Then I insisted that my friends’ parents do the same.
Twilight zone tiny witch doctor movie#
This movie had such an effect on me that I made my parents show me the back of their necks to make sure they didn’t have the same markings as the parents in the film. The police ignore the youngster’s complaints, but with help from a female doctor and an astronomer, the boy discovers that an invasion is underway as aliens with big heads have housed themselves in the nearby dunes. Soon, his scientist father-and various other adults around him-begin to behave robotically, and now have mysterious marks behind their necks. A young kid (Jimmy Hunt) looks out his window and sees a spaceship crash into a nearby sandpit. Invaders from Mars (1953): This is one of those movies that stays with you for years, giving you nightmares. It also proves my point that the fear of the unknown is creepier than the overt gore and head-bludgeoning FX of Carpenter’s concoction. Ok, James Arness’ monster, on the occasions you got to see it, was essentially a huge carrot, but the scene in which the members of the expedition stand around the frozen pond for the evidence that tells us that a flying saucer has landed there is still a chiller-and not because it takes place in Antarctica. The Thing from Another World (1951): I’ve argued the merits of the original versus John Carpenter’s 1982 remake for years, and I still have a fondness for the Howard Hawks-sanctioned, subtle black-and-white classic over Carpenter’s special effects-filled shock show. Here are some of the films I came up with: The show still packs a sinister wallop, as do the best installments of “the Zone” (Nightmare at 20,000 Feet, anyone?) and The Outer Limits (I still hate those Zanti Misfits!).īut that recent marathon got me thinking: What else scared the hell out of me when I was a kid? And I recall how I later sadistically encouraged my sister, three years younger than I, to watch the same episode without warning her of the surprise ending, not-so-loving older brother that I was. There are never any face shots of the solicitous doctors and nurses attending her it isn’t until the end of this incredibly suspenseful episode that we get the gist of what was going on, as the woman is revealed to be gorgeous (Donna Douglas, AKA Ellie Mae Clampett of The Beverly Hillbillies) while the hospital staff is finally shown as pig-nosed, dark-eyed, cleft-lipped monstrosities.Īs a kid –the episode first aired in 1960, when I was three years-old-I watched the show over and over again, my hands half-covering my eyes for the final reveal.
That’s the one where a woman is all bandaged up like a mummy, having just undergone her eleventh surgery in order to look normal like everyone else. It was during the recent marathon that the Twilight Zone entry called Eye of the Beholder aired. I guess I just couldn’t get enough of horror in my life. I also was a slave to such shows as The Outer Limits, One Step Beyond and the aforementioned Twilight Zone. As a baby-boomer growing up in Philadelphia, I was raised on horror movies on Saturday afternoons (introduced by an amiable ghoul named Dr. During a recent New Year’s Eve marathon of The Twilight Zone, I was reminded of something that scared the bejeezus out of me when I was a mere tyke.
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