There was also another “Dead Right” that was in Tales from the Crypt #21 but that was turned into the episode “Abra Cadaver.”

I look into the future, my darlings… and for you, I see something… grotesque. It will sicken and disgust you! It’s me! Tonight’s tale is a sickening stab at suspense, about a gold digger who wanted big bucks to buy baubles and bangles. Look out, Cathy! I see you just might buy the big one!”

Directed by Howard Deutch (Pretty In Pink, Some Kind of Wonderful, The Great Outdoors) and written by Steven Dodd and Andy Welk, this episode really has some star power with Demi Moore playing Cathy, an exotic dancer told by Madame Vorna (Natalija Nogulich) that she will soon marry a man who will die and leave her great wealth. She thinks that it’s one of her customers, Charlie Marno (Jeffrey Tambor), who always speaks of his rich family. Yet the fortune doesn’t seem to be coming true. That is…until Cathy becomes rich at an automat. She didn’t see her dream ending up this way.

Speaking of exotic dancers, one of the girls in that scene is former GLOW and adult star Tiffany Million.

The second season of this show gets off to a decent start, as this is well shot and moves quickly. That said, no one consulted a lawyer because a murderer can’t inherit anything. Then again, if that was true in movies, we wouldn’t have so many plots that use it.