Only Sin Deep
- Episode aired Jun 14, 1989
- Not Rated
- 27m
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6.7/10
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A hooker learns that beauty is only skin deep.A hooker learns that beauty is only skin deep.A hooker learns that beauty is only skin deep.
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John Kassir
- Crypt Keeper
- (voice)
Simon Baker
- Party Guest
- (uncredited)
Fred Moon
- Courtroom Spectator
- (uncredited)
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Did you know
- TriviaAccording to Lea Thompson, she found it difficult to perform love scenes with Brett Cullen because he is her close friend in real life. Her difficulty was compounded by the fact that her husband, Howard Deutch was directing her. She had to redub her dialogue in those scenes in post-production.
- GoofsThe calender had the same picture before and after the four months in the peddler's shop.
- Quotes
Crypt Keeper: Poor Sylvia, eh, kiddies? Guess she heard the old saying, "if looks could kill"... so she did! Haha! Just goes to show ya, if you wanna sell yourself, take a look in the mirror, first.
[the Crypt Keeper looks at his own reflection]
Crypt Keeper: Eurgh! Well, see you next time, boys and ghouls!
[laughs maniacally]
- ConnectionsReferenced in Tales from the Crypt: Crypt Keeper's History of Season One (2005)
- SoundtracksTales from the Crypt Theme
Composed by Danny Elfman
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How much is your beauty worth? The answer is here
Sylvia Vane (Lea Thompson) is a streetwalker that becomes intrigued with the people that go on a great mansion but she hasn't the money. So the next day she sells all her jewelry to a pawn shop owner fanatic of voodoo practises and when she has the money she goes to the mansion and snags a rich playboy (Brett Cullen) from his other women and they end up living together. All goes well until she sees that her face is aging at an exaggerated rate. She goes to the pawnbroker and she finds out what he is up to: he is using the beauty of young women for resurrecting his dead wife and making her live again.
The soundtrack really struck me as it was very 1980s and it reminded me of the great movies of those years and the acting by Thompson and the always underrated Cullen (who most recently played Thomas Wayne in JOKER) was good. My problem with this episode is that I didn't felt sorry at all for Sylvia as she was incredibly vain and she accepted to sell her beauty without knowing what she was going for. And in the ending, before the great shot of the town, I thought that she was responsible for her mess, so why should anyone feel sorry for her in the first place? It just shows you how far some people would go for having all they want, but as the Crypt Keeper says in the epilogue, ''Be careful what you wish for''
The soundtrack really struck me as it was very 1980s and it reminded me of the great movies of those years and the acting by Thompson and the always underrated Cullen (who most recently played Thomas Wayne in JOKER) was good. My problem with this episode is that I didn't felt sorry at all for Sylvia as she was incredibly vain and she accepted to sell her beauty without knowing what she was going for. And in the ending, before the great shot of the town, I thought that she was responsible for her mess, so why should anyone feel sorry for her in the first place? It just shows you how far some people would go for having all they want, but as the Crypt Keeper says in the epilogue, ''Be careful what you wish for''
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- Los Angeles Theatre Center, 514 S Spring St, Los Angeles, California, USA(Ronnie's apartment)
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