Season 4 Episode 10
A heartless debt collection agent is harassed by a delinquent client from beyond the grave.
Written by Dick Benner.
Read more “Horror History: Sunday, February 14, 1988: “Tales From The Darkside” episode “Payment Overdue” was released in theaters”A terrifying story of one man’s nightmarish journey into the eerie and deadly world of voodoo.
Read more “Horror History: Friday, February 5, 1988: The Serpent and the Rainbow was released in theaters”It all began in a sleepy Midwestern community, a place that had never known evil…until now. But years ago, in a stillness beneath the waters, something sinister happened, and now its deadly spawn are emerging from the depths into the light. What are these hungry, mutated creatures after? Any piece of flesh they can get, including human beings!
Read more “Horror History: Friday, February 5, 1988: Slugs was released in theaters”There are no freshmen in the college of love, and they’re about to graduate to madcap mayhem when a sorority prank goes crazy. Out to steal a trophy from a local bowling alley, the kids accidentally unleash The Imp – a sadistic little spirit with a diabolical sense of humor. He creates demons and loves sexy women. He’s inviting you to come along and die laughing – just like everybody else.
Read more “Horror History: Friday, January 29, 1988: Sorority Babes in the Slimeball Bowl-O-Rama was released in theaters”A canister falls off an Army truck and spreads a mysterious gas over a cemetery – and up sprouts newly-minted zombies, with a hunger for brains!
Read more “Horror History: Friday, January 15, 1988: Return of the Living Dead Part II was released in theaters”A young opperata is stalked by a deranged fan bent on killing the people associated with her to claim her for himself.
Read more “Horror History: Saturday, December 19, 1987: Opera was released in Italian theaters”Season 4 Episode 9
A woman receives a bizarre and frightening phone call and figures out its meaning too late. Written by Stephen King.
Read more “Horror History: Sunday, November 22, 1987: “Tales From The Darkside” episode “Sorry, Right Number” premiered”Season 4 Episode 8
A nerdy and spoiled young boy is proclaimed the religious leader of a nation, but his parents want to know what the catch is. Written by Harvey Jacobs and Donald Wollner. Guest-starring David Gale and Divine.
Read more “Horror History: Sunday, November 15, 1987: “Tales From The Darkside” episode “Seymourlama” premiered”A strange race of marsupials suddenly appear in Australia. A sociologist studying these creatures falls in love with a female and she gives birth to a new race of hairy offspring.
Read more “Horror History: Friday, November 13, 1987: Howling III was released in theaters”Season 4 Episode 7
A minor demon named The Yattering (played by a moustachio-ed midget wearing a studded dogcollar and horns) is sent by Beelzebub to corrupt a man named Jack, but according to the rules, if the Yattering touches Jack, the demon then falls under the man’s control. Complicating matters, the man refuses to believe the demon exists, though his daughter is with him when various poltergeist phenomena caused by the demon take place, including a Christmas turkey which flaps around and lands on the tip of the Xmas tree. The Yattering touches Jack by mistake and becomes the man’s servant; the man says that his mother was a witch, which is why Hell wanted him damned so badly. Like Barker’s original story, this is played for laughs. Adapted for television by Clive Barker from his short story of the same name.
Read more “Horror History: Sunday, November 8, 1987: “Tales From The Darkside” episode “The Yattering and Jack” premiered”horror – #HorrorHistory – #TalesFromTheDarkside – #TheGraveRobber –
Season 4 Episode 6
A pair of unscrupulous archaeologists unearth an Egyptian tomb of a prince and awaken the mummy Tapok (Arnold Stang), luring them into a game of strip poker to compete for their lives.
Written by Harvey Jacobs and Donald Wollner. Guest-starring Arnold Stang
Read more “Horror History: Sunday, November 1, 1987: “Tales From The Darkside” episode “The Grave Robber” premiered”horror – #HorrorHistory – #Mindkiller –
A lonely library clerk stumbles across a manuscript that he uses to develop psychic powers, which make him irresistible to women. Soon, his powers get out of control, just as they start showing up in his friends.
Read more “Horror History: Sunday, November 1, 1987: Mindkiller was released direct-to-video”Kyle MacLachlan and Michael Nouri star as a pair of Los Angeles police detectives assigned to stop a crime spree.
Read more “Horror History: Friday, October 30, 1987: The Hidden was released in theaters”Season 4 Episode 5
A cruel mob boss (T.J. Castronova, who also executive-produced the series) forces a ventriloquist (Barry Dennen) to string up the corpse of his defeated rival as a puppet. A one-man show is held… with results that none involved had counted on. Written and directed by David Odell (author of The Dark Crystal, in which Dennen lent his voice to the Skeksis Chamberlain).
