The third story is about a stranger who comes into a tv executives house from a storm.     
Ken Kordick plays Randal, a  tv news executive, who is grieving over the death of his wife. Since it is almost new years eve, his secretary played by Colleen Kavanaugh encourages him to take the time off and go home to relax.  Once home, a severe thunderstorm starts and a stranger shows up at his door seeking refuge from the bad weather. Once inside, the stranger begins to tell a very strange story.

   
Colleen Kavanaugh as the secretary, Karmen,      Randal (Ken Kordick) contemplates the
in the tv news room set .                                              advice from Karmen.


    
Actress Colleen Kavanaugh.                                 Randal returns home to find strange things
                                                                                   happening as a severe thunderstorm begins.


 
A stranger (Shane Partlow) shows up at             Randal begins to learn about the mysterious
Randal's door seeking shelter from the storm.  stranger.

  
Randal is shocked at what he sees.                      The stranger departs by walking through a  
                                                                                        wall leaving a final revelation for Randal.


                                            
                                         On left, Jeff Carney directing Ken Kordick
                                         during filming of Sinister Tales.

The fourth story is about a Grandfather who dies but contacts his grandson from beyond the grave much to the horror of his parents.


Actor Tom Hart comforts his wife (actress Linda Chicarelli) and orders his son (played by Nicholas Peschang) off the phone as the boy claims he is talking to his dead grandfather.


Actors Tom Hart and Linda Chicarelli make a shocking discovery at the grandfather's grave.


And the fifth and final story is what happens to the friends - their joke plays out as the school nerd, Chester shows up at the girlfriend's house for the date that she was never told about.  Thinking he is a intruder, she attacks him with a butcher knife. And the joke ends tragically as the friends walk in to see the bloody scene and what they have done.
                                    
                                   Behind the scenes shot of the final scene
                                   - Jeff Carney and a very bloody Lainie Whiles.




                                     
Filming a scene at a hospital - Tor Lowry with the microphone boom, director Jeff Carney behind the camera, assistant director Kim Dahms, and actor Lloyd Nelson (who plays the dead grandfather).


                    Behind the scenes shot from Sinister Tales during the hospital shoot.