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  Tales from the Darkside - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Tales from the Darkside is an anthology TV series from the 1980s produced by George A. Romero.
The series was followed by Tales from the Darkside: The Movie in 1990.
His previous works qualified him to try his hand at the theme for Tales From The Darkside, and the haunting composition helped define the series as a separate entity from Creepshow.
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 DVDFILE.COM: Tales From The Darkside - The Movie review   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Tales From The Darkside: The Movie is an interesting entry in the genre of horror anthology films, such as the likes of Creepshow and Cat's Eye, and is based on the television series of the same name.
The boy has been given a tome of "Tales from the Darkside" to keep him company in his cage, and on the day that the boy is to be cooked, he stalls the witch (played by Debbie Harry!) by reading her stories from the book.
Tales From the Darkside: The Movie is a fun flick, and if you dug Creepshow, Tales From the Crypt or Cat's Eye, you will surely enjoy this three pack of horror.
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 Encyclopedia: Tales from the Darkside   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Tales from the Crypt was part of Bill Gaines EC Comics line during the early 1950s.
The film starred Deborah Harry, Christian Slater, William Hickey, Steve Buscemi, and Julianne Moore (the former three previously appeared in episodes of the TV series).
Debbie Harry on the cover of her collection Most of All: Best Of Deborah Harry (born July 1, 1945) is a Miami-born American rock and roll musician who originally gained fame as the frontwoman for New Wave band Blondie, which originated in the late 1970s and achieved commercial success...
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 Tales From The Darkside   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
I loved Tales from the Darkside, especially "In the Closet", with Fritz Weaver and that "daughter" creature that lived in that little closet door.
Tales from the Darkside was a much darker version of the Twilight Zone.
Tales from the Darkside was a great show at a great time.
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 DVD Talk > Reviews > Tales From The Darkside: The Movie
Ah, but Tales From The Darkside was, at least in my eyes, one of the few series that improved as time went on.
Tales From The Darkside: The Movie is presented at an aspect ratio of 1.85:1 and, as is par for the course for Paramount, is enhanced for widescreen televisions.
Conclusion: Tales From The Darkside: The Movie doesn't approach the brilliance of the best episodes of the series on which it is based, but it's worth an addition to the collection of any anthology completist.
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 Tales from the Darkside -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Tales from the Darkside is an anthology (Click link for more info and facts about TV series) TV series from the (The decade from 1980 to 1989) 1980s produced by (Click link for more info and facts about George A. Romero) George A. Romero.
Similar to (Click link for more info and facts about The Twilight Zone) The Twilight Zone and (Click link for more info and facts about The Outer Limits) The Outer Limits, each episode was an individual (A prose narrative shorter than a novel) short story that ended with a plot twist.
Unlike these other series, which frequently had (Literary fantasy involving the imagined impact of science on society) science fiction stories, Tales from the Darkside centered mostly around (Something that inspires horror; something horrible) horror stories.
www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/t/ta/tales_from_the_darkside.htm   (423 words)

  
 DVD Verdict Review - Tales From The Darkside: The Movie
Tales From The Darkside: The Movie is made up of three short stories and one wraparound story involving a malevolent housewife (Harry) planning on cooking up a scrumptious dinner by using a captured little boy (Matthew Lawrence) as the main course.
Tales From The Darkside: The Movie is a decently constructed horror film, but never rises to become anything more than what it really is: set pieces for splatter.
Tales From The Darkside: The Movie is barely free to go, though Paramount is slapped on the wrists for an only mediocre transfer and soundtrack.
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 Tales From the Darkside
"Tales From the Darkside," named after the Rubinstein-produced TV series that enjoyed a syndication run in the late 1980s, is the film that "Creepshow 2" should have been: well-written, well-directed, laden with stars and boasting some great make-up effects, including two (count 'em) transformation scenes.
The first tale involves a mummy that a college student (played by a young Steve Buscemi) uses to exact revenge on the sister of fellow student Christian Slater.
