Memorable Roles in Horrific History - Tim Curry as the Brackett family in Tales from the Crypt

There are a load of performances out there in horrormovieland that may have been taken over by the weeds of time, and perhaps other performances. Still, many of those moments don't deserve to go unnoticed. No, they deserve to be swung back in the faces of audiences like Jack Torrence's ax to the bathroom door. I'll post those roles here as I find them, or remember them, or both.

If you ask me, which no one did but I'm saying it regardless, every appearance of Tim Curry in a movie is always great. He single-handedly made Muppet Treasure Island fun to watch. He made Home Alone 2: Lost in New York better than it would have been without him. His role in the movie Clue added some much needed energy. Curry is just cinema gold. And if he hadn't landed the role of Pennywise and terrorized the small town of Derry, Maine in the 1990 TV mini-series IT, that movie would have just been a big flop all around. His casting is really what made that movie!
And about two years later after he terrorized the town of Derry, he starred in another classic horror series - Tales from the Crypt.
Tales aired on HBO back in the late 1980s through the mid-1990s in seven seasons.
The first episode of season 5,  Death of Some Salesmen, starred Curry in three horrific roles.
This episode aired Oct. 2, 1993, and starred Ed Begley, Jr., as salesman Judd Campbell who's really out to con his customers.
He's successful at it until he meets the Bracketts - a family of rednecks who, little does Campbell know, hate salesmen.
Tim Curry plays the entire family - Ma and Pa Brackett, as well as their "lovely" daughter, Winona. 
When he rings their doorbell, thinking he's paying a visit to someone else, Ma Brackett answers and ends up inviting him inside. As Campbell discovers the real owners of the house dead and stuffed in awkward spaces throughout the house, he finds himself  held captive and using his con tactics to talk his way out, leaving him agreeing to marry Winona, with a shotgun in his back.
It's a cringe-saturated episode, and Curry looks like he's having fun playing these three roles.
He really tries to bolster up the exaggerated horror Tales from the Crypt is famous for.
It's certainly a great start to season 5, and Curry is fun and absorbing to watch.
Like many other episodes of Tales from the Crypt, this episode has the spirit and feel of the EC comic, and much of that is thanks to Curry's performance. Playing three roles in one story shows how versatile Curry is.