Directed by Tom Holland, who wrote the script alongside James Tugend and Steven Dodd, “Four-Sided Triangle” is based on a story in Shock SuspenStories #17 that was written by Al Felder and William Gaines and drawn by Jack Kamen.

“She loves me; she loves me not. She loves me; she loves me not. Ah! What do flowers know about love anyway? Well, hello there boils and ghouls. Just getting in the mood for tonight’s tawdry tale a story of love and lurid lust in the dust. Sure to arouse the sickies amongst you to some heavy breathing. A tale I call “Four-Sided Triangle.”

George Yates (Chelcie Ross) caught Mary Jo (Patricia Arquette) robbing a store and has kept her a prisoner on the farm he owns with his wife Luisa (Susan Blommaert) as their slave. He harasses Mary Jo while his wife beats her with a cane. One day, while he’s trying to get Mary Jo to allow him to touch her, he ends up beating her with a bottle. The head injury she sustains causes her to hallucinate and believe that the clown-masked scarecrow in the field is her lover.

The injury has caused her to keep believing that the scarecrow loves her. Luisa mentions that they now have her for life, which makes George think that he can do whatever he wants to her. He also gets the bright idea to dress like the scarecrow, a plan that ends up destroying the evil scheme once and for all.

I really enjoyed this chapter. After all, Holland is an expert at telling horror stories.

“I always wanted to play guitar but I could never quite master the fingering. So I won’t be a rock star. I’ll just have to settle for being a shock star. My groupies. Tonight’s little riff is rife with sex, death and rock and roll. Now, that’s entertainment! You’ll meet a putrefied promoter of pop with an ear for a hit. I don’t want to kill it for you. Let’s just say we come into the story just when his career is getting real hot!”

Directed by Jeffrey Price (the writer of Who Framed Roger Rabbit?; this was his only directorial job), who wrote this episode along with Peter S. Seaman (who wrote Wild Wild West, Shrek The Third and How the Grinch Stole Christmas with Price) and Steven Dodd, this is the tale of Marty Slash (Lee Arenberg), a promoter who runs off with all the money from a charity concert only to be blackmailed by a banker by the name of Ms. Kilbasser (Katey Segal) while fighting the voice in his head (Sam Kinison).

It also has Iggy Pop in it, which is fun. I wonder if Katey Segal wondered if she would be in any more projects with Sam after doing Married With Children with him just five months before filming this.

This is based on the story of the same name from Shock SuspenStories #15. It was written by Al Feldstein and William Gaines and drawn by Reed Crandall. That story has no rock promoter but everything else is similar.

“Eye of newt, bladder of cobra, and whisker of a rat. Oh! Hi, kiddies. I was just rustling up a sickening snack for a ghastly guest. Let’s see. I need the blood of a sacrificed goat. Whoops! It’s got to be a virgin goat. Guess you’re off the hook, Nellie. Tonight’s story is about a different kind of sacrifice: A sacrifice… made for love.”

Insurance agent James (Kevin Kilner) meets Gloria Fielding (Kim Delaney) to talk about her husband’s policy. This soon turns into him tossing that man, Sebastian (Don Hood) off a balcony for love. Or lust. Or the usual mix that motivates so many in these Tales from the Crypt episodes. The bad part, beyond murder, is that his boss Jerry (Michael Ironside) has been stalking Gloria for years as she’s his ex-girlfriend. In exchange for not going to the law, he starts getting Gloria whenever he wants. But maybe, just maybe, there’s a plan that James doesn’t know about.

Directed by Richard Greenberg (Little Monsters) and written by Steven Dodd and Ross Thomas (who wrote the book that St. Ives is made from), this is as much a film noir as a horror story.

This episode is based on “The Sacrifice” from Shock SuspenStories #10. It was written by Al Felder and Willam Gaines and drawn by Jack Kamen.

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Kung Faux was an action comedy TV series created by Mic Neumann that remixed martial arts movies with popular music and comic book style editing along with video game style visual effects and new storylines that had voice acting featuring contemporary art stars, hip hop personalities and pop culture icons.

Neumann described the creative process as treating the original films like a DJ treats records, “sampling the melting pot of music and demixing pop culture to assemble new collisions of sounds and palettes.” Kung Faux first appeared publicly as a narrative collection of video art film stills derived from the series that exhibited at the original Ace Hotel alongside the works of such artists as Kaws and Shepard Fairey before becoming one of the first shows on FUSE.

As if that’s not enough, the show had music and voiceovers from a diverse array of artists including De La Soul, Guru, Masta Ace, Queen Latifah, Biz Markie, Afrika Bambaataa, Eminem, Kaws, Eli Janney, Craig Wedren, Steve Powers, Aida Ruilova, Mark Ronson, Helena Christensen, Crazy Legs, MF Doom, Quasimoto, Mix Master Mike, Beastie Boys, Petter, Willi Ninja, Information Society, Elephant Man, Jean Grae, Mr. Len, Lord Sear, Roc Raida, Sadat X, Indo G, Ron Van Clief, Harold Hunter, Dimitri from Paris, Above The Law, Grooverider, Stetsasonic, Force MDs, Naughty by Nature, Scribe, P-Money, Curse, Gentleman, Assassin and Fannypack,

Here’s a breakdown of the ten episodes. The descriptions come directly from the listings for the show:

Ill Master: A chronically challenged old homie schools a young gun on the ways of a dunny that has mastered the art of not having to pay protection money.

Boxcutta: A tight cat who exterminates suckas and reps for the real with a style as sharp as a blade until he gets straight gully with a Teflon-don-dadda. Taken from The King of Boxers.

Pinky: Herbs betta recognize a kick-ass kung fu chick named Pinky Jenkins who won’t let anyone stand in the way of a mission to find her M.I.A. master.

Mini Lee: A bi-curious Bruce Lee clone enters the dragon with his own personal psychic hotline which eventually connects him to a whacked-out links lovin’ wanksta. Taken from Bruce Lee We Miss You.

Pimp Stick: Some haters make a move on an original mack’s stack when he breaks north for the annual player’s ball, but his game is tight and the streets is watchin’.

Honey Pie: A good old boy goes on a hunting trip and bags a little more than he bargained for with a sweet backwoods boo & her ill-billy clan. Remixed from Bruce Li in New Guinea.

Dirty Dee: An old school battle cat wrecks shop on the block, forcing the towns #1 break boy to get down on some dirty-deeds done dirt cheap. Original movie: Iron Fisted Warrior.

Funky Bottoms: The hip hop music biz is dog eat dog competition where punks jump up to get beat down, so don’t hate the player, hate the game. The real movie is Amsterdam Connection.

Queenie: From around the way girl to killer queen bee, a local hoodrat has to grow up fast when a Japanese Elvis shakes the family tree with some Jailhouse Rock. The real movie is Life and Death.

Break Boy: Breakin’ 2: Electric Boogaloo lives on in this bizarro style tribute, when a hip hop hating heavy tries to squash the local community center run by an aspiring break master and his #1 pop lockin’ student. This movie is actually Bruce Lee’s Secret.

I’ve also found the soundtrack to the show on Futonrevolution’s YouTube page, which is a wealth of information on this show.

Have you seen this show? What did you think? It doesn’t always work for me but feels like it’d be fun to have on at parties.

Directed and written by Fred Dekker, “The Thing from the Grave” starts happy when centerfold model Stacy (Teri Hatcher) and photographer Devlin Cates (Kyle Secor) fall in love. It doesn’t stay that way because her stalker ex Mitch Bruckner (Miguel Ferrer) kills him.

Crypt Keeper?

“Oops! Looks like you caught the old Crypt Keeper checking out one of his ghoulie magazines. Which gives you a little hint about tonight’s dead-time story. It’s all about the way some guys just die over a pretty girl. But don’t worry kiddies, if it starts to reek a little of rotten romance I think the title of our nasty narrative makes no bones about where it’s heart is really at. I call it “The Thing From the Grave.”

“The Thing from the Grave” is from Tales from the Crypt #22 and was written by Al Feldstein and William M. Gaines and drawn by Al Feldstein.

This has one of the craziest images in the show, as the undead Devlin pulls Mitch into the grave and buries them both. It’s also the first of three appearances by the sadly gone Ferrer would make on the show.