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starring: Paul Sparerdirected by: Richard Blackburn, Terence Calahan, T.J. Castronova, Allen Coulter, Bruce Dolin
Binding: VHS Tape
EAN: 9786302891638
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, NTSC
ISBN: 6302891639
Label: Image Entertainment
Manufacturer: Image Entertainment
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Image Entertainment
Release Date: July 25, 2000
Running Time: 100 minutes
Sales Rank: 13730
Studio: Image Entertainment
Theatrical Release Date: September 30, 1984
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Rating:  - Late-night horror from the 1980s.
I used to love watching "Tales from the Darkside" when it premiered back in the 1980s. I thought it was even scarrier and creepier than "The Twilight Zone" (although it clearly owes much to the Rod Serling's creation). The episodes are rather hit-or-miss. Some are thought provoking; other episodes are banal.
This volume features some good episodes. "The Devil's Advocate" is a lesson to be learned for our modern day radio loud-mouths everywhere. "The Satanic Piano" has a great message; ... Read More
Rating: - Best Volume of All
I believe this is the best volume of this series out of them all. It includes my favorite episode of all time, "Trouble With Mary Jane." In which a yound girl becomes possessed by a demon and her grandmother hires a pair of occultists to perform an exorcism on the little girl. Although they do succeed in the exorcism, the result is something very unexpected. Other episodes on this volume include, "The Devil's Advocate", "Ring Around the Redhead", "The Satanic Piano" (another one of my favorites), and ... Read More
Rating:  - Join the Darkside!
In the second volume, I lovingly discovered that my second all-time favorite episode was included: The Devil's Advocate. My all-time favorite episode, Seasons of Belief, is on the first volume. Anyway, The Devil's Advocate stars Jerry Stiller as a smart-alec radio talk show host who neglects to see how his life is worse than those he constantly puts down over the airways. He realizes it eventually, but not before it's too late. The remaining four episodes are good, but don't exactly compare to The ... Read More
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