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Summary: One Of The Best Horror Film's Of The 90's!
Review: If your a Tales From The Crypt or Creepshow fan then Tales From The Darkside:The Movie is for you.Featuring three stories the last Lovers Vow is the best and is a honor to the now late Michael McDowell.The first story Lot 249 features great acting from Christian Slater,Steve Buscemi ,and Julianne Moore.A great horror treat.
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Summary: sometimes great but not that great
Review: it starts out as a lady comes home to cook a boy for dinner but the boy tells the lady three storys from the Tales From The Darkside book. the first one is Lot 249 with Christian Slater, Julianne Moore and Steve Buscemi, which this one is the best with of course Slater's character. then the next one is The Cat From Hell with William Hickey and David Johanssen, this one is ok but it sometimes shallows the movie with its annoying and mangling old people. the last one is A Lover's Vow with James Remar and Rae Dawn Chong, it starts off good with Remar but then ends up being a cheesy story with its lame gargoyle effects.
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Summary: A Hilarious Black Comedy.
Review: It's got gore, it's got cannibals, it's got a really sneeky kid who pushes a woman into a furnace. What more could you ask for? Each story is interesting and hilarious. This isn't scary at all, but it wasn't meant to be! From Stephen King (Pet Sematary), Michael McDowell (Beetlejuice), George A. Romero (Night Of The Living Dead) and Arthur Conan Doyle (creator of Sherlock Holmes) comes Tales From The Darkside: The Movie, an all-star horror anthology packed with fun and fright. "The Wraparound Story" concerns a little boy who spins all the tales... to distract a modern-day witch who wants to pop him in the oven! This movie is better then the TV series. Buy or rent today!!!
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Summary: Awesome horror anthology
Review: Note: does contain spoilers.Tales From The Darkside: The Movie,is a simply awesome horror anthology that's a worthy addition to the world of horror films and a great addition to the multi-story genre. There are three stories in all.The wrap-around is OK,but could use more guts.However,it has a very cool finale that's very amusing. The first story is arguably the best.It's titled "Lot 249" and involves an un-bandaged mummy who kills college coeds in VERY gruesome and painful ways.The special F/X are awesome and the gore is very high.The mummy is one of the coolest you'll ever see,not to mention,one of the ugliest. The second story is almost as good as Lot 249.It titled "Cat From Hell" and involves a murderous black cat.Very chilling and pretty disgusting. The third tale is my least favorite,but it's still good.It's titled "Lover's Vow",and involves a guy named Preston who witnesses a man get shishkabobed by a Gargoyle.The Gargoyle tells Preston to promise not to tell anyone about the incident. Of course he eventually tells,and the finale is really wicked. The ending will surely scare the crap out of you and the gore F/X are incredibly gross.The Gargoyle looks fantastic too. This film is an absolute must if your a fan of the multi-story genre,and is well worth buying if your a horror movie fan. Rated R for very gruesome horror violence,some language and nudity.
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Summary: Not really unique, but very well presented!
Review: Now we've all seen movies like this before, haven't we? A horror movie with three different tales in it. Tales of which usually consist of revenge, love, or some animal out on a rampage. I've watched many movies like this and I actually like them, to be honest. Why? Well, mainly because they aren't restricted. In regular horror movies, the plot is restricted because it had to string together and it had to make sense. In movies like this, you can just tell random tales of horrors, so it allows for much less restriction. Anyway, moving on, I said I've seen many movies like this and I have, but Tales From The Darkside is one I particularly like.
In the movie, we start off with a woman doing grocery shopping. As she is driving home, we are given clues that she is well liked by the community. However, it turns out she has a secret. That secret is that she's the mythical "witch in the woods", except she lives in the city. You all know what kind of witch that is, don't you? It's the kind Hansel and Gretal met. The witch that likes fattening up children so she can eat them. Well, it's the same here, except it's only with a single young boy here. The boy is, of course, bitter about her desire to eat him, so in an attempt to stall her, he decides to tell her three separate stories.
Let me list the stories and their attributes.
The first one is called "Lot 249" and it is about a college student named Bellingham who hates two particular lovers. No, it's not because of jealousy, but because they have framed him for stealing an artifact. They thought he didn't know, but it becomes apparent that he does, so in an act of revenge, he decides to purchase a mummy. The mummy comes with a scroll that allows it to be resurrected for any desire Bellingham wants. The plot is the usually revenge stuff, but I like how it was done. Bellingham wasn't a raving maniac, but a rather articulate man. He did things rather casually and he always seem to be one step ahead of other people. The other characters are nice, but Susan seemed rather unrealistic. I don't know about everyone else, but if I saw a rotting mummy about to kill me, I wouldn't exactly be calm about it. I must say, though, the ending is terrific. When I first saw this movie, I honestly did not expected that kind of ending.
