User Reviews

I do not recall this series ever being screened here in the UK on TV, as I would surely have watched them, but three episodes were released on VHS under the title Dead Even, revenge being the common factor. They were all pretty good but Lovesounds is the standout title for me. Combing sex and horror, as does all three tales, this one stars the late, great Klaus Kinski, one of my favourite actors and is about a love triangle that comes with a grisly price. Clocking in at under 30 minutes, it is short but sweet.

Our episode starts with classical music composer Kurt Hoffman returning from a re sidle to a phone call from his wife Veronica. Hoffman is an arrogant tyrant who believes everyone lives to serve him and make him happy, even to the point of neglecting the beautiful and much younger Veronica in the process. Hoffman is having a special musical computer system installed by Eric Dunlap (sporting a amazingly wonderful 80s mullet), who talks of the machine as if it has human qualities. Hoffman comes home to see his machine, but, is irritated when it doesn't work for him. He also doesn't know his wife is having an affair with the much younger and kinder Dunlap. After refusing to work for Hoffman again at a party, Eric discovers the machine has the ability to play peoples thoughts and emotions. Hoffman returns and the machine works for him this time, but, by using the nature finder manages to discover lovemaking from both Eric and Veronica. Trapping the two in the boat house he burns it down killing both of them. However when he returns he can still hear the love sounds between Eric and Veronica, and learns in the process the grisly price he must pay for killing his machines creator. This is just a great all around episode of a love triangle that ends in true nasty fashion. Klaus Kinski is at his true baddest here, the man could always play a cruel bad guy like know other primarily due to the fact that was the way he was in real life. The rest of our cast does a fine job to with a young Stephen Shellen who I recognized from the "Tales from the Crypt" episode "Lover Come Hack to Me". Belinda Bauer is absolutely beautiful and its a shame she never really got her career off the ground as her two biggest roles seems to be playing in "Flash dance" and "RoboCop 2". Plus the Page Fletcher narration has probably some of his best dialogue used yet. The only thing about the episode is the dated computer equipment used for the music machine, you got to remember this was 1984, and things were far less technical then they were now almost 35 years ago. The final twist is delightfully gruesome and Kinski gets exactly what he deserves. Overall, this is a great episode and I'm giving it a nine which some may see as to high, but, I really enjoyed it this time around.