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Your favorite horror film of all time
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7_Sorrows
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Thank you!!! I thought the episode was in black and white, but if Night Gallery started in 1972 weren’t most shows in color by then. It was nice back then when they could get “stars” to guest on tv shows.
Thanks for the trivia.
The Caterpillar is the only episode that I remember from the night gallery but I remembered so many from the twilight zone and it was on tv earlier. I wonder why that is?
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7_Sorrows
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Whew! I feel better!
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KevinAK
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I think the Zeta Jones film is simply called The Haunting.
House on Haunted Hill was an unnecessary re-make of a Vincent Price.
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Arizona_Mike
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Well, Night Gallery was a success at first but NBC jumped it around the schedule a lot, which made it hard to build up a consistent audience. Serling wanted to have two or three episodes within the hour slot but the studio execs wanted to add a lot of corny, cheesy, supposed-to-be-humorous “black-out” sketches of a couple of minutes long which were scattered in there and were kind of distracting.
When the series was re-run, and later when it went into syndication, NBC stuck in episodes that were heavily edited down of a series called “The Sixth Sense” about a parapsychologist that didn’t fit in well and which Serling had no control over.
But when it was good, it was very very good. Some of the better epsiodes I remember include the pilot, which had an episode directed by a then-unknown Steven Spielberg with Joan Crawford; one about a boy with precognition who has the ability to see into the future, but only 24 hours (“The Boy Who Predicted Earthquakes,” starring a young Clint Howard (Ron Howard’s brother);
“The Little Black Bag,” an adaptation of the C.M. Kornbluth SF story about a doctor’s bag from the far future hat winds up in the hands of Burgess Meredith as a doctor on skid row who lost his license;
“The Different Ones,” where a horribly deformed young man elects to immigrate to another planet (kind of a sweet-natured episode about accepting the different, very Twilight Zoneish);
“Class of '99,” with Vincent Price doing an oral exam to test for coldheartedness in a (then) future class of college graduates;
“The Devil is Not Mocked,” based on the Manly Wade Wellman story, where a Nazi SS unit occupying a castle in Romania finds there are older forms of evil than them, and that patriotism can take odd forms;
“The Return of the Sorceror,” with Bill Bixby as a scholar hired to translate a spell book by (again) Vincent Price (based on the Clark Ashton Smith story)
And the [one that freaked me out most, “The Doll”
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There were lots more, but I remember really enjoying it as a kid. As it was a production of Universal Studios, they had access to a lot of prestigious actors who might have been working in another production on the lot and were usually willing to do a couple of days work for a quick paycheck, so the series had a great cast (plus, Rod Serling being attached to it gave it some attraction for a lot of actors.)
If you check your local library, a lot of them have DVD sets of old TV series and you can see some of the episodes again if you’re interested. Although creepy, there wasn’t any gore and there wasn’t much that a fairly mature child couldn’t see if that is a concern for parents. Most had a moral core in them, as Serling’s work tended to do.
It didn’t make me turn out odd, after all…
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Hoosier_Daddy
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Ah yes, The Haunting is a remake of a 1969 film with the same name, which was based on a book called the Haunting of Hill House hence the confusing with the House on Haunted Hill…
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DakiniArtist
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Shirley Jackson’s The Haunting of Hill House and We Have Always Lived in the Castle have always been favorite ghost novels, along with Straub’s Julia, & Ghost Story, Matheson’s Hell House, Susan Hill’s The Woman in Black, and The House Next Door by Anne Rivers Siddons.
I’m afraid I ruined the Zeta-Jones adaptation for my husband, who loved it, after showing him the Robert Wise picture.
I’m afraid I ruined the Zeta-Jones adaptation for my husband, who loved it, after showing him the Robert Wise picture.
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7_Sorrows
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KevinAK
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Any time I see Clint Howard’s picture, I am reminded of the ridiculous alien he played in the Star Trek episode: The Corbemite Manuever.
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KevinAK
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The film version of Matheson’s Hell House(Legend of Hell House) is pretty good.Shirley Jackson’s The Haunting of Hill House and We Have Always Lived in the Castle have always been favorite ghost novels, along with Straub’s Julia, & Ghost Story, Matheson’s Hell House, Susan Hill’s The Woman in Black, and The House Next Door by Anne Rivers Siddons.
I’m afraid I ruined the Zeta-Jones adaptation for my husband, who loved it, after showing him the Robert Wise picture.
Another good one is Asylum/House of Crazies featuring a pre Jesus of Nazareth Robert Powell.
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Arizona_Mike
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Me, too.
meltzerboy
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While I don’t think Night Gallery is on the same artistic level as Twilight Zone, it’s not bad in moderation and represents the horror genre of film to perfection. There were two other, somewhat similar series called Tales from the Darkside and Tales from the Crypt, both creepy and overdone.
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7_Sorrows
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I don’t know if I have ever seen Tales from the Dark Side.
Tales from the crypt were pretty good and I liked the show Outer Limits too. However, Twilight Zone and Alfred Hitchcock were my favorites.
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Hoosier_Daddy
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Twilight Zone and Tales from the Crypt were horror masterpieces. Currently watching the french “The Returned” on netflix. A story telling masterpiece.
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7_Sorrows
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I have never heard of The Returned? When was it made and what was it about?Twilight Zone and Tales from the Crypt were horror masterpieces. Currently watching the french “The Returned” on netflix. A story telling masterpiece.
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Hoosier_Daddy
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It is a TV series. Season one was last year I think and then they are filming season two. The US has remade it and runs it on A&E and it is pretty close to the french version. Though I must say, the french version is creepier. I don’t know why, the subtitles? The Music?
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Et_Cetera
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The Shining
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book_and_bead
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YES! I still want to know what was in that drink…tranya was it? You can Google up all kinds of recipes for it.
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KevinAK
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Anyone here familiar with the anthology series The Veil and/or Thriller hosted by Boris Karloff or 13 Demon Street hosted by Lon Chaney Jr.?
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7_Sorrows
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I have heard of Thriller, but not the others.
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