Scariest Episodes?

Timebender said:
I don't remember Thirty Fathom Grave, but Midnight Sun is very psychologically harrowing.
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In Thirty Fathom Grave . . An American naval destroyer patrolling the pacific picks up a large object thirty fathoms down and the picks up the sound of tapping from with the object which turned out to be a sunken World War II Submarine . The side star Simon Oakerland and Bill Bixby and PaulMuni. They find out the identoyr of the sub and that the character played by Paul Muni was to Lon survivor od that sub and for 20 years , hs carried the guild that a an act of carelessness on his part caused the sub sinking . One the think things is the sub is hundreds of miles from where it originally went down .m,so it been craving the bottom of the sea all those years . Muni starts seeing seaweed encrusted ghostier apparitions of the men he served with on that Sub , They come to claim him . Its got some very very creepy scenes . This is one the hour long episodes of the The Twilight Zone.
 
Is there anywhere where i can stream the Twilight Zone? I've only ever seen a few episodes and it strikes me as something that i'll really enjoy.
 
"The Dummy" haunted me as a kid. Then again, so did all ventriloquist's dummies. That evil laugh!
"Eye of the Beholder" can be scary if you're not expecting the twist, what with the pig-faced people.
Also, "Living Doll" is another one to avoid if you have automophobia.
 
Guttersnipe said:
"The Dummy" haunted me as a kid. Then again, so did all ventriloquist's dummies. That evil laugh!
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Scary on an obvious level (dummy is alive) and on a mental/psychological level (is the dummy really talking, or is it all just the man's inner demons getting the best of him?)
There was a sort-of-sequel episode called "Caesar and Me" which wasn't as scary to me because it showed more of the dummy talking/moving, which I thought diluted the scaryness of it because you got used to it, and also the protagonist himself wasn't scared of the living dummy, unlike the unfortunate protagonist of the last one.
"Eye of the Beholder" can be scary if you're not expecting the twist, what with the pig-faced people.
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The long scenes of waiting for the bandages to come off makes the tension unbearable, too.
Also, "Living Doll" is another one to avoid if you have automophobia.
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Same as "The Dummy", automophobia + psychological ambiguity.
 
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So many episodes are scary in hindsight without being explicitly horrific. Take "Person or Persons Unknown" or "And When the Sky Was Open," for example. "Nightmare at 20, 000 Feet" would've been a lot scarier if the gremlin didn't look like a deformed teddy bear. "Nightmare as a Child" is kind of scary, mostly due to the lead actress's talent.
 
Guttersnipe said:
So many episodes are scary in hindsight without being explicitly horrific. Take "Person or Persons Unknown" or "And When the Sky Was Open," for example. "Nightmare at 20, 000 Feet" would've been a lot scarier if the gremlin didn't look like a deformed teddy bear. "Nightmare as a Child" is kind of scary, mostly due to the lead actress's talent.
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I agree about the teddy bear suit, as would most people, but teddy suit or not that scene with the curtain and the window is the absolute scariest. And, you've got to admit, the costume sure made the creature memorable!
Ohhh, yes, I'd forgotten about "Nightmare as a Child". That WAS nerve-wracking one.
 
"The Masks" and "He's Alive" manage to be pretty scary even if you can see the ending from a mile away.
 
The Monsters Are Due On Maple Street is quite scary in seeing how easily neighbours can become a mob. It's also one of the best episodes of the whole run in my opinion.

It's a Good Life is also pretty chilling, as is (and even moreso) the remake in Twilight Zone: The Movie.
 
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