This had to be one of the weirdest, most bizarre episodes I have ever seen. I've seen this episode 2 or 3 times and I still can't figure it out. This reminded me a little of the Twilight Zone episode It's a Good Life, only this was way more creepier and way more scarier.
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I always found it to be a very creepy episode. Probably the creepiest one I have seen.
shareIt's a very dark episode. Unlike It's a good life, I totally can see how the indulgent parents led to the little brat becoming a monster.
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I always found it to be a very creepy episode. Probably the creepiest one I have seen.
I remember catching this late one night as a kid. I was a big Twilight Zone fan as well as Alfred Hitchcock, so the two together was a special treat! This was before it was easy to catch an episode on Youtube or even before the marathons on the Scifi channel. It was usually in the middle of the night on PBS or one the UHF channels. I never knew when they were going to come on but when they did I was so excited! I'm pretty sure I saw this particular one on PBS and I was so excited! I was so sure this was a prequel to It's a Good Life! They were both named Anthony and everything! Both were so scary to me but the part when magic shop wasn't there really freaked me out!
I also really enjoyed Consider Her Ways. I caught that during the day and I was so drawn in. And just halfway through the program the woman declares "I think it was real!" and my mother called me to dinner and forced me to turn the tv off and it haunted me for years wondering what happened! It drove me crazy until we finally had the internet and I found out the title and that it was a short story by John Wyndham. And it was online to read! So I finally found out what happened and a few years later I could view the episode online. It was good. But it's funny because I was so upset all these years wondering what happened but now finally knowing, the mystery made it better than had I watched it all those years ago! I think that's why I really appreciate Twin Peaks. David Lynch really understands that.
Another good episode like these I really loved of The Alfred Hitchcock Hour is Where The Woodbine Twineth. That scared the hell out of me as a little girl!
You had me curious, so I had to check it out. I'm giving this thread a 2022 bump! It was a very good episode. Creepier and more modern than It's A Good Life, which always felt cartoony to me. In "It's a Good Life," I think the Jack in the Box thing ruined it for me. LOL! But maybe back in those days, it would be considered good special effects and scary.
BTW, in "the Magic Shop," I thought it was funny when the father smashed the magic box, you know the box that was used to vanish his son... Anyway, who in their right mind would smash that box up? Wouldn't he be afraid of hurting his kid? After all, he thought his kid was in the box. LOL!
Even funnier that he was able to kick it apart so easily.
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