Mr. Schwarzenegger is clearly having a wonderful time introducing the episode he directed himself. Gratuitous cameo aside, I really think he did an excellent job here, this has always been one of my all time favourite tales, I think it perfectly exemplifies the macabre dark irony and artfully revealed ridiculous yet grandiose twist that the original comics were all about, I mean it's very fantastical and has a weird quirky surrealness to it that stretches the credible limits of surgical possibility as well as plain logic to a pretty insane degreee...but it's also very funny and enjoyable because of that, it's gleefully tongue in cheek, and I just love it, it's a live-action zany horror comic come to life! The hook of the story I s so simple, yet perfect. A nice enough rich old man, worships a far younger woman, but she refuses to be with him because he's so ancient. Ordinarily that would be that, but this is Tales From The Crypt, so the old man is willing to do literally anything to make her happy, and so he seeks out a surgeon who is mad enough to undertake the ~forbidden~ surgery that will grant him a "whole new face". I love the late great Roy Brocksmith's performance as a perfectly mad and campy mad scientist/surgeon. He so looks the classic part: big eye magnifying glasses, creepy comb-over and a Transilvanian accent, gothic castle lab complete with Egor! He slyly agrees to do the procedure, but only in stages. First he does the face, then the torso, then the legs, exponentially increasing amount of money each time, until eventually the very misguided Carlton Webster has no fortune left at all. Now there's an interesting strange subplot involving the doc, and the seemingly moronic donor who has been training his strong young body with Carlton piece by piece that you don't fully grasp until the ending, and even then it's sorta tricky.. For at the very end it seems that Carlton has traded himself for himself in a mad and twisted and surgical conundrum nightmare! It's so unfair for poor Carlton after he went through all that trouble, the silly odd woman he was in love with wants to be with the new(?) old man because he is rich. All he really ever had to do to win her greedy heart was be honest with her! Would a healthy young guy really trade all his youth and body, even for millions? And wouldn't the surgically altered Webster still be old internally? Some plot elements may be a bit hard to swallow for some, but to me who the hell really cares when an episode is such a hoot! The ending is pitch perfect, with Carlton's replacement laughing maniacally in his face in victory...Bravo! Perhaps not the smartest but it sure ticks all the boxes for what makes a great Tales episode in my book, I love this one and find it terrific to this day. 😷