Which episode scared you?
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activista — 17 years ago(February 01, 2009 06:31 PM)
"The Midnight Sun", "Night Call" "Talking Tina", the episode about the soldiers who went back in time to the Civil War and fought in it,"To Serve Man", definitelyalso the one about the man who was being stalked by a casino machine that said, "Play me!" or something like that. There's also the one where a guy accidently hits a little boy with his car and gets stalked by the same car involved in the accident. I always liked "Time Enough At Last" because as a child I loved to read all the time and wore glasses because I became nearsighted whn I was 8 yrs. oldplus I was always losi1c84ng them and being careful not to break themyeah, that ending was messed up, big time.
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butchuberalles — 17 years ago(February 02, 2009 07:40 AM)
This is the Serling board ,right? The most chilling and scariest thing that came from the pen of Rodman was The Caterpillar episode from the Night Gallery. One can only feel the intense pain and anguish of a tiny earwig by watching this teleplay. Laurence Harvey does quite a star turn as Macy, whose lust for a certain married woman named Mona(sympathetically portrayed by Night Gallery grande dame/goddess, Joanna Pettet) causes his downfall. No matter what people's misgivings about Night Gallery might be, this holds up very well.The word chilling doesn't do justice to the punishment Macy receives, not only once BUT twice. For those who haven't seen it as of yet, it is posted on You Tube. Enjoy.
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ManFromSanFernando — 14 years ago(May 06, 2011 12:30 PM)
OMG, when he finally has enough time to read, and no one to bother him, he's starting to get very lonely and finds a huge library with tins of books which he plans years of reading material with-THEN he breaks his glasses, scary stuff
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spur58 — 17 years ago(March 14, 2009 11:09 AM)
i forgot the title, the one with the girl in the dept. store and the mannequins are alive that freaked me out when i saw that the first time.
ha i think at the end she ended up being a mannequin the whole time, she just forgot. -
SouthBandWatch — 10 years ago(December 09, 2015 01:46 PM)
It was before my time too but I saw it on a rerun. I think the SyFy station still does Twilight Zone marathonsnot as often as they used to, but once in a while. The Hitch-Hiker is my favorite scary episode.
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ignignot95 — 16 years ago(May 23, 2009 11:54 AM)
the first episode i saw was when i was about sevenish and it was the invaders, i had this awful fear of aliens and could not look at airplanes at night time without worying that it was a U.F.O. (a fear which grew larger when my cousin let me know that an alien space craft could look a lot or exactly like an airplane and i would never be sure if a plane was actually know what it is) but the point was that the invaders scared me more then any episode ever i have ever seen of any show ever
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tanya-hamilton — 16 years ago(December 18, 2009 01:34 PM)
Although, I pretty much love all of the epidsodes, these 2 really stand out for me.
"To Serve Man" - the giant aliens that come to earth with the false message of peace until it is learned they have written a cookbook that has human kind on the menusooo scary!
"The After Hours" - Marcia is enjoying life as a young attractive independent young woman only to discover later that she is a mannequin in a department store..very creepy! -
Mad_Monkey — 15 years ago(June 05, 2010 10:39 PM)
A lot of people have mentioned "To Serve Man" but to me that wasn't so scary, it was more of a punchline at the end of a joke. I thought it was funny, not scarey.
The one that gave me the creeps was the little girl who got lost in her room through an invisible portal in her wall. Her dad called a friend who helped him figure out how to get her back. -
rckland — 15 years ago(June 07, 2010 09:38 PM)
For me the scariest by far was The Hitchhikerthat one really freaked me out! I was literally on the edge of my seat when Inger Stevens was out of the car & running to the motel for help. I've seen the entire series & there are several other chillers (most mentioned here) but this one does it for me every time.
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raketex — 15 years ago(January 26, 2011 09:07 PM)
I'm glad you mentioned "The Howling Man." I don't know if it was one of the scariest but I've always considered it one of the All-Time Top 10 Twilight Zone episodes.
A whole movie's worth of story, character development, dramatic tension, punchline, and a dangling worried "What next?", all wrapped up in less than 30 minutes.
The acting is superb, the selection of actors perfectly cast for their character roles, the deftly-used occasional weird unsettling camera angles heightening the dreamlike/nightmare-like story and scenes. Set into an appropriate larger world events background gives a nice alternative philosophical/spiritual/religious perspective on why things are the way they are, when TV and media weren't afraid to tread such waters.
The makeup is convincing, both at the mountain monastery and as the main character ages to present day. Even the lighting is a player - having that "live playhouse TV" look at appropriate times.
However, what really takes the cake is the incredibly powerful and affecting special effects when the titular howling man transforms. If you've seen it, you know what I mean. I fortunately had happened to tape "The Howling Man" one time, and when I kept playing that sequence back in slow motion, it was incredibly clever how those "modern day" transforming special effects were achieved back then in the early '60s.
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ghostfan — 15 years ago(March 21, 2011 06:34 PM)
Without a doubt, it hast to be "The Dummy," with Cliff Robertson. I am not that fond of ventriloquists to begin with, but I saw that episode for the first time when I was 25 on a rerun (the world did not always have VHS and DVD) and it scared he bejesus out of me.
Also the one where the couple wake up in the fake town.