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I'm with GGoblin -- when the show first aired, I stayed up every week to see what the next story would be, even though last week's had been kinda stupid.
Darkside isn't horror at its finest, but there's just something appealing about this series. The hair, the clothes, the kitchy storytelling, and all the familiar faces are fun to revisit. And let's face it, most of the stories are memorable, even if they're not that good.
Now I know why I kept thinking about that stubborn grampa recently. Still my favourite episode.
Too hard on this one, BD. Yes, while a great deal of these "Tales" blow... there are certainly enough to pass the time that are quite awesome. If for nothing else, the nostalgia alone warrants three skulls.
This may be a knock off of the Twilight Zone, but it can certainly hold its own against it. It is in most ways cheesier than TZ, in that fact it makes this a creepy watch. There is one episode, Im not sure which season about a Ghost Photographer. I was nodding off while watching this episode one late night and I woke up with one of the most ominous feeling that something was there. I dont find this feeling often, especially from a TV show. This gets an A+.
I see these on sci fi all the time! Of course The old twilight zones are a million times better, but every time i watch one of these i get a kick out of it, most of the time they're pretty good and scary. Sometimes they're even funny. Great show.
I'm gonna have to side with Ryan Daley on this one. The title sequence of this series still gives me the creeps (despite it's crappy 80's effects) but the episodes all fall pretty flat.
I picked this up the day it came out. I remember watching these back when I was about 9 or 10 (Im 25 now) back on the Sci-Fi channel. They would have marathons of this, and I was always creeped out by these shows. They arnt the kind of 'scary' that make you curl up and be scared out of your pants, but they are filmed to give you this sort of grim feeling, kind of hard to explain. The theme/intro track is enough to get me creeped out.
I will have to say these did a lot more for me when I was young, but I still hold a torch to these. If you havent seen these or heard of this series, Tales from the Darkside was the equivalent of Tales From the Crypt for the early 80's, but made for television without any gore or nudity. But dont be turned off, these stories have the same mentallity and style of the later Tales From the Crypt series, stories that just seem off the wall and creepy beyond your imagination. The majority of these short stories always leave me with either a wicked smile or evil grin at the end. I recommend these to any fan of Tales From the Crypt or the Friday the 13th television series. They quality of the dvd is decent, nothing special, but the quality wasnt anything to talk about back when it was aired. There is only one special feature, and that is a commentary track by producer George Romero (who I forgot to mention produced the entire series). And on one final note, these were all directed by different directors, so you dont get the same story ideas or filming styles in every episode. I recommend these be given a try.
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