Tales from the Darkside

The government wants to communicate with an alien, so they bring in impressionist, "Mr. Personalities." After making "contact," the alien departs leaving Mr. Personalities depressed. But a surprise visit turns the impressionist's frown upside-down.

Lifebomb, a special medical firm, implants a device in rich businessman Ben Martin that will let him live forever. But now all Ben wants to do is die.

While sitting in an electric chair, waiting to be executed, Billy relates the strange tale of how he came to be in his shocking preicament, all thanks to an attractive woman.

Fearful of a voodoo-practicing tenant, a woman plots to evict him from their home. But after the truth is revealed, he exacts a terrifying revenge.

A mean old man learns a hard lesson about tricks and treats when he doesn't play nice on Halloween.

After losing his inpsiration to play, pianist Pete Bancroft is given a piano that lets himself play as never before. But there's a price to pay for newfound talent.

Mandrake, a hate-spewing radio host, gets several calls telling him that he's dead. Unable to leave the broadcast booth, he finds himself transformed into a demon who must broadcast for eternity.

A mysterious inventor wants a famous director to complete an old TV series, which was canceled before the series' final episodes were shown for his "foreign viewers."

Offered $50,000 to rid a possessed girl with multiple demons, two occultists quickly find themselves having a devil of a time.

Joan's daughter's new Teddy bear seems cute and cuddly...until sounds of something large and moving through the house are heard at night and huge claw marks are found on the walls.

Everything is turned upside down for Kate when she discovers she has the ability to live backwards.

Little Timmy keeps trying to get his mother and mean stepfather to believe that there are monsters living under his bed...before it's too late.

Innocently watching Halley's Comet, astronomer Englebert Ames gets the shock of a lifetime when Sir Edmond Halley himself arrives...trying to elude an obsessed woman.

All the world's a stage when a group of people find themselves trapped as a theater group in a stagehand's dream.

Overjoyed to find an inexpensive apartment with modern amenities, the new tenant soon learns there's something living beneath the surface of his home, sweet home.

To ensure success, a literary agent convinces a writer to put some blood into his work...along with some other warm-blooded ingredients.

Returning home, a young woman, Christine, finds herself in competition for her mother's attention with Chrissie, an idealized younger version of herself.

Stacey finds she's on the ride of her life when she boards a train full of odd and bizarre-mannered passengers.

Suffering from a terminal illness, a mob boss learns that dying can be hell after he accepts a man's offer to give him his choice of dreams after death.

After making a late-night house call, Dr. Carrol discovers that his injured patient and her husband don't want the kindly doctor to leave...ever.

At the reading of a deceased preacher's will, his family discovers he left them nothing. But, on a videotape, he warns them that he will send them a sign.

A down-on-his-luck man finds his life is up in the air. Reluctant to admit that the truth will set him free, he finds the more he lies, the more he floats.

After their great grandfather murders his wife, the rest of the family find themselves saddled with a killer curse until the family name is dead...and so are they.