The incomparable Walter Hill, along with producing partner David Giler, bigtime blockbuster producer Joel Silver, and blockbuster Amblin directors Robert Zemeckis and Richard Donner, found themselves at the forefront of original pay-cable programming with their seven-season, 93-episode hit Tales from the Crypt. First airing in weekly installments in 1989, each episode is a mini-movie unto itself, based largely on stories taken from the legendary run of adult-themed comics from publisher William Gaines’s EC Comics (first “Educational Comics,” then “Entertaining Comics”