Revenge Is the Nuts

Episode aired Nov 16, 1994
Not Rated
27m

IMDb RATING

6.2/10

617

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Teri Polo in Tales from the Crypt (1989)

Comedy Crime Fantasy Horror Mystery Thriller

Residents at a shelter for the blind turn the tables on their cruel overseer.Residents at a shelter for the blind turn the tables on their cruel overseer.Residents at a shelter for the blind turn the tables on their cruel overseer.

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IMDb RATING

6.2/10

617

YOUR RATING

See production info at IMDbPro

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Trivia
The episode is given the name of an entirely different story than displayed. "Revenge is the nuts" is a story featured in the EC Comic "Vault of Horror" issue #20 and deals with abused inmates of an Asylum whom exact revenge via feeding their abuser to a monstrous inmate who rips him apart. Though this episode uses this title, it is actually an adaptation of an entirely different story called "Blind Alleys" from the EC Comic "Tales From The Crypt" issue # 46 about abused blind patients who exact their revenge using a razor blade hallway and a hungry dog. The stories are slightly similar with different gruesome circumstances of their endings. This episode is not "Revenge is the nuts" even though it is titled as such. It bares none of the details of that story and all of the details down to the exact ending of "Blind Alleys."

Quotes
[Grunwald talking to his mother portrait about Sheila]
Grunwald: What do you think, Mother? Prime piece of meat, yes? You jealous old bitch.

Connections
References Shaft (1971)

Soundtracks
Tales from the Crypt Theme
Composed by Danny Elfman

User reviews7

Featured review

9/10

Same type of plot but still great

The story is set in an institute for the blind and it begins with the owner's brother that throws some marbles on the floor and a black man named Samuel (Isaac Hayes) stops as he is afraid to step on the marbles. Soon arrives teenager Sheila (Teri Polo) as she is forced to stay there by social services. The institute's sadistic owner Mr. Grunwald (Anthony Zerbe) is much like Warden Drumgoole from LOCK UP: he throws marbles on the floor so that folks will slip on them, bricks the toilet door up, puts razor blades on the walls' crevices and keeps the heating system turned off. After Sheila finds out all this she rallies all the other blind folks and Grunwald's brother Benny for teaching Mr. Grunwald the lesson he'll NEVER forget!

While the subject of revenge has already been treated at least 5-6 times in the entire show (such as in FITTING PUNISHMENT, ABRA CADAVER, FOOD FOR THOUGHT and COLLECTION COMPLETED for naming a few) this didn't annoyed me as it was put in a new setting as always. What can I say? Another winner in a great season.