The Twilight Zone/Nightmare Fuel: Difference between revisions

** The ending is particularly chilling, {{spoiler|after the man's wife finds him dead after being tripped down the stairs by the doll. When she picks the doll up, it opens its eyes and says "My name is Talky Tina. And you better be nice to me." It is the first time Tina speaks to someone other than the husband... and it confirms that he ''wasn't'' just going crazy.}}

** Another creepy thing is that the stepfather was never outright rude or abusive to the girl, just a little cold, possibly just adjusting to the new living situation. ''But the doll still tormented him.''

* The dream sequences of "Perchance to Dream" with the freaky looking amusement park, the [[Femme Fatale]] with that eerie, seductive voice, and finally the climax where the guy sees the woman from his nightmare. Even the premise is a nightmare in itself

* No matter how cheesy the monster on the plane from "Nightmare at 20,000 Feet" may look nowadays, it's always a shock when William Shatner's character slowly reaches for the curtain in front of the window on the airplane... {{spoiler|then pulls it back really quick and the monster is RIGHT THERE WITH ITS FACE AGAINST THE WINDOW!}}

* The episode "The Odyssey of Flight 33" is full of [[Fridge Horror]]. A jumbo jet full of passengers somehow travels back in time, once to where they go back to the dinosaur era and again when they go back to the 1930's. It ends with the pilot trying to get the plane to travel forward in time, but there's no way of knowing when they'll end up. Take into account that their fuel and food will eventually run out, and you've got some horrific implications.

* "The Shadow Man" from the '80s [[Revival]] is... rather frightening. In short there are [[Living Shadow]]s under (it's implied) [[Things That Go Bump in the Night|everyone's bed]]. The Shadow Man shown is completely cloaked in darkness (as you'd expect), is very tall, has an freaky rasping voice, and is reminiscent of Freddy Krueger (maybe it's the hat). And it appears that whenever it wants to it can emerge from under your bed, and though ''it'' won't harm you anyone else's Shadow Man can happily try to kill you... {{spoiler|which is what happens to the main character of the episode}}.

** The part where the woman screams and everything in the room just starts ''melting''...

** "Please...''paint something cool!''" And of course, later the same character just rambling on about a waterfall and swimming in the water before falling over ''dead''.

* "Five Characters in Search of an Exit". Its [[Nightmare Fuel]] status is given to us by Rod Serling himself in the opening monologue, when he tells us that nothing can be done to save them, even though we'll find out what their situation is. ''God,'' that alone is enough to give someone the permanent heebie-jeebies. The reveal is just... [[And I Must Scream|Horrifying]].

** [[Your Mileage May Vary]] on the twist ending, but the psychological torture the characters experience is just...*shivers*. The major (and later the clown) said it best: "We are in Hell."

* "Time Enough At Last" features Burgess Meredith as a meek clerk who loves to read, but never has the time to... Until a nuclear blast kills everyone else in the world. First, the episode plays on our [[Primal Fear]] of loneliness, and second, there's the famous ending where his glasses slip off his nose and shatter, with him shouting, "It's not fair! There was ''time'' now!" [[Your Mileage May Vary]] on whether the ending is scary or unintentionally hilarious, though, but the idea of being ''completely alone for the rest of your life'', on top of not being able to see... Brrr.

** [[Your Mileage May Vary]], indeed—you may prefer to see it as a [[Tear Jerker]].

** The ''[[Futurama]]'' parody is [[It Got Worse]]. He says he can still read the large print books. His eyes fall out. He can still read Braille. His hands fall off. Then, IIRC, [[And I Must Scream|his tongue falls out]]. Then his head falls off, which, at that point, is a mercy.

{{quote|"It's good that he went into the cornfield.."}}

** Bill Mumy's performance deserves a lot of credit. He's neither too sympathetic or too [[Complete Monster]], he's just a kid with way too much power. It's still horrifying [[Weird Al Effect|even when you watch]] the Simpsons parody first.

** And there's the original "After Hours," particularly when the living mannequins begin repeating the woman's name over and over and she breaks down in tears. Don't see this episode if you have a fear of mannequins or of {{spoiler|losing your memory}}.

{{quote|"Marsha? Marsha?"}}

{{quote|And you screamed so loud! And you screamed so loud! ''And you screamed so loud!''}}

* "The Eye of the Beholder" - where the most of the horror is in the woman's bandaged face, and the [[Nothing Is Scarier|fact that we don't see her face until the last act]], but the nurse and doctor talk about how this woman hasn't been able to live an even vaguely normal life, because her face is so hideously deformed... ''brrr.''

* The ending of "The Bewitchin' Pool" terrifies me. Why? [[Alternative Character Interpretation|Because I'm pretty sure that grandmotherly old lady is actually the Grim Reaper]]. Notice that the children have to [[Does This Remind You of Anything?|dive all the way to the bottom of their pool to see her, and once they've decided to live with the old lady forever, they never resurface]]. In short: I'm pretty sure those kids drowned themselves. ''Sweet Jesus''.

** The rest of the episode. Look at how many children are in her world, all perfectly happy and having forgotten the voices of their parents. Now, look at what drove the two children to go back to her world for good. Just watching how the parents are so cold to their children, to the point where the children are happier abandoning their world and willfully ignoring the cries of their parents calling for them (because the last time they gave in and returned, they were still miserable), well, there's a whole lot of [[Adult Fear]] there.

** "I saw my Tommy. He's resting now..."

** {{spoiler|The way he rapidly aged until he was nothing but a pile of clothes and dust after he was shot was equally creepy.}}

* There's the episode "Stopover in a Quiet Town": though [[The Reveal]] is a bit of a [[Nightmare Retardant]] (if you haven't seen it, the characters are {{spoiler|trapped in a giant alien child's model town}}), it doesn't fully undo the sheer creepiness of most of the episode. Two people awaken after a car crash to find themselves in a seemingly abandoned and unnatural town, haunted by ringing church bells and the sound of an unseen child's laughter, and trapped in a loop where every way out just leads back where they started. It's like an early draft of ''[[Silent Hill]]''...

* ''Twenty-Two.'' "Room for one more, honey."

** In the remake {{spoiler|it was the humans who were doing the experimenting and allowing the riot to happen. Aliens is one thing, but humans doing it puts it in the [[Humans Are the Real Monsters]] territory}}.

*** It's implied to be {{spoiler|for a good cause. The government soldiers are testing to see how a small town would react during a blackout in a post-9/11 world.}} But the damage was done.

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