The cat emerges from the hitman's corpse and jumps at Drogan, giving him a fatal heart attack. 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. Halston does not believe the story, but is more than willing to eliminate the cat since Drogan is offering $100,000. 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. Drogan claims that one by one, the cat killed the other three, and that he is next. Drogan explains that there were three other occupants of his house before the cat arrived: his sister, Amanda, her friend Carolyn, and the family's butler, Richard Gage. 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.ĭrogan, a wealthy old man who uses a wheelchair, brings in a hitman named Halston for a bizarre hire: kill a black cat, which Drogan believes is murderously evil.

He considers killing Bellingham, but in the end cannot bring himself to commit real murder. Susan's brother Andy kidnaps Bellingham, forces him to summon the mummy, then destroys it and burns its remains and what he believes to be the reanimation parchment. As revenge, Bellingham reanimates a mummy and uses it to murder them. 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. To stall her from cooking him, the boy tells her three stories from a book she gave him, titled ''Tales from the Darkside''. The main dish is to be Timmy, a young boy whom she has captured and chained up in her pantry. The film depicts a kidnapped paperboy who tells three stories of horror to the suburban witch who is preparing to eat him.īetty, an affluent suburban housewife and modern-day witch, plans a dinner party for her fellow witches. Tales from the Darkside: The Movie is a 1990 American comedy horror anthology film directed by John Harrison, serving as a spin-off of the anthology television series Tales from the Darkside.

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