Geschichten aus der Schattenwelt
SERIE • 4 Staffeln •
Fantasy,
Komödien,
Science-Fiction,
Horror,
Drama,
Mystery & Thriller
• Vereinigte Staaten von Amerika • 1984
„Geschichten aus der Schattenwelt“ ist eine von George A. Romero kreierte Horror-Anthologie-Serie. Jede Folge erzählt eine in sich abgeschlossene Kurzgeschichte mit überraschendem Ende. Die Serie vereint Elemente aus Horror, Science-Fiction und Fantasy, wobei manche Folgen auch schwarzen Humor oder heitere Momente aufweisen.
Originaltitel
Tales from the Darkside
Produktionsland
Vereinigte Staaten von Amerika
Originalsprache
Englisch
Regie
Eleanor Gaver
Untertitel
Nein
Besetzung
Paul Sparer, Alison Sweeney, Vic Tayback, Neil Kinsella, John Rothman, Bradley Fisher, Jon Jacobs, Thomas Newman, Catherine Battistone, John Marzilli
Episoden-Guide
1. Staffel 1 (24 Episoden)
Die einzigartige und schaurig-beliebte Horror-Anthologieserie GESCHICHTEN AUS DER DUNKELHEIT ist zurück. Vollgepackt mit Gänsehaut-Geschichten, die zunächst ganz alltäglich erscheinen, nehmen diese Erzählungen nach und nach eine finstere Wendung, bis sie schließlich zu etwas Unheimlichem, Schockierendem und zutiefst Verstörendem werden.
01
Episode 1
A recovering alcoholic is disturbed to find a young boy who shows up at his office claiming to be his son Jerry. The man is further angered when the boy shows up at his house. While the other family members carry on as if Jerry is a regular member of the family, the man insists that he has never seen the boy before in his life. The man's wife assumes that he has begun drinking again and is harboring delusions brought on by his inebriated state. The family, disgusted by the father's unwillingness to acknowledge Jerry as his son, ultimately leaves him. Driven back to drinking by the ordeal, the previously sober father ends up in a state of emotional ruin. In the final scene, Jerry visits another man, claiming to be HIS son, as the nightmarish pattern continues.
02
Episode 2
Two old, rich men like to wager among themselves on trivial matters for huge amounts. One of them, Williams, offers his friend a million dollars for his immortal soul. Blaine accepts but discovers that he is dying of cancer - frightened, he tries to buy his soul back. Williams holds out for more money, until it's too late - Blaine dies. Soulless, he comes back for his soul, shocking Williams into a heart attack...and the Devil comes to claim his due from both of them.
03
Episode 3
Harvey goes to Dr. Roebuck with back pains and Roebuck prescribes a miraculous cure. It's not until later that Harvey finds the price he must pay...
04
Die letzte Wette
Tommy Vale, a barroom bookie finds himself in a curious predicament: a man comes in who can't lose. As the story unravels, he finds out that his opponent is Lacey, a man who went broke gambling with Vale in the past. Now Lacey is back from the dead, with tips from the other side, and is unbeatable. In a final ghoulish wager, Lacey bets that Vale will die at a particular time, and he's never been wrong. But the clock chimes and Vale is still alive. Lacey is forced to depart, and Vale reveals that he set the clock ahead five minutes, then dies right on time.
05
Mookie und Pookie
Twin siblings, Mookie and Pookie, are extremely close. But Mookie has a terminal illness. Later the scientific genius Mookie succesfully downloads his mind into the computer before he dies. But now that he's in there Pookie must convince her parents not to pull the plug.
06
Episode 6
A young ad-design artist begins to literally ""slip"" out of reality. Slowly but surely he seems to be fading out of existence: first his payroll checks disappear, then his high school not only fails to mail him about their reunion, but has no records of his existence. The artist soon realizes that since he's drifted through life, he's basically ""slipping through the cracks"". Even his mother has no memory of him. At the end, even his wife and best friend (now the woman's husband in this new reality) forget he ever existed.
07
Das Zimmer meiner Tochter
A student takes a room with an abrupt, somewhat rude anthropology professor. He instructs her never to open the small door in the back of her closet. Hearing strange noises, she eventually opens the door and finds the chamber beyond occupied by a small, hairless-monkey sort of a creature. It kills her and goes after the professor...only to reveal that it is his deformed daughter, which he lovingly dotes on.
