SEALED JOHN HARRISON TALES FROM THE DARKSIDE THE MOVIE OST GREEN 12" LP WAXWORK

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Artist
JOHN HARRISON
Title
TALES FROM THE DARKSIDE: THE MOVIE
ORIGINAL SOUNDTRACK RECORDING
Item
12" vinyl LP
SOLD OUT "Lover's Vow" variant in gargoyle green swirl vinyl
Released March 18, 2016 Country USA
Label Waxwork Records
Catalog/
UPC
WW016
728028414943
Condition New, mint, original FACTORY SEALED condition
Info
EXPANDED AND DEFINITIVE SOUNDTRACK RELEASE
MASTERED FOR VINYL FROM ORIGINAL MASTER TAPES
LINER NOTES FROM DIRECTOR JOHN HARRISON
ARTWORK BY RHYS COOPER
180 GRAM VINYL
LIMITED EDITION SOLD OUT LOVER'S VOW VARIANT
"Waxwork Records proudly presents the expanded and deluxe soundtrack release to TALES FROM THE DARKSIDE THE MOVIE. This classic anthology horror film released in 1990 features many big name acting talents such as Debbie Harry, Christian Slater, Steve Buscemi, David Johansen, and James Remar. John Harrison (Creepshow) acted as both the film’s director and the soundtrack’s composer. The film was written by George A. Romero (Night Of The Living Dead) and Stephen King. TALES FROM THE DARKSIDE THE MOVIE has been referred to as “ The Real Creepshow 3” by horror movie special effects legend, Tom Savini (Dawn Of The Dead, From Dusk Till Dawn).

For this expanded, definitive soundtrack release, Waxwork Records worked closely with John Harrison to track down the original master tapes in the Paramount Pictures vault. Upon locating them, Waxwork faithfully restored and remastered the entire soundtrack for vinyl. Much of the music contained in this new release does not appear on the original 1990 album which is now out of print and has become a collector’s item amongst both horror fans and record collectors.

Fans of horror movies and synth heavy scores will find Waxwork’s TALES FROM THE DARKSIDE THE MOVIE vinyl release right at home in their spider web encrusted record collection.

Art duties were tackled by Australian illustrator, Rhys Cooper.

Release details include:

    The Complete, Re-Mastered Soundtrack
    Three Variants Available:
        ("Lot 249" Mummy Spice, "Cat From Hell" Blue and Black, and "Lover's Vow" Gargoyle Green Swirl)
    Old Style Tip-On Gatefold Jacket
    Liner Notes By Director and Composer John Harrison
    Artwork By Rhys Cooper"
Tracklisting:
Side A
01  Tales From The Darkside: The Movie
02  Lot 249 Suite
03  Cat From Hell Suite, Part I
Side B
01  Cat From Hell Suite, Part II
02  Lover's Vow Suite
03  Bye, Bye, Betty
04  Tales From The Darkside: The Movie (Reprise) Payment & Shipping PayPal is the preferred method of payment.

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Bio
John Harrison is an American writer, director, producer and composer.

Harrison was born and raised in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He graduated from Emerson College in Boston with a BS in Theater Arts. For several years after that, he performed on the road with his band Homebrew before moving back to Pittsburgh to take a master's degree in film and television from Carnegie Mellon University. At the same time, he joined legendary blues guitarist Roy Buchanan, with whom he toured across the US and internationally for four years. He was also featured on several of Buchanan's albums, including That's What I'm Here For (1974), Live Stock (1975), and A Street Called Straight (1976).

In 1973, Harrison and his friends, Dusty Nelson and Pasquale Buba formed a film production company eventually named The Image Works to produce commercials and industrials in the Pittsburgh area. This partnership eventually led to the production of the film Effects (1980) which Harrison produced and performed in as the character Lacey Bickle. In 1974, Harrison began a long collaboration and friendship with filmmaker George A. Romero. Harrison performed as Sir Pelinore in Romero's Knightriders, then became his 1st Assistant Director for both Romero films Creepshow (1982) and Day of the Dead (1985).

Harrison also composed the scores for the Creepshow (1982), Day of the Dead (1985). He also played the "Screwdriver Zombie" in Romero's classic Dawn of the Dead (1978). The music that was composed for the score of Creepshow was also featured in the fake trailer for Thanksgiving in the film Grindhouse (2007).

