![]() If it does, please forgive - it wasn’t my intention. I’ve seen every Twilight Zone episode many times over and I’m eager to consume more surreal black and white sci-fi! What am I in for from Hitchcock Presents?ĮDIT: the title of this post may seem sensationalist or “bait-y”. If you haven’t seen this story in a while, please watch it again! Did you also feel unsatisfied at the end? Why? What are your other thoughts about the episode? Perhaps someone who felt the same about this episode can articulate better what I felt. But I’m also realizing that Vera Miles’ character study of a mad woman was so spooky that I needed to see just more of THAT! Seeing the husband’s sentencing might have helped closed the story for me. This was fun to think about after the episode but I still did not feel satisfied with the ending. however, she still seemed cruel as she identified her “attacker” in that last scene. Or am I labeling her as cruel because we, as a society, tend to judge women more harshly than men? (would I have felt cruelty from the husband had their roles been reversed in the story?) If she was mad, then she surely didn’t intend to confuse her husband. But even though we know the wife is not intentionally trying to jam up her husband, I got a hint of evilness or cruelty from her in those last lines because it was delivered with an air of nonchalance (given that she was supposed to be identifying her attacker). Her madness was confirmed in that deadpan voice and blank expression. Vera Miles: her delivery of her last lines was exquisite. ![]() But would I have been fulfilled by watching the husband’s trial and sentencing anyway? Would I have felt sorry for him? It wasn’t enough that Hitchcock closed the show by explaining what happened to the husband. The reveal was amazing but am I the only one that felt unfulfilled at the end? The plot reveal in “Revenge” was dreadful (within the context of the plot) and absolutely delightful! You can say that I was DREADFULLY DELIGHTED by the reveal! It started Vera Miles, from one of my favorite TZ episodes, “Mirror Image”. I just watched “Revenge” from S1 of Hitchcock Presents. Twilight Zone stories, I’ve felt, painted a complete ‘world for any given episode’: at the end of each, I’m left satisfied, feeling as if my questions have been answered about the world the characters live in, why characters behave the way they do (I’m sure there’s a literary term for this but I don’t know it and trying to describe the best I can). ![]() Horror history awaits.I’m a 60s Twilight Zone fan that is just starting to get into Alfred Hitchcock Presents. click any image for a full-size, readable version of the page and delve in. "Feverishly devoted to pre-Comics Code funny books. Karwell’s is the only one I can think of with the focus on great, old school horror stories." ".fine selection of pre-code comics and quality scans. the absolute best bastion of HORROR on the web!" ".the premiere home on the web for amazing pre-code HORROR comic stories. "THOIA is THE blog for pre-code horror comics." ".the master of vintage horror comics, and I bow to his general greatness." " Great for whiling away the hours between the start of the working day and home-time." ".kickass blog (and if you aren't a reader yet, whyever not? Do you know what you're missing out on?)" "Karswell has turned his blog into the fantastic cult favorite it is." ".a skeletal slew of complete scans of pre-code comics." ![]() Bryan Reesman ( Attention Deficit Delirium ) For a fan of EC, Atlas and other Silver Age-era comic companies, it is pure heaven (and hell)." ".an online repository of vintage comic fear fare where individual stories from long out-of-print issues are posted in high resolution, page by page. ".the object of all horror chicks' wet dreams. saying "Not the best story THOIA has run" is a bit like saying "one of Beethoven's lesser symphonies!" ".the capital of online comic book horrors. "I love your blog, I check it every single day!" Mike Howlett (The Weird World of Eerie Publications) a wealth of classic horror strips reproduced in all their crude, four-color glory." I Turned into a… Martian! / I Lived a Ghost Story!.
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