Name this horror movie

DId Tales from the Hood have something like that in it?

That was an episode of The Dark Room. It was an early 80s series sort of like Tales from the Crypt/Night Gallery/Outer Limits and hosted by James Coburn.

edit cause I was to late

Darkroom

I believe that is an episode of the television series Darkroom.

More details: The toy soldiers were from the modern era, Vietnam to be exact. The father had served in Vietnam and had somehow betrayed his fellow men. The toy soldiers were animated with the spirits of the father's fallen comrades who were now seeking vengeance. You may remember the helicopter attacking him in the barn, that was the coolest part IMO. Very little info is available about this show but I believe this particular story was titled "Siege of 31 August."

What's weird to me is I remember seeing this vividly as you guys are recounting the story, but of all the horror anthologies I for the life of me can't remember ever watching anything called Darkroom. I guess I really am losing my mind

yep, this "Darkroom" show slipped me by too. does it ever get repeated or is there a DVD?

Same here. I can remember the episode like I just watched it yesterday but I was racking my brain trying to remember where in the hell it came from. Dark Room doesn't even ring a bell.

IIRC, Darkroom also had a cool episode where this couple was caring for the grandfather and receiving his veteran benefit checks, but then grandpa dies. So they find some old drunk to take his place because the veteran's administration comes by every now and then to check on grandpa and the couple really need the extra money from the checks. After they get the replacement grandpa nice and drunk they tell him that grandpa had lost his legs in the war, and they have to make him look like the original grandpa, so the man revs up a chainsaw and starts walking towards the drunk... fade to black.

It may have been somewhat different - legs lost in an accident instead of war, and it was disability checks instead of VA checks, but you get the idea. Sorry for my pitiful recap of what was really a chilling episode.

I seem to also vaguely recall an episode in which a young hoodlum is stalked and eventually has his tongue bitten out by a supernatural cat, which of course ends with someone saying "Whattsamatter? Cat got your tongue?"

And I vaguely recall the toy soldiers ep. Since this show was on 1981, I wonder how likely it is that it was mildly ripping off the Stephen King story "Battleground," which appeared in NIGHT SHIFT several years earlier.

I never got to see many episodes of Darkroom, but I was fascinated with it for years afterward. I know that SciFi showed the entire run of it back when the channel first began, but I didn't get SciFi in my area at the time (I was living in Texas, better known as Tex-ass, uggh). It's one of those late 70's/early 80's show that seems terrifically creepy in retrospect but probably doesn't hold up that well now.

Kinda like another show I recall entitled Cliffhangers, an anthology show that featured three ongoing storylines, each of which took up a twenty minute segment of the show and ended with a cliffhanger for the next episode. One of the storylines was a modern update of Dracula, who was now a California college professor played by Michael Nouri and was battling the great grandson of Van Helsing. I remember that being cooler than cool in my childhood. Pity I can't find it today.

Maybe the in-the-works horror channel will air some of these forgotten classics.

I remember that one. It was a circular saw, and there was blood. Scared the shit out of me as a kid (I was 10 at the time).

Wish they'd put those out on DVD, it was a killer, nasty series.