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The Twilight Zone: The Midnight Sun (1961)
Most gripping and powerful episode...
Trying to pick a favorite Twilight Zone episode is a challenge
why this one? For starters, the subject matter: the extinction of life and how it could theoretically happen. Similar to the approach of AMC's "The Walking Dead", it puts the viewer in the middle of the horror of an unthinkable extinction event, and showcases the humanity and psyche of the survivors.
But what tips the scales to an already great premise is pretty much everything else --the pace, the mood, the music, the realism of sweltering heat, and most of all, the amazing acting. And the ending is the icing on the cake. Chilling (pun intended).
House on Greenapple Road (1970)
Just thinking of this movie scares me!
I saw this once when I was a kid (around 8)...all I remember is the opening scene, it scared the @#$% out of me!...a house, someone coming home, and blood everywhere...very chilling. Plus, I lived on Greenville Road so the fear "hit home" even more.
That 70's made-for-TV-movies genre is greatly under-appreciated and unrecognized. Other movies that I remember about the same time that were really creepy (you might too):
- "When Michael Calls" (Ben Gazzara, Elizabeth Ashley, Micheal Douglas)
- "The Screaming Woman" (Olivia DeHavilland)
- "Picture Mommy Dead" (Zsa Zsa Gabor)
- "How Awful About Allen" (Anthony Perkins)
- "Two On a Guillotine" (Connie Stevens)
- "The Victim" (Elizabeth Montgomery)