Read more “Horror History: Sunday, October 25, 1987: “Tales From The Darkside” episode “No Strings” premiered”This story centers on a Catholic priest who discovers a gelatinous fluid that he believes is the source of power for the anti-Christ that is about to attack an unsuspecting world.
Read more “Horror History: Friday, October 23, 1987: Prince of Darkness was released in theaters”Season 4 Episode 4
A dying woman is convinced that after death her soul will be trapped in a moth. Written by Michael McDowell, Guest starring Debbie Harry.
Read more “Horror History: Sunday, October 18, 1987: “Tales From The Darkside” episode “The Moth” premiered”Thirty years after her accidental death at her 1957 senior prom, the tortured spirit of prom queen Mary Lou Maloney returns to seek revenge.
Read more “Horror History: Friday, October 16, 1987: Hello Mary Lou: Prom Night II was released in theaters”Season 4 Episode 3
A photographer decides to take photographs of ghosts. Written by Mark Patrick Carducci and Brian Thomas Jones.
Read more “Horror History: Sunday, October 11, 1987: “Tales From The Darkside” episode “The Spirit Photographer” premiered”Season 4 Episode 2
An isolated woman who fears the world turns to her dolls and mannequins for friendship. Written by Jule Selbo.
Read more “Horror History: Sunday, October 4, 1987: “Tales From The Darkside” episode “Mary, Mary” premiered”An academy coed (Virginia Madsen) discovers a faculty plot to achieve immortality with a serum made from students’ brains.
Read more “Horror History: Friday, October 2, 1987: Zombie High was released in theaters”Your flesh will CRAWL right off your SKIN! Set in a futuristic 1998, six years after an apocalyptic nuclear war, a group of army deserters take refuge from ‘acid rain’ in a seemingly abandoned laboratory complex…a band of desperate deserters flee into the desert, they stumble across an underground lab where they discover a horror even greater than war itself.
Read more “Horror History: Friday, October 2, 1987: Creepozoids was released in theaters”Season 4 Episode 1
An Egyptologist ignores a sarcophagus’s warnings and unearths a curse. Written by Robert Bloch and based on his short story and guest-starring Arnold Stang.
Read more “Horror History: Sunday, September 27, 1987: “Tales From The Darkside” episode “Beetles” premiered”When a reporter ventures to Oldfield, the town historian tells her of the raw evil which lurks throughout Oldfield. To prove his point, he relates four grisly tales from the town’s petrifying past.
Read more “Horror History: Friday, September 25, 1987: From a Whisper to a Scream was released in theaters”Kirsty Cotton’s family moves into an ancestral home and is terrorized by the resurrected corpse of her uncle, who requires the flesh of innocent victims to stay alive.
Read more “Horror History: Friday, September 18, 1987: Hellraiser was released in US theaters”Things turn deadly for a liquor store who is unknowingly selling toxic brew to homeless citizens in the community.
Read more “Horror History: Wednesday, September 16, 1987: Street Trash was released in US theaters”An ancient genie is released from a lamp when thieves ransack an old woman’s house. They are killed and the lamp is sent to a museum to be studied. The curator’s daughter is soon possessed by the genie and invites her friends to spend the night at the museum, along with some uninvited guests.
Read more “Horror History: Friday, September 11, 1987: The Outing was released in theaters”A sleepy new england town harbors a community of the undead — a horde of blood-frenzied vampires who’ve kept their ghoulish identities hidden for more than 300 years.
Read more “Horror History: Friday, September 11, 1987: A Return to Salem’s Lot was released in theaters”Two insane escaped killers slash their way through a high school party as they elude the authorities.
Read more “Horror History: Tuesday, September 1, 1987: Night Screams was released in theaters”A crazed meat packer, Lester Bacon, takes his revenge on the Lakeside townspeople responsible for his bankruptcy. Using “Buddy”, his maniacal son, he cuts a bloody swath of death and destruction during the town’s annual “Pig Out” Festival. Can Sheriff Borden put the pieces together and save the town, his daughter, and her friends from the clutches of a madman…and Buddy!!!
Read more “Horror History: Friday, August 28, 1987: Slaughterhouse was released in theaters”Jesse McLaughlin’s sitting on top of the world. He’s a talented artist with a growing career and a beautiful girlfriend. And he’s moving into a magnificent house. A very special house. A house which will plunge him into an incredible adventure…one where all of his dreams, fantasies and nightmares will be realized.
Read more “Horror History: Friday, August 28, 1987: House II: The Second Story was released in US theaters”
