Tales from the Darkside

An impressionist, "Mr. Personalities," is brought in by the government to try to help them communicate with an alien. Mr. Personalities is at first stumped but finally makes "contact."

Ben Martin, a rich businessman, is contacted by a special medical firm, "Lifebomb" which offers him an expensive policy that will let him live forever. They give him an implanted device which, every time he "dies," activates.

As Billy is waiting to be executed in the electric chair, he relates the bizarre tale of how he came to be in his predicament at the hands of an attractive woman.

A woman becomes concerned when she discovers that a man that she and her husband rent a room to has been practicing voodoo. Although the man is good intentioned and kind, the woman regards him as a threatening and undesirable tenant.

A mean old man harboring an intense hatred for the celebration of Halloween is left alone by his son to hand out candy to the neighborhood children.

Pete Bancroft is a talented pianist who has lost his inspiration, but is contacted by a mysterious inventor who gives him a piano that lets him play as never before simply by thinking of the music. Bancroft is at first relieved.

A hate-style radio host, Mandrake, spews out venom at anyone who calls in. He soon discovers, however, after receiving calls across all of time that he is dead but that the "Boss," has kept him on.

Lingerie salesman Chester Caruso checks into a budget motel and makes a pass at a woman who is also checking in. She rejects him, but soon he wakes up in his room to find a different woman, dressed in lingerie, calling him Harry.

Two occultists are offered $50,000 if they can rid a girl of the multiple demons possessing her, but they soon find themselves in over their heads.

When Joan finds a new teddy bear in her daughter's room no one seems to know where it came from. Then night after night huge claw marks are found on the walls and the sounds of something very large can be heard moving through the house.

An artist named Kate discovers that she under unknown circumstances, has the psychic ability to live backwards, but things soon turn out for the worse when she realizes it's beyond her control.

A little boy named Timmy tries to convince his mother and mean stepfather, that there are horrific creatures in his room, which includes a tentacled monster under his bed, a boogeyman, a saw, and a witch.

Englebert Ames, an astronomer, is watching Hailey's Comet and is in for a shock when Sir Edmond Hailey himself arrives - he's been riding "his" comet all these years trying to elude Sarah, the woman pursuing him out of obsessed love.

A group of people find themselves trapped in a scenario with Otto, only to discover that he is a stagehand and they are a theater group all trapped in his dream.

A man is overjoyed to find a nice apartment with all the modern conveniences at an incredibly cheap price. The eccentric landlady asks nothing more than for the man to provide her with plenty of garbage for the disposal unit.

Junior Harman is a third-rate writer who discovers that his new agent, Mr. Kellaway, can make things happen for him. All it requires is a little blood - a few animals, the occasional bum...

A young woman, Christine, returns home to find her mother cold and distant, and living isolated from everyone else. The woman soon discovers that her mother has summoned up...Chrissie.

Lingerie salesman Chester Caruso checks into a budget motel and makes a pass at a woman who is also checking in. She rejects him, but soon he wakes up in his room to find a different woman, dressed in lingerie, calling him Harry.

Stacey, a young woman on her way home from college for the summer, boards a train full of odd and bizarre mannered passengers. It soon becomes clear that this trip will end up being the ride of her life

A mob boss suffering from a terminal illness is visited by an odd man who claims that he has the ability to offer the dying a choice of dreams after death. The mob boss is skeptical at first and threatens to kill the man for insulting his intelligence.

Dr. Carrol reluctantly makes a late-night house call to treat Mrs. Alcott's leg injury. He discovers that Edmund and Marie Alcott are vampires, and that Edmund intends to keep him imprisoned. However, Marie disagrees with Edmund's plans.

The family of a dead preacher shows up for a reading of the will but discovers he left them nothing specific. Rather, he warns them on his video-taped will that he will send them a sign.

A hapless yokel, Arnold, runs into an Army recruiting office and asks for help, claiming to float. It turns out that he's telling the truth, but then Mr. Cooper and his pregnant daughter show up and demand he do the right thing.

A family finds themselves cursed because of their great grandfather killing his wife, and the curse won't die until they all die too and there is no one else to carry on his name.