Tales from the Darkside: The Movie

Horror • R • Directed by: Stephen King • 93 minutes

The hit television series gets a big screen boost from Stephen King (Pet Sematary), Michael McDowell (Beetlejuice), George A. Romero (Night of the Living Dead) and Arthur Conan Doyle (creator of Sherlock Holmes), in an all-star horror anthology of fun and fright. A little boy who spins all the tales...to distract a modern-day witch who wants to pop him in the oven. The first story "Lot 249," finds a malevolent mummy giving new meaning to "final exams" when he awakens to wreak revenge on unsuspecting student bodies. Next, a furry black kitty frightens its hired assassin in a deadly game in "The Cat From Hell." Finally, "Lover's Vow" features a romantic relationship with new twists and turns after a stone gargoyle is brought to murderous life.