Product Details

• Actors: Paul Sparer
• Directors: Richard Blackburn, Terence Calahan, T.J. Castronova, Allen Coulter, Bruce Dolin
• Format: Closed-captioned, Color, NTSC
• Number of tapes: 1
• Studio: Image Entertainment
• VHS Release Date: July 25, 2000
• Run Time: 100 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• ASIN: 6302902061
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #291,942 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Absolutely awesome, February 19, 2008

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This review is from: Tales From The Darkside Vol. 6 [VHS] (VHS Tape)

This is one of the best tapes of the series, my son really loves the black widows.....I really wish they would come out with the complete season on dvd. You can get them from people who put them on dvd's and try to sell them, but be careful the dvd is NOT of good quality!!

3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Happy 20th Anniversary, Tales from the Darkside, January 25, 2004

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JQUICKSILVERS2@AOL. (West Columbia, South Carolina) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Tales From The Darkside Vol. 6 [VHS] (VHS Tape)

It's hard to believe it's been 20 years or more since co-producer George Romero's TV series first traversed the ozone highway into our living rooms. And this particular volume 6 is no exception to the creative benchmark the series set forth. Conceptually, TFTDS is a compilation of a myriad of short story writers, screen writers, etc., of this genre, put into a TV format. Team this with an eclectic mix of actors and actresses including classical, up-and-coming, Vaudevillian, oldies but goodies (golden age of TV), even Broadway, and throw in well metered direction and interesting special effects (for this era), and you have a winner, with an 80s feel. My kudos to the casting crew! In this particular tape, five episodes are taken from the series, featuring the writing skills of Robert Bloch (Psycho) and Michael McDowell (Beetlejuice). Since the writers in the series are so numerous and varied in style, the mood and feel of each are totally different from one another, and represent an albeit edgy, 80s representation of television programming. My personal favorite on this tape was "Baker's Dozen", where a greedy advertizer (Larry Manetti from Magnum PI) gets his just "desserts" by a voodoo woman who just happens to bake one "mean" cookie (Mabel King from The Wiz). Then, when the cookie lady becomes a little too powerful for her own good, she's thwarted by the elderly but crafty Aloysious who proves once again that good things come in small (kitchen rat-sized) packages. Great viewing for 8-14 year olds especially, but fun for all. In short: Clever, creepy, but not overly gory. Great for Halloween party sleepovers! A series of some of the best horror short story writers of the 80s era, put to film. P.S.--Check out the companion paperback and episodes 1-7. I have them all, and my teenage daughter and her friends are really into them.