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”Season 2 Episode 20
A mob boss with a terminal illness is offered the chance to experience his dreams after death.
Written by James Houghton from a story by Edward F. Shaver. Guest-starring Abe Vigoda.
Read more “Horror History: Sunday, May 4, 1986: “Tales From The Darkside” episode “A Choice of Dreams” premiered”Season 3 Episode 13
Miranda and Sean are two desperate songwriters trying to make a career in the record business. When record executive Robbie shows interest in one of their songs, they think they are on their way. Miranda becomes a ruthless businesswoman and must face the alter ego she has created for the video.
Read more “Horror History: Tuesday, April 22, 1986: “The Hitchhiker” episode “One Last Prayer” premiered”When a band of hardened extraterrestrial criminals escapes from a maximum-security prison asteroid an escape craft, the flesh-eating ETs unwittingly head to small, unsuspecting planet Earth.
Read more “Horror History: Friday, April 11, 1986: Critters was released in theaters”Season 3 Episode 12
Jill McGuiness is a lonely daydreaming bank officer who constantly fantasizes about her dream lover. When she dreams about murders and finds that they actually happened, she is unable to distinguish dream from reality. When she finally meets Mr. Right, Jim, she snaps out of her dream world and catches him just in time.
Read more “Horror History: Tuesday, April 8, 1986: “The Hitchhiker” episode “Man of Her Dreams” premiered”Season 3 Episode 11
Alex, a former actor, tries to prove his abilities as a first-time director and in his first film, he must deal with a first-time actress, Leda Bidell. When Leda realizes his scheme, she enacts the last scene with him in reality and instills in him a fear that haunts him for the rest of his life.
Read more “Horror History: Tuesday, March 25, 1986: “The Hitchhiker” episode “Last Scene” premiered”Eight teenagers are trapped after hours in a high tech shopping mall and pursued by three murderous security robots out of control.
Read more “Horror History: Friday, March 14, 1986: Chopping Mall was released in theaters”Season 3 Episode 10
Detective Frank Sheen doesn’t believe in the supernatural, and doesn’t expect much when he goes in to investigate the mysterious suicide of a priest. Father Dowling claims the area is demonically possessed. Frank has no idea there used to be a convent located there, which closed after one of the nuns committed suicide. The more time he spends there, though, the more suicidal his thoughts become.
Read more “Horror History: Tuesday, March 11, 1986: “The Hitchhiker” episode “True Believer” premiered”A French anthropologist moves to Los Angeles and is followed by the evil spirits of an extinct tribe he once uncovered.
Read more “Horror History: Friday, March 7, 1986: Nomads was released in theaters”
