Vintage Video Of The Week - Tales From The Darkside : Seasons of Belief

The year is 1986. Just a few short months after i'm born, Tales From The Darkside airs their one and only Christmas special, which arrives fashionably late on December the 29th. Titled Seasons of Belief, the episode is written and directed by the late Michael McDowell, a frequent figure in the Darkside universe who would go on to co-write Nightmare Before Christmas a few years later.

Combining the themes of Christmas and horror, the episode centered around two parents who decide to instill Christmas fear rather than cheer into their two young children, in the wake of them no longer believing in Santa Claus. Thus, they weave a tale about 'The Grither', a monstrous creature that lives in a cave on the opposite side of Santa's abode over on the mountains of the North Pole, a sort of meaner and more vicious version of The Grinch. Everytime the Grither's name is spoken aloud, the parents say, the Grither's ears grow bigger, allowing him to track down the person calling out for him. Naturally, the kids begin chanting his name ...

Check out this week's Vintage Video Of The Week, the full episode of Tales From The Darkside's epic holiday extravaganza of bad parenting, Seasons of Belief!



If you're a longtime reader and you're saying to yourself right about now, 'didn't he already post this once before?', the answer is yes, I actually did post this episode back in 2008. But that was a loooong time ago and the video I embedded into that post is no longer even up on YouTube, so I felt like now was a good time to bring it back!