Movie Review: Tales from the Darkside: The Movie (1990)

In the spirit of Halloween, I return to Media World after a busy time off reviewing a movie that starts out great and ends a dud. Yes guys, today we're going to review Tales from the Darkside: The Movie. Tales from the Darkside: The movie is an adaptation of the television show Tales from the dark side...which do this day I've never seen. This movie sort of runs like Creepshow. It's three separate horror anthologies that are interwoven by one character. Now this concept isn't in anyway new to the world of cinema. Especially that of horror movies. Between Creepshow and Cat's Eye, we've seen this material before and it's been done before. However, from the get go...I thought this movie was great. It starts out in this quiet neighborhood and we then figure out that there's this youngish lady that lives in the series of houses. She has a seven year old boy trapped in this cell...in her kitchen. I thought that premise sounded ridiculous. Not just corny, but plain boring. It starts out really great though. The plot ends up being that the kid finds this book and then starts distracting the evil woman by telling her stories. And those stories are the movie. First story we see is called 'Lot 249' and it basically revolves around this college student (Steve Buscemi in an awesome role) as he seeks revenge on two classmates who cheated him. The story then shows how he gets revenge. Now it's not really the story that is all that interesting, but the actors and actresses who are in this story. The next story comes from the mind of Stephen King (One of my personal favorites) and is called 'Cat From Hell' basically there's this guy and he has to get challenged by a wheelchair- bound old dude to kill a killer cat. So it's Cujo plus the meow factor. Honestly, the story isn't that great....which leads me to the last one. I don't even understand the last story...even as I was reading this on Wikipedia the story is so overly-complicated and not to mention convoluted that it's not even interesting. It's a love story, but one of them ends up being a monster. Not a huge twist, but a functional one had it been pulled off with less establishing. Overall, Tales From The Darkside: The Movie is a movie that starts out promising and great, but gets slow and boring by the end.  Despite the low rating...it does still make a good halloween flick. 1.5 stars