After Creepshow, Harrison moved to Los Angeles to continue his writing and directing career. He wrote, directed and composed the music for multiple episodes of the Tales from the Darkside TV show. He was then tapped by producer Richard P. Rubinstein to direct Tales from the Darkside: The Movie (1990) for Paramount, which won the Gran Prix du Festival at Avoriaz, France (1991). Harrison's collaboration with Rubinstein culminated in the Emmy winning TV miniseries, Frank Herbert's Dune (2000) which Harrison wrote and directed, and Frank Herbert's Children of Dune (2003) which Harrison wrote and Co-Executive Produced.

In the Fall of '06, Harrison reunited with mentor Romero to co-produce Romero's film Diary of the Dead (2007). His action suspense thriller, Blank Slate, for producer Dean Devlin, which Harrison wrote and directed, aired as a twenty episode mini-series on TNT in the Fall of '08. In 2009, Harrison completed his adaptation of acclaimed horror novelist Clive Barker's Book of Blood which Harrison co-wrote and directed.

Filmography
Effects (1980) – Executive Producer
Tales from the Darkside: The Movie (1990) – Director
Dinosaur (2000) – Co-Writer, Story and Screenplay
Frank Herbert's Dune (2000) – Writer/Director
Frank Herbert's Children of Dune (2003) – Writer
Painkiller Jane (2005 TV-film) – Co-Writer/Executive Producer
Diary of the Dead (2007) – Executive Producer
Blank Slate (2008) – Writer/Director
Book of Blood (2009) – Co-Writer/Director

Soundtracks
Effects LaLa Land Records (LLLCD1040), Los Angeles
Creepshow LaLa Land Records (LLLCD1007), Los Angeles
Day of the Dead Taurus Entertainment/Numenorean Music, Los Angeles
Tales from the Darkside: The Movie GNP Crescendo (GNPD 8021), Los Angeles

Books
Carson, Phil Roy Buchanan, American Axe (San Francisco: Backbeat Books 2001)
Larson, Randall D. Musique Fantastique (London: The Scarecrow Press 1985)
Gagne, Paul R. The Zombies That Ate Pittsburgh: the Films of George A. Romero (New York: Dodd, Mead 1987)
Newman, Kim. Nightmare Movies: A Critical History of the Horror Film 1968–1988 (1988)

Tales from the Darkside: The Movie is a 1990 American horror anthology film directed by John Harrison, and based on the anthology television series Tales from the Darkside. The film depicts a kidnapped paperboy who tells three stories of horror to the suburban witch who is preparing to eat him, à la Hansel and Gretel.

The film is sometimes said to have been intended as Creepshow 3, a sequel to George A. Romero and Stephen King's popular horror anthologies Creepshow and Creepshow 2. However, this is not supported by any real evidence. Tom Savini has been quoted as saying that this film is the real Creepshow 3, which could be how the rumor started, though he may just have been referring to the similar nature of the movies and the involvement of King and Romero. The story titled "Cat from Hell" was originally going to appear in Creepshow 2, but was scrapped due to budgetary reasons.

The movie opens with Betty, an affluent suburban housewife and modern-day witch (Deborah Harry), planning a dinner party. The main dish is to be Timmy (Matthew Lawrence), a young boy whom she has captured and chained up in her pantry. To stall her from stuffing and roasting him, the boy tells her three horror stories from a book she gave him, titled Tales from the Darkside.

In the first segment, Michael McDowell adapts Arthur Conan Doyle's short story, "Lot No. 249". A graduate student named Bellingham (played by Steve Buscemi) has been cheated by two classmates, Susan (Julianne Moore), and Lee (Robert Sedgwick), 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 uses it to murder them both. Susan's brother Andy (Christian Slater) kidnaps Bellingham, and burns the parchment and mummy. He considers killing Bellingham, but in the end cannot bring himself to commit real murder. However, Bellingham brings Susan and Lee back from the dead (having switched the reanimation parchment with a similar one) and dispatches them to Andy's dorm, where they greet the terrified Andy by saying that Bellingham sends his regards.

