Horror History: Sunday, January 25, 1987: “Tales From The Darkside” episode “The Milkman Cometh” premiered

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Season 3 Episode 13

A milkman (whom no one has ever actually seen) grants wishes to people if they leave him a note with their discarded bottles. To the horror of one man, he learns the milkman can mix up the meaning of the wishes if they’re written metaphorically. This comes to haunt him when his wife (previously barren after their first child) gives birth again.

Written by Donald Wollner, based on the short story “Temperature Days on Hawthorne Street” by Charles L. Grant. Guest-starring Robert Forster and Chad Allen.

Horror History: Friday, January 23, 1987: The Stepfather was released in theaters

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After murdering his entire family, a man remarries a widow with a teenage daughter in another town and prepares to do it all over again.

Horror History: Sunday, January 18, 1987: “Tales From The Darkside” episode “Miss May Dusa” premiered

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Season 3 Episode 12

A woman who has no memory of her past befriends a saxophone player and slowly uncovers the truth behind the deaths she’s accidentally caused everywhere she’s been. Written and directed by Richard Blackburn.

Horror History: Monday, December 29, 1986: “Tales From The Darkside” episode “Seasons of Belief” premiered

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Season 3 Episode 11

Two rowdy kids who don’t believe in Santa Claus demand a story during Christmas, and their mean parents decide to tell them a different kind of Christmas story, a horrific tale of the monstrous “Grither.”

Written and directed by Michael McDowell, story by Michael Bishop and guest-starring E.G. Marshall and Jenna Von Oy.

Horror History: Friday, December 19, 1986: Little Shop of Horrors was released in theaters

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A skid-row florist’s “mean green mother” of a monster plant is the center of “the looniest, nuttiest, most outrageous movie musical comedy in years”.

Horror History: Friday, December 12, 1986: Class of Nuke ‘Em High was released in theaters

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Readin’, writin’ and radiation! When the nuclear power plant next door springs a leak, the students of Tromaville High begin mutating into psycho-punk freaks!

Horror History: Sunday, November 30, 1986: “Tales From The Darkside” episode “Deliver Us From Goodness” premiered

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Season 3 Episode 10

A saintly woman tires of her goodness and seeks a fall from grace. Story by Suzette Haden Elgin, written by Jule Selbo.

Horror History: Friday, November 28, 1986: Deadtime Stories was released in theaters

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A babysitting uncle tells his charges three horror stories–about a killer witch, Little Red Riding Hood and a werewolf, and a story about “Goldi Lox” and the three bears.

Horror History: Sunday, November 23, 1986: “Tales From The Darkside” episode “Baker’s Dozen” premiered

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Season 3 Episode 9

A voodoo witch opens a bakery, sells magic cookies and partners up with an unscrupulous advertising agent. Written by George A. Romero and guest-starring Mabel King.

Horror History: Friday, November 21, 1986: The Wraith was released in theaters

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Jake is killed by neighborhood thugs, and returns as a mystical figure (The Wraith) to gain revenge. Starring Charlie Sheen and Randy Quaid.

Horror History: Sunday, November 16, 1986: “Tales From The Darkside” episode “A Serpent’s Tooth” premiered

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Season 3 Episode 8

A controlling mother is given the title item by a friend, causing her warnings and metaphors to come true. This forces her children to obey her; her son studies to be a dentist, while her daughter is forced to dress in outdated and feminine styled clothes. After she accidentally turns her daughter’s boyfriend into a slice of bread, her children snap at her. The episode ends with the mother now a pilar of salt after saying to be turned into one if she was a terrible mother. Written by Edithe Swensen and guest-starring Renee Taylor.

Horror History: Friday, November 14, 1986: Slaughter High was released in theaters

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Marty has arranged a special reunion for all his high school “friends.” The prom queen, the jock, the class clown, the rebel, and a few select others have been invited… and it’s going to be a gala of gore!

Horror History: Friday, November 14, 1986: Neon Maniacs was released in theaters

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A motley group of comic-book monsters begins attacking and killing some San Francisco teens. One of the teens escapes and recruits her boyfriend, and another student with a video camera, to help her fight the monsters.

Horror History: Sunday, November 9, 1986: “Tales From The Darkside” episode “Heretic” premiered

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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.

Horror History: Sunday, November 2, 1986: “Tales From The Darkside” episode “Black Widows” premiered

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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.

Horror History: Sunday, October 26, 1986: “Tales From The Darkside” episode “The Geezenstacks” premiered

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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.

Horror History: Friday, October 24, 1986: From Beyond was released in theaters

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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.

Horror History: Sunday, October 19, 1986: “Tales From The Darkside” episode “Florence Bravo” premiered

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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.

Horror History: Sunday, October 12, 1986: “Tales From The Darkside” episode “The Bitterest Pill” premiered

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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.

Horror History: Friday, October 10, 1986: Sorority House Massacre was released in theaters

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A night of collegiate fun turns to total terror when an escaped psycho stalks the sisters at a sorority house one by one.

Horror History: Friday, October 10, 1986: Deadly Friend was released in theaters

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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.

Horror History: Sunday, October 5, 1986: “Tales From The Darkside” episode “I Can’t Help Saying Goodbye” premiered

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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.

Horror History: Sunday, September 28, 1986: “Tales From The Darkside” episode “The Circus” premiered

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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.

Horror History: Friday, September 19, 1986: Link was released in theaters

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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.

Horror History: Friday, August 22, 1986: The Texas Chainsaw Massacre Part 2 was released in theaters

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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.

Horror History: Friday, August 22, 1986: Night of the Creeps was released in theaters

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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.

Horror History: Friday, August 22, 1986: Dead End Drive-In was released in theaters

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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?

Horror History: Friday, August 15, 1986: The Fly was released in theaters

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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.

Horror History: Friday, August 1, 1986: Friday the 13th Part VI: Jason Lives was released in theaters

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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.

Horror History: Friday, August 1, 1986: Friday the 13th Part VI: Jason Lives was released in theaters

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