08
Der Textcomputer
Richard Hagstrom is dismayed with the way life has treated him (a rude son, a shrewish wife). His nephew Jonathan gives him a birthday present: a homemade word processor. Hagstrom soon discovers that anything he types into the processor becomes real, and no one but him knows the difference. He begins with simple experiments, but then wipes out his son from existence. Even his wife is unaware of the changes. As the machine overheats into self-destruction, Hagstrom types in one last story: he makes sure that he and Jonathan's mother married and that Jonathan was his son. As the word processor destroys itself, Hagstrom's final wish becomes reality.
09
Stur bis in den Tod
In the backwoods, a family patriarch dies...only to come back, unaware that he's dead. The townspeople are up in arms, but the old man is too stubborn to admit he's dead, despite his rigor mortis, lack of appetite, and bad smell. His grandson Jody eventually goes to an old voodoo woman for a solution. Rather than magic, she provides him with a simple solution: pepper. Jody puts it in his grandpa's handkerchief. When the old man sneezes, his nose falls off, which finally convinces him to go lie down and give up life for good.
10
Der Quälgeist aus der Flasche
A couple inadvertently buy a magic lamp that contains a genie. Unfortunately, the genie is anything but amiably. Confined in the lamp for thousands of years and still trapped, he refuses to grant wishes and instead terrorizes the couples with plagues, rains of frogs, etc. The husband finally has himself committed, but a few days later his wife brings him home. Their apartment is now richly decorated and they have plenty of money. The genie is now an amiable and willing wish-granter. The wife's solution to freeing the genie: a can opener.
11
Episode 11
Leon, a hapless TV writer, buys an answering machine that has a mind of its own - it initially helps him out by providing him with new material, but Leon soon finds that it's taking over his life.
12
Episode 12
A fake fortuneteller, Caterina, soon finds that every fortune she tells comes true...but she can only predict gruesome and horrific ends for her customers. She soon discovers that another cursed fortuneteller slipped her a cursed pack of cards, and Caterina can only get rid of them by giving them to another fake. She does so by slipping into another fortuneteller's parlor, asking for a fortune, and slipping her the cursed deck. Unfortunately the first fortune the new cursee reads is of Caterina's death...which rapidly comes true.
13
Episode 13
A young girl fleeing her boyfriend finds herself in a small country home with a genial older couple. They take pity on her and invite her in, and even invite her to their special anniversary dinner. After getting her set up in the hot tub with plenty of wine, they start pouring vegetables in. As she passes out, the girl realizes exactly how the couple will be having her for dinner.
14
Zahlenzauber
A warlock and a witch get into a battle over a $10 million lottery ticket when each claims that the spirits gave them the winning number.
15
Episode 15
Joan is apartment-sitting for a friend but finds herself tormented by a phone that won't stop ringing.
16
Prudence is a young woman who can't stop crying, but finds a peculiar way to make a profit when she meets Ambrose Cavender, a man who collects tears.
17
Episode 17
Cathy Osborne brings her husband up to a previously-unknown room in their house and along with her friend Michael, relates the tale of how the room is the ""madness room"" from which no one has ever stayed the night...and survived. In reality it's a set up and Cathy and Michael plan to kill Cathy's husband by scaring him to death. They succeed by faking some supernatural activities, but soon find that the curse of the room is all too real...
18
Episode 18
Fast-talking politician Bo Gumbs finds himself in serious trouble when he arrives for a meeting and waits at a nearby hotel.
19
Episode 19
A teenager enraptured with magicians goes to a flee-bitten circus to seek out one of the greater: Kharma. However, Kharma now does cheap magic for the crowds, and none of the great illusions the teenager believes him capable of. When Kharma refuses to do them, the kid heckles him until Kharma relents and uses the boy as a subject for his greatest feat of levitation. However, Kharma dies of a heart attack, and the boy simply keeps on levitating...up into the sky and out of sight.
20
Episode 20
Henry, a greedy developers, stumbles upon a Chinese laundry that offers a unique service - it can ""wash out"" guilt. Henry employs their services but soon finds there is a unpleasant price to pay.
