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Darkroom

posted 17 years ago by shootingsun
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I remember this series when it came out. I was only eight but it scared the hell out of me.

I remember it having some decent episodes, although I can only remember two of them distinctly. One had to do with a young girl who thinks her new neighbor is a vampire, and the other had to do with a bum that is taken in by two siblings who say the man reminds them of their grandfather. Both had shocker endings, and I was pretty young at the time, so they made an especially heavy impact.

I'm looking for a copy of "Darkroom," and also for two other items:

"Night Visions" - the anthology series that ran on Fox and Scifi for awhile.
"The Alien Encounters" - a goofy little UFO movie by James T. Flocker.

"Monster? We're British, you know!"
- Peter Cushing, Horror Express

[–] MonteCarloMan 12 years ago

The series was heavily impressionable to me too. I was an 8-year-old kid in 1981 when the series premiered and the only episodes I recalled were the Billy Crystal episode regarding a makeup case and the episode that starred Michael Constantine regarding the excutioner in charge of the guiottine during the French Reign of Terror...that episode was very good.

[–] lost-in-limbo 9 years ago

You are in a house. Maybe your Own. Maybe one you've never seen before. You feel it... something evil. You run, but there's no escape. Nowhere to turn. You feel something beckoning you. Drawing you into the terror that awaits you in the DARKROOM!

I just watched the complete series of Darkroom over the last couple of nights and was completely surprised by how compelling, effective, creepy and amusing the short stories were in this anthology series. There was a nice variety to the tales in tone and length, with a certain cleverness within their imaginative twists and turns. The memorbale intro is ominously unnerving and from the photographic darkroom James Coburn effortlessly narrates with a wry touch. Familiar faces show up, some even before hitting it big. Interesting to see some genre film-makers attached; Paul Lynch (Prom Night, Humongous), Curtis Harrington (Queen of Blood, The Killing Kind & Ruby) and Rick Rosenthal (Halloween 2). Other than one story I didn't care for (Daisies), I really enjoyed this creative series.

Some of my favourites were 'Make-Up' starring Billy Crystal and Brian Dennehy, 'The Partnership' starrng David Carradine and 'Exit Line' starring Samantha Eggar and Stan Shaw.

Well worth a look if you were entertained by the likes of 'Night Gallery' and 'Alfred Hitchcok Presents'.

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