Tales from the darkside: the movie lover's vow

1990 film by John Harrison

Tales from the Darkside: The Movie is a 1990 American comedy horroranthology film directed by John Harrison, serving as a spin-off of the anthology television series Tales from the Darkside.

The film depicts the frame story of a kidnapped paperboy who tells three stories of horror to the suburban witch who is preparing to eat him.

Plot

Prologue

Betty, an affluent suburban housewife and modern-day witch, plans a dinner party for her fellow witches.

Tales from the darkside: the movie mummy

The main dish is to be Timmy, a young boy whom she has captured and chained up in her pantry. To stall her from cooking him, the boy tells her three stories from a book she gave him, titled Tales from the Darkside.

Lot 249

Graduate student Edward Bellingham has been cheated by two classmates, Susan and Lee, who framed him for theft to ruin his chances of winning a scholarship for which they were competing.

As revenge, Bellingham reanimates a mummy and