Season 2 Episode 6
A supermodel (Teri Hatcher) and her photographer (Kyle Secor) fall in love. When the model’s abusive boyfriend (Miguel Ferrer) learns of their affair, he sets out to kill the two of them. However, he soon gets a nasty surprise as love proves to be quite very strong, even in death itself.
Read more “Horror History: Tuesday, May 8, 1990: “Tales From The Crypt” episode “The Thing From the Grave” premiered”From Stephen King (Pet Sematary), Michael McDowell (Beetlejuice), George A. Romero (Night of the Living Dead) and Arthur Conan Doyle (creator of Sherlock Holmes), comes Tales From The Darkside: The Movie, an all-star horror anthology packed with fun and fright.
Read more “Horror History: Friday, May 4, 1990: Tales from the Darkside: The Movie was released in theaters”Season 2 Episode 5
A down-on-their-luck couple (Gavan O’Herlihy and Ruth de Sosa) are invited to a cabin owned by their wealthy former best man (Paul Lieber), but the unstable husband is convinced that his wife is having an affair. He finds that he was wrong about many things, towards the end of the show.
Read more “Horror History: Tuesday, May 1, 1990: “Tales From The Crypt” episode “Three’s a Crowd” premiered”It’s every parent’s worst fear as a couple’s live-in babysitter’s true intentions are revealed and a battle for the newborn baby’s soul ensues.
Read more “Horror History: Friday, April 27, 1990: The Guardian was released in theaters”Season 2 Episode 4
A land owner (D. W. Moffett) woos a haughty rich woman (Pamela Gien) with a potion from a voodoo priestess (Janet Hubert) that contains a deadly warning. Things go awry when he does not listen to the warnings.
Also starring Aubrey Morris.
Read more “Horror History: Tuesday, April 24, 1990: “Tales From The Crypt” episode “‘Til Death” premiered”Season 2 Episode 3
Two rival gamblers (Lance Henriksen and Kevin Tighe) face off in a series of gruesome games in order to see on who’ll leave town when all is said and done.
Also starring Roy Brocksmith.
Read more “Horror History: Saturday, April 21, 1990: “Tales From The Crypt” episode “Cutting Cards” premiered”Season 2 Episode 2
A rich elderly bachelor (William Hickey) wants to impress a young woman (Kelly Preston) and meets up with a doctor who helps him switch his body with a younger man (Rick Rossovich). He realizes his mistake at the very end.
Also starring Ian Abercrombie, Mark Pellegrino and Roy Brocksmith. Arnold Schwarzenegger, who directed this episode, appears in the cold open with the Cryptkeeper introducing the story.
Read more “Horror History: Saturday, April 21, 1990: “Tales From The Crypt” episode “The Switch” premiered”Season 2 Episode 1
A gold-digging secretary (Demi Moore) follows the advice of a fortune teller (Natalia Nogulich) and marries a slob of a man (Jeffrey Tambor) after being told that he will die shortly after inheriting a large sum of money, but the fortune teller’s prediction comes true in a way that the gold-digger herself does not see coming.
Also starring Kate Hodge and Linda Cohn.
Read more “Horror History: Saturday, April 21, 1990: “Tales From The Crypt” episode “Dead Right” premiered”Catherine returns to her family castle in Italy after her father’s death & gets caught in a love triangle between a man & a creature of the night. With the help of her nanny & a ghost of a young girl, Catherine discovers a curse that threatens their lives.
Read more “Horror History: Friday, April 13, 1990: Meridian: Kiss of the Beast was released direct-to-video”Duane and mutant brother Belial return in this follow-up to cult classic “Basket Case”. After surviving a deadly fall, the brothers become media targets. When a snooping reporter discovers their hideout, the family must unite to keep their freedom a secret.
Read more “Horror History: Friday, March 2, 1990: Basket Case 2 was released in theaters”A young man finds out that his parents had been used in an atomic-weapons experiment shortly before he was born, and that the results have had some unexpected effects on him.
Read more “Horror History: Friday, February 23, 1990: Spontaneous Combustion was released in theaters”A troubled young man is drawn to a mythical place called Midian where a variety of monsters are hiding from humanity.
