Pacionsbo
Absolutely Fantastic
InformationRap
This is one of the few movies I've ever seen where the whole audience broke into spontaneous, loud applause a third of the way in.
Bessie Smyth
Great story, amazing characters, superb action, enthralling cinematography. Yes, this is something I am glad I spent money on.
Alistair Olson
After playing with our expectations, this turns out to be a very different sort of film.
wyrdotter
I haven't seen all episodes yes, but the ones I have are satisfyingly creepy. Incidentally, many full episodes are available on Youtube.
GUENOT PHILIPPE
Of course this was not the only show of this kind; take for instance TALES OF THE UNEXPECTED, TWILIGHT ZONE, OUTER LIMITS, HAMMER HOUSE OF HORROR, " " MYSTERY, JOURNEY INTO THE UNKNOWN, LIGHTS OUT, NIGHT GALLERY, ONE STEP BEYOND, TALES FROM DARK SIDE, TALES OF TOMORROW and so on...But this one remains among the best of all. And I repeat, the making, the frame of the whole stuff looks like more th fifties than the sixties. I purchased only ten against the original fourteen of the show. But you had the equivalent in crime stories with AH PRESENTS, THRILLER, SUSPENSE etc...I highly prefer this instead of recurrent characters in episodes. That's my own taste.
BrentCarleton
In one of the few extant episodes of the long defunct, "Way Out" actress Constance Ford takes the audience on a roller coaster ride not soon to be forgotten.Though accomplished at all types of portrayals, Miss Ford's stock in trade was the vulpine proletariat tart--a woman who will stop at nothing to get where she's going, and doesn't make any bones about it! Consider her a more cerebral, subdued, and streamlined Shelley Winters type.In "I Heard You Calling Me" she holds the audience in the palm of her hand all the way--it's a real tour de force, inasmuch as she's doing it "live on tape." As the telephone calls from beyond exert their growing menace over her, we watch her go from casual indifference, to hard nosed annoyance, to trembling rage, to nauseated panic, and finally to whimpering, resigned, child like submission--pathetically assuming a fetal position as she drops the receiver to the floor in anticipation of her impending doom.At a recent screening, all attendees were impressed, most especially an astute 16 year old boy. "We don't have anything this good on now," he remarked as Mr. Dahl sardonically concluded the teleplay.No, we don't, and the loss is ours. Another forgotten jewel in Mr. Susskind's crown.
HEFILM
This certainly would make a nice DVD box set. Actors and crew on this show are a who's who of Television in the 1960's. I've only seen 5 episodes all were odd in the best sense of the word and none of these five sound like the best of the series even.The show features eerie electronic music in part by Robert Colbert who went on to to Dark Shadows and The Night Stalker. Title sequence of hands sticking up like trees out of sand is also memorable.The show, like Roald Dahl's fiction, has heavy doses of dark dark humor, so much so that it's hard perhaps to call it horror but also hard to accept as just comedy either. This sets it apart from the lighter comedy episodes of other fantasy shows of that, or any, era, and perhaps left a mass TV audience confused and abandoned. It certainly had a good lead in time slot right before Twilight Zone and would make a nice lead in to those shows.So it's too bad, though maybe not too much of a surprise, that the show didn't catch on. Someone bring these to DVD to be rediscovered as they deserve to be. Seems like a show ahead of it's time. Looks to have been shot on video, though copy I saw was so murky it was hard to tell.
