One of the lesser-known horror anthologies of the 1980s, 1986’s Deadtime Stories is a title of which I’ve been familiar for years, but it took me a long time to actually get around to seeing it. And because of the film’s long history of botched home video releases, the versions I’ve been able to watch in the past haven’t been of the best quality. As a result, I had an unfair opinion of the movie. Thankfully, Scream Factory has put Deadtime Stories out on Blu-ray for the first time and allowed me the opportunity not just to revisit it, but to revise my opinion. It’s more fun than I gave it credit for.
The first of the movie’s three segments is “The Black Forest,” the story of two witches who take a young man (Scott Valentine of TV’s Family Ties) as their slave...
The first of the movie’s three segments is “The Black Forest,” the story of two witches who take a young man (Scott Valentine of TV’s Family Ties) as their slave...
- 3/1/2017
- by Patrick Bromley
- DailyDead
Beginning February 28th, Scream Factory has a special treat in store for horror anthology fans with their Blu-ray / DVD release of Deadtime Stories, and we've been provided with three Blu-ray / DVD combo pack copies to give away to lucky Daily Dead readers.
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Prize Details: (3) Winners will receive (1) Blu-ray / DVD combo pack copy of Deadtime Stories.
How to Enter: For a chance to win, email contest@dailydead.com with the subject “Deadtime Stories Contest”. Be sure to include your name and mailing address.
Entry Details: The contest will end at 12:01am Est on March 5th. This contest is only open to those who are eighteen years of age or older that live in the United States. Only one entry per household will be accepted.
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Deadtime Stories Blu-ray / DVD: "Your favorite nightmares come to life in a salute to the age-old bedtime story ritual. Travel on a mysterious journey to a...
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Prize Details: (3) Winners will receive (1) Blu-ray / DVD combo pack copy of Deadtime Stories.
How to Enter: For a chance to win, email contest@dailydead.com with the subject “Deadtime Stories Contest”. Be sure to include your name and mailing address.
Entry Details: The contest will end at 12:01am Est on March 5th. This contest is only open to those who are eighteen years of age or older that live in the United States. Only one entry per household will be accepted.
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Deadtime Stories Blu-ray / DVD: "Your favorite nightmares come to life in a salute to the age-old bedtime story ritual. Travel on a mysterious journey to a...
- 2/27/2017
- by Derek Anderson
- DailyDead
Sweet dreams are made of Deadtime Stories, set to arrive soon on Blu-ray and DVD from Scream Factory. Too tired to read a story at night that will haunt you right to sleep? Well, watch a few instead. Hop from story to story filled with murder, mystery, witches, and werewolves, and right now you can check out a handful of Blu-ray clips as well as the official trailer for the film.
Deadtime Stories Blu-ray / DVD: "Your favorite nightmares come to life in a salute to the age-old bedtime story ritual. Travel on a mysterious journey to a medieval world populated by blood-crazed witches, evil experiments and captive maidens. Then from the catacombs and dark caverns of medieval Europe, you'll plunge into modern suburbia and the adventures of a female jogger stalked by a savage werewolf. Finally, sensuality will become macabre, black comedy as you follow the trail of three bank...
Deadtime Stories Blu-ray / DVD: "Your favorite nightmares come to life in a salute to the age-old bedtime story ritual. Travel on a mysterious journey to a medieval world populated by blood-crazed witches, evil experiments and captive maidens. Then from the catacombs and dark caverns of medieval Europe, you'll plunge into modern suburbia and the adventures of a female jogger stalked by a savage werewolf. Finally, sensuality will become macabre, black comedy as you follow the trail of three bank...
- 2/24/2017
- by Tamika Jones
- DailyDead
One reason Deadtime Stories may not so well remembered today could be because, as its theme song so astutely notes, those bedtime tales we were told as a kid were already quite screwed up when you stop and think about it.
A wolf that tries to eat a little girl after killing her grandmother and disguising itself as her, another wolf that wants to eat three innocent pigs and is willing to destroy their homes to get to them, a cannibalistic witch only thwarted when kids burn her alive in her own oven: three classic bedtime stories, like so many others, that if they weren’t considered centuries old classics would by today standards be considered too dark and violent for little kids.
The 1986 anthology Deadtime Stories put an even more horrifying twist on the classic tales of a boy confronting a wicked witch, a modern spin on “Little Red Riding Hood...
A wolf that tries to eat a little girl after killing her grandmother and disguising itself as her, another wolf that wants to eat three innocent pigs and is willing to destroy their homes to get to them, a cannibalistic witch only thwarted when kids burn her alive in her own oven: three classic bedtime stories, like so many others, that if they weren’t considered centuries old classics would by today standards be considered too dark and violent for little kids.
The 1986 anthology Deadtime Stories put an even more horrifying twist on the classic tales of a boy confronting a wicked witch, a modern spin on “Little Red Riding Hood...
- 8/18/2012
- by Foywonder
- DreadCentral.com
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