The Crypt Keeper, as scary as he looked and laughed, was always kinda cheesy by design. He was our narrator, after all, a figure that had to be a kind of safe haven for us viewers in the middle of ...

But outside Rod Serling’s original The Twilight Zone, they’re all definitely playing second fiddle to a major contender in the subgenre, HBO’s Tales from the Crypt.

In this episode of Tales From the Crypt, Lieutenant Kalthrob (Eric Douglas) and his father, General Kalthrob (Kirk Douglas), are two soldiers serving in World War II.