Season 3 Episode 7
A thief sells a stolen painting from the Spanish Inquisition to a wealthy art collector, who soon regrets his purchase when he discovers the world within the painting. Written by Edithe Swensen.
Read more “Horror History: Sunday, November 9, 1986: “Tales From The Darkside” episode “Heretic” premiered”Season 3 Episode 6
On her wedding night, a young woman discovers the reason for her mother’s mysterious reclusiveness and a dark family secret.
Written by Michael McDowell and guest-starring Theresa Saldana.
Read more “Horror History: Sunday, November 2, 1986: “Tales From The Darkside” episode “Black Widows” premiered”Season 3 Episode 5
A little girl is given a dollhouse by her uncle, who tells her that he found it when the previous owners suddenly abandoned their home, leaving only the dollhouse behind. The girl’s father soon notices that whatever happens to the new dolls happens to their family. The ending displays a unique variation on the Droste effect. Based on the short story by Frederic Brown and adapted by Nancy Doyne.
Read more “Horror History: Sunday, October 26, 1986: “Tales From The Darkside” episode “The Geezenstacks” premiered”Scientists create a resonator to stimulate the pineal gland (sixth sense), and open up a door to a parallel (and hostile) universe. Based on a story by H. P. Lovecraft.
Read more “Horror History: Friday, October 24, 1986: From Beyond was released in theaters”Season 3 Episode 4
A couple moves into an old house in which a woman murdered her cheating husband. The spirit of the woman has been seeking company to ease her loneliness, so she decides to recreate the events by having the female real estate agent feel weak, forcing the husband to take her home. Pressured by the ghost, the wife overhears her husband talking to the woman the next day, mistaking their conversation as one about cheating on her; in reality, he decided the house is giving the wife’s imagination too much to work with. When he tries explaining things to her, she is now fully under the ghost’s sway and kills him in exactly the same spot as the ghost’s husband. Written by Edithe Swensen.
Read more “Horror History: Sunday, October 19, 1986: “Tales From The Darkside” episode “Florence Bravo” premiered”Season 3 Episode 3
The uncle of a mistreated boy develops a miraculous pill which increases brain power and memory, and comes to the boy’s parents for financing; the boy takes the prototype and finally gets power over his parents. Based on the short story “The Richest Man in Levittown” by Frederik Pohl, adapted by Michael P. Kube-McDowell.
Read more “Horror History: Sunday, October 12, 1986: “Tales From The Darkside” episode “The Bitterest Pill” premiered”A night of collegiate fun turns to total terror when an escaped psycho stalks the sisters at a sorority house one by one.
Read more “Horror History: Friday, October 10, 1986: Sorority House Massacre was released in theaters”Suspense master Wes Craven presents a story about a lonely teenagerwhose overwhelming love for a young girl compels him to use all of hisscientific knowledge and cunning to keep alive.
Read more “Horror History: Friday, October 10, 1986: Deadly Friend was released in theaters”Season 3 Episode 2
Libby and her fiance Max notice that people keep dying after Libby’s little sister Karen says goodbye to them; apparently, she can sense the impending death. In anger, they tell her not to say good-bye to anyone ever again. Written by Jule Selbo, guest-starring Alison Sweeney and Brian Benben.
Read more “Horror History: Sunday, October 5, 1986: “Tales From The Darkside” episode “I Can’t Help Saying Goodbye” premiered”Season 3 Episode 1
An investigative journalist who enjoys debunking tales of the strange and bizarre investigates a circus that offers monsters on display. Written by George A. Romero and guest-starring William Hickey.
Read more “Horror History: Sunday, September 28, 1986: “Tales From The Darkside” episode “The Circus” premiered”Jane is a research assistant to a primatologist. After a week of working at his house in the country, he disappears. Jane is left alone in the country to deal with three increasingly hostile chimpanzees that are smarter than they let on.
Read more “Horror History: Friday, September 19, 1986: Link was released in theaters”Lefty Enright (Dennis Hopper) seeks to avenge the murder of his kin by Leatherface, Chop-Top, The Cook and Grandpa. With the help of a radio DJ he finds his way to their underground slaughter shop, where a battle of epic proportions will soon rage.
Read more “Horror History: Friday, August 22, 1986: The Texas Chainsaw Massacre Part 2 was released in theaters”In this campy chiller, a college couple, in 1959, see an object plummet to Earth like a meteor. The boy accidentally swallows a space-slug that shoots out. In 1986, two freshmen roam the campus and stumble across the corpse of the boy who swallowed the space-slug. Once thawed out, the corpse comes to life.
Read more “Horror History: Friday, August 22, 1986: Night of the Creeps was released in theaters”When ordinary working stiff Jimmy Crabs and his voluptuous girlfriend Carmen are accidentally trapped in the theater, they discover a secret society filled with brutality, racism and corruption. Now Jimmy has one desperate shot at escape. But what terrors exist beyond the walls of the Dead End Drive-In?
Read more “Horror History: Friday, August 22, 1986: Dead End Drive-In was released in theaters”In a remake of the 1958 cult classic, a young scientist transforms himself into a fly in an experiment gone horribly wrong. Seth Brundle, a brilliant but eccentric scientist attempts to woo investigative journalist Veronica Quaife by offering her a scoop on his latest research in the field of matter transportation, which against all the expectations of the scientific establishment have proved successful. Up to a point, Brundle thinks he has ironed out the last problem when he successfully transports a living creature, but when he attempts to teleport himself a fly enters one of the transmission booths, and Brundle finds he is a changed man.
