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Release year: 1981

Storyline

A glowing green orb that embodies ultimate evil terrorizes a young girl with an anthology of bizarre and fantastic stories.

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Richard Romanus — Harry Canyon (segment: Harry Canyon)
John Candy — Desk Sergeant, Dan, Den, Robot (segment: Harry Canyon) (segment: Den) (segment: Den) (segment: So Beautiful and So Dangerous)
Joe Flaherty — Lawyer, General (segment: Captain Sternn) (segment: So Beautiful and So Dangerous)
Don Francks — Grimaldi, Co-Pilot, Barbarian (segment: Grimaldi) (segment: B-17) (segment: Taarna)

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Did you know

• The home video was removed from circulation for several years because of problems with music licensing - with so many bands and artists on the soundtrack, securing rights to the music proved difficult.

• This segment utilized rotoscoping for Taarna and her long flight over the land. An actress was filmed acting out scenes such as when she puts on her costume and when she attacks the thugs in the bar. She wore a black and white approximation of Taarna's outfit. For the traveling landscape scene a model was built and painted in black and white and filmed. The movie frames were transferred to cels and painted. The lycra reel on the DVD/Blu-ray releases shows most of these filmed segments.

• As in the magazine, the evil emanation Den battles is called Uhluhtc. That is Cthulhu spelled backwards, a reference to the God of Chaos in the mythology of H.P. Lovecraft.