If you loved Tales from the Darkside: The Movie, try Cast a Deadly Spell

A bridge between a film you've already seen and one most people haven't. Cast a Deadly Spell has roughly 3.4× fewer votes than Tales from the Darkside: The Movie — it's a deeper cut, not a mainstream recommendation. Here's what they share, and what the second one does that the first one doesn't.

What they share

Theyboth carry the playful, surreal mood tags, and they sit in Comedy / Fantasy / Horror territory. If that's the register that drew you to Tales from the Darkside: The Movie, the second film will land in a comparable space — through a different lens.

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What Cast a Deadly Spell is

New Orleans 1947. The humid air smells of absinthe and old grimoires. A detective who talks out of both sides of his hat gets hired to find a missing spellbook. Martin Campbell’s noir-lite TV movie where H.P. Lavcraft meets Chandler.

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