The second tale: An old man hires a hitman to kill his cat, which has killed everyone else in the house by, among other things, smothering them to death.
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 ‘Tales From the Darkside: The Movie’ (R)
That hasn't stopped folks from trying, as can be seen in the latest lame effort, "Tales From the Darkside: The Movie." Even with the explicit language and graphic gore available four decades later, these new horror tales have none of the visceral emotional impact of those ancient ghost stories.
On television, where the syndicated "Darkside" series has been popular for some years, such tales stand alone: video-ized short stories, usually from master genre craftsmen and women.
Outside of the fl cat, Chong and her "children" are the only actors of color in the film, and it's unsettling that in the end (albeit poignantly) they turn out to be monsters.
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 dOc DVD Review: Tales from the Darkside: The Movie (1990) - Printable
This movie version of Tales from the Darkside benefits visibly from a larger budget and makeup effects consultation by Hollywood legend Dick Smith, but the stories themselves aren't nearly as solid as the best episodes of the original TV series.
Tales from the Darkside: The Movie isn't nearly as much fun as it should be; see it for Lover's Vow, if at all.
Tales from the Darkside: The Movie attempts to bring George Romero's anthology TV series to the big screen, with mixed, surprisingly charmless results.
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 Tales From The Darkside
Tales From the Darkside was a weekly 1/2 hour anthology horror series, similar in vein to "The Twighlight Zone", "The Outer Limits", "Night Gallery", et al.
A mother and father tell an unfamiliar Christmas tale, not involving Santa Claus, but rather a monstrous creature known as 'the Grither'.
Of course, the darkside felt this was unfair, so gave him a taste of his own medicine while he was inspecting things, and "got him out of the way".
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these other series which frequently had science fiction stories Tales from the Darkside centered mostly around horror stories.
Tales From The Darkside: The Movie - Original Motion Picture Soundtrack
I have been a Dragon fan for many years, and this 2 CD set is one of the best encapsulations of their career I have ever heard.
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 Movie Review - Tales from the Darkside: The Movie - eFilmCritic   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
For all of its star power, Tales from the Darkside: The Movie does little to bolster new interest in the mid-80's horror anthology.
Amongst the myriad of horror anthology television series that had their way with the boob tube during the 80’s, "Tales from the Darkside" often found itself bringing up the rear.
Serving as the most “intentionally” comedic tale of the three, Hickey quickly departs for the city, leaving us to watch Johansen hunt a fl cat Hickey believes has been sent to kill him.
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 NASIOC - twilight zone, tales from the darkside.   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Tales from the Crypt had a few genuinely creepy episodes as well.
It kills her and goes after the professor...only to reveal that it is his deformed daughter, which he lovingly dotes on.
Fritz Weaver, who plays Dr. Fenner in the episode, also starred in an episode from the motion picture "Creepshow", which the Tales From The Darkside series was based on.
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 Encyclopedia: Tales from the Darkside: The Movie   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Other descriptions of Tales from the Darkside: The Movie
IMDb entry for Tales from the Darkside: The Movie (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0100740/)
Jump The Shark entry for Tales from the Darkside (http://www.jumptheshark.com/t/talesfromthedarkside.htm)
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 X-Entertainment -- Flick Review: "Tales From The Darkside: The Movie!"
Consisting of three short horror tales and one wraparound story, it's creepy the whole way through and boasts a cast you won't believe.
"Tales from the Darkside" wasn't going to win many awards, but it succeeded in what it tried to accomplish.
The saving grace is that bad acting in a flick like "Tales from the Darkside" just heightens the enjoyment, so I really don't mind the fact that Buster's character comes off more like someone who should be redecorating Drogan's house than murdering kitties.
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 TNL Forum - Tales form the Darkside
They did release a Tales from the Darkside movie, not too much like the show.
As you suggested, it had the irony/twists of Twilight Zone, with the horror of Tales from the Crypt.
