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Tales from the Darkside: The Movie

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A young boy tells three stories of horror to distract a witch who plans to eat him.

movie

Status: Released

Released Date: 1990-05-03

Runtime: 93 mins

Director: John Harrison

Writer: Michael McDowell

Spoken language: English

Genres: Thriller, Comedy, Fantasy, Horror

Original title: Tales from the Darkside: The Movie

Production Companies: Paramount Pictures, Laurel Productions, Darkside Movie, Laurel Entertainment

Production Countries: United States of America

Reviews

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Dr_Nostromo
53/100 "Tales from the Darkside" was a fairly entertaining, tongue-in-cheek, horror anthology TV series. For a movie, however, you'd think they would have turned it up a few notches ...especially with the talent backing up the writing. But, basically what we have here is 3 stories that are no different than watching 3 episodes of the TV show. It's not bad - in fact, I enjoyed it for what it was - it just wasn't anything special. - DrNostromo.com
2025-11-18

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JPV852
Okay anthology horror movie, the first one, "Lot 249", was the best due to the cast (Slater, Buscemi, Moore) and also enjoyed "Lover's Vow" even if the animatronic effects weren't the best. However, "Cat from Hell" really dragged the film as a whole down, almost dozed off a couple of times during that segment, although the ending of that one was gross. The wrap-around story was fine with a fun conclusion I guess. **3.5/5**
2020-08-12

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