A young boy tells three stories of horror to distract a witch who plans to eat him.A young boy tells three stories of horror to distract a witch who plans to eat him.A young boy tells three stories of horror to distract a witch who plans to eat him.
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6.2/10
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- Director
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- Michael McDowell(screenplay)
- Arthur Conan Doyle(short story "Lot 249")
- Stephen King(short story)
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- Director
- Writers
- Michael McDowell(screenplay)
- Arthur Conan Doyle(short story "Lot 249")
- Stephen King(short story)
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- 1 win
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- Director
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- Michael McDowell(screenplay) (segment Lover's Vow)
- Arthur Conan Doyle(short story "Lot 249") (segment Lot 249)
- Stephen King(short story) (segment Cat From Hell)
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- Trivia"Tales from the Darkside: The Movie" is considered by many fans and Tom Savini himself to be the 'official' "Creepshow 3". Following the success of Stephen King and George A. Romero's Creepshow, Laurel Entertainment (Creepshow & Creepshow 2's production company) toyed with the idea of a Creepshow television series. After several negotiations and changes (due to rights holders etc.), the decision was made to change the title for the series to "Tales from the Darkside" (to be helmed by none other than Creepshow director and Creepshow 2 screenwriter, George A. Romero). After the series' great success, just roughly three short years after Creepshow 2 hit theatres, Tales from the Darkside: The Movie came to fruition in 1990 as the successor to the original two Creepshow installments, sharing many of the same crew as the Creepshow installments.
- GoofsIn preparing to cook Timmy, Betty remarks that she could never do long division and asks aloud how much is 75 divided by 12. When Timmy answers and asks why, she indicates that she is trying to determine his cooking time. But if she is, she must multiply 75 by 12. (The answer is 900, or 15 hours.)
- SoundtracksTales from the Darkside (Original Theme)
Composed by Donald Rubinstein (as Donald A. Rubinstein) and Erica Lindsay
Top review
* * * out of 4.
Young boy (David Forrester) is kidnapped by a modern day witch (Debbie Harry) who plans on making him dinner. To try and keep the witch distracted and buy himself some time the boy tells the witch three scary stories, the best being the final one. While all of the tales are rather unoriginal, they are extremely entertaining and provide just enough spooky moments. The cast is much better then usual and the visual effects are top notch. Much better then the awful TV series on which this is based on.
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- brandonsites1981
- Aug 14, 2002
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- Tales from the Darkside
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- Budget
- $3,500,000 (estimated)
- Gross US & Canada
- $16,324,573
- Opening weekend US & Canada
- $5,028,096
- May 6, 1990
- Gross worldwide
- $16,324,573
- Runtime1 hour 33 minutes
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- Aspect ratio
- 1.85 : 1
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