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Tales from the
Darkside: The Movie (1990)
Rate:
5
Viewed:
6/15
6/15:
Inspired by the TV show which is in the vein of Creepshow,
Tales from the Darkside: The Movie is an anthology film of four horror short stories with each getting worse one by one.
In many ways, it resembles Creepshow 3 that's the best of them all due to high quality of the cast.
The Wraparound Story: Starring Debbie Harry and Matthew Lawrence, the brother of Blossom's Joey Lawrence, it
serves as the host for the next three vignettes. Although this one isn't bad, the boy should've gone inside the stove
at the end as a punishment for playing the annoying character in a failed TV sitcom called Brotherly Love.
Lot 249: This one features a star-studded cast (Christian Slater, Steve Buscemi, and Julianne Moore in her screen
debut). It appears to be the most interesting of them all, but there isn't much intelligence. An Egyptian
mummy is unwrapped and then does its worst.
Cat from Hell: Here come William Hickey and David Johansen of the trendsetting punk rock band
New York Dolls and the silly movie Car 54, Where Are You? Because of the latter, it's hard to take the vignette
seriously because he plays the worst assassin ever. Okay, next...
Lover's Vow: It should've been called "Sleeper's Vow" which stars Rae Dawn Chong and James Remar and has a
noticeable decline of quality in all aspects, causing me not to care for the characters.
All in all, Tales from the Darkside: The Movie is terrible but moves well because of the switching around among
the four horror stories.