Scariest episodes?

Well so I don't spoil it basically this guy takes a bet from this other guy at a hotel (Peter Lorre) that he has to light his cigarette lighter 10 times without fail or else the guy (Peter) gets to chop his pinky finger off.

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I'll bet you'd enjoy The Cuckoo Clock written by Robert Bloch of 'Psycho' fame and including a nice turn by Pat Hitchcock. B-movies actress Fay Spain does a marvelous turn as a beautiful and menacing mental case.

Jeez, I've only seen The Creeper. I can see how that is scary if someone like that was running loose in your neighborhood. Will have to look for the episodes you mention. The story that was disturbing to me was The Case of Mr. Pelham because I have a doppelganger.

I really liked the Man from the South (1955) episode and am looking to watch the other versions. Probably won't beat the original. BTW I figured out the secret to winning the bet every time so you don't miss.

The casting of John Fiedler in "Incident in a Small Jail" was an excellent move. He did a wonderful job.

not specifically addressing the endings of the episodes you mentioned, but the episodes themselves you named are some of my least favorite episodes of the series. Our Cook's a Treasure is good, but the rest not so much.

It seems like the endings you mentioned are mostly "taste of your own medicine" twists, which is fairly common in all anthology shows. Another Hitchcock episode like that is Enough Rope for 2, as well as the infrequently mentioned episode Insomnia and Specialty of the House. You should watch those episodes if you haven't seen them!

Ikon Of Elijah was good, and the ending was chilling, but I'd seen an earlier episode (Place Of Shadows?) with different plot and a similar, slightly more ambiguous ending. Even so, there was a faint hint in both episodes that justice would be done, and done in a most unusual manner.

The Young One started out great, didn't live up to its promise to my eyes, with mediocre performances and flat writing. The Right Kind Of House was the Hitchcock show at or near its peak. A Little Sleep was very good and not easy to figure out first time around.

Listen, Listen...well made, but Edgar Stehli's performance in the lead ruined it for me. He's an actor I've liked in everything I've seen him in but this. His intensity was too much; and the way he used his face, twisting his mouth so that he could talk out of one side of it was an unconvincing attempt on this actor's part to portray an average guy, a real American of the city and he overdid it and this alienated me from the character and his story.

I watched "Specialty Of The House" the other day for the first time. I wouldn't say it was all that "scary" per se but it definitely left me feeling a bit disturbed. Very creepy. It left me staring blankly at the TV with my brows furrowed.

I agree with "The Jar". Hands down the scariest TV I've ever seen from that era. I saw it for the first time back in 2003 when a local station aired the series. It was late at night and I couldn't watch the ending because I got scared. The next morning I went online to read a summary of how it ended. Then a couple of months later I caught it again and watched the whole thing.

Yes, lady,

The way the figure kept emerging and withdrawing from the shadows and darkness of the next room during the conversation was so unsettling, and so understated compared to today's horror direction in general.

What would you call this place? Fun-o-rama?

Yeah, I just saw Banquo's Chair last night because of this thread. One of the things that scare me is when investigating things that happened such as murder. Suppose there was a serial killer loose in your state and you'd read all about it in the news. (This is in The Creeper episode, too.)

Or it could be something that happened by chance such as playing cards. Or it could be something that happened via science When one finally realizes the truth, it can be unnerving. Truth IS stranger than fiction.

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The ending was so disturbing when the little boy made his father eat the mushroom sandwich. Other than that, I haven't seen too many that were extremely frightening, but I've seen some very good episodes with great plot twists at the end.

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Late to the feast: yes, The Hitchcock hour retelling of the classic Monkey's Paw is highly effective. It plays better after the first time, which is confusing, with the modernizing udated setting somewhat off putting at first. Yet it's deceptively well made episode, often surreal, with fog "where there ain't oughta be no fog", the beatnick kids wandering around like zombies. the Gypsey curse delivered in fiery Spanish. Also, the hipsters apathy of the young people, contrasted with the real life desperation of the older folk sorta captures the Sixties lightning in a bottle style.

Wow, yes, I saw "The Glass Eye" as a very young child (perhaps even pre-school -- I'm not certain), and it scared the bejabbers out of me. I remember finding a discarded lens from a magnifying glass or something not long afterward and prying up a remote window in the rear of our house so that I could slap that "glass eye"-like object under it, never to be seen (by me) again.

I haven't caught the episode since, but now that AntennaTV is rerunning the series on weeknights, I'm keeping an eye out for it - so to speak. In fact, I'm taping "The Creeper" and "Momentum" as I type this. Watched "Mink" and "Decoy" earlier in the day. Steve V.

I had personal experience with the episode "The Gentleman from America." I was a young boy who was dropped off at my Grandparents home to live for a few weeks and on the first day, after watching this episode, they stuck me in a back bedroom with all these clocks ticking all night. Don't think I slept a wink.

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