Dalton Scott (Roger Daltrey) has been shooting photos for decades. Now, he’s working with Isaac Forte (Steve Buscemi), a young shutterbug who says that he was inspired by Scott’s wartime photos. The editor of the paper, Forte’s uncle, claims that he’s more talented that Scott, which causes jealousy, which only increases when Scott meets his rival’s wife, Bobbi (Lysette Anthony).

“Yes, I think the fisheye lens will do fine. Greetings, fashion fiends. So glad you could join me. Bet you didn’t know your pal the Crypt Keeper dabbled in photography. I just love winding a few rolls of Kodagroan into my camera, turning on the old fright meter, and snapping off a few head…shots. Tonight’s putrid picture is sure to increase your shudder speed. It’s about a photographer who’s losing his touch and would do almost anything to get it back. Did I say almost? I call this sickening snapshot “Forever Ambergris.””

Dalton sets up Isaac with a contaminated war zone in Valmalera, which causes him to start to rot and his eyes to even come out of his head. He rises like a zombie and has to be shot. He takes Isaac’s photos and uses them for his own and then pays respects to his wife, which means they end up having sex. While they smoke, she reveals that she knew that he killed her husband and that they are smoking balsam from the same area where her husband died. As she rots away, he runs to the bathroom to watch his face fall off.

This episode was directed by Gary Fleder (Kiss the Girls) and written by Scott Rosenberg (Con Air).

It’s based on “Forever Ambergris” from Tales from the Crypt #44. It was written by Carl Wessler and drawn by Jack Davis. If the title doesn’t make any sense, that’s because it was based on the movie Forever Amber and in the original comic book, a sea captain sends a rival to a plague island where he dies and then is consumed and thrown up by a whale. This creates ambergris, a waxy substance that originates as a secretion from the intestines of whales that is used in perfumes. The captain takes that vomit and makes perfume for the man’s wife, who uses it and loses all of her skin.