Tales from the Crypt S5 E9: Creep Course (1993)

Directed and written by Jeffrey Boam (Funny FarmThe Phantom), this episode stars Jeffrey Jones as Professor Finley, a teacher of Egyptology. His latest lesson is about a mummified monster named Ramseth, who makes an annual return from the grave to search for his lost lover Princess Nefra.

“Hello, creeps! I’ll be with you in a moment. I was just in the middle of cramming for my final exams. Bet you didn’t know your pal the Crypt Keeper was still in s-ghoul. As a matter of fact, I’m at the top of my class at Horror-vard! Which brings us to tonight’s all-frighter. It concerns a couple of college kids who’ve got their own ideas about higher dead-ucation, in a bit of hack-edamia I call: “Creep Course.””

Finley has it in for the dumb jock Reggie Skulnick (Anthony Michael Hall) and is in love with a student named Stella Bishop (Nina Siemaszko), who may know as much about Egypt as him. Everything leads you to believe that Reggie is using her to get answers for the test, but he’s actually working with the professor, all so they can have her be the latest sacrifice for Ramseth (Ivan E. Roth), who Finley has been keeping in his basement.

Remember how I said that she knows more than her teacher? That’s true. And she knows how to get to Ramseth, too. Well, she has to make love to the undead thing, but if that’s what it takes to live, she’ll do it.

This episode is based on “Creep Course” in Haunt of Fear #23. It was written by Al Feldstein and William Gaines and drawn by Graham Ingels. The story does have a college class, but it’s more about a girl trying to use her good looks to get a better grade and paying the price for it.