Hush

I don't know who finds a regular sized vacuum cleaner monster scary, but that's what this episode's about. A babysitter and her babysit-tee are attacked for really no reason by a vacuum cleaner that looks like they put fake googly eyes on and made it make scary glurping sounds. The episode is executed well enough, it's just not a scary premise at all. It's just a long and tedious game of hide and seek. It's not a poorly acted episode, but budget really does play a big part in making a scary TV show, and this episode especially looked like it had none. However it is mildly amusing.

My rating: OK episode. 22 mins. TV PG V

A more traditional horror story from the TALES FROM THE DARKSIDE TV show, HUSH tells the tale of what appears to be a possessed vacuum cleaner with a desire to 'hoover up' any humans unlucky enough to come into contact with it.

It's entirely ridiculous, of course, an ultra-low budget attempt to tell a man vs. machine battle usually dealt with in big budget productions like THE TERMINATOR or ROBOCOP. Most of the running time seems to consist of characters screaming while technicians wiggle a hoover tube at them. It's very silly, but at least it's cheesy fun, unlike some of the more ponderous episodes in this series.