Blu-ray Review – Tales from the Darkside: The Movie

Hoping to build on their success with 1982's "Creepshow," co-writer/producer George A. Romero and producer Richard Rubinstein brought their interests in small bites of horror to the small screen in "Tales from the Darkside," a syndicated series that began its four year run in 1984. The show was a minor hit with a loyal audience, and some willing to stay up very late to catch the program, where its twisted sense of terror was best appreciated. 90 episodes were completed before the itch to take the brand name to the big screen was scratched, resulting in the creation of 1990's "Tales from the Darkside: The Movie," an anthology feature that doesn't stray far from the essentials of the original show, offering more in the way of style and gore to help it compete with other cinematic nightmares filling the multiplex. Read the rest at Blu-ray.com