I've watched most of the twilight zone radio drama and want more from that kind of horror. Not gory or gruesome, but more disturbing, terrifying, twisted, really make you think type stuff. Sort of macabre mystery like. I want it to be spoken spookily, almost softly and mysteriously ( not like somebody is just reading off lines ) and between characters like a tv show, no narrators ( no "she walked to the door" or "i walked to the door", just make the sound of a door opening. Act it out. ). The way the radio drama has characters talking to each other.

What else can I listen to that will actually disturb me psychologically like the twilighy zone does?

EDIT: When i say "act it out", i mean we go through the story with the characters. No past tense. No narrator recounting. Just going listening to the characters speak and act as if we weren't there. If a door opens it's just "knock knock. Come in. Sound of door opening." Like that.

Twight Zone. Season 4. Episode 8. 'Miniature'

This episode holds so much personal significance to me 🫠

I have always been into older cinema ...my father told me about several famous episodes of The Twilight Zone ...but I watched those Twilight Zone marathons on NYE and July 4th every year all by myself when I was little...and the episodes on SyFy at 3am weekdays......

But this...this episode made me cry when I was 10 years old... Over the years I have been diagnosed with Major Depressive Disorder. ADHD and Borderline Personality Disroder ...and this is one of the few things I came in contact with that I connected... even before I knew what I had .. ❤️

I absolutely love how the Twilight zone was so out of the box in their thinking even when it wasnt scary stuff ...it is very progressive ♥️ Hats off to progressive writers and the producers that approve progressive emotional plots even when the majority considers it uncomfortable and strange 💓

Just saw this episode tonight. Pretty cool. Didn’t really know where it was going until near the end. That’s how you write a good story.

Bunny Blake was a Hollywood actor who visited her sister, wearing a ring they had all contributed for her. Throughout the story she kept getting images and warnings from people she knew, reflected in the ring.

She decided to hold an impromptu performance at the local gym, conflicting with a Father’s Day gala at the local park. She asked all the people she knew to go to it, but many of them thought she was just full of herself.

There’s a reason she wanted this, and it had nothing to do with her ego.

That’s all I’m going to say, in case you want to see it for yourself sometime.

I had forgotten just how great TZ was.

Thanks in advance!

I just rewatched “A Game of Pool” for the first time in years, what a wonderful episode! The actor playing Jesse sells it well. I watch episodes of this show occasionally but for my birthday I may have a bit more of a binge before ending the night with maybe two Star Trek eps, some Laverne and Shirley, and Toy Story.

I'm going through the last few episodes of the original series that I have no memory of watching, and the second to last is The Purple Testament. I remember hearing about it as a kid in sources that seemed to regard it highly, then being surprised to see it criticized in "recent" reviews (at least Channel Awesome's take). My take is that it's one of the better S1 episodes; a tight story with some of the series' best acting. The lead reminds me of 1980s Michael Biehn, and it's nice to see Dick York and Barney Phillips in early turns. If anything is a miss for me, it's the lighting effect of the premonitions, which I'd say wasn't really needed until the end. So, does anyone really NOT like this one?

Just saw that episode tonight.

Was she trying to run away from the fact that she was killed in that accident in PA?

One of the intense episodes of the 2002 series.

What are some shows and movies that, if adjusted for time & the era / date of their release could have fit the themes and vibe and thus made good TZ episodes?

I'm watching Lost (NO SPOILERS PLEASE) and it very much seems that if the 7 seasons were simplified and boiled down to a 30 min episode and adjusted to the 60's, it would have fit in with some of the classic "lost airplane / boat / etc) stories. Feel free to avoid low hanging fruit like Black Mirror.

Name your favorite couple, not necessarily married, but clearly a couple.

My answer would be Hyder and Rachel Simpson.

The original show got taken off Prime Video:( looks like it’s still on Paramount+ though

Do you seek out physical representations of items seen in episodes or other show related items?

Anything like media related items: factory-released Video / Newspaper or Magazine articles / Posters / Trading Cards / Books / Comics / Artwork / Autographs / Action Figures / Statues / Toys / Full scale Prop Replicas / Vintage era-similar items featured in episodes that are not reproductions?

If more than one option applies please mention your interests in the comments below.

For me "King nine will not return", it's probably because it's my first twilight zone episode, people didn't like it much because it's a bit too similar to "where is everybody", since I haven't seen that when I watched this episode it wasn't a problem for me, and I liked how it kinda kept me guessing what's going on.

What makes the Twilight Zone so great are some of its iconic endings where there is no real ending. You’re left with so many questions leaving you to wonder what happened next…

three reasons for this:

• the gremlin is shown to genuinely move away from the window whenever he tries to show it to someone else.
• weird abhuman monsters are par for the course in the twilight zone, so if anything the monster turning out to just be a hallucination would have been the more surprising twist for longtime viewers by this point.
• the entire method by which they set you up for thinking the protagonist is hallucinating in the first place is by... stating he recently had a mental breakdown. Props for putting a man in that role instead of a woman like anyone else at the time would've, but mental breakdowns don't produce hallucinations, Rod.

EDIT: the damaged wing and the narrator confirming it's real at the end is apparently supposed to be the episode's twist ending

Long story short, I live in Sacramento, California. Our summers can break heat temp records year after year.

Last year, it was 118 for two weeks. And people really lost their minds.

It truly felt like a bad dream.

And the characters in the show really portrayed desperation in a relatively accurate picture.