This short-lived anthology series provided half-hour episodes of suspense and the supernatural. Henry Rollins was the Rod Serling-type host, and each episode starred at least one recognizable actor. The episodes can be seen on youtube. The two in question here feature Lou Philips as a wise-mouth FM DJ who eventually gets his comeuppance one dark and stormy night, and Gil Bellows as an ex-alcoholic with a wife and baby who moves into a house that was the site of a murder years ago. That episode plays out like The Shining and Amityville Horror. Both episodes work well because of the acting and tight pacing. No special effects, no fancy sets. And they work just fine without them. Sadly, the show was pulled after one season.
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Dead Air
nikitalinivenko27 February 2020
I've only seen a few episodes of this series, scattered here and there, so I'll just keep this review to the first segment "Dead Air", which I found to be by far the best of the lot. Starring Lou Diamond Phillips as an obnoxious Radio DJ working a graveyard shift in the station on a rainy night, he pisses off the wrong caller and things take a turn from there in classic (and maybe somewhat predictable) horror movie fashion that almost makes this feel like it could've been an Urban Legend someone tells. It's cheap, it's fun, moody in a corny Halloween way, and the most re-watchable segment this rather sub-par anthology series has to offer. It kind of almost feels like a dumb horror take on "Talk Radio" (1988) (Oliver Stone's most underrated movie) and I'm fine with that.
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