21
Episode 21
Mr. Bigalow, a lifelong cigarette smoker, wakes up to find that his windows have bars on them and his door is sealed shut. A mysterious figure appears on Bigalow's television, informing him that he will quit smoking. Bigalow scoffs at this notion and reaches for a morning cigarette. As soon as he lights up, a deafening alarm sounds, demanding that he extinguish the cigarette immediately. Bigalow is subjected to various endurance tests and is further tempted to smoke when thousands of cigarettes materialize in the room, only to disappear. After being driven to the edge of sanity, he wakes up to find that he no longer has a desire to smoke. Believing that the whole ordeal was a dream, Biaglow reaches for a cup of coffee, at which time the mysterious figure reappears on the television screen, insisting that Bigalow now work on his caffeine addiction.
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Episode 22
Given one last wish to enliven her days before she is moved into the Tranquil Gardens retirement home, elderly Grandma sees to it that her self-centered family finds out what it's like to grow old.
23
Cassie Pines is a woman travelling on her own who believes in astrology, tea leaves...everything. She comes into a diner with a most unusual mechanical fortune teller named Horace X. ""Horace"" is uncanny with his predictions but Cassie soon finds that Horace is demanding and possessive - despite her misgivings she enters the booth one more time...and disappears.
24
Episode 24
2. Staffel 2 (25 Episoden)
01
Episode 1
02
Episode 2
03
Das Mädchen aus dem Vulkan
04
Der letzte Mieter
05
Eine Tüte Bonbons
06
Das Teufelsklavier
07
Teufels Advokat
08
Episode 8
09
Dämonen in Mary Jane
10
Der Teddy war´s
When Joan finds a new teddy bear in her son's room no one seems to know where it came from. Then night after night huge claw marks are found on the walls and the sounds of something very large can be heard moving through the house. It seems that this little bear has a murderous life all its own...
11
Episode 11
Kate wakes up and discovers that for unknown reasons, her life is now running backwards.
12
Der Angsthase
13
Episode 13
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Episode 14
15
Episode 15
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Episode 16
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Episode 17
18
Ich bin nicht Harry
19
Alptraum im Tunnel
20
Träume nach dem Tod
21
Die Liebe der Vampire
22
Zwischen Himmel und Hölle
23
Episode 23
24
Episode 24
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3. Staffel 3 (22 Episoden)
01
Der Zirkus des Dr. Nis
02
Episode 2
03
Episode 3
04
Episode 4
05
Das Puppenhaus
06
Im Spinnennetz
07
Der Ketzer
08
Der Schlangenzahn
09
Das Dreizehnerdutzend
10
Episode 10
11
Der Greifer
12
Die Augen der Medusa
13
Wenn der Milchmann kommt
A man, Garry, hears from his neighbor a bizarre tale of how the unseen neighborhood milkman grants wishes to anyone who leaves their request in the empty bottles to be picked up. Garry tries it for himself and soon finds his every wish granted. His final wish is for a daughter, and his curiosity is too great and he tries to confront the milkman. Garry gets a glimpse of a deformed mutant creature before it disapepars and then realizes exactly how the ""milkman"" will fulfill his wish - by impregnating his wife.
14
Vampire sterben nicht
15
Episode 15
Laura, a desperate woman, tries to get an apartment by herself but is forced to take in Ram, an immigrant from Calcutta. When Ram dies partly due to her involvement, Laura finds that she has inherited an entire family of ghostly Hindus.
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Episode 16
17
Die Schaufensterpuppe
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Episode 18
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Episode 19
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Episode 20
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Episode 21
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Episode 22
4. Staffel 4 (20 Episoden)
01
Der Fluch der Tempeljungfrau
02
Episode 2
03
Der Geisterphotograph
04
Das schwarze Buch
05
Episode 5
06
Poker mit der Mumie
07
Jack und sein Dämon
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Episode 8
09
Kein Anschluß unter dieser Nummer
Katie receives a mysterious phone call from a woman warning about her husband's death...but he isn't dead yet. Katie ignores the phone call, and her husband dies. At the funeral, a despairing Katie calls up herself...and finds herself talking to...herself. She tries to warn her past self, despite knowing that it won't do any good, then collapses in despair.
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Episode 10
11
Garantiert Gewichtsverlust
12
Der Teufel in Hollywood
Screenwriter Tom Dash unwittingly makes a deal with the Devil and finds he must get out of it by finding a new victim or offer up his soul.
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Episode 13
14
Schottische Allerheiligen
15
Öffnen verboten
16
Mein Sohn der Werwolf
17
Bilder von Einheimischen
18
Der Krachschlucker
19
Klaatzu und der Ammoniak
20
Episode 20
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