Wednesday, October 31, 2018

Tales from the Darkside : The Cutty Black Sow (1988)


Made for TV, airing May 8th in the US.
Season 5. Episode 14.
The story: It is the night before Halloween.
Young Jamie and Gloria are up late with their parents and Great Grandmother.
Great Grandmother is dying and it looks like it will happen pretty soon.
During the course of the night, Jamie hears his granny speaking in her sleep.
He quickly gets his tape recorder and records everything she says, something about a cutty black sow.
The next day while listening to the recording and going through grannies things, Jamie sees something about the cutty black sow.
In the recording, granny says that when someone dies, their first initial must be put on a stone and burned in a fire, to keep the cutty black sow from getting that person's soul.
This is to be done on Halloween.
With the help of Gloria, Jamie writes everyone in the house's initial on a stone and tosses it into the fireplace.
After returning home from trick or treating and looking at their candy, Gloria sees that one of the rocks had fallen out of the fire...
Stars (voice) Paul Sharer , Huckleberry Fox , Mary Griffin , Sharon Ullrick , Timothy Landfield , Paula Trueman
Directed by Richard Glass
Rated TV14
FANTASY/MYSTERY/THRILLER/HORROR/SERIES/HALLOWEEN

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