Horror History: Saturday, November 25, 1989: “The Hitchhiker” episode “My Enemy” premiered

Season 5 Episode 24

Hollywood actress Jane Ambergris is so desperate to escape what her life has become she creates a new identity for herself, but it isn’t long before she finds out that the person she tries to become is far worse than the person she is leaving behind.

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Horror History: Friday, November 24, 1989: Beware! Children at Play was released in theaters

After several children have gone missing, a writer and a cop decide to get to the bottom of the problem once and for all. As they find more and more leads they discover that their children are being brainwashed into zombified cannibal killers by a disturbed teen.

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Horror History: Friday, November 24, 1989: “The Hitchhiker” episode “Dying Generation” premiered

Season 5 Episode 23

After the suicide of their friend Katie, Adam Ross and Stephanie Duvall are faced with their own mortality. They learn from a friend, Brian, that he believes Katie was murdered, and that it had something to do with a fortune teller she had gone to see. Adam and Stephanie visit the same fortune teller, a woman who has let herself become so bitter she taints the life of everyone she comes in contact with.

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Horror History: Saturday, November 18, 1989: “The Hitchhiker” episode “Cruelest Cut” premiered

Season 5 Episode 22

Men in the city are being knifed by a prostitute who wears all black. Sterling Jenkins is a hard-hearted prostitute who, despite herself, is intrigued when an attractive man named Jason asks for help in fixing his car. Although she tries to rebuff the sensitive man, Sterling allows herself to believe Jason when he tells her that he’s fallen for her. It is only afterward that she realises appearances can be deceiving.

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Horror History: Saturday, November 11, 1989: “The Hitchhiker” episode “Studio 3X” premiered

Season 5 Episode 20

When a television journalist’s private fantasies start appearing in pornographic videos, there is a fine line between fantasy and reality.

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Horror History: Thursday, November 9, 1989: Silent Night, Deadly Night 3: Better Watch Out! was released in theaters

The notorious Santa Claus killer is back (after getting shot presumably dead in SNDN 2), and this time he’s hooked up with a blind young woman with telepathic powers. Directed by famed Roger Corman protege Monte Hellman (Two-Lane Blacktop)!

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Horror History: Saturday, November 4, 1989: “The Hitchhiker” episode “The Verdict” premiered

Season 5 Episode 18

If Jennifer can convict Manuel Ortega in the drive-by shooting deaths of five people, she will have thirty-six convictions in a row. Unfortunately, there is little to no evidence against Manuel, and Jennifer is willing to do anything necessary, even break the law, to put him behind bars.

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Horror History: Friday, November 3, 1989: After Midnight was released in theaters

An attractive college student begins a journey of terror when she takes a class on fear from an “off-center” professor who believes one must experience fear firsthand to understand it.

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