Alfred Hitchcock Presents: Beta Delta Gamma (1961)
Season 7, Episode 6
10/10
Deadly Humor
13 June 2017
Warning: Spoilers
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This one is my seventh favorite tale and to me one of the last really good one's for the final season. On a sidenote really like the fact actress Barbra Steele is in this one since she's one of my favorite horror actresses and I remember as a kid having a bit of a crush on her. In a way some would say this is a bit of a cautionary tale on the deadly results of alcoholism and haizing. It sort of is but at least it's done in a suttle sense.

I do like the premise which I think is plausible. You really feel kinda bad for the protagonist as his fellow frat friends are letting him going on thinking he killed someone. Which is an awful feeling, being lead on into thinking you've may have inavertantly killed someone. Let alone not knowing the truth of what transpired in that lost amount of time, because the protagonist was completely wasted.

You really feel disgust at his friends just taking sick joy in a really cruel prank, it's almost the equivalent of bullying. Your hoping that throughout this the protagonist will smell something stinks and it's not just the booze or that his friends will know when the joke is over.

But it doesn't stop as his friends take the joke too far and in the end as the old saying goes, the joke's on them.

Rating: 4 stars
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