Toronto-based Cookie Jar Entertainment has announced its slate for MIPTV 2009 and it includes a 90-minute live action film, Tales From Cryptville, which is slated to debut on Canada’s Teletoon Network in the fall of this year. 

As is the case with the Papercutz Tales from the Crypt graphic novels, which are also based on the classic EC horror comics (see “Papercutz Resurrects “Tales From the Crypt”), the made-for-TV Tales From Cryptville movie is targeted at tween viewers and is likely to make an appearance on one of several kid/tween cable networks here in the States.  (Censorship opponents may find it a delicious irony that the horror comics that spurred Dr. Wertham on his crusade to "protect" children from psychological damage, should, albeit in a watered-down form, be recast as entertainment for the very age groups that Wertham sought to safeguard).

Like the EC comics, the movie is narrated by that chillingly humorous and apparently omniscient master of “scare-emonies, The Cryptkeeper.  The protagonist of Tales From Cryptville is teenager James Frost, whose family moves to the small, snowy town of Cripvale where he stumbles into a decades-old mystery that soon has him knee deep in a series of scary happenings.