In the second tale, George A. Romero adapts a Stephen King short story of the same name. Drogan is a wealthy, wheelchair-bound old man (William Hickey) who brings in a hitman named Halston (David Johansen) for a bizarre hire: kill a black cat, which Drogan believes is murderously evil. Drogan explains that there were three other occupants of his house before the cat arrived: his sister, Amanda (Dolores Sutton), her friend Carolyn (Alice Drummond), and the family's butler, Richard Gage (Mark Margolis). Drogan claims that one by one, the cat killed the other three, and that he is next. Drogan's pharmaceutical company killed 5,000 cats while testing a new drug, and he is convinced that this black cat is here to exact cosmic revenge.

Halston doesn't believe the story, but is more than willing to eliminate the cat since Drogan is offering $100,000. But when Drogan returns to the house to see if the deed is done, he finds that the cat has killed Halston by climbing down his throat. The cat emerges from the hitman's corpse and jumps at Drogan, giving him a fatal heart attack.

The third and final segment is written by Michael McDowell and based on the Yuki-onna, a spirit or y?kai in Japanese folklore or more specifically Lafcadio Hearn's version in Kwaidan: Stories and Studies of Strange Things. A despondent artist named Preston (James Remar) witnesses a gruesome murder committed by a gargoyle-like monster. The monster agrees to spare Preston's life as long as he swears never to speak of what he saw and heard or describe the monster's appearance to anyone. The monster vanishes, leaving Preston traumatized and confused, but bound by his oath never to talk about the incident.

After that night, Preston's life takes many turns for the better. He meets a beautiful woman named Carola (Rae Dawn Chong), and they fall in love, marry, and have two children. Preston's struggling art career becomes wildly successful, and life seems promising, but he is tormented by memories of his encounter with the monster, and his vow of silence weighs on him. One night he breaks down and tells Carola about the monster, even showing her a statue he sculpted of it. She appears upset; at first Preston assumes she thinks he is lying, but then she lets out a heartbroken screech and reveals herself to be the very same creature he met that night.

With Preston's promise broken she can no longer remain human, and their children transform to monstrous forms as well. She kills Preston (though she says that she loved him), gathers the children and flies away. The final scene shows that the gargoyle and children have turned to stone upon a building ledge, staring down at Preston's body with sorrowful expressions.

Betty remarks that Timmy saved the best story ("Lover's Vow") for last, but he says that he hasn't told her the really best story yet and that this one has a happy ending. She tells him that he should have done it earlier, because now it's too late and she has to start cooking him to be ready in time for her party, and that none of the stories in the book have happy endings. As Betty advances on Timmy, he tells her this story, his own, narrating his own actions as he trips her by throwing some marbles on the floor. Betty slips and falls on her butcher's block, impaling herself on her tools. Timmy releases himself and pushes her into her own oven. The film ends with Timmy helping himself to a cookie and breaking the fourth wall by asking us, "Don't you love happy endings?"

Cast:
Wraparound Story
Deborah Harry as Betty
Matthew Lawrence as Timmy

Lot 249
Steve Buscemi as Bellingham
Julianne Moore as Susan
Christian Slater as Andy
Robert Sedgwick as Lee
Donald Van Horn as Moving Man
Michael Deak as Mummy
George Guidall as Museum Director
Kathleen Chalfant as Dean
Ralph Marrero as Cabbie

Cat from Hell
William Hickey as Drogan
David Johansen as Halston
Paul Greeno as Cabbie
Alice Drummond as Carolyn
Dolores Sutton as Amanda
Mark Margolis as Gage

Lover's Vow
James Remar as Preston
Rae Dawn Chong as Carola
Robert Klein as Wyatt
Ashton Wise as Jer
Philip Lenkowsky as Maddox
Joe Dabenigno as Cop #1
Larry Silvestri as Cop #2
Donna Davidge as Gallery Patron
Nicole Rochelle as Margaret
Daniel Harrison as John

Tales from the Darkside: The Movie was a modest box office success for Paramount. The film was released May 4, 1990 in the United States, opening in third place that weekend. It grossed a total of $16,324,573 domestically.

The film was given a rating of 31% on the ratings aggregation site Rotten Tomatoes, based on 16 reviews, while receiving an overall grade of "C" at Box Office Mojo.

Laurel Productions initially announced a sequel to the film in October 1990. A screenplay was written by the first film's screenwriters Michael McDowell and George Romero, along with Gahan Wilson.  Segments planned included an adaptation of Robert Bloch's "Almost Human," alongside adaptations of Stephen King's short stories "Pinfall" (originally planned for Creepshow 2) and "Rainy Season." This sequel, however, never came to fruition.

- wikipedia