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* GrandFinale: This came out after the show ended and is the last ''Tales from the Darkside'' related ''thing'' ever made, 15 years and going. ...yeah, this counts...
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* ScheherazadeGambit: Probably why Timmy is reading Betty the stories.
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* ScheherazadeGambit: Probably why Timmy is reading Betty the stories.
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* AnimalTesting: Drogan believes that the cat has come to make him pay for the thousands of dead cats that were tested with his drug.
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* CatsAreMean: In vengeful sort of way.
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Betty, a modern day witch, has captured a little boy named Timmy in order to turn him into a dinner. Timmy stalls her by reading three tales from the favourite book of her childhood: '''''Tales from the Darkside'''''.
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In the film's FramingDevice, Betty, a modern day witch, has captured a little boy named Timmy in order to [[IAmAHumanitarian turn him into a dinner. dinner]]. Timmy [[ScheherezadeGambit stalls her by reading three tales tales]] from the favourite book of her childhood: '''''Tales from the Darkside'''''.
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* SpiritualSuccessor: To ''Film/{{Creepshow}}'' and ''Film/{{Creepshow 2}}''. Considering on how the television series was intially pitched as a spinoff to ''Creepshow'', its isn't much of a stretch.
* SpiritualSuccessor: To ''Film/{{Creepshow}}'' and ''Film/{{Creepshow 2}}''. Considering on how the television series was intially pitched as a spinoff to ''Creepshow'', its isn't much of a stretch.
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* SpiritualSuccessor: To ''Film/{{Creepshow}}'' and ''Film/{{Creepshow 2}}''. Considering on how the television series was intially pitched as a spinoff to ''Creepshow'',its it isn't much of a stretch.
* SpiritualSuccessor: To ''Film/{{Creepshow}}'' and ''Film/{{Creepshow 2}}''. Considering on how the television series was intially pitched as a spinoff to ''Creepshow'',
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* [[spoiler:NonhumanLoverReveal]]: After Preston tells Carola about his encounter with the gargoyle, [[spoiler:she reveals that she is the gargoyle in question]].
* OurGargoylesRock
* [[spoiler:NonhumanLoverReveal]]: After Preston tells Carola about his encounter with the gargoyle, [[spoiler:she reveals that she is the gargoyle in question]].
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CradlingYourKill: [[spoiler:The gargoyle enfolds/cradles her husband in her bat-like wings and bites him on the neck, laying him gently on the ground as he bleeds to death. She then howls in remorse.]]
*[[spoiler:NonhumanLoverReveal]]: After OurGargoylesRock: [[spoiler:Not just a stony beast, it can also turn into a human]].
* TheReveal: [[spoiler:After Preston tells Carola about his encounter with the gargoyle,[[spoiler:she she reveals that [[NonhumanLoverReveal she is the gargoyle in question]].
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* AssholeVictim: Betty, considering what she planned to do to Timmy.
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# ''Lover's Vow'': After an artist witnesses a gargoyle killing a person, it makes him vow to never tell about it. Based on the legend of Yuki-Onna from Lafdacio Hearn's ''Kwaidan''.
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# ''Lover's Vow'': After an artist witnesses a gargoyle killing a person, it makes him vow to never tell about it. Based on the legend of Yuki-Onna from Lafdacio Lafcadio Hearn's ''Kwaidan''.
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* ShoutOut: Bellingham says that he lost the Penrose Fellowship after being accused of stealing a "Zuni fetish." This is a shout-out to ''TrilogyOfTerror'', another horror AnthologyFilm.
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* ShoutOut: Bellingham says that he lost the Penrose Fellowship after being accused of stealing a "Zuni fetish." This is a shout-out to ''TrilogyOfTerror'', ''Film/TrilogyOfTerror'', another horror AnthologyFilm.
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* ShoutOut: Bellingham says that he lost the Penrose Fellowship after being accused of stealing a "Zuni fetish." This is a shout out shout-out to ''TrilogyOfTerror'', another horror AnthologyFilm.
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* ShoutOut: Bellingham says that he lost the Penrose Fellowship after being accused of stealing a "Zuni fetish." This is a shout out to ''TrilogyOfTerror'', another horror anthology film.AnthologyFilm.
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* ShoutOut: Bellingham says that he lost the Penrose Fellowship after being accused of stealing a "Zuni fetish." This is a shout out to TrilogyOfTerror, ''TrilogyOfTerror'', another horror anthology film.
