One Year Later, The Best Horror Films of 2009
You Voted: The 20 Best Horror Films of 2010
Retro Rewatch: Eight Legged Freaks
2011 Horror Movie Releases Preview
The Latest Horror News
What! Hellraiser: Revelations ...
R.I.P Michael Gough 1916-2011
Wake Wood Clip Screams Vintage...
UK and U.S. Release News for I...
Indie Horror - 12 Bells
First Pic of Kate Beckinsale i...
Anchor Bay Sets Sail with The ...
All New Priest Stills and Inte...
Deadmans Toys - A Grab Bag of ...
TeeFurys - Slice of Life
Two New Images for Grave Encou...
All New Stills from the Jolly ...
Mutilation is the Flavor of th...
Travis Malloy Adapting 'The Fl...
Super 8 Viral Site Reveals Arc...
Robin McLeavy to Play Abraham ...
Michael Ealy Joins Kate Beckin...
Logan Marshall-Green Joins Pro...
Have a Very 'Unhappy Birthday'
New One-Sheet for The Troll Hu...
International Trailer for Dark...
Sci-Fi Thriller '7th Day' Find...
The Dread of Flash Pop Horror
Say What!? Edgar Wright to Dir...
Wes Craven Talks Scream 4 and ...
Michelle Rodriguez Visiting 'T...

Official Super 8 Poster
Edit Your Own Priest 3D Traile...
Quarantine 2: Terminal Trailer...
The Wolfman Reboot now a Seque...
Jennifer Lawrence Set to Join ...
UK Trailer for INSIDIOUS
Going Dark with DARK RAGE
More Reality Horror with EXORC...
Official Full Length Trailer f...
The Wolfman Set for Home Video...
Super 8 Official Synopsis is R...
Robocop is Nearly Back in Acti...
A Serbian Film to Invade U.S. ...
Danny Boyle's Frankenstein Sco...
Hobo With a Shotgun Trailer Co...
Unreal Engine Samaritan Demo W...
Spanish Poster and All New Cli...
Russian Poster for [REC] Apoca...
Toolbox Murders 2 Begins Filmi...
Universal looking to Reboot 'D...
Two Viral Clips for The Burnin...
This Priest Breaks Loose in Al...
Clarification On Ninjas VS Vam...
For Now, We Won't be Climbing ...
Is the Cube Set to be Unlocked...
Silent Hill: Revelations Casti...
Noomi Repace Talks Prometheus ...
All New Teaser Trailer for Kev...
RIP Saw, Memorial Video Inside
Adam Green's Short 'Sexy Night...
Tales From the Darkside: The Movie Movie Details: DVD, Theatre Date, News, Trailers & More Tales from The Darkside Review
8 out of 10 Skulls
Written by: MistressOf Horror   

Man lives in the sunlit world of what he believes to be reality. But there is, unseen by most, an underworld. A place just as real, but not as brightly lit. A darkside.

A film that was released a little more than a year after “Tales from the Darkside” had been cancelled. Tales from the Darkside: The Movie
features three separate scary stories told to the audience via a wrap-around storyline that was surprisingly original, the movie choosing to bypass the “Cryptkeeper” approach and instead telling the stories thru a modern day “Hansel & Gretel” tale. It seems a young boy named Timmy (Matthew Lawrence) has been abducted by a modern day witch who has him chained-up inside a jail cell, and plans on cooking him for supper. To stall for time, Timmy reads stories from a book titled “Tales from the Darkside”.

The first tale, “Lot 249”, was taken from a story originally written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. A the tale of a college student (Steve Buscemi) whose roommate’s (Christian Slater) friends cheat him out of a scholarship to an exclusive European school. Buscemi happens to be a collector of antiques, and by happenstance, acquires the corpse of a centuries-old mummy labeled “Lot 249”. While examining the mummy, Buscemi discovers a scroll which contains an incantation to bring the mummy to life. Buscemi then uses the mummy to carry-out a horrible revenge on his roommate’s pals.

Perhaps not the most original story of the bunch, but good if you’re a fan of mummies. The kills in the story, however, are absolutely brutal. A guy getting his brains yanked out through his nose and dumped in a fruit bowl, or a chick getting her back slit open and having carnations stuffed inside her flesh (Ouch!). Some good star-power, too. I mean, really, Steve Buscemi is just such a creepy-looking guy. and his performance was perfect !!

The second story, “The Cat from Hell”, is a story written by Stephen King and adapted by George A. Romero. An elderly man (William Hickey) hires a hitman to assassinate a mysterious black cat lurking around his mansion. He claims the cat has killed everyone else in his household and is now planning on killing him. The hitman stays true to his word and attempts to kill the cat, but finds the cat isn’t easy prey.

One of the best stories, the cat is truly is an evil little creature !!  and the way the cat does the hitman in. I really don’t want to ruin it for anyone, but lets just say, it’s over the topand especially gruesome.

The final tale, They usually save the best for last-correct ???   “Lover’s Vow”. A down-on-his-luck artist is washing away his sorrows at a bar one night when he’s attacked by a hideous gargoyle which slaughters the bartender. The artist begs for his life, and the gargoyle agrees to grant him his wish, so long as he never tells anyone what happened or what he saw. The artist agrees and runs away. On his way home he runs across a beautiful woman. Fearing for her safety, he takes her back home to protect her from the gargoyle. They fall in love and eventually marry. However, some things are too good to be true.

Some of the best special effects and one of the better stories, too. The gargoyle is extremely nasty-looking. You can, of course, guess how the tale ends, and it’s brutal and sad and of course foreseen by most viewers.

All these stories really do feel like they jumped right out of an old EC horror comic. Twist endings, Shocked looks, and blood everywhere !!!!

This is a community member review and not a staff member review. We appreciate and respect the opinions of our readers and are gratefull that they took the time to contribute it.

What makes you happy right now?
Last Post by hellrat, ( 4195 Total Replies )
A&E's Bates Motel
Last Post by hellrat, ( 2 Total Replies )
Movies You Just Bought
Last Post by swollenguy, ( 5575 Total Replies )
Introduce Yourself
Last Post by deadhorse13, ( 2846 Total Replies )
Picture's
Last Post by swollenguy, ( 5485 Total Replies )
What R U Reading?
Last Post by Vasquez, ( 287 Total Replies )
Totally random
Last Post by swollenguy, ( 21714 Total Replies )
Art Of TypH
Last Post by TypH, ( 96 Total Replies )