Wealthy, elderly Carlton Webster (William Hickey, "The Nightmare Before Christmas") yearns to be with beautiful young Linda (Kelly Preston, "Twins"). Unfortunately, he is not really what she is looking for. So he goes to see a maniacal surgeon (Roy Brocksmith, "Total Recall") who transforms Carlton - a bit at a time - into the studly Hans (Rick Rossovich, "The Terminator").
A worthy episode, co-written by Richard Tuggle ("Escape from Alcatraz"), this focuses on the obsession our culture has with youth & beauty, and how Carlton is willing to blow so much of his fortune on trying to please his love interest. Debuting director Arnold Schwarzenegger (who also has an uncredited cameo during the intro) shows a nice flair for the macabre, and gets fine performances out of the cast.
This being 'Tales from the Crypt', it does lead to a twist ending that is not exactly a great surprise, but is still quite delicious anyway. It's darkly humorous like the best TftC episodes, and features some typically excellent makeup effects by Chris Walas ("Gremlins").
Also putting in appearances are Ian Abercrombie ("Army of Darkness"), J. Patrick McNamara ("Close Encounters of the Third Kind"), Christopher Lawford ("Thirteen Days"), who was Arnolds' in-law at the time, Mark Pellegrino ("The Big Lebowski"), and two of Arnolds' longtime associates, Peter Kent ("Re-Animator"), and Franco Columbu ("Conan the Barbarian").
Seven out of 10.