Read more “Horror History: Friday, August 15, 1986: The Fly was released in theaters”As a child, Tommy Jarvis did what many others died trying to do. He killed Jason Vorhees, the mass murderer who terrorized the residents of Crystal Lake. But now, years later, Tommy is tormented by the fear that maybe Jason isn’t really dead.
Read more “Horror History: Friday, August 1, 1986: Friday the 13th Part VI: Jason Lives was released in theaters”As a child, Tommy Jarvis did what many others died trying to do. He killed Jason Vorhees, the mass murderer who terrorized the residents of Crystal Lake. But now, years later, Tommy is tormented by the fear that maybe Jason isn’t really dead.
Read more “Horror History: Friday, August 1, 1986: Friday the 13th Part VI: Jason Lives was released in theaters”When a mysterious comet passes close to Earth, machines everywhere suddenly take on murderous minds of their own. Soon, video games, cash machines, drawbridges, and steamrollers all go on a psychotic killing spree of global rebellion.
Read more “Horror History: Friday, July 25, 1986: Maximum Overdrive was released in theaters”A group of fraternity pledges head for the seedy side of the city in search of strippers and discover a sinister spot called The After Dark Club.
Read more “Horror History: Friday, July 18, 1986: Vamp was released in theaters”Sigourney Weaver stars in Aliens, the sequel to the 1979 blockbuster Alien, reprising her role as Officer Ripley, the sole survivor of the spaceship Nostromo’s encounter with a deadly extraterrestrial. This time she returns to the very planet where her nightmare originally began with a squad of heavily armed marines, in a search-and-rescue mission for some missing space colonists.
Read more “Horror History: Friday, July 18, 1986: Aliens was released in theaters”Season 2 Episode 24
A family learns that their great-grandfather murdered his wife, resulting in a curse upon the family line. Written by Edith Swensen.
Read more “Horror History: Sunday, July 13, 1986: “Tales From The Darkside” episode “The Casavin Curse” premiered”Anthony Perkins directs and stars as Norman Bates who is released from prison and returns home to the Bates Motel where he must face the murderously possessive skeleton in his closet.
Read more “Horror History: Wednesday, July 2, 1986: Psycho III was released in theaters”Anthony Perkins directs and stars as Norman Bates who is released from prison and returns home to the Bates Motel where he must face the murderously possessive skeleton in his closet.
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In this remake of the classic 50s SF tale, a boy tries to stop an invasion of his town by aliens who take over the minds of his parents, his least-liked schoolteacher and other townspeople. With the aid of the school nurse the boy enlists the aid of the U.S. Marines.
A strange masked man offers tickets to a horror movie sneak preview at the mysterious Metropol cinema. When a patron is accidentally scratched by a prop displayed in the lobby, she transforms into a flesh-ripping demon. One by one, the audience members mutate into horrible creatures hell-bent on destroying the world. Can anyone escape this gory orgy of terror?
Read more “Horror History: Friday, May 30, 1986: Demons was released in US theaters”Season 2 Episode 23
A man who levitates whenever he lies tries to enlist in the Army, while hotly pursued by a young pregnant girl and her angry father.
Written by Donald Wollner from a story by Scott Edelman and guest-starring Yeardley Smith and Howard Sherman.
Read more “Horror History: Sunday, May 25, 1986: “Tales From The Darkside” episode “Fear of Floating” premiered”“They’re back?” The now-penniless Freeling family-Diane (JoBeth Williams), Steve (Craig T. Nelson), Carol Anne (Heather O’Rouke) and Robbie (Oliver Robbins) – flee after their Cuesta Verde tract house is obliterated by poltergeists and take refuge with Gramma Jess (Geraldine Fitzgerald). But even here, peace is not to be found. When Gramma Jess dies, Carol Anne’s telephone spontaneously rings with a call from “the other side”-from Grandma Jess! Soon a benign Indian mystic, Taylor (Will Sampson), appears at the Freeling family’s doorstep, saying he has been “sent” to protect them from the “family curse”. Another poltergeist attack and Steve decides that the family must leave. But Taylor insists that they must stay and fight the evil.
Read more “Horror History: Friday, May 23, 1986: Poltergeist II: The Other Side was released in theaters”Season 2 Episode 22
A recently deceased preacher leaves a video-taped will which tells his family that he will send them a sign.
Written by Edithe Swensen. Guest-starring Connie Stevens.
Read more “Horror History: Sunday, May 18, 1986: “Tales From The Darkside” episode “The Unhappy Medium” premiered”Season 2 Episode 21
A doctor makes a late-night house call to fix a woman’s leg and discovers that his patient and her husband are vampires.
Written by Edithe Swensen and guest-starring Marcia Cross.
Read more “Horror History: Sunday, May 11, 1986: “Tales From The Darkside” episode “Strange Love” premiered”It’s April Fool’s Day and the sisters of Sigma Alpha Pi have found the perfect place to throw a party: the abandoned fraternity house where a guillotined pledge lost his head in a hazing gone slightly awry.
Read more “Horror History: Friday, May 9, 1986: Killer Party was released in theaters”