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* ShoutOut: Bellingham says that he lost the Penrose Fellowship after being accused of stealing a "Zuni fetish." This is a shout out to TrilogyOfTerror, another horror anthology film.
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* {{Mummy}}{{Mummy}}: An Egyptian one.
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* ChewingTheScenery: Johansen just hams up the part.
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* ChewingTheScenery: Johansen just hams up the part. He keeps chewing the scenery even when the cat is crawling in Halston's mouth.
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* {{Homage}}: To ''Literature/HanselAndGretel'', just with no Gretel.
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* YouLookFamiliar: Prior to the film, [[Music/{{Blondie}} Deborah Harry]], ChristianSlater and William Hickey had appeared in the television show.
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# ''Lot 249'': A college student uses his recently purchased mummy to enact vengeance on those who have wronged him. Based on a short story by Creator/SirArthurConanDoyle.
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# ''Lot 249'': A college student uses his recently purchased mummy to enact vengeance on those who have wronged him. Based on a short story by Creator/SirArthurConanDoyle.Creator/ArthurConanDoyle.
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* OrificeEvacuation: When Drogan returns home to see if Halston has succeeded, the cat removes itself from Halston's corpse, causing him a heart attack.
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* OrificeEvacuation: When Drogan returns home to see if Halston has succeeded, the cat removes itself from Halston's corpse, corpse though the mouth it came in, causing him Drogan to have a heart attack.
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* SlipperySkid: Timmy throws marbles to cell floor to make Betty trip.
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* OrificeInvasion: The kills Halston by forcing itself down his mouth.
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* OrificeInvasion: The cat kills Halston by forcing itself down his mouth.
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* AnimalTesting: Drogan believes that the cat has come to make him pay for the thousands dead cats that where tested with his drug.
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# ''Lot 249'': A college student uses his recently purchased mummy to enact vengeance on those who have wronged him. Based on a short story by Creator/ArthurConanDoyle.
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# ''Lot 249'': A college student uses his recently purchased mummy to enact vengeance on those who have wronged him. Based on a short story by Creator/ArthurConanDoyle.Creator/SirArthurConanDoyle.
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* BreakingTheFourthWall: After killing Debbie, Betty, Timmy turns to the audience and proclaims how he loves happy endings.
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* MurderByCremation: Timmy kills Debbie Betty when he pushes her into her own oven.
* SlipperySkid: Timmy throws marbles to cell floor to makeDebbie Betty trip.
* SlipperySkid: Timmy throws marbles to cell floor to make
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* YouLookFamiliar: Prior to the film, [[Music/Blondie Deborah Harry, Christian Slater Harry]], ChristianSlater and William Hickey had appeared in the television show.
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* AsYouKnow: Halston reminds Drogan about his business to provide exposition to audience.
* CatsAreMean
* CatsAreMean
* CradlingYourKill
* [[spoiler:NonhumanLoverReveal]]: After Preston tells Carola about his encounter with the gargoyle, [[spoiler:she reveals that she is the gargoyle in question]].
* [[spoiler:NonhumanLoverReveal]]: After Preston tells Carola about his encounter with the gargoyle, [[spoiler:she reveals that she is the gargoyle in question]].
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* WhamLine: "[[spoiler:YYOU PROMISED NEVER TO TELL!]]"
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* BloodierAndGorier: The movie didn't have to worry about broadcast rules.
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A horror AnthologyFilm based on ''Series/TalesFromTheDarkside'' television series, released 1990.
Betty, a modern day witch, has captured a little boy named Timmy in order to turn him into a dinner. Timmy stalls her by reading three tales from the favourite book of her childhood: '''''Tales from the Darkside'''''.
# ''Lot 249'': A college student uses his recently purchased mummy to enact vengeance on those who have wronged him. Based on a short story by Creator/ArthurConanDoyle.
# ''The Cat from Hell'': An old businessman hires a hitman to kill a cat, which he claims has killed the other members of his household. Based on a short story by Creator/StephenKing.
# ''Lover's Vow'': After an artist witnesses a gargoyle killing a person, it makes him vow to never tell about it. Based on the legend of Yuki-Onna from Lafdacio Hearn's ''Kwaidan''.
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!!The film in general:
* TheMovie
* SpiritualSuccessor: To ''Film/{{Creepshow}}'' and ''Film/{{Creepshow 2}}''. Considering on how the television series was intially pitched as a spinoff to ''Creepshow'', its isn't much of a stretch.
