Chilling Tales
This is another one of my favorite TV shows of all time as well as horror anthologies it's number three in my book. It's another relic from my childhood since I saw this when I was about ten, I was into the anthologies like "The Twilight Zone", "Are You Afraid of the Dark", you name it, this show was a welcome surprise to me and another great addition to my collection.There isn't much I can say about it, despite how old it is I feel it's actually held up extraordinarily well which just goes to show how timeless the quality of a shows content can truly be. Yeah, it's in black and white but I don't mind that in fact I feel the use of it just adds to the dark and creepy atmosphere of the show, almost gives the show sort of a dream like quality. Even the theme to the TV show is pretty good if not the most memorable but good enough to evoke a sense of suspense.
The host Boris Karloff is fantastic and he perfectly fits since he is a horror alumni. Just seeing him give an introductory to each of the tales is just music to my ears and makes me wish if they ever did another anthology horror to have a horror movie actor/actress host or even a director in that genre (if he or she are capable of hosting).
Each of the tales are divided into two kinds of thrillers. Some are suspense stories and some are supernatural, have both these types in the same show I thought was a great idea because it really gave the show a sense of variety. As well as sense of mystery as we never really knew what type of thriller we were going to get, but all the same it was going to be a heck of a thrill ride.
There are a lot of great episodes, few of my favorite stories are "Mascarade" which is great because things aren't what they seem hence the title. "Pigions from Hell" which I always found creepy let alone it was based on a short story from one of my favorite author's Robert E Howard. "The Grim Repper" which I also found creepy despite not seeing The Reeper at all, it works because what you don't see makes it all the more scare because the thought of him and what occurs just feeds our imaginations. And on a side note really like the painting which is spooky but cool looking at the same time.
Thriller is a thrill ride.
Rating: 4 stars
score 10/10
hellraiser7 2 June 2015
Reprint: https://www.imdb.com/review/rw3250283/15096
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