It was originally going to be Creepshow 3, but they changed it because Tales From the Darkside was kinda popular at the time.
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 Tales From The Darkside - The Unofficial Homepage
Tales from the Darkside/Monsters/Tales from the Crypt —Moltar, Sat Oct 8 9:04pm
The ultimate Tales From The Darkside mystery —doctorwily, Tue Jan 18 10:30pm
Tales from the Darkside on "alt.binaries.multimedia.horror" —Brian1233, Tue May 3 3:57pm
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 Tango & Ratty - Tales From The Darkside (Remix)
Tango and Ratty - Tales From The Darkside (Remix)
Tango & Ratty - Tales From The Darkside (Remix)
Tales From The Darkside (Mickey Finn & Bay B Kane Remix)
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 "Tales from the Darkside" (1984)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Narrator: The Darkside is always there waiting for us to enter; waiting to enter us.
"Tales From the Darkside" is an interesting anthology series which has been syndicated for as long as I can remember.
For the most part "Tales From Darkside" is an interesting supernatural series that has been overlooked, but is usually just as potent as "The Twilight Zone" or "The X-Files".
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 The DVD Journal | Quick Reviews: Tales from the Darkside: The Movie   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Tales from the Darkside: The Movie (1990) was a spin-off of the Tales from the Darkside television show (1984-88), which itself was born from the success of George Romero's 1982 Creepshow.
Featuring short films of horror inspired by the old EC comic Tales from the Crypt — with a dash of Twilight Zone thrown in for good measure — Darkside features three episodes told by a young boy trying to outwit a witch (Deborah Harry) who's about to cook him.
Where anthology films are usually erratic, Darkside director John Harrison maintains consistent lameness throughout, as none of the stories are in the least bit creepy, the characters don't make the bold impressions that comic-book-style heroes or villains should make, and the come-uppances (always the best part of these stories) are very weak.
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 Tales from the Darkside TV Show - Tales from the Darkside Television Show - TV.com
Tales from the Darkside TV Show - Tales from the Darkside Television Show - TV.com
a Darkside." This 30-minute horror/fantasy anthology series follows in the vein of The Twilight Zone.
Tell the world what you think of Tales from the Darkside.
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 Tales from the Darkside: The Movie - (Reviews)
Tales from the Darkside the movie is a well crafted horror film that brings us Stephen King and George Romeo and Michael McDowell together and give us different tales of imaginable horror!!!!!!
Two television series have kept me up at night with fear of monsters coming to get me, and that would be "Tales from the Crypt" and "Tales from the Darkside".
Compared, "Tales from the Darkside" the movie beats the crap out of the two lame "Crypt" movies.
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 MovieBud.com Archive - Tales From The Darkside/Monsters/The Hitchhiker   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
I used to always watch Tales and Monsters.
Tales was usually great but when it was bad it was really bad.
Anybody remember the name of a horror anthology show that was on ABC in the early 80's.
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 LivingCorpse.com >> Film Reviews >> Tales from the Darkside: The Movie (1990)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Fourteen years ago, somebody had the bright idea to make a horror anthology film based upon the popular mid-80’s horror anthology television series, “Tales from the Darkside.” If you don’t remember “Tales from the Darkside,” don’t feel bad.
But, if playing second fiddle to “The Hitchhiker” and “Ray Bradbury Theatre” on the small-screen wasn’t bad enough, Tales from the Darkside: The Movie picked up on the big-screen where it’s small-screen counterpart left off … successfully taking a backseat in script, execution, and overall quality to its peers.
Tales from the Darkside: The Movie is, without a doubt, every bit as corny and unbelievable as its television sister.
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 Amazon.ca: Video: Tales from the Darkside V6   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
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Team this with an eclectic mix of actors and actresses including classical, up-and-coming, Vaudevillian, oldies but goodies (golden age of TV), even Broadway, and throw in well metered direction and interesting special effects (for this era), and you have a winner, with an 80s feel.
Genres > Television > TV Series >; Tales from the Darkside
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