Genre: Television: Series Rating: TV14 Release Date: 10-FEB-2009 Media Type: DVD
A longtime favorite among fans of small-screen terror, the first season of the syndicated anthology series Tales from the Darkside (1983-1988) finally arrives on DVD to bring a new generation of viewers into its murky domain. The brainchild of producing partners George Romero (Night of the Living Dead) and Richard Rubinstein (Dawn of the Dead '78 and '04), Darkside's stories hewed closer to such straight-ahead fright fare as Night Gallery than the speculative fiction of The Twilight Zone or Amazing Stories (Darkside's chief competitor for viewers in its early season). Episodes revolved around deals with the Devil ("I'll Give You a Million," "Pain Killer"), paranormal phenomena and black magic ("Levitation," "Snip, Snip"), the unquiet dead (Robert Bloch's "A Case of the Stubborns," starring a young Christian Slater) and monsters both human ("The Anniversary") and otherwise ("In the Closet," directed by effects legend Tom Savini). Budgetary restraints blunted some of the show's special effects, and while those haven't improved with time, the best of the first-season episodes--"Closet," "Stubborns," and the Romero-penned pilot "Trick or Treat"--still retain the power to raise hairs in their brief running time. Other technical aspects remain solid, with scripts written by or based on stories by Stephen King, Harlan Ellison and Michael McDowell and stars like Danny Aiello, Victor Garber and Justine Bateman. The entire first season is compiled edit-free on the three-disc set; Romero's commentary on "Trick or Treat" covers the show's conception and his influences. --Paul Gaita
Customer Reviews:
Avg. Customer Rating: 3.5 / 5.0
Tales From the Darkside: First Season (3pc):
Also ordered this for hubby. He loves horror movies. I don't think their is a movie out there that is scary to him.
Tales From The Darkside: The First Season:
This is The Complete First Season of Tales from the Darkside. The Discs contain all Episodes of the show through the years 1983-1985. Episodes- Disc 1-
Trick or Treat: Some unusual visitors darken a miser's doorway after he dares his neighbors to send their children into his haunted house.
The New Man: A recovering alcoholic is slowly driven back to the bottle and emotional ruin after a boy named Jerry shows up into his life claiming to be his son.
I'll Give You A Million- A man... more info
Darkside (complete series) okay but overrated:
Lets be honest, the best episode of the entire series was Savini directed "In The Closet". It came the closest to what this series strived to be, a successor to the original "Twilight Zone" and "Night Gallery". Unfortunately, this series suffered from the same problem of most eighties horror - too much humor and not enough chills. I'm a avid fan of seventies Romero films but this falls flat (as does most of George's output) when compared to those classics, even stuff like "Season of the Witch". I could... more info
Greatest Show on TV... EVER!!!:
That's what I think of Tales from the Darkside anyways. I'm sure I wasn't the only kid who wanted cartoons to hurry up and get over so they could watch this show, followed immediately by "Monsters" another great show by the same people.(Hopefully this will see a DVD release as well?) When the SciFi channel had marathons, I would record them, trying to get every episode. It seemed like they kept NOT playing 8 particular episodes. YEARS later, when I heard this was gonna be a DVD, I was getting a Christmas... more info
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