The second story is called "Cat From Hell". The title sounds corny and you can easily guess the story from there, but the story is presented very well. Drogan is an old, rich man who hires a hitman named Halston in order to kill a cat. The cat is the cause of the deaths of his butler, his sister, and her best friend already and Drogan knows he is next, so he is willing to pay $100,000 for Halston to kill it before it gets him. Halston is rightfully skeptical, so Dragon told him why the cat is killing everyone. It turns out the cat is a form of revenge. Revenge for the 5,000 cats Drogan killed during the 4 years of testing it took for his drug or perhaps...it's actually all the people Drogan has destroyed with his medicine that helps an aging heart (at the cost of a lot of money and the risk of addiction). Now, while the story is rather cliche, I just this particular story. Why? Well, it's because William Hickey's acting is simply incredible and the scene transitions are beautiful. Aside from that, though, the plot could be a little better. For one thing, why does Halston try to kill the cat with a syringe to begin with? He could have easily used his gun right from the beginning. That's seem unrealistically inefficient for a high price hitman. He could have attempted to immediately kill the cat and spend the rest of the time playing pool and drinking while waiting for Drogan to return. Other than that, the story is very good.
The third story is called "Lover's Vow" and I really liked this because it adapts a neat ancient tale. The story is about a struggling artist named Preston who's just got dumped by his agent (well, not exactly his agent). Angry, he decides to get drunk out of his mind, so the bartender named Jer decided to take him home. Well, as Preston was taking a piss, Jer suddenly gets mauled and decapitated by a gargoyle and Preston witnessed everything. Well, the gargoyle decided to let Preston live as long as he keeps the promise that he will never tell what happened that night. Well, Preston's troubles was quickly met with good fortune as he ran away and into the arms of a beautiful woman named "Carola" who falls in love with him. A decade later, it seems like everything turned out alright for Preston. He is married with the woman, he has children, and due to her connections, he has success. However, he is as obsessed with the gargoyle as those first few days he met it, so can he still keep the secret? I really liked this story. While the ending differed from the tale it was adapted from, it was still very good. One thing I have to asked is why did the gargoyle killed Jer? It didn't eat him or anything. It just seemed to do it for no reasons. Of course, you could deduct a number of reasons, but deductions are not a good substitute for plot holes.
Anyway, that was the last story, but much like all other movies similar to Tales From The Darkside, there is always an extra tale. Unfortunately, it's not nearly as good as the ones that were told (Lets just say it's of the Hansel and Gretal type), but hey, what can you expect? I highly recommend this movie! I give it 5 stars!
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Summary: TALES FROM THE DARKSIDE
Review: TALES FROM THE DARKSIDE is a horror anthology that contains three gruesome stories that are bookended by a wraparound story."The Wraparound Story" is about a little boy who tells scary stories to a modern day cannibal in order to save some time before she cooks the little boy for a dinner party. "Lot 249" is about a college student who brings an ancient mummy back to life in order to seek revenge against the people who have done him wrong. "Cat From Hell" is about a rich man who hires a hitman to kill a cat that he believes has come to kill him. "Lover's Vow" is about a man who witnesses an act of murder committed by a demonic creature and is given the chance to live if he promises never to speak about what he saw. All these stories contain plenty of gore, humor, and scares to keep you on the edge of your seat! Plus, you have a great cast of actors in the movie!
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Summary: Splendid!!!!!!
Review: This is one of my favorite movies. I would have to say that I enjoyed Lot 209 the best out of all the tales they told. Debbie Harry also had a creepy look about her, and with Christian Slater being in the cast you can't go wrong. This movie is definitely a winner.
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Summary: The best horror movie of it's kind.
Review: This movie is better then the TV series. The storys are: LOT 249 (by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle) about a mummy, is the worst of the 3. CAT FROM HELL (by Stephen King) is the best one. The final tale LOVER'S VOW (by Mary Lambert) is a rip off of the japanese movie KWAIDAN, but is the moteimpressive looking (to me that is). If you wath a good horror movie that has more then one story then get this. 1991. Paramount. ??? MINS. Rated R (Violence advisory).
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Summary: All the things a horror fan wants.
Review: This movie tells of a young boy imprisoned by a cannibal who is to cook him for her supper. To stall time the boy tells three spooky stories about a bunch of different people with different problems-The first is about a mummy out for revenge, the second about a cat who reeks terror on a man who killed thousands of his kind and the third is like an episode of the "Twilight Zone" with a major twist. Humor, action, suspense and grossness are thrown into this movie that gives it plot twists and mystery. Great single-person as well as a friend movie for people of all ages.
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Summary: Wonderful horror anthology.
Review: Unlike the silly television series, Tales From the Darkside: The Movie, takes you on a heck of a ride as a boy spins three harrowing tales of horror to a modern day witch (Harry) who wants to pop him in the oven! The first anthology tale ,"Lot 249", is a tale in which a mummy is suddenly brought to live and gruesomely murders several college coeds. A very ugly mummy to say the least.
The 2nd tale is about an old rich man who hires a hitman to kill an evil black cat in "The Cat From Hell". Gore hounds will love this one!
The 3rd tale is probably my favorite, "The Lovers Vow". It is a very moving tale about a poor artist who is the eye witness to a live gargoyle. The gargoyle promises not to kill the man if he will promise to never tell anyone about seeing the gargoyle. The man agrees and promises to never tell a soul, and the gargoyle lets him live. But can the man truly keep his promise? Find out.
This movie is awesome. I love it. If you love bloody horror anthologies then this is just the flick for you.
Rated R for violence, gore, language, some nudity, and a scene of suggested sex.
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