Tales from the Darkside: The Movie. (1990)
I'd not seen this since the vhs days and was really looking forward to seeing it again. Alas, despite having a fine cast including Christian Slater, Steve Buscemi, Debbie Harry and Julianne Moore the film was almost a total letdown.
Inevitably any horror anthology from the eighties and nineties will get compared to the superb Creepshow films. Unfortunately, apart from the excellent killer mummy on the loose, first segment, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's Lot 249, Tales From the DarkSide is sadly lacking. The other two stories Cat from Hell and Lover's Vow are fairly uneventful and not in the least memorable. The wraparound story featuring Debbie Harry is mediocre at best.
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