Tales From The Darkside Returns

The CW are planning a revival of cult 80s horror anthology series Tales From The Darkside.

The original series ran for four years, and received a big-screen spin-off in 1990. A creation of horror legend George A. Romero, and featuring stories from Stephen King, Harlan Ellison, Clive Barker and Robert Bloch (amongst many others), the show was a spiritual successor to the Creepshow movies - themselves inspired by the classic horror style of Tales From The Crypt and the EC comics of the 50s.

The new run of thirty-minute episodes is expected to debut in the Summer and, in a nice moment of generational torch-passing, the new series will be overseen by King's son (and current top-tier horror novelist) Joe Hill.

 

Hill will be joined by Star Trek and Sleepy Hollow's Roberto Orci and Alex Kurtzman. So with the best horror writer out there at the moment teaming up with some seriously proven genre TV producing talent, this is shaping up to be a very exciting project indeed.

Here's hoping that The CW don't fall into their biggest current trap of filling each episode with vacuously pretty faces with no real acting talent...

The douche is strong in this image...