* YouLookFamiliar: Prior to the film, Deborah Harry, Christian Slater and William Hickey had appeared in the television show.
!!''Lot 249''
* AntagonistTitle: The mummy is referred to as Lot 249, taken from its auction number.
* AnArmAndALeg: Andy dismembers the mummy's arm and a leg before killing it for good.
* GroinAttack: Andy threatens to roast Bellingham's nuts when he has him tied to a chair.
* HooksAndCrooks: The mummy kills Lee by removing his brain through his nostrils with a coathanger.
* {{Mummy}}
* OffWithHisHead: Andy kills the mummy by decapitating it, and placing its head on the fireplace.
!!''The Cat from Hell''
* AnimalTesting: Drogan believes that the cat has come to make him pay for the thousands dead cats that where tested with his drug.
* MoreDakka: Growing frustrated with the cat, Halston picks up the biggest gun from his suitcase to finish it off.
* OrificeEvacuation: When Drogan returns home to see if Halston has succeeded, the cat removes itself from Halston's corpse, causing him a heart attack.
* OrificeInvasion: The kills Halston by forcing itself down his mouth.
* ProfessionalKiller: Halston.
!!''Lover's Vow''
* OurGargoylesRock
* TakenForGranite: In the end, the gargoyle places itself on a roof and turns into stone.
!!The wraparound story
* BreakingTheFourthWall: After killing Debbie, Timmy turns to the audience and proclaims how he loves happy endings.
* IAmAHumanitarian
* MurderByCremation: Timmy kills Debbie when he pushes her into her own oven.
* SlipperySkid: Timmy throws marbles to cell floor to make Debbie trip.
A horror AnthologyFilm based on ''Series/TalesFromTheDarkside'' television series, released 1990.
Betty, a modern day witch, has captured a little boy named Timmy in order to turn him into a dinner. Timmy stalls her by reading three tales from the favourite book of her childhood: '''''Tales from the Darkside'''''.
# ''Lot 249'': A college student uses his recently purchased mummy to enact vengeance on those who have wronged him. Based on a short story by Creator/ArthurConanDoyle.
# ''The Cat from Hell'': An old businessman hires a hitman to kill a cat, which he claims has killed the other members of his household. Based on a short story by Creator/StephenKing.
# ''Lover's Vow'': After an artist witnesses a gargoyle killing a person, it makes him vow to never tell about it. Based on the legend of Yuki-Onna from Lafdacio Hearn's ''Kwaidan''.
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!!The film in general:
* TheMovie
* SpiritualSuccessor: To ''Film/{{Creepshow}}'' and ''Film/{{Creepshow 2}}''. Considering on how the television series was intially pitched as a spinoff to ''Creepshow'', its isn't much of a stretch.
* YouLookFamiliar: Prior to the film, Deborah Harry, Christian Slater and William Hickey had appeared in the television show.
!!''Lot 249''
* AntagonistTitle: The mummy is referred to as Lot 249, taken from its auction number.
* AnArmAndALeg: Andy dismembers the mummy's arm and a leg before killing it for good.
* GroinAttack: Andy threatens to roast Bellingham's nuts when he has him tied to a chair.
* HooksAndCrooks: The mummy kills Lee by removing his brain through his nostrils with a coathanger.
* {{Mummy}}
* OffWithHisHead: Andy kills the mummy by decapitating it, and placing its head on the fireplace.
!!''The Cat from Hell''
* AnimalTesting: Drogan believes that the cat has come to make him pay for the thousands dead cats that where tested with his drug.
* MoreDakka: Growing frustrated with the cat, Halston picks up the biggest gun from his suitcase to finish it off.
* OrificeEvacuation: When Drogan returns home to see if Halston has succeeded, the cat removes itself from Halston's corpse, causing him a heart attack.
* OrificeInvasion: The kills Halston by forcing itself down his mouth.
* ProfessionalKiller: Halston.
!!''Lover's Vow''
* OurGargoylesRock
* TakenForGranite: In the end, the gargoyle places itself on a roof and turns into stone.
!!The wraparound story
* BreakingTheFourthWall: After killing Debbie, Timmy turns to the audience and proclaims how he loves happy endings.
* IAmAHumanitarian
* MurderByCremation: Timmy kills Debbie when he pushes her into her own oven.
* SlipperySkid: Timmy throws marbles to cell floor to make Debbie trip.
