Tales from the Darkside is based off of the television show of the same name is an anthology film consisting of four stories. We open up with a woman traveling home from the grocery shopping and when we arrive at her house we find that she has a little boy trapped in a cell. It turns out the woman is a witch who plans on eating him, in order to delay her the tells the witch three stories fromThe tales from the Darkside novel.
Lot 249: adapted from the short of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle of the same name. We open up at a university following a graduation student by the name of Edward(Steve Buscemi) who orders a mysterious crate delivered to his dorm turns out it inside the crate as a mummy and he plans to use to enact vengeance on the people who wronged him. Like with a lot of anthologies the first segment isn't necessarily the best it's more of an all right segment that more introduces you and he said he wanted to film what's the machine he does get kind of a weird look. Julianne Moore is in this is kind which is also in this as one of the victim which is kinda weird. It's nothing great,but the things that the mummy does are actually creative. Than expect from a mummy he doesn't just go around choking people so we get points for that.
Cat from Hell: The second segment George Romero adapts Stephen King short story "The Cat from Hell. A hired gunman is called to an old estate to speak with the client. The client turns out to be an old wealthy pharmaceutical CEO in a wheelchair, who hires him to wouldn't believe it kill a cat for him. The old man thinks it's evil and responsible for his family's death. This is probably best part of the movie and most memorable primarily because of how ridiculous the premise seems. Evil cats are no stranger the horror films like the Black cat or Cat people, but it's so funny how serious it take itself. You can't help but laugh and be invested at this man hunt hunt down this cat and fights it. It's undeniably it has the best shots in it from the cat point of view to the lighting, and really fun remarkable special effect.
Lover's Vow: The Final segment has us follow a failure of a artist. Who after getting dropped by his agent leaves the bar drunk and is attacked by a gargoyle. The gargoyle promises that if he doesn't tell anybody about it or ever seeing it, then it will let him live. That honestly all that can be said about it without possibly spoiling it. This is my opinion the worst and poorly to end on. You can honestly see where it's going but the build up to it it is a drag with very little actually happening between. The only satisfying thing about this tale is the effects on the gargoyle In some way feel wasted.
Overall when it comes to anthologies is this as good as good as Creepshow, tales from the hood or trick r treat? No it not the stories are rather average some of the acting is a bit too hokey, but the effects used on the Mummy, the cat and the gargoyle are pretty good. It's a fun film to sit down and enjoy for a couple laughs.
Lot 249: adapted from the short of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle of the same name. We open up at a university following a graduation student by the name of Edward(Steve Buscemi) who orders a mysterious crate delivered to his dorm turns out it inside the crate as a mummy and he plans to use to enact vengeance on the people who wronged him. Like with a lot of anthologies the first segment isn't necessarily the best it's more of an all right segment that more introduces you and he said he wanted to film what's the machine he does get kind of a weird look. Julianne Moore is in this is kind which is also in this as one of the victim which is kinda weird. It's nothing great,but the things that the mummy does are actually creative. Than expect from a mummy he doesn't just go around choking people so we get points for that.
Cat from Hell: The second segment George Romero adapts Stephen King short story "The Cat from Hell. A hired gunman is called to an old estate to speak with the client. The client turns out to be an old wealthy pharmaceutical CEO in a wheelchair, who hires him to wouldn't believe it kill a cat for him. The old man thinks it's evil and responsible for his family's death. This is probably best part of the movie and most memorable primarily because of how ridiculous the premise seems. Evil cats are no stranger the horror films like the Black cat or Cat people, but it's so funny how serious it take itself. You can't help but laugh and be invested at this man hunt hunt down this cat and fights it. It's undeniably it has the best shots in it from the cat point of view to the lighting, and really fun remarkable special effect.
Lover's Vow: The Final segment has us follow a failure of a artist. Who after getting dropped by his agent leaves the bar drunk and is attacked by a gargoyle. The gargoyle promises that if he doesn't tell anybody about it or ever seeing it, then it will let him live. That honestly all that can be said about it without possibly spoiling it. This is my opinion the worst and poorly to end on. You can honestly see where it's going but the build up to it it is a drag with very little actually happening between. The only satisfying thing about this tale is the effects on the gargoyle In some way feel wasted.
Overall when it comes to anthologies is this as good as good as Creepshow, tales from the hood or trick r treat? No it not the stories are rather average some of the acting is a bit too hokey, but the effects used on the Mummy, the cat and the gargoyle are pretty good. It's a fun film to sit down and enjoy for a couple laughs.