Season 2 Episode 2
Attorney Ted Miller’s world falls apart when his old friend and lover Melody shows up at his door looking for a place to stay and he makes the mistake of turning her down.
Read more “Horror History: Tuesday, November 27, 1984: “The Hitchhiker” episode “Remembering Melody” premiered”Season 1 Episode 8
A man discovers his new word processor, a gift from his deceased nephew, is more powerful than he could ever have imagined: everything he types into it becomes real. Based on the short story by Stephen King and adapted by Michael McDowell.
Read more “Horror History: Sunday, November 25, 1984: “Tales From The Darkside” episode “The Word Processor of the Gods” premiered”Season 1 Episode 7
A young woman takes up board in an elderly man’s house and insists that there is something lurking inside of the small, locked closet in her bedroom.
Directed by Tom Savini and guest-starring Fritz Weaver.
Read more “Horror History: Sunday, November 18, 1984: “Tales From The Darkside” episode “Inside the Closet” premiered”It’s man against beast as two men hunt a wild razorback boar that has been terrorizing a small, isolated town deep in the Australian Outback,killing kangaroos … and people.
Read more “Horror History: Friday, November 16, 1984: Razorback was released in theaters”A huge comet passes near the earth, vaporizing nearly the whole planet. Only a few teenagers, who were inside a steel movie projection booth, survive–all those outside were turned to dust.
Read more “Horror History: Friday, November 16, 1984: Night of the Comet was released in theaters”Season 2 Episode 1
For months, Eric Dunlap has been hard at work on a special sound system for Kurt Hoffman, a temperamental conductor who is impossible to please. During that time, he fell deeply in love with Hoffman’s much younger wife, Veronica. It isn’t long before Eric realises the computer he created, which only responds to him, is something special. When Veronica realises she returns Eric’s feelings and the two become lovers, Hoffman learns of his wife’s infidelity and exacts his revenge on the two, but Eric’s creation avenges the man who gave it life.
Read more “Horror History: Tuesday, November 13, 1984: “The Hitchhiker” episode “Lovesounds” premiered”Season 1 Episode 6
A man discovers that he is literally slipping from existence. Based on a short story by Michael Kube-McDowell, adapted by Mark Durand and guest-starring David Patrick Kelly.
Read more “Horror History: Sunday, November 11, 1984: “Tales From The Darkside” episode “Slippage” premiered”After his parents are murdered, a tormented teenager goes on a murderous rampage dressed as Santa. A controversial, cult-classic slasher and the perfect antidote to the holiday season.
Read more “Horror History: Friday, November 9, 1984: Silent Night, Deadly Night was released in theaters”In classic horror film genre that launched a movie franchise, a pedophile who was murdered by a lynch mob returns years later in terrifying nightmares of his killers’ teenage children.
Read more “Horror History: Friday, November 9, 1984: A Nightmare On Elm Street was released in theaters”Season 1 Episode 5
A teenage girl discovers that her recently deceased twin brother’s spirit lives on in a computer, but no one will believe her. When she tries to fulfill her brother’s last wish by inputting data into his computer, her parents begin to get worried. Guest starring Justine Bateman and Tippi Hedren, written by Dan Kleinman.
Read more “Horror History: Sunday, November 4, 1984: “Tales From The Darkside” episode “Mookie and Pookie” premiered”