Read more “Horror History: Friday, February 16, 1990: Nightbreed was released in theaters”Kevin Bacon and Fred Ward are in a fight for their lives when they discover that their desolate town has been infested with gigantic man-eating creatures that live below the ground!
Read more “Horror History: Friday, January 19, 1990: Tremors was released in theaters”A psychological thriller from original “Twilight Zone” writer Charles Beaumont. In a showdown of man vs. machine, Rex Martin plunges into a chaotic nightmare trying to save his mind from a megalomaniacal corporation. Starring your two favorite Bills- Pullman and Paxton!
Read more “Horror History: Friday, January 19, 1990: Brain Dead was released in theaters”Every school has its share of space cadets, but this semester, MONtgomery STERling HIGH is about toget theirs, complete with real live ray-guns, in this spaced-out sci-fi comedy. When all-American average guy Norm Median meets fatally-attractive Candace Caine the first day of fall term, they’re both too distracted to notice the weird new “transfer” students, even if they include a fashion-conscious zombie, a killer plant and a stone gargoyle. Hey, some kids are like that. But when their leader-famous inter-galactic terrorist Mr. Armageddon; drops in with global destruction on his mind, Norm has to think fast. The end seems near until Norm suggests challenging Mr. A’s “team” to a basketball game for the fate of the earth. The stakes are high, if the planet is destroyed, it would seriously wreck Norman’s chances with Candace but no one said being a senior was easy in the cosmically-campy campus comedy, MONSTER HIGH.
Read more “Horror History: Wednesday, December 20, 1989: Monster High was released in theaters”Season 5 Episode 26
A has-been musician who is down on his luck finally decides to pawn the only thing that means anything to him to make a few bucks, but realizes that what he’s sold is worth a lot more than he ever realized.
Read more “Horror History: Saturday, December 16, 1989: “The Hitchhiker” episode “Pawns” premiered”Season 5 Episode 25
A producer’s assistant meets his match when he agrees to housesit for his boss and falls for the sexy young woman who is supposed to be helping him out.
Read more “Horror History: Saturday, December 9, 1989: “The Hitchhiker” episode “Power Play” 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.
Read more “Horror History: Saturday, November 25, 1989: “The Hitchhiker” episode “My Enemy” premiered”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.
Read more “Horror History: Friday, November 24, 1989: Beware! Children at Play was released in theaters”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.
Read more “Horror History: Friday, November 24, 1989: “The Hitchhiker” episode “Dying Generation” 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.
Read more “Horror History: Saturday, November 18, 1989: “The Hitchhiker” episode “Cruelest Cut” premiered”Season 5 Episode 21
Two loners encounter each other and each believes they have found their soulmate.
Read more “Horror History: Friday, November 17, 1989: “The Hitchhiker” episode “Striptease” 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.
Read more “Horror History: Saturday, November 11, 1989: “The Hitchhiker” episode “Studio 3X” premiered”Season 5 Episode 19
A pedestrian dies in a hit and run and his killer can’t put it out of his mind.
Read more “Horror History: Friday, November 10, 1989: “The Hitchhiker” episode “Hit & Run” premiered”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)!
Read more “Horror History: Thursday, November 9, 1989: Silent Night, Deadly Night 3: Better Watch Out! was released in theaters”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.
Read more “Horror History: Saturday, November 4, 1989: “The Hitchhiker” episode “The Verdict” premiered”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.
Read more “Horror History: Friday, November 3, 1989: After Midnight was released in theaters”Wes Craven directs this blend of special effects, jolting humor and an exhilarating soundtrack that portrays a mass murderer who harnesses electricity for unimaginable killing powers.
Read more “Horror History: Friday, October 27, 1989: Shocker was released in theaters”One year following the events of Halloween 4, Michael Myers returns to Haddonfield with a vengeance.
Read more “Horror History: Friday, October 13, 1989: Halloween 5: The Revenge of Michael Myers was released in theaters”The Andre Toulon and the Puppet Master saga begins…Alex Whittaker and three other gifted psychics are investigating rumors that the secret of life has been discovered by master puppeteer Andre Toulon. But the psychics quickly discover Toulon’s secret of death in the form of five killer puppets-each one uniquely qualified for murder and mayhem.
Read more “Horror History: Thursday, October 12, 1989: Puppet Master was released direct-to-video”
