Ray Wells (Adam Storke) is ready for his father Desmond (Rance Howard) to die so he can inherit that land where a house once burned own and killed a bunch of partying teens. Ray barely hears his father’s pleas as he cuts off his air and goes to claim his property, only to find a house there and some partying teens, led by Frank (Jake Busey) and Josie (Clare Hoak).

“Greetings, thrill shriek-ers! Care to join me on the scare lift? Good! Your pal the Crypt Keeper’s quite the ex-scream skier. I just love the feeling of going fester and fester. Talk about hack-xhilarating! Which is kind of how the man in tonight’s terror tale feels. He’s just started down a black die-mond run of his own, in a nasty nugget I call: “Surprise Party.””

Ray wastes no time getting in bed with Frank’s girl before killing him and then her when she won’t stop screaming. He never stopped to wonder why his father was so freaked out by this property, but when the dead come back to life, he gets his own reasons to be afraid.

This episode was directed by Elliot Silverstein (who sure, did four episodes of this show, but also directed The Car) and was written by Tom Lyons and Colman deKay.

“Surprise Party” comes from “Surprise Party!” from Vault of Horror #37. It was drawn and written by Johnny Craig. It has a man named Jerry Adams finding a house party in the middle of nowhere, where he romances the hostess, even if the band only plays one song. That’s because in 1884. everyone died at this party and they’ve been waiting for revenge. Jerry happens to be the ancestor of the man who killed them.