Tales from the Darkside: The Movie 1990
Directed by John Harrison
- Thriller, Comedy, Fantasy, Horror
- 93 min
- R
Four Ghoulish Fables In One Modern Nightmare!
A young boy tells three stories of horror to distract a witch who plans to eat him.
- Body horror
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- Dr Nostromoon TMDB · Nov 20255/10
53/100 "Tales from the Darkside" was a fairly entertaining, tongue-in-cheek, horror anthology TV series. For a movie, however, you'd think they would have turned it up a few notches ...especially with the talent backing up the writing. But, basically what we have here is 3 stories that are no different than watching 3 episodes of the TV show. It's not bad - in fact, I enjoyed it for what it was - it just wasn't anything special. - DrNostromo.com
Read the whole review on TMDB - JPV852on TMDB · Aug 20206/10
Okay anthology horror movie, the first one, "Lot 249", was the best due to the cast (Slater, Buscemi, Moore) and also enjoyed "Lover's Vow" even if the animatronic effects weren't the best. However, "Cat from Hell" really dragged the film as a whole down, almost dozed off a couple of times during that segment, although the ending of that one was gross. The wrap-around story was fine with a fun conclusion I guess. **3.5/5**
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Cast
- Debbie HarryBetty (Wraparound Story)
- Matthew LawrenceTimmy (Wraparound Story)
- David ForresterPriest (Wraparound Story)
- Christian SlaterAndy (segment ‘Lot 249’)
- Robert SedgwickLee (segment ‘Lot 249’)
- Steve BuscemiBellingham (segment ‘Lot 249’)
- Donald Van HornMoving Man (segment ‘Lot 249’)
- Michael DeakMummy (segment ‘Lot 249’)
- Julianne MooreSusan (segment ‘Lot 249’)
- George GuidallMuseum Director (segment "Lot 249")
Crew
- John HarrisonDirector
- Michael McDowellScreenplay
- George A. RomeroScreenplay
- Michael McDowellWriter
- Robert DraperDirector of Photography
- Donald RubinsteinOriginal Music Composer
- John HarrisonOriginal Music Composer
- Pat ReganOriginal Music Composer
- Harry B. Miller IIIEditor
- Mitchell GalinProducer
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