37 Years Later, The Most Elusive Horror Holy Grail Is Finally Streaming

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For years, Tales from the Crypt has been a streaming Holy Grail. The HBO horror anthology series and its host, The Crypt Keeper — a punny puppeteered character who looked like a mummified corpse and talked like a Borscht Belt comedian — had an outsized influence on pop culture in the ‘90s, producing multiple big-screen spin-offs, loads of merchandise, and even a Crypt Keeper Christmas album in 1994. But after the final episode aired in 1996, the crypt was closed. And it stayed that way.

Even though the show aired on HBO, Tales from the Crypt has never been available for streaming on HBO Max, not even when it was still called HBO Go. All seven seasons of the show were released on DVD in the ‘00s, and a few were reissued in the format in the early 2010s, but no Blu-ray upgrade has emerged — yet.