Tales from the Darkside S2 E23: Fear of Floating (1986)
If you were a kid glued to the UHF channels late at night, the Tales from the Darkside intro, with that ominous, synthesized Donald Rubinstein theme and those bleak, sepia-toned shots of the Pennsylvania countryside, was enough to give you chills before the episode even started. But Darkside wasn’t always trying to terrify you. Sometimes, […]
Tales from the Darkside S2 E22: The Unhappy Medium (1986)
Reverend Farley Bright is dead. Or, at the very least, he’s finished with his earthly tenure of shaking down the elderly for seed money in the name of the Lord to his Church of a Better Tomorrow. He’s the kind of larger-than-life charlatan that would make Jimmy Swaggart look like a wallflower. His family — […]
Tales from the Darkside S2 E21: Strange Love (1986)
Dr. Philip Drawdy (Patrick Kilpatrick) is a surgeon driving through a remote rural area during a heavy storm. After a minor car accident leaves him stranded, he seeks help at a nearby, decaying mansion. He is greeted by Edmund Alcott (Harsh Nayyar), a formal and somewhat eccentric man who lives there with his wife, Marie […]
Tales from the Darkside S2 E20: A Choice of Dreams (1986)
This time, we follow Jake Corelli (Abe Vigoda), a wealthy, ruthless and terminally ill mob boss. Faced with his imminent death, Corelli is not interested in traditional legacies or spiritual peace. Instead, he pays a massive sum to a high-end facility that offers a specialized form of cryogenic suspension. The facility promises more than just […]
Tales from the Darkside S2 E18: The Old Soft Shoe (1986)
We open on a guy — let’s call him Chester Caruso (Paul Dooley) — whining into a rotary phone to his unseen wife, Marian. He’s stuck in a blizzard, definitely not cheating (wink, wink and his car is currently being hooked up to a tow truck. Chester leaves his room to wander into the lobby […]
Tales from the Darkside S2 E17: The Shrine (1986)
Hey, remember when you went to college and your parents turned your bedroom into a sewing room? Well, Cecilia Matthews did one better. She turned it into a psychic freakout where a spectral brat who never grows up and never talks back finally makes her happy as a mother, unlike her real-life child. In this […]
Tales from the Darkside S2 E16: Printer’s Devil (1986)
Directed and written by John Harrison (Tales from the Darkside: The Movie) from a story by Ron Goulart, “Printer’s Devil” proves that if you own a small business in Tales from the Darkside, a supernatural entity is definitely going to show up to offer you a deal that ends with you screaming into the void. […]
Tales from the Darkside S2 E15: A New Lease on Life (1986)
Archie Fenton (Robert Knepper, Cards of Death and T-Bag on Prison Break) thinks he’s scored the real estate deal of the century: a swanky, high-tech room in the St. George Apartments for $200 a month. The catch? The landlady, Madame Angler (Marie Windsor, who was in everything from Commando Squad and Salem’s Lot to Chamber of Horrors, Abbott and […]
Tales from the Darkside S2 E14: Dream Girl (1986)
Directed by Tinma Ranon, who wrote the script based on a story by Barbara Paul, this is about Andrea Caldwell (Carolyn Seymour), a high-strung theater director with a short fuse and zero patience for her lazy maintenance man, Otto (Lou Cutell, Amazing Larry!). After she berates the poor guy and tosses away his magazine, she […]
Tales from the Darkside S2 E13: Comet Watch (1986)
Amateur astrologist Englebert Ames (Anthony Heald, Silence of the Lambs) can’t wait for Halley’s Comet, but his wife Charlene (Kate McGregor-Stewart) couldn’t care less. She’s more interested in going to a fancy event with her parents, but he knows this is the last chance he’ll have to see the famous space event. The tension between Englebert […]
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