Tales from the Darkside

An Egyptologist working on a sarcophagus ignores a curse and meets a horrific fate when he ignores it.

A woman who lives with mannequins because she is unable to deal with real people gets a rude awakening.

Despite the discouragement of his friend, a middle-aged photographer, Algernon, tries to captures spirits on film.

Sybil, a woman on the verge of death, is obsessed with the thought that after she dies her soul will dwell within a moth, and she begs her mother to hold the moth until she can be restored to life.

A mobster who has finally defeated his old rival hires a reluctant puppeteer to string up his rival and make it dance for him. The mobster is unaware that puppet and puppeteer both have agendas of their own...

In this comedic episode, two treasure hunters discover a lost Egyptian tomb and accidentally revive a mummy. The mummy, Tapok, doesn't try to strangle them, but rather challenges the male explorer to a game of strip poker.

A normal, everyday, plain-as-day man is plagued by a demon, the Yattering, but seems oblivious to its mischief.

Much to his parents' frustration, a spoiled young boy, Seymour, is declared the High Lama by a group of monks.

Katie receives a mysterious phone call from a woman warning about her husband's death...but he isn't dead yet. Katie ignores the phone call, and her husband dies when she doesn't get him to the hospital in time.

Michael, a heartless collection agent, finds out that Jeanette doesn't quite understand the rules of going into debt, and has some unpleasant problems as a result.

Betsy, an overweight woman, receives an anonymous package with an earpiece that will supposedly help her diet. It transmits the "voices" of her food as is being eaten, but Betsy still has problems.

Screenwriter Tom Dash unwittingly makes a deal with the Devil and finds he must get out of it by finding a new victim or offer up his soul.

Sarah McBride is hired by a Puritan museum but ends up mysteriously going back in time where she is forced to work as a near slave in the past.

On her deathbed, Jamie's great grandmother tells him the tale of a Celtic demon, the Cutty Black Sow, that comes to claim the soul of anyone dying that night, and Jamie vows to protect her soul from the beast.

An aged inventor and his wife come into possession of a box marked "Do not open this box." The wife opens it and finds it empty. The next day a man comes to claim the box and the lady makes up a story about losing the box.

Janice, a young mother, swears to a social worker named Trudy that her husband Robert kidnapped their son Bobby six months ago and that she hasn't seen either of them since.

An alien is sent to Earth to study the nature and behavior of human beings.The alien meticulously studies photographs of still life from large cities.

A babysitter is called in to take care of a sick boy. As a game, the two make up a pretend creature out of household parts, one that eats sounds. The creature comes to life, sucking the sound and the life out of everything in the house.

A mother tries to get a reprieve from her noisy drums-practicing son by making a deal with an ammonia seeking alien.

A wrestler seeking one great opponent finds himself tricked into fighting a demon from Hel