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Tales from the Crypt: Horror in the Night starts as armed jewel thief Nick Marvin (James Wilby) doubles crosses his boss Mr. Starr (Peter Guinness) & his partner T (Ronan Vibert) by keeping all the stolen jewel's from an armed robbery, however T manages to shoot Nick as he escapes wounding him in the shoulder. Badly bleeding Nick sees a cheap hotel & checks in till things cool off, there he meets a beautiful yet mysterious woman (Elizabeth McGovern) who keeps popping up everywhere including Nick's dreams & nightmares. Nick starts to have strange hallucinations & odd things begin to happen until he finally realises that he has been there before & met the mysterious woman before too...

This Tales from the Crypt story was episode 5 from season 7, directed by Russell Mulcahy one has to say that Horror in the Night is maybe just about the best episode from the seven season so far & is certainly the first horror &/or supernatural themed story from the season so far. The script was based on a story from 'The Vault of Horror' comic book & is an alright little tale about a wounded thief who finds himself inside a spooky old hotel where his dubious past comes back to quite literally haunt him & take a little bit of sweet revenge too. I don't know, Horror in the Night isn't that great to be honest but it's just when I compare it to the previous four episodes of season seven it seems like an absolute masterpiece by comparison! The old horror film cliché of having a character suffer something weird or strange & then 'wake up' like it was either a dream or hallucination is used to absolute death in Horror in the Night & you end up wondering if anything that happens to Nick is real or not as we constantly have the rug pulled from under our feet in a 'what just happened wasn't real' sort of way. The twist ending is alright & rounds things off satisfactory enough even though it's not the most memorable twist the show has ever offered up.

The opening & closing Cryptkeeper sequences are fun as usual as here he dresses up as an astronaut & has a 'skeleton crew' with him aboard a spaceship! Cue plenty of bad space puns & jokes. There's a bit of blood in this one, there's a few gunshot wounds & a scene in which Nick has sex & the woman turns into a winged creature before he starts bleeding all this bright green goo, yes you've guessed it it's another hallucination scene. The acting is pretty good from a decent British cast.

Horror in the Night isn't classic Tales from the Crypt by any stretch of the imagination but you have to take what you can from a generally very disappointing season seven & run with it, not that bad but not that great either.

Nick Marvin is a jewel thief that after one heist goes wrongs, murders his partner T-Bone before running from the police and hiding in a hotel. Once in his room, he drinks and even has some visions about Laura, a gorgeous woman that only he can see that seems to be there for ulterior motives, and after a while the police will find Nick (probably thanks to the visions of Laura).

I was very reliefed when I saw this episode as the previous three were very bad and it's no surprise since we are in the final season and the show's production team moved to London. It has it all: horror, comedy, and that sort of dark humor that made this show great. A diamond in the rough when you consider the other episodes of this season.

I had watch all 6 seasons of TFTC untill i bump into this episode. There are much worst episodes in the previous seasons and Surprisingly i found this episode quite unique. Its a about one man who is being haunted by the ghost of his criminal victim . You just cant gues what are happening untill the twist at the end. There are a bunch of TFTC episodes (that i had wasted my times) where you could figure out what the twist in the end. The people who rate low on this never seeing other CRAP episodes like 'The Pit' and 'In The Grooves'. In fact you can guess whatwill happen in the end of 'You, Murderer' (final episode of Season 06) which i found "overrated" at best.