Tales from the Darkside
January 20th 2010 23:12
I must say I love this silly anthology of creepy, yet funny horror episodes. Created in 1984 by George Romero, there were 92 episodes created before ending in 1988. Also a full length movie starring Deborah Harry, David Forrester and Matthew Lawrence came out in 1990. The stories are of the twilight zone type with a twist at the end. What makes them so great though are the silly story lines and cheesy makeup that was obviously applied with a spackling knife, rather then a makeup brush.
What is the creepiest of all is the opening of each episode. As foreboding music plays, scenes of peaceful, beautiful places are shown.....streams, the countryside, etc. But they do have a creepy quality to them and then those same scenes take on a darker quality. While these are being shown the narrator is saying: "Man lives in the sunlit world of what he believes to be reality. But there is unseen by most, an underworld, a place that is just as real, but not as brightly lit, a darkside."
The closing narrative: "The darkside is always there, waiting for us to enter, waiting to enter us. Until next time ... try to enjoy the daylight!"
Watch the opening intro below and you'll see, you'll have no choice but to seek out their "Tales from the Darkside" (Was that cheesy enough for you?)
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