Tales from the Darkside: The Movie (1990) on Netflix
R19901h 33mComedyHorrorThriller
Betty, a suburban witch, keeps a boy, Timmy, chained in her pantry as the main dish for a dinner party of fellow witches. He stalls her with three stories of horror.
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Plot summary
Betty is a witch living in an affluent suburb, and she is preparing a dinner for other witches at which Timmy, a boy she keeps chained in her pantry, is to be the main course. To stall her, Timmy tells her three tales from the book she has given him. In "Lot 249," graduate student Edward Bellingham has been framed for theft by two classmates, Susan and Lee, who wanted the scholarship he was competing for. In "The Cat from Hell," a wealthy old man named Drogan hires a hitman, Halston, to kill a black cat he believes is evil. In "Lover's Vow," a struggling artist named Preston is cornered by a gargoyle that spares his life if he promises never to tell what he saw.
Cast
- David Forresteras Priest (wraparound story)
- Donald Van Hornas Moving Man (segment "Lot 249")
- George Guidallas Museum Director (segment "Lot 249")
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- Paul Greenoas Cabbie (segment "Cat From Hell")
- Ashton Wiseas Jer (segment ‘Lover’s Vow’)
Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Tales from the Darkside: The Movie (1990)
Can contain spoilers, watch the movie first.
- The closing segment, Lover's Vow, reworks the second story of Masaki Kobayashi's 1964 Japanese anthology Kwaidan, itself drawn from the Yuki-onna tale in Lafcadio Hearn's 1904 book. That makes Kwaidan the first Japanese horror film to be remade in America.
- Stephen King's story The Cat from Hell, which became the film's middle segment, had first been lined up for Creepshow 2 along with another King tale, Pinfall. Both were dropped from that film for budget reasons.
