“And All Through the House”: When ‘Tales From the Crypt’ Gifted Viewers With a Killer Santa
Of the many holiday special that have aired on television , fromFrosty the SnowmantoA Charlie Brown Christmas , very few have come with a parental advisory warning over violent depicted object . That changed in 1989 , whenHBOdebuted “ And All Through the House , ” an episode ofTales From the Cryptin which a psychopathic Santa Claus wields an axe and terrorize a single mother on Christmas Eve . ( In trueCryptfashion , the booster is single because she just murdered her married man with a fireplace fire hook ....