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Scary? No. Funny? Heck, Yeah!!!
Ok, so this movie is not scary, or even intelligent in the least bit. If your watching this thing hoping to be truly frightened, then maybe you should go elsewhere. But if you like corny, bloody "horror" movies, then this one is for you. I watched this movie one day, for reasons I can't explain, and I couldn't stop laughing. What with the mummy pulling people's brains out of their noses with a wire hanger (resulting in a mass of red jello), and a demon cat latching onto a man's crotch, there's no way not to enjoy the ridiculous hilarity of Tales from the Darkside. The crowning comedy jewel of this film, though, is the gargoyle love story. I already knew how this thing was going to end about 7 minutes in, but I wasn't expecting a hilarious Muppet-esque gargoyle. Or the part where starving-artist-guy picks a chick up off the street (no, not a hooker), and, telling her the streets are dangerous, he just takes her back to his place and they get it on. Yeah, keeping her real safe there, pal; nice line. And the part where, even though he knows he shouldn't, the artist just HAS to sketch, paint, and sculpt likenesses of the gargoyle he saw. Like it's so freakin awesome-looking, he just can't get it out of his head. The thing looks like a toothy chameleon with wings! Like something Stephen King made up when he was five! But I guess this artist thinks it was really cool, 'cause he would put his own life in danger just to make a play-doh model of it. What a dork. Anyway, this movie is hilarious. Now, all the actors play it straight, if not overly dramatic, so I guess this was supposed to be serious and scary? I don't know, but that angle definitely doesn't work. So just watch this movie and revel in its horrific cheeziness. You'll have a good laugh. I know I did.

TALES FROM THE DARKSIDE THE MOVIE IS A GREATTALES OF HORROR!!!!!!
Tales from the Darkside the movie is a well crafted horror film that brings us Stephen King and George Romeo and Michael McDowell together and give us different tales of imaginable horror!!!!!! Lot 243 is about a mummy that is on the loose and kills for revenge and Cat from Hell is a black cat that is out to kill a old rich guy and with Lover's Vow bring us to the city that never sleeps New York and one night a artist goes to meet a friend at a bar and ends up making a promise to a monster or he dies!!!!!!! Warparound a boy is trapped in a lady's house as she prepares him for dinner!!!!!!! Each tale is different and has its thrills and jolts within each story and has Debbie Harry from Blondie in it!!!!!!! If you loved the show then you need to check this one out!!!!!

A Nice Horror Anthology
Exsquisite, a truly CONSTRUCTED film. Not exactly on the same level of perfection as CREEPSHOW, but TFTDS is still a great moovie.
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Top Ten Flaws with this Version
There are many flaws with this interpretation from the book, the least of which are the following:1.) Paul is not a bratty, womanizing jerk.2.)Duke Leto is a noble, inspiring leader, not a dull cardboard cut-out.3.)Fremen NEVER walk outside without stillsuits, yet in the movie they are parading around towns, villages, and sietches with loose clothing and exposed flesh.4.)Stilgar is not fat.5.)Baron Harkonnen does not speak in limericks.6.)We never get to see Caladan, not once.The book starts on Caladan.7.) You do NOT sleep with the bedroom window open on Arrakis, nor do you leave the main door open to air out the palace.Yet the Atreides do both of these things.8.)Fremen do not PICNIC in the desert; let alone without stillsuits.9.)Harkonnen is pronounced har-CONE-nin, not HARK-a-nin.10.) Can't anyone design the ornithopters correctly?!And an honerable mention...Fremen's eyes do NOT glow in the dark.And these are only the top ten...add all this to the laughable costume design (Sardukar pastry chefs, and tortilla chips on every one's head?), questionable casting, atrocious acting and directing, unfaithfullness to the book, and lame special effects made on a TV budget, and you have one total train wreck of a movie.Your enjoyment depends on your tastes.If you like the Brian Herbert & Kevin Anderson Dune books, you'll probably like this.If you like the more intelligent, grand scope of Frank Herbert's books you're better of with Lynch's version.

Great miniseries
Let's be clear. This is not the movie ! Hence, the special effects are less. To me that was not a problem though. It's a great miniseries. The only thing I really didn't like were the over the top costums: to big, to much.
Awesome
I really wanted to hate this movie--I really did.David Lynch's rendition of the books, though flawed, was so stunning that I didn't want to have that imagery replaced in my mind.This series did that.Even though they take a couple of liberties with the text themselves, the shear scope and breadth in which they covered the first book is just well done.Sure the stillsuits aren't as cool, but I don't think that leather would do all that well in the desert anyway.All Dune fans should watch this series and Children of Dune. ... Read more

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Top Ten Flaws with this Version
There are many flaws with this interpretation from the book, the least of which are the following:1.) Paul is not a bratty, womanizing jerk.2.)Duke Leto is a noble, inspiring leader, not a dull cardboard cut-out.3.)Fremen NEVER walk outside without stillsuits, yet in the movie they are parading around towns, villages, and sietches with loose clothing and exposed flesh.4.)Stilgar is not fat.5.)Baron Harkonnen does not speak in limericks.6.)We never get to see Caladan, not once.The book starts on Caladan.7.) You do NOT sleep with the bedroom window open on Arrakis, nor do you leave the main door open to air out the palace.Yet the Atreides do both of these things.8.)Fremen do not PICNIC in the desert; let alone without stillsuits.9.)Harkonnen is pronounced har-CONE-nin, not HARK-a-nin.10.) Can't anyone design the ornithopters correctly?!And an honerable mention...Fremen's eyes do NOT glow in the dark.And these are only the top ten...add all this to the laughable costume design (Sardukar pastry chefs, and tortilla chips on every one's head?), questionable casting, atrocious acting and directing, unfaithfullness to the book, and lame special effects made on a TV budget, and you have one total train wreck of a movie.Your enjoyment depends on your tastes.If you like the Brian Herbert & Kevin Anderson Dune books, you'll probably like this.If you like the more intelligent, grand scope of Frank Herbert's books you're better of with Lynch's version.

Great miniseries
Let's be clear. This is not the movie ! Hence, the special effects are less. To me that was not a problem though. It's a great miniseries. The only thing I really didn't like were the over the top costums: to big, to much.
Awesome
I really wanted to hate this movie--I really did.David Lynch's rendition of the books, though flawed, was so stunning that I didn't want to have that imagery replaced in my mind.This series did that.Even though they take a couple of liberties with the text themselves, the shear scope and breadth in which they covered the first book is just well done.Sure the stillsuits aren't as cool, but I don't think that leather would do all that well in the desert anyway.All Dune fans should watch this series and Children of Dune. ... Read more

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Has Interest Only As A Melodrama.
A burgeoning sub-classification of the Cinema Of Paranoia genre is that depicting illegal harvesting of organs for the purpose of transplantation, with this work, based upon an apparently unpublished novel, featuring Peter Onorati as Type A insurance fraud investigator Nick Stillman whose life is extended by a heart transplant, but whose native bent for delving into chicanery leads him into situations of personal danger for him and for his family.In spite of the success of his life-saving operation, Nick is dismayed to discover that his donor who had allegedly died at the wheel of a stolen car did not, according to his former fianc�e, know how to drive, and Stillman's investigation brings suspicion toward the surgeon who performed his procedure, played by Sam Robards, and also upon Nick's wife (Alice Krige), as possible suspects engaged in highly illicit activity that may include murder.This movie made for television does not reflect any particular point of view, with didactic, politically correct motifs pushing against elements of a mystery, and only slick production values maintain a viewer's interest, particularly as the multi-themed affair becomes increasingly predictable as it wobbles to its close.Clancy Brown earns acting honours here for his well-defined performance as a villain, while Onorati, Krige and Robards each contributes an earnest turn, but there is too little cohesion in the scenario, although there is a good deal to like in the way the picture looks and sounds; Onorati, incidentally, is beat up and pummeled upon quite as often as were the private eyes of yore in noirish cinema.
YOU GOTTA HAVE HEART
DONOR UNKNOWN is a puzzling success:it's an unknown film, for sure, but it has some interesting things going for it:Read more

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Predictably predictable
A regrettable rental, this run-of-the-mill conspiracy silliness is made all the more painful by the its actors' sincerity. Basically, in the mid-90s someone got the idea of capitalizing on the country's X-Files fetish by producing this paint-by-numbers, half-hearted script. Everything that isn't telegraphed in advance is an inevitable cliche. You end up wanting to ask this dedicated ex-FBI woman as she's wandering around in her desperate confusion, "What's wrong with you? Haven't you seen any conspiracy flicks before?" Typical dialogue: Worth Seeing
As made for video movies go, this is much better than most with solid performances and a conspiracy story-line which is much more than what you expect.Give it a try. ... Read more

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