whats the scareiest scene in the TWILIGHT ZONE?

[damin mance]

to me the scareiest scene in the TWILIGHT ZONE is:

Nightmare at 20,000 Feet in this picture

[Mr. Bevis]

For me it's the scene where Jerry Etherson (Cliff Robertson) tries to leave Willy behind in "The Dummy." There are three scenes in that episode that are scarier for me than any scene in any other episode. That's why it's my 2nd-favorite episode.

[Brian]

The ending of the episode "The Masks."

[douglasjc]

I think the most scariest scene was in the episode of eye of
the beholder, after the bandages are removed from the woman.
We find out she is what we would think is beautiful and doctors
and nurses are ugly pig like creatures

[Frischman_Fan]

To me, Twilight Zone is all about psychological horror. So psychologically speaking, the Willabee, episode is the scariest. The one with the man on the train and he gets off that one stop but really kills himself. There's nothing scary looking about it. Just the moral and the story is frightening!! :(

[dandelion wine]

The episode where the old widow keeps getting these phone calls at night, only noone is on the other end.. except a soft whisper or the sound of breathing. She later learns that it's her fiance. It's when we see the phone line fallen across his headstone..

[Frischman_Fan]

Yeah, that one and the episode where the lady that takes a road trip and keeps seeing this weird hitchhiker and at the end realizes she's been dead the whole time!!

[EricIdlefan]

When the late Steve McQueen's character hand was tied down and was trying to light the lighter ten times straight and if he missed, his pinky would be chopped off. But then the man who was making the dare against him wife came in and stopped the whole thing and showed her pinky and fourth finger cut off doing the same thing as she was uncovering her bandage!!

[Mr. Bevis]

Originally posted by EricIdlefan
When the late Steve McQueen's character hand was tied down and was trying to light the lighter ten times straight and if he missed, his pinky would be chopped off. But then the man who was making the dare against him wife came in and stopped the whole thing and showed her pinky and fourth finger cut off doing the same thing as she was uncovering her bandage!!

Um . . . this was not a Zone. Sounds way too grisly ever to have been a Zone. :eek: I know practically nothing about Night Gallery, but could it have been one of those?

[Jrnygrl]

I remember this it was on "Alfred Hitchcock Presents". Great episode.


:wave:

[ficlopri]

Scenes in Elegy. THe beauty contest and the hotel scene.

[ficlopri]

Yes, the Steve McQueen lighter ep was definitely an AHP ep. I saw it. I don't think it was very gruesome. He was in another AHP, about aliens from outer space. McQueen was never on TZ.

[Jrnygrl]

"The Hitchhiker" is a really scary one. Another one for me would also have to be "He's Alive" this is the episode where Dennis Hopper plays a man who starts a hate group after talking to a figure in the shadows, the way they did the figure in the shadow is really a frightening thing to see.

:eek: :eek2:

[dandelion wine]

Originally posted by Jrnygrl
"The Hitchhiker" is a really scary one. Another one for me would also have to be "He's Alive" this is the episode where Dennis Hopper plays a man who starts a hate group after talking to a figure in the shadows, the way they did the figure in the shadow is really a frightening thing to see.

:eek: :eek2:

The Hitchhiker is a great choice, Jrnygrl. :nod: :eek:

[Jrnygrl]

Originally posted by little insomniac
The Hitchhiker is a great choice, Jrnygrl. :nod: :eek:

Its on later tonight. Keeping the lights on. LOL!

:wave: :eek:

[dandelion wine]

Originally posted by Jrnygrl
Its on later tonight. Keeping the lights on. LOL!

:wave: :eek:

I'll be watching it -- with the lights on! :lol:

Had to keep them on, too, when Night Calls was on. :eek:

[Jrnygrl]

Originally posted by little insomniac
I'll be watching it -- with the lights on! :lol:

Had to keep them on, too, when Night Calls was on. :eek:

Oh yeah, forgot about that one, missed it. Yep, gotta keep the lights on with that one too! Maybe I need a blanket to cover my head.

:eek:

[dandelion wine]

Originally posted by Jrnygrl
Oh yeah, forgot about that one, missed it. Yep, gotta keep the lights on with that one too! Maybe I need a blanket to cover my head.

:eek:

That blanket sounds like a good idea. :lol:

[EricIdlefan]

Can you share your blanket with all of us Zonies!!??

[Jrnygrl]

But of course!


:nod:

[TheLurkerKing]

I am surprised no one has mentioned "Will the Real Martian Please Stand Up?" At the end of that episode, the guy sitting at the lunch counter reveals that he is the Martian and has three arms. Then the guy standing behind the counter reveals that he is a Venusian and has three eyes by pushing back the cap on his head. That episode scared me out of watching anymore "Twilight Zone" for years.

[damin mance]

"Will the Real Martian Please Stand Up?" is very good too

[damin mance]

i miss Hitchhiker episode :(

[Tweety]

when i saw this question, i immediatley thought of two episodes, both of which have been mentioned...

The Hitchhiker - to me, the "scariest" part of this episode is the way the camerawork was set up so that the Hitchhikers face suddenly (and unexpectedly) comes into view, accompanied by sudden, loud music...it was more "startling" than "scary" but it definitely makes your heart race...


The other ep I thought of was "Night Call"... that was as good a "horror" story as has ever been on the Zone, i think... I used to have the lights on when I watched that one...

[damin mance]

when i saw this question, i immediatley thought of two episodes, both of which have been mentioned...

The Hitchhiker - to me, the "scariest" part of this episode is the way the camerawork was set up so that the Hitchhikers face suddenly (and unexpectedly) comes into view, accompanied by sudden, loud music...it was more "startling" than "scary" but it definitely makes your heart race...


The other ep I thought of was "Night Call"... that was as good a "horror" story as has ever been on the Zone, i think... I used to have the lights on when I watched that one...

its the music they play that gets to yea scary right. ohno:

[coffeecup]

This isn't the scariest but this episode made me cry. An episode with Bill Mumy and Phillip Abbot (he played on the FBI). Bill and Phillip played father and son. Phillips' mother comes to visit and brings little Billy a toy phone. Billy talks on the phone to grandmother. Grandmother dies and Billy continues to talk to her. She tells him, something to effect come visit me. Little Billy falls into pond and nearly drowns. Little billys mother wonder what would cause her son to go into the pond. They remember he talks to someone on the phone. Phillip finds the phone and talks with his departed mother and beg her to let little Billy live. I cry

[Shine]

When William Shatner keeps seeing the alien on the wing of the plane in "Nightmare at 20,000 Feet" is pretty scary.

[damin mance]

:( i would be pretty scared too if i saw something like that riping up the plane

[storrs19]

I would have to go with "The Monsters Are Due On Maple Street".
That scene at the very end with the aliens boarding their ship and saying
"(we'll go from) one to another, one to another...".
That always freaks me out;)

[damin mance]

not really that episode is soo funny:lol:

[The Chauffeur]

I dunno, I remember To Serve Man kind of messed with my mind a lil bit when I was a kid :eek:

[damin mance]

that is a funny episode too at the end when the lady told the man it was a cook book and the camera zoom right up too his face and he was like noooooOOOO:lol: and the man that was on his right leaves mad fast:lol:

[musicradio77]

I would have to go with "The Monsters Are Due On Maple Street".
That scene at the very end with the aliens boarding their ship and saying
"(we'll go from) one to another, one to another...".
That always freaks me out;)

Is that the episode where Rod Sterling used his introduction at the beginning of the show was heard at the end of the movie version where he says "There is a 5th dimension..." or something like that?

[damin mance]

to me the scareiest scene in the TWILIGHT ZONE is:

Nightmare at 20,000 Feet in this picture

i still say this episode

[GCW]

The episode Twenty-Two when the lady keeps having a dream leading her to room 22 the hospital morgue and that scary nurse comes out and says "room for one more honey" and then it happens again at the end when she is boarding the plane flight 22.

[Inca]

whenever I watched "Night Calls", I always had trouble sleeping that night cuz I was scared the phone was going to ring!!!

[circa1948]

(Eye of the beholder)
It's funny to me that I never connected the fact I wasnt seeing their faces through the entire episode. Then again I was an immature 12yr old then and not exactly into paying attention for any length of time.

[OH Nuts!]

22 and To Serve Man were both pretty scary--esp. To Serve Man

[amethyst1]

Yes. I agree. That is one creepy episode. The way she says, "room for one more honey" sends chills up the spine.

[BensonFan]

The episode Twenty-Two when the lady keeps having a dream leading her to room 22 the hospital morgue and that scary nurse comes out and says "room for one more honey" and then it happens again at the end when she is boarding the plane flight 22.

That one freaks me out and the one with "Talking Tina"...

But the scariest sight I would also have to agree with some here who said "Eye of the Beholder" when we see the doctors having those ugly masks on their faces. :eek:

[jehobden]

"What's in the Box" actually gave me a nightmare when I was teen watching TZ reruns in the late 70s, where Joan Blondell was screaming at William Demarest about Yonkers, then he punched her at the window, then we knew he'd end up in the electric chair eventually. I remember telling my mom about the nightmare, and she told me that's what I get for watching that show so late. (I remember it was rerun around 10 PM then.)

I also particularly hate watching "Caesar and Me" because of the bratty landlady's niece, who reminded me of a nasty girl that I knew in grade school. It didn't help that I have the same given name as the main picked-on character in that ep who was taunted mercilessly by the bratty girl. That young actress, btw, grew up to be Morgan Brittany, and she appeared in lots of tv shows & movies back in the 60s.

"Living Doll" & "It's a Good Life" also creeped me out pretty well too, and I've never had the nerve to watch "The Jungle" based on the ep description in Marc Scott Zicree's book.

[damin mance]

Twenty-Two was scary when that lady kept popping up and saying room for one more honey.

[Kingdom Come]

I'd have to say The Obsolete Man.

[catlover79]

The last scene in "The Invaders" with Agnes Moorehead - when we discover who the "enemy" really is!! :eek:

[MickeyMac]

I dont know if I would say this show was scary. It was creepy and indeed played with your mind. Rod Serling was a genius.

[Zoneboy]

is this episode called the Masks?

That's "Eye of the Beholder"

[Miss Lisa]

I don't think that any one has mentioned it yet, but "The Howling Man" I think is what it's called. The one where the soldier ends up staying with the monks or what ever and finds out that they have satan with them.

I also have to go with one that has been mentioned a lot already, "Nightmare at 20,000 Feet". That thing on the wing will never cease to freak me out.

[browneyes106]

The Eye of the Beholder and the episode with the family wearing masks scared me.

[Tiffster]

For me it's the scene where Jerry Etherson (Cliff Robertson) tries to leave Willy behind in "The Dummy." There are three scenes in that episode that are scarier for me than any scene in any other episode. That's why it's my 2nd-favorite episode.


Agreed! When I watch teh very end of the episode when their faces are on each other, gives me the chills. Even for that time period, that was scary I'm sure. But I love it!

& the sequence in the airplace ep. 'Terror at 3000 Ft'