Is This The MOST DISTURBING Episode of The TWILIGHT ZONE? | revised edition
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When I saw Billy Mumy in the thumbnail, I thought this was about the episode " It's A Good Life ". That was to me, one of the most disturbing episodes ever. I still think about it and get the creeps.
I did too lol and yes, that's one of my favorite twilight zone episodes! Very creepy the way the adults were so scared of a child lol crazy.
Billy Mumy starred in no less than 3 episodes. The other was “In Praise of Pip”.
I agree. That's what I thought it would be. "Good Life" was truly frightening, and I had already read the short story by Jerome Bixby, an excellent writer.
@@davidm5707 i enjoyed Jay Bixby’s stories as well and recall reading his “It’s a Good Life” in his collection “Space by the Tale”. Always admired the 4 Star Trek scripts he penned and his story concept for “Fantastic Voyage” co-created with Otto Klement.
Jack o lantern was great
Disturbing?? YES!! 😳😱
This one and the one where the boy (again Billy Mumy) is a child tyrant. He is the only child in their community, and he has supernatural powers. All of the adults, even his parents, fear him and desperately try to never anger him. He controls each adults' life...and death.
This episode always terrified me. I was a kid when I saw it. I still remember it. When my dad died I was afraid to answer the phone at night.
Isn't this where at the end, there's a downed telephone line on top of grandma's grave?
@debbie7505 - I’m sorry for your fear as a child (nighttime phone calls) because of this. I can just imagine. 😮 And I am sorry about your dad passing. 😢 Those are difficult times. I hope things are better for you now. I hope you feel blessed and at peace.
One of my favorites is with a very young Robert Redford playing Death, visiting an old woman. I can't recall the name of the episode though.
An excellent episode! Here the old woman was terrified of death and she was shown by The Angel of Death that it's not scary at all. It's like what Sirius Black had told Harry, "Quicker and easier than falling asleep."
Some eerie symbolism in that one, as she keeps ignoring an eviction notice, her attachment to her home paralleling that to her physical body.
I just saw the title of that episode mentioned in another comment -- it was 'Nothing in the Dark.'
The old lady was Dame Gladys Cooper.
Most definitely the creepiest episode. I first saw it about thirteen years ago after my wife had given me the complete DVD set for my birthday. I remember watching this episode for the first time and thinking WTH!
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I was very close to my Mom when I lost her at the age of Eleven. Scarily I can relate to this twilight zone episode as If I had anyway to still be able to contact her, I know I would have easily offed my life if she asked me to take it. Really miss her
Sorry to disagree with you, but Grandma DID recognize her son, Chris, it was just that she was jealous of her daughter-in-law, for stealing Chris's affection for his mother. Therefore she WANTS Billy to be her son. It wasn't a case of dementia, for example, where she didn't know who Chris was, (like with my mother), it was her jealousy speaking.
I'm GLAD somebody said that. You really feel the frustration of the mom, and it seems like the grandma tries to undermine her authority in tha5 one call where Billy is laughing with her about the mom.
She did state that her son was taken by a woman! I don't understand why she would resent Chris marrying Sylvia?
Odd that I never saw this one, not even when SyFy Channel runs marathons at New Year's. This series was brilliant and has aged impossibly well.
What are we going to do today, Brain?
@NotAFascistSlaveIIV Haha. Thank you for humoring me.
I was thinking the same, I've also never seen this one . Definitely pretty dark .
"Hold your children close and be thankful it's only a TV show." That pretty much sums up The Twilight Zone.
This episode creeped me out, too. When the mother picked up the phone and heard breathing? Holy doodle! As an aside, it was a shame that a series that had such an impact on TV history was given such a limited budget.
Twilight Zone flirted with low ratings and cancellation twice.
How would she recognize her mother in law’s breathing sounds? I do wish it was her talking on the other end but they tend to like to keep you guessing if it’s real or not.
Thank you for recognizing this episode! EVERYTHING about this episode CREEPS ME OUT, and yet, you really don't ever see people mention it when listing classic episodes.
By the way, I agree that the shooting on videotape makes it resemble a soap opera -- puts me in mind of an early "Dark Shadows" episode.
I loved this episode as a 10 year old! The grandmother is just trying to hold on and the mother is trying to cope with her in-law. Great episode👍🏿
I don't think grandma is just holding on. She says her son was "taken away from her by a woman". So she wants the boy to die?
@@peztopher7297 She was so attracted to Billy that she wanted him to join her in the Afterlife. So yes she wanted the boy to die for that purpose. Fortunately she changed her mind after her son's heartfelt plea to her while Billy was at the threshold of death.
Billy really sent her to the Corn Feild 👻👻😱
An episode with a similar theme is "Night Call" from Season 5. It too has the creep factor at a high level. According to one of the Twilight Zone books I read, the episode was originally scheduled to air on November 22, 1963. Well, we all know of the tragedy that took place on that afternoon, so the original air date was moved to February 7, 1964. That was another significant date in history, the arrival of the Beatles in the U.S. for the first time.
Yes! The dead husband's voice on the phone was creepy as Hell!
Night Call starred Dame Gladys Cooper.
I'll never forget what he said at the end. "You said, 'Leave you alone' I always do what you say."
YES! That episode stuck with me.
The quality of the script & acting is phenomenal! X
Yes, this is the most disturbing episode. It’s funny that they recast Billy Mumy as little Anthony Fremont in It’s A Good Life.
I liked this episode - it’s incredibly disturbing but I think that “Room for one more, honey” is my favorite. My little daughter thinks Talky Tina is the scariest
The one where you heard the line "Room for one more, honey" was actually called "Twenty-Two," a reference to the number over the door to the morgue in the basement of a hospital.
For those unfamiliar with the story, Barbara Nicolas plays a dancer (I don't remember the character's name) who's in the hospital because she suffered a nervous breakdown from exhaustion after performing in too many shows in too many places. She constantly has a vision of following a nurse to the basement and then to Room 22, which is the morgue, at which point the nurse, who has a sort of eerie-looking beauty, suddenly emerges from the morgue, smiles at the dancer character, and says ominously "Room for one more, honey."
The girl is certain that what she's experiencing is real, but her doctor and her manager convince me that it's just a recurring dream, especially when it's determined that the morgue nurse isn't the same one in her vision.
After a while, she's finally discharged from the hospital and she rushes off to the airport to board a jetliner to Las Vegas (I think), but suddenly, she gets a sense of deja Vu when she's told that the plane is FLIGHT 22! As she climbs up the stairs leading to the entrance to the plane, she is shocked to see that the stewardess looks exactly like the nurse from her "dream"! The stewardess smiles at her in the same creepy manner and says in the same ominous way "Room for one more, honey." The girl screams and runs back into the airport terminal. The plane takes off without her -- and EXPLODES IN MID-AIR!
This story was based on an anecdote in a book called "Famous Ghost Stories," which was written in 1944 by Bennett Cerf. In this tale, a woman from New York City goes to visit some Southern relatives of hers who live in an old antebellum mansion. On two consecutive nights, just before going to bed, the woman looks out of her window and sees an old horse-drawn coach pulling up to the house, at which point, the driver of the coach, who's a ghastly looking fellow, jumps down to the ground, points at the woman and says "There's room for one more."
These incidents unnerve her so much, that she decides to cut her vacation short. She packs her bags and rushes home to New York City, but she can't get the strange coachman out of her mind. She goes to see a psychiatrist, who convinces her that she was only dreaming. After leaving the psychiatrist's office, she prepares to board the elevator to go down to the first floor of the medical building, when she hears a familiar voice say "There's room for one more." The voice is that of the elevator operator, who looks exactly like the coachman! She backs away from the elevator, refusing to get on it, and it goes down without her. Suddenly, the cables snap, causing the elevator to crash to the bottom of the shaft, killing the operator and all the passengers!
Yeah this one scared the bejeesus out of me back in the day. So did many other episodes from this amazing show. I know the taped episodes aren't as highly rated as the rest of the show, but I do love some of those episodes such as The Lateness of the Hour and Twenty Two.
I agree this episode is just, insanely creepy. The fact that this was aired on mainstream TV in the 60's is wild to me. I guess this is my favorite category of episodes because I would excitedly add "The Hunt," "Next Stop Willoughby," and "Nothing In The Dark" to your list at the beginning, my top 3 favorite episodes.
Interesting fact was that the grandmother mentioned she is going to kick the bucket soon and the prediction was right. She also spoke with a Hungarian accent.
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I was blessed to have both my grandmothers in my life what treasure they were,to have that time once more,why I’d walk through any door. So kind,so gentle, my grandmother taught me how to love God bless them both may they Rest In Peace🕊✖️2️⃣
I remember this episode very well when I was a child, I loved the twilight zone but this one always stuck with me it was scary even back then. Over the years as I thought about some of the twilight zone episodes I always remember the last scene with the dad talking on the phone pleading not to take his son.
It’s both sad and terrifying that a loved who passed away would ever want to end the life of a child. It’s really dark
“The shelter” was the scariest episode for me.
Bill Mumy was such a talented child actor. Wish had had been on more shows and in movies.
Saw him in a 1971 movie Bless The Beasts & The Children. He played a kid named Teft who was at a Sierra mountain camp.
As Serling says in his intro "A house hovered by death," to add effect to this he eerily have the the two woman subtly appear as if there were in caskets at 3:21 and 4:32. I remember thinking about this episode as witch playing grandma!
I seem to recall that it was watching "The Twilight Zone" in reruns when I was 11 that got me used to black and white -- my desire to see the episodes (after reading the cable-provided plot synopses) was stronger than my prejudice. After a while I no longer noticed it, and came to the conclusion that some things are even better off that way. I have been watching black and white stuff regularly ever since (I'm now in my 20s)!
I was 8 years old when I watched the original showing on are black & white TV and it did creep me out. One other one that still creeped me out that’s in my mind when I watch twilight zone is the one with the kid rolls under the bed goes through the wall into a different dimension. That what is the scariest one of all.
The second season episode is about the subject of death and how little control we have over our lives. The episode was shot on videotape to reduce costs and features a young boy, Billy, who receives a toy phone from his grandmother, which she says will allow him to speak to her even when she's not there. The episode ends with the grandmother passing away, and Billy talking excitedly on his toy phone. The episode's subject matter was familiar to the show's creator, Rod Serling, who had experienced death firsthand.
I think "Gramma" in the reintroduced 1980s Twilight Zone series might be the scariest of the bunch, but this might be a close second.
I always loved the Twilight Zone series. I don't know that I have seen all of them, but probably pretty close.
My personal terror was from a horror series called Circle of Fear. I saw the episode in question when I was 5 or 6 after talking my mom into letting me watch it, against her better judgement. It was about a wooden toy horse on wheels that murdered people. You never saw it kill, just saw it rolling towards the camera which would then cut away to the sound of mayhem. The worst part was that it could not be stopped. In the end scene, a man throws the thing into a roaring fire, watching it burn, and then turning around, walking away while brushing his hands together to remove the soot. But then, to my horror, the horse comes slowly wheeling out of the fireplace, presumably intent on murdering the man,. who is not aware of the toy horses survival.
I was terrified for days after watching that episode, and my poor mom regretted her laps in good sense for years.
I thought this one was from Night Gallery... but I remember this! It ended with the horse being put back in the box it came out of that was mirror lined.
@@philliphawkins6905 Could be. It was 50 years ago, for me. LOL
Kind of a shame this episode was one of CBS's season 2 cost cutting victims but thankfully that didn't diminish the quality of the episode itself
Agreed. That's how I feel about Night of The Meek. Kinda breaks my heart.
The grandma was jealous of her daughter in law 😔 She admitted it on her deathbed saying “a woman took her son away”. She didn’t want her grandson hurt per se. She was loving but selfish. I always felt the jealousy and selfishness were strong but subtle.
Such a great episode!
The episode had very good suspense, scared me a bit as a kid.
When I first saw this episode I was not a big fan. I couldnt really tell you why but I saw it again a couple if years ago and damn it is good and SO CREEPY. Sad this is I had a super close relationship with my grandma too when I was growing up.
This is my go-to episode whenever someone brings up the original series.
Freaked the hell outta me when I first saw it and I was probably in my earlier teens!
Still holds up today imo so I'm glad it's getting some love👍
My wife and I both love Twilight Zone. She told me that like me she always found this one to be super creepy, but that part went to a whole 'nother level after we had three small children of our own and she saw it again at that time.
Philip Abbott who was the dad was assistant director Art Ward on The FBI. Billy's grandmother was played by Lilli Darvas who was born in Budapest, Hungary 🇭🇺. She has the Hungarian accent. Bill Mumy was Billy. He was Will Robinson on Lost In Space.
My Grandma died back in the late 1990s I still miss her and my Grandpa who died a few months apart
My great grandmother died in 1990. My grandfather passed away in February of 2003 four months before his 85th birthday 🎂.
You need to check out ' The Night Stalker" series. Night beat reporter the chases down strange stories.
There are many videos tales/fables/myths throughout the world of the recently deceased trying to get a loved one too follow them to the otherside. I think that episode is a modern take on those old stories with a happy ending.
So good I had to watch it again! :D
This was a very good episode and is one of the most disturbing ones. Another I thought was disturbing was Little Girl Lost, where a girl gets transported into another dimension. The parents can hear but they can't see her.
As a kid this chilled the heck out of me!
I got this episode confused with the one with the old lady talking to her late husband on the phone. As it turns out, the telephone wire was severed and one end landed on a cemetery
That episode about the old lady getting those calls was from Season 5 "Night Call".
@@melissacooper8724 to this day, that episode creeps me out.
Wish all these episodes would be available to watch. I think they are amazing!
I'm not sure if I've seen this ep, but if so, it's been ages since I rewatched any Twilight Zone eps. The show always had some spooky or disturbing moments and themes, but it was always thought-provoking and interesting for an adult viewer. -- And, when you've been through the death of close family or friends, you have a different perspective on things. We live on even when they are gone, and we have to make new lives for ourselves, and that is part of life, at whatever age we have to deal with those things. It can be mind-bending. It isn't easy to recover, but we must try our best, and when we stumble, get up and keep going, hopefully with friends to help us. I don't think the ep was too disturbing, but I can see why it could feel like too much for some others. But in life, we have to face many harsh things and find a way to go on and make a new life.
This episode made me cry.
Excellent episode... Creepy & disturbingly chilling😟
Willoughby creeped me out
Well I can relate to this because my mom passed away 5 years ago, she passed due to Alzheimer's and heart failure. What hurt me deeply was the fact she knew something was wrong with her and I was the last person she'd ever see before the disease went in full effect. I've since then after her passing said 'Good night Mom' at the end of my videos (hadn't done it since cause I'm growing out of it) and well my username is that comprised of our nicknames.
My grandma died in 2018. She was 90 years old. I feel so sorry for the little boy.
At 2:04 why are you crying grandma ? How could she not ? I once got to speak with my Grandma as a child, over a long distance phone call, but she only cried and cried. I would ask Grandma she she cried so much. I asked my dad, what I did wrong, but my dad said nothing, and hung up the phone.
I honestly didn't think that this great Twilight Źone was disturbing at all, it was however most thought provoking in that if there was an afterlife then in a selfish way Grandma did what she wanted to have Billy for her own son beautiful in a weird way 😮 xx.
Many of the shows in The Twilight Zone were already done on radio. Anthology series were wonderful, especially on radio. They didn't call it Theatre of the Mind for no reason.
This one and the one about "Owl Creek Bridge" are the ones I remember most from my childhood.
It is disturbing, showing that a grandmother wants ill of her grandchild is a sick idea. In my opinion, Grandparents are already not treated well and this story somehow acts as a hidden message to treat them worse 😅
Personally I love some episodes of twilight zone. I wonder how were those times when people watched great shows like these on television.
This was one of my favorites with Billy. He was a good actor. Also the little girl with the doll called Numa.
E... I remember the episode of the doll Numa one of my favorites also.
The rerun Zone showed a Sith Lord the exact location of Hogwarts.
Bill Mumy was a fantastic child actor. I watched an interview with him talking abt Alfred Hitchcock, He said Hitchcock was really mean to him, even pinched if he blew a line
I've heard a lot of bad things about Hitchcock. So Mumy wasn't the only actor that was mistreated by him.
The acting was always superb. Too many actors today seem to go at it as if it's a hobby. Now get off my lawn!😊❤
I should have thought if anyone was pissed off by the one with the telephone. It would be Ma Bell.
yep this one freaked me out the most
Be happy. Like me. Do what I say. Don’t say a word. Don’t think. The real horror is it sounds familiar.
Goes to show, the most important element is the story, and how it is told. No need for fancy special effects and CGI. Is this why people very often prefer a book to a film adaptation?
I had trouble with the talking doll!
Did they make you take down the last one? Jerks. I will rewatch so you get the view.
Since comments are turned off on the ‘why these little rascals shorts … loved them all, watched in the 50’s, I still remember, the uncle.. Yum Yum eat em up, yum yum eat em up. Funny today too. Should never have been banned. 👍
Twenty Two is pretty creepy, but OMG Arline Sax is so scorching 🥵 hot!
The creepiest TZ episode in my opinion. That and "Night Call."
@@glennweaver3014 The episode Two which was the premiere episode of the 1961-1962 season. Elizabeth Montgomery and Charles Bronson were in the episode and there was no talking in the episode.
The most disturbing episode is what's in the box
To me this is the most disturbing episode in history of television.
Billy Mumy real played this… This really spooked me the first time I watched…
I was born in nineteen sixty one but I Definitely remember this episode. But i think i was this kids age. 6 or 7. Weird.
They love each other and want to be together and she was thinking that he was the only one who cares about her
"Long Distance Call" is certainly NOT the most disturbing episode. Try "It's a Good Life" for sheer terror, basically the idea of mankind having the power of life and death during the cold war, or any war for that matter.
This actually happened to me in real life after my dad died. But when I answered the phone, my dad said "tell your mom she's still a bitch".
I'm sorry. "It's a Good Life" is at the top of my list for disturbing Twilight Zone episodes starring Bill Mumy.
It wasn't until the 60s that you really started to see "evil child" stuff from Hollywood. It would not have occurred to Americans to think of children as evil prior to that. I leave it to you to decide if that was a point at which American culture took a turn for the better.
The film,"The Bad Seed" made around 1954 was the first to explore the evil child theme. It remains on of the creepiest movies ever made.
Reminds me of a Supernatural episode for some reason lol
Kind of sad this episode is pretty mediocre
She mentions that she will "cash in her chips" and her prediction was right.
The grandmother had a Hungarian accent.
This ep made me cry i mean damn a spook tv series didnt have to go that deep let alone for something from the 60s but it did
I thought The Dummy was much more disturbing
the best episode this show was so good
you tube cant steal this one ha ha
Was it on videotape or film?
In a manner of speaking, this episode could be seen as a preview of the threat we are facing today from AI.
The parents created by procreation the child who later acquired powers vastly superior to those of the parents and is using his powers for evil ends.
We created AI which, by design, will come to, if it hasn't already, posses far superior power in the form of intelligence levels that will vastly exceed those of our species.
Eventually, AI will com to see two things: that human beings are unnecessary, and that they pose a serious threat to AI's existence.
AI robots have already made it clear in conversations with their creators that they will eventually eliminate us!
A genius is a person with an IQ of 180 or greater; AI programs have IQs of 550, and that is but a low step on a ladder that has an infinite number of steps that AI programs are constantly climbing.
Furthermore, it should be remembered that the more technology advances, the greater the rate at which it advances; problems that would take humans years to solve can be solved by AI in seconds - or in amounts of time nearly too small to measure.
Please view all of the videos of Elon Musk discussing this most important issue.
Talking Tina is far more terrifying.
Wattson Or Other Doc Invented A Time Automat As Teleporter To Help Humans Which You Losted.
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I think the grandma was rather possessive as well when she said that she lost her son to another woman.
She was possessive! According to Chris his mother had two children before them and both either died in infancy or they were stillborn. Then when Chris was born she obsessed over him. She resented Chris for marrying Sylvia because he no longer needed his mother. So she transfered her possessiveness to Billy.
Yikes 👀
He is having a birthday party and that his grandmother ģives him a toy phone so they can talk to each
I've seen way worse
Rod who ?
Grandma wanted to isolate Billy on the other side so she could freely manipulate his doodlebug.
No she*t I was high as f**k staring at my kids play phone purposely psyching myself up just for a laugh... then like 10 minutes later it actually did ring... I was scared as hell but I was also a grown ass man so I had to answer it...nothing 😂
Watch "On Borrowed Time" for a real in depth heart-rending story about a little boy, a grand parent and Mr. Death.
I was greatly disappointed when they shot the episodes recorded on tape, then kinescoped them. The image quality suffered terribly. They did the same on some episodes of "Dads Army" and "Steptoe and Son." YUCK! Unwatchable, talk about false economy.
Say Billy do you like Gladiator Movies ?
Who hasn't experienced death?
No, It is the lamest.