It’s that time of year again when folks put out scary decorations and pumpkins, fill bowls with candy, and don costumes to blend in with the other ghosts and ghouls. Halloween is in the wind, and nothing quite gets this holiday’s observers in the festive mood better than watching horror.
Movies are the obvious route for experiencing horror at a safe distance, but the television side of the genre has also been a reliant as well as rich source of Halloween activity. And while anthologies can be sparing with tales set around October 31 — they don’t need a special occasion to get scary, after all — these select stories not only celebrate Halloween, they’re a reminder of its power over events and people.
Tales from the Darkside (1983-1988)
The Cutty Black Sow
With every new season of Tales from the Darkside, the series showed less and less straightforward frights.
Movies are the obvious route for experiencing horror at a safe distance, but the television side of the genre has also been a reliant as well as rich source of Halloween activity. And while anthologies can be sparing with tales set around October 31 — they don’t need a special occasion to get scary, after all — these select stories not only celebrate Halloween, they’re a reminder of its power over events and people.
Tales from the Darkside (1983-1988)
The Cutty Black Sow
With every new season of Tales from the Darkside, the series showed less and less straightforward frights.
- 10/24/2022
- by Paul Lê
- bloody-disgusting.com
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