A Message from Charity
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PoisonedDragon — 16 years ago(November 28, 2009 10:03 PM)
I have several:
A Little Peace and Quiet
Chameleon
The Burning Man
Gramma
Monsters
A Small Talent For War
A Matter of Minutes
The Misfortune Cookie
Need to Know
The Elevator
To See the Invisible Man
Button, Button
The Hellgramite Method
The Sleep of Reason Produces Monsters. -
vyperman7 — 15 years ago(June 29, 2010 09:17 AM)
I never really watched this show regularly. However, by chance I happened to catch "The Hellgramite Method" on TV years ago and it really stuck with me for some reason. Absolute loved it!!
*** For years, all I could remember was the plot. I could never remember which show or what the title was. Recently I made a post on the Tales from the Crypt board asking if anyone recognized the plot as a TFTC episode or part of any other horror/sci fi series. Luckily a poster pointed me in the right direction. I have spent years trying to find out what series the episode belonged to and what the title was so I could see it again. I found a torrent with the whole series on it. So I plan on seeing it that way. -
launlori — 15 years ago(October 25, 2010 07:58 AM)
Okay, being a huge fan of the original, I was very skeptical of watching the 80's version .. which I never watched in the 80's. I think I was too busy watching MTV in the 80's to watch anything else ..
I've seen a few episode which they are playing on the "Chiller" channel this week and I have to admit it's not bad .. it's pretty good actually.
I really like the Vita one .. not sure of the actual title but, the new anchor starts drinking the fountain of youth water and she cannot stop.
I'm going to try to find more of these episodes. They are worth watching.
Kelly: I'm under Evelyn Waugh.
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Sweet_Cookies — 15 years ago(March 29, 2011 09:59 AM)
My favorite episode is "Room 2426" because it seemed like it was an original episode from the original series! Actually I tracked it down thinking it was one of the original series episodes or a Outer Limit episode its that good!
NOTE: Dean Stockwell starred in an original series episode "A Quality of Mercy", which might have influenced my thinking. -
Disneyfan16672 — 14 years ago(May 30, 2011 10:54 AM)
I haven't seen all of the 80's episodes (I only recently got into it through Chiller), but of all the ones I've seen here are a few standouts in my opinion:
1.) Her Pilgrim Soul (A very emotional and touching story. I was near tears at the end of it.)
2.) Dream Me A Life (I'm surprised that no one has mentioned this episode yet. An old man dreams of an old woman who warns him not to open a door where something (or someone) is lurking behind it wanting to get in. He finds out the woman from his dream is his new neighbor at the retirement home in which he resides, and that she has been in a catatonic state for many years. Another fantastic emotional story and I don't want to give away too many details, but I highly recommend it!)
3.) A Message From Charity (I'm beginning to see a pattern in the episodes I like. I must appreciate all of the emotionally charged episodes, and this one was no exception. Kudos to the writers and actors of this one!)
4.) Paladin Of The Lost Hour (Great episode, actors, and writing. Brilliant performances all around, and a great story to boot!)
5.) A Little Peace And Quiet (I liked it not only because it has the mom from "A Christmas Story" as the woman with the amulet, but also because of the cliffhanger ending. Although, who wouldn't want that amulet?)
I'll try to look for some more that look interesting, but these were absolutely amazing, and I'm tempted to find the DVD set!
Must-See 2011 Films:
Thor (9/10)
POTC: On Stranger Tides (8/10)
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ajfuller — 14 years ago(June 07, 2011 12:15 AM)
Her Pilgram Soul is one of my favorites.
I also really like:
Shatterday
Palladin of the Lost Hour
Examination Day
Eye of Newton
Dead Run
Button, Button (loved the different ending)
Wordplay
Healer
Nightcrawlers
To See the Invisible Man
Need to Know (Sidney Sheldon, really?!?)
The Toys of Caliban
I should add, I read a lot of anthologies and so I had read most of the stories these episodes were based on. Button, Button, Examination Day, Nightcrawler, Palladin of the Lost Hour and Dead Run were excellent adaptations. The Star and most especially The Cold Equations, were not.
I have to say though, the most chilling thing about watching the series on dvd, is listening to Harlan Ellison's weird cackle on the audio commentary. Seriously, he should sell that to haunted houses. It is creepy.
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The-Last-Prydonian — 14 years ago(August 16, 2011 05:13 PM)
The Toys of Caliban was a great episode which was at the same time disturbing and quite dark but wonderfully moving and sad. It's a very tragic story about a young man cursed with great powers but the lack of mental capacity and maturity to know how to control it. The ending is areal heart wrencher"
"Gramma" was also a wonderful dark and creepy story. First time I ever saw it years ago it seriously gave me the creeps. The moment where the young boy at the end opens his eyes really sent shivers down my spine.
"To See the Invisible Man" was an interesting and effective one as well as was "Examination Day" which had similarly themed tales about government control.
"Eye of Newton" was a great little comical episode which had It's tongue wonderfully set in it's cheek and a brilliant and ingenious yet simple pay-off which I didn't see coming at all. I laughed out loud at the end of that one!
"Need to Know" was also quite a clever story with a simplistic but also chilling and clever premise. -
damienoujia — 14 years ago(March 12, 2012 05:13 PM)
I liked the one where the man was selfish and did not show compassion and had to live a year of his life like he was invisible. Out of all the episodes in the series, that one has stuck with me for a long time, and is as memorable as any of the best of the episodes from the original run.
I did enjoy "A Little Peace and Quiet," though. That's a good story in the classic Twilight Zone tradition.
As I rewatched it, something occurred to meif somebody was able to freeze time around them, they could do NOTHING while time was frozen. They may be able to move for a little while, but they would suffocate. No oxygen molecules would be moving to supply them with air. And if they could breathe they couldn't move anything.
For example, if time was frozen and I tried to move my remote control, I couldn't. I couldn't even pick it up. For me to pick up my remote control when time is frozen is to take the remote control out from it's present time and move it to a different point in space and time. It would be impossible.
I guess my time freezing story would be boring, because I think too scientifically to think of a compelling way to make the story work. -
damienoujia — 14 years ago(March 13, 2012 09:32 AM)
I watched Nightcrawlers again for the first time in a long time. Such an excellent episode!
I was rather young when the Twilight Zone Movie came out and the subsequent series on TV. For a long time I always thought Nightcrawlers was a segment from the theatrical film. I realize now it wasn't but it should have been in retrospect. It was that good. -
chester-30 — 14 years ago(March 19, 2012 11:29 PM)
I agree, excellence went in to every aspect of the piece. That's what happens when you take a great short story (By Robert Mccammon), have it scripted by a great tv writer (Philip Deguere) and then have one of the greatest film directors directing it (Friedkin). On top of that, add in creative license and you get one of the greatest moments in TV. Too bad this combination is a rarity in television.
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masuka-fan — 13 years ago(July 16, 2012 01:37 PM)
A lot of the "wish fulfillment" stories have little logical problems like this. I just watched the season two story about the woman who gets a job in a library where all the books are of people's lives. When she starts messing with them, everything around her changes, but her own memories and position in life remain the same. I think we just have to assume that the central individual will always be immune to the effects of whatever magic they've stumbled onto. After all it is the Twilight Zone, so it can be like a fairy tale.
(In the case of "A Little Peace and Quiet," she was still able to manipulate people and things, so as long as she was physically breathing, she would be moving the air around and displacing it.)