Tales from the Darkside S3 E22: The Enormous Radio (1987)
Adapted from John Cheever’s classic 1947 New Yorker short story, “The Enormous Radio” filters mid-century angst through the cheap, synthy, twilight-tinted lens of late-80s anthology television. Directed by Bill Travis and scripted by Guy Gallo—marking Gallo’s sole foray into horror screenwriting—the Tales from the Darkside Season 3 finale trades monsters and ghouls for something far […]
Tales from the Darkside S3 E21: Let the Games Begin (1987)
Harry Carson (Earl Hindman, Wilson from Home Improvement) has made it to his hotel room the night before his class reunion, and he gets wasted, then dies of a heart attack. But as you’d guess from this being on Tales from the Darkside, the story isn’t over. An angel and a devil argue over his […]
Tales from the Darkside S3 E20: The Swap (1987)
Down in the Louisiana swamp lives Bubba (Charles Ludlam), a wealthy oil heir who looks like he was dragged backward through a hedge, dipped in swamp water and left to dry in the sun. He’s covered in hideous, crusty skin lesions, radiates pure slime and spends his days forcing his gorgeous, long-suffering young wife, Anna […]
Tales from the Darkside S3 E19: The Social Climber (1987)
What happens when you want all the trappings of high society and immense wealth, but you possess absolutely zero work ethic to achieve any of it? You sneak into the back room of a humble, magical NYC shoemaker and try on footwear belonging to people who actually made something of themselves, ignoring the golden rule […]
TROMA 4K UHD RELEASE: Surf Nazis Must Die (1987)
I may have gone on record many times about my intense displeasure with most Troma productions, but this was actually produced by The Institute, a production company formed by George, Craig A. Colton and Robert Tinnell and distributed by Troma. After the earthquake that’s always been prophesied to destroy the coastline of California finally arrives, Adolf […]
Tales from the Darkside S3 E16: Red Leader (1987)
Alex Hayes (Beverly Hills, 90210‘s Joe E. Tata) is a corrupt developer sitting atop an empire built on backstabbing, fraud and evicting elderly tenants in sub-zero weather. But karma doesn’t just knock on Alex’s door. It crawls right up through the floorboards via a jackhammer wielded by his recently deceased, ladder-plunged former business partner, Jacob […]
2026 Scarecrow Psychotronic Challenge Day 2: Blood Diner (1987)
2. THAT’S COOKED: Has to have a cooking scene; could be food or drugs or Soylent Green (oops, we burned that one for you). You keep your serial killer uncle’s brain in a mason jar, butcher immoral women and serve up the leftovers to unsuspecting vegetarians. Who are you? You’re the stars of director Jackie […]
Tales from the Darkside S3 E15: My Own Place (1987)
If you find a spacious New York apartment for $285 a month — even in 1987 — you aren’t getting a bargain. You’re probably getting a ticket to hell, baby. Sandy Darhaus (Perry Lang) is a yuppie investment banker with the kind of high-strung, large-ham energy that makes you root for the ghosts from minute […]
September Drive-In Super Monster-Rama 2026: Prom Night 2: Hello Mary Lou (1987)
September Drive-In Super Monster-Rama is back at The Riverside Drive-In Theatre, September 19 and 20, 2025. Two big nights with four feature films each night include: If I’ve learned anything from Cathy’s Curse, it’s that when someone in Canada gets possessed, they just get rude and swear a lot. This movie—no relation to Prom Night—only […]
September Drive-In Super Monster-Rama 2026: Hellraiser (1987)
September Drive-In Super Monster-Rama is back at The Riverside Drive-In Theatre, September 19 and 20, 2025. Two big nights with four feature films each night include: Horror movies don’t scare me. Not anymore. Some of them disturb me, like the cannibal films. But only one still kind of scares me. And that would be Hellraiser. […]
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