Ghouls and boils, welcome back to the mausoleum! This week, we're starting to dig up Season 2 of Tales From The Crypt. First up, we learn a lesson in greed and fortune-telling... before trading a fortune for the ultimate, high-end body swap in a cautionary tale of old age and vanity...

And our guest is a writer of stage, TV, and radio, Brendon Connelly...

~ [ 00:00:25 ] "Dead Right"

Cathy (Demi Moore) is a gold-digging secretary desperate to hit it big. When a bizarre fortune teller predicts she will marry a grotesque, overweight man (Jeffrey Tambor) who will soon inherit a massive fortune and die shortly after, Cathy thinks she’s found the ultimate get-rich-quick scheme. She eagerly walks down the aisle, but she quickly learns that fate has a twisted sense of humour—and the fine print on a prophecy is always a killer.

~ [ 00:32:30 ] "The Switch"

Carlton Webster (William Hickey) is an elderly, wealthy man desperately in love with a beautiful, much younger woman (Kelly Preston). Realising his age is a dealbreaker, he seeks out a radical, black-market doctor to swap his elderly body parts with a young, handsome donor (Rick Rossovich) in exchange for cash. He pays the ultimate price to look perfect for his dream girl—only to find out that love can be incredibly blind...

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