Tales from the Darkside: Slippage starts like any other normal day for graphic designer Richard Hall (David Patrick Kelly) but certainly won't end that way, to begin with his pay-cheque doesn't arrive, when asking about a recent job interview no-one there can find any information on him, he seems to have been left out of a recent school reunion, the car he brought is solely registered in his wife's (Kerry Armstrong) name & most worryingly his own mother (Harriet Rogers) doesn't even recognise him. Richard believes that he is slowly ceasing to exist as every record or memory of him seems to be erased...
Episode 6 from season 1 this Tales from the Darkside originally aired in the US during Novenmber 1984, the first of three Tales from the Darkside episodes to be directed by Michael Gornick this is another odd story that almost works. The script by Mark Durand has an intriguing & fascinating central idea although there's little reason behind it & the ending is a bit of a let down as Richard eventually disappears & that's it, it ends. Some of the dialogue is good here with a little bit of philosophy from Richard as he slowly disappears & his perceived reasons behind it. I liked this one to a certain point & that point is probably the end where it just literally finishes rather abruptly leaving slightly to many unanswered questions for my liking, had this a more attention grabbing & imaginative ending Slippage could have been an oddball classic, as it is it's an OK way to pass 20 odd minutes.
I'm not sure whether to put Slippage in the horror or fantasy category, in truth it's probably somewhere in between the two. It's not scary but it does have a few eerie moments I suppose & the storyline is more fantasy than straight horror. The acting is good & there's a good performance here from Kelly.
Slippage is a bizarre little short, it's worth a watch but the audacious idea doesn't quite come together well enough to make it a classic.
Episode 6 from season 1 this Tales from the Darkside originally aired in the US during Novenmber 1984, the first of three Tales from the Darkside episodes to be directed by Michael Gornick this is another odd story that almost works. The script by Mark Durand has an intriguing & fascinating central idea although there's little reason behind it & the ending is a bit of a let down as Richard eventually disappears & that's it, it ends. Some of the dialogue is good here with a little bit of philosophy from Richard as he slowly disappears & his perceived reasons behind it. I liked this one to a certain point & that point is probably the end where it just literally finishes rather abruptly leaving slightly to many unanswered questions for my liking, had this a more attention grabbing & imaginative ending Slippage could have been an oddball classic, as it is it's an OK way to pass 20 odd minutes.
I'm not sure whether to put Slippage in the horror or fantasy category, in truth it's probably somewhere in between the two. It's not scary but it does have a few eerie moments I suppose & the storyline is more fantasy than straight horror. The acting is good & there's a good performance here from Kelly.
Slippage is a bizarre little short, it's worth a watch but the audacious idea doesn't quite come together well enough to make it a classic.