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Did you know there was a Trilogy of Terror II?
Three more tales to terrify!
Two Trilogies? That's an entire hexology, at least!
This series puts the hex in hexology because producer Dan Curtis was back at it in 1996, revisiting one of his most famous works with another three terrifying tales.
Even outside his original trilogy Dan Curtis was a veteran of made-for-TV horror movies. He brought viewers Dracula with Jack Palance, Frankenstein with Robert Foxworth, and both classic Kolchak feature-length presentations starring Darren McGavin. Curtis also created the beloved vampire soap opera Dark Shadows as well as its 1991 TV remake!
Curtis wasn't the only relic returning from Trilogy of Terror, as that movie's most famous creation, the Zuni Doll also came back for a few more scares. The powers that be very cleverly saved the best for last, knowing viewers would tune in to see the tiny little terror. So, the other two stories in Trilogy of Terror II built to an exciting climax when the Zuni Doll made its nightmarish return.
Gone, though, was Karen Black. Black was famous for the four roles she played in the original Trilogy of Terror's three stories. Particularly, she was well-remembered as the titular "Amelia," in the same-named story, tormented by that notorious little doll. Black went on to become an icon of independent movies, sometimes appearing in as many as seven movies a year. In 1996, the same year as Trilogy of Terror II, Karen Black co-starred in Children of the Corn IV: The Gathering.
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For the sequel, Dan Curtis once again adapted three stories. This time though, the producer-director worked with a new star, Lysette Anthony. While she's today perhaps best known for her work on the Channel 4 soap opera Hollyoaks, Anthony was also partly familiar to genre fans for her work in movies like Krull and Dracula: Dead and Loving It.
In the new movie's first story, Lysette Anthony plays an unfaithful woman who must crawl into her late husband's grave to steal codes for his Swiss bank account before rats drag his fortune underground. Then, in "Bobby," a young boy drowns before his mother (played again by Anthony) summons him with a demonic spell. Fans of Stephen King will, of course, know that "sometimes, dead is better."
The movie crescendos with "He Who Kills," which picks up the same night as the original Zuni Doll encounter. When investigators bring the doll in for examination, Ellen (Anthony) must stay late at the Natural History Museum for analysis. Naturally, "analysis" isn't the only thing that happens as terror ensues.
Do you remember Trilogy of Terror II? We know nothing beats the original, but how do you think it stacked up?
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Lysette Anthony also played the witch Angelique in the unfortunately short-lived 1991 Dark Shadows revival series, again produced by Dan Curtis.
Back around then also I think it was ABC "Tuesday Movie if the Week" made some great movies that were the talk. "Brian's Sondlg", "Skullduggery", "Tribes" "Duel" & "The People". I think I have my time period right. Maybe into high school, D-Y.
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Lee H. Montgomery as Bobby) - anyone else old enough to remember watching the original "Trilogy of Terror" (ABC) + "Dead of Night" (NBC) as Network TV Movies? 😃
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Channel_4
British Soap Opera Hollyoaks
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hollyoaks
British Actress Lysette Anthony
aka Lysette Anne Chodzko
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lysette_Anthony
installment I found effective was the one with the deceased kid returning. Though I guessed well ahead what was going to happen.
