Which episode scared you?
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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.
A classic Twilight Zone episode. One of the best! -
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. -
lnyk — 14 years ago(December 25, 2011 11:19 PM)
I saw this years ago BEFORE commericals cut into the episodes. I remember after they carried Cuckoo,off the plane one of the people noticed that the plane's metal was pulled back. Does ANYONE else remember this or am I in The Twilight Zone?
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lambiepie-2 — 13 years ago(December 25, 2012 11:45 PM)
Many people talk about scares, but the one that really got to me was: The Grave (not written by Serling).
I was older when I first saw in on Channel 5 in Los Angeles in the afternoon. Up until that time, The Howling Man, Talking Tina and To Serve Man were the ones that I couldn't stop thinking bout and made me sit up in the dark pretty scared after seeing them.
But The Grave was chilling for me because of the situation. Lee Marvin was a hired bounty hunter who couldn't chase downor was TOO scared to chase down his prey. When that guy ended up in a town, the townsfolk got him but before he died he told them that the guy they hired, Lee Marvin, was too scared to catch him. So in confronting him, the guys in the town (who, when looking at them now, you'll find were the most famous western actors, Lee Van Cleef, Strother Martin, James Best) bet their monies that he couldn't go up to the guys grave and stick a knife in it (to let them know he was there).
http://www.imdb.com/board/10734643/combined
I wont blow the ending to fork who may not have seen that one or haven't considered it "scarey", but it was a tale of, "did he or didn't he". The "did he" possibility still has me not going through grave yards for any reason.
Life is too short to always be bitter. -
antonkulik8 — 12 years ago(October 23, 2013 08:41 PM)
I haven't watched these in 40 years. I'm talking about the originals. A few really freaked me out,but the one that creeped me out was the episode about that nasty old bedridden women who was being taken care of by an aide. After a severe storm ,she starts getting these crank phone calls in the middle of the night. She answers but no one is there. Every night someone calls and and slowly starts answering back Hullooooh..Hulloooh. And every successive call becomes a little more talkative. The lady finally at her breaking point asks who the hell is this. He replies her husband,who had died and promised never to leave her side.She screams never call here again and he says ok because he listens to all her requests,. It turns out that during the storm a telephone wire fell on top of his grave and he was contacting her from the beyond. When she realizes what happened and that it was her husband,she is so anguished that she has lost him for a second time. The voice scared me and at the end I felt sad for her.
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mb96001 — 10 years ago(May 13, 2015 05:41 PM)
The Dummy. It was one of the few that scared me. Most gave me a thrill with a twist at the ending. The moral of the story, so to speak. But "The Dummy" episode, was just creepy. And, as luck would have it, Cliff Robertson was always one of my favorite actors.
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ZeoRangerFive — 10 years ago(August 23, 2015 02:45 PM)
Oddly Mirror Image scared me and I'm not really sure why. I just remember the moment that Vera Miles sees herself in the mirror sitting behind her just freaked me out the first time I saw it.
Dragonzord! Mastodon! Pterodactyl! Triceratops! Saber Toothed Tiger! Tyrannosaurus! -
business_nunya — 9 years ago(May 15, 2016 08:29 PM)
The Living Doll and Twenty Two both come to mind. I watched Twenty Two last night and followed it up with The Night of the Meek just because it gives me such warm and fuzzies.
Please, goStop smiling, it's not a joke. Please leaveThe party's over. Get out. -
mpoconnor7 — 9 years ago(December 24, 2016 08:18 AM)
The head on t5b4he Jack in the Box was one of the wildest things I've ever seen on a TV show from the late 50's early 60's. I just saw the show in reruns in the 80's but I imagine when that first aired that must have been a terrifying image.