Twilight Zone girl with no mouth
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Twilight Zone where a girl has no mouth, just a smoothed over area. I
have no idea what episode it's in, and I think it's from a modern
revival of the show. I don't recall ever having really watched Twilight
Zone, yet I must have seen that bit when I was little, because it
always stuck with me to this day. In that good creepy kind of way. I
bet kids today will think the same kind of thing about Idiot's Lantern.
Stephen Wilson
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I think this was one of the segments from the 1983 Twilight Zone movie,
which itself was a remake of a 1961 episode featuring Billy Mumy (who made a
cameo appearance in the updated version).
Monsieur Tabernac
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> The faceless people in Idiot's Lantern reminded me of an episode of the
> Twilight Zone where a girl has no mouth, just a smoothed over area. I
> have no idea what episode it's in, and I think it's from a modern
> revival of the show. I don't recall ever having really watched Twilight
> Zone, yet I must have seen that bit when I was little, because it
> always stuck with me to this day. In that good creepy kind of way. I
> bet kids today will think the same kind of thing about Idiot's Lantern.
I think of all the episodes I've seen so far of the new series,
there's more child-terrifying imagery than ever: the faceless people
(ultