Tales From The Darkside: The Movie
 
Movie
Title: Tales From The Darkside: The Movie
Director: John Harrison (Interview)
Screenplay: George A. Romero, Michael McDowell
Year: 1990, Paramount
Length: 93 min.
DVD available: Yes (View Trailer)
In database: Yes (Region 2)
 
Short Stories
- Lot 249
- Cat From Hell (by Stephen King)
- A Lover's Vow
 
Cast
Betty Debbie Harry
Andy Smith Christian Slater
Carola Rae Dawn Chong
Preston James Remar
Drogan William Hickey
 
 
Book
Title: Tales Of Unknown Horror
Dutch issue: Top Horror
Original story: Cat From Hell
Dutch title: Kat uit de hell
Author: Stephen King
Year: 1977, Cavalier Magazine
 
Synopsis
WRAP AROUND STORY: Betty is preparing for a dinner-party. Little Timmy is the meat course and he attempts to delay his dreadful fate by telling Betty some horror stories.

LOT 249: Vengeful Edward Bellingham, a graduate student, collects antiques. In ‘Lot 249 is a 3000-year-old coffin containing a mummy. Edward manages to revive it and sends it after the fellow students who cheated him of a scholarship, but their mummified remains also want vengeance...

CAT FROM HELL: Drogan, a paraplegic millionaire, hires Halston to kill the stray cat that has killed several people close to him. Drogan is certain he’s next on the cat’s hit-list because he used thousands of cats in a laboratory tests for the drug that made him his fortune. Halston spends a terrifying night with the cat. It finally crawls through his mouth to his stomach. Drogan dies of a heart attack when the cat reappears through Halston’s face.

"The Cat From Hell" is based on one of King's early short stories, first published in March 1977 issue of Cavalier. There were only first 500 words of the story published in that issue and readers were challenged to finish the story themselves. The winner story was published in June 1977 issue of Cavalier, along with King's own complete version.

A LOVER'S VOW: Preston witnesses a gruesome murder by a demon who spares his life on condition that he tells no one. On the way home. Perston meets, and later marries, Carola, the perfect lady- ten years later, on their anniversary he tells her his secret, only to learn that she is the monster...

WRAP AROUND STORY: Betty wants no more stories. It’s time to roast Timmy. However, he trips her over and pushes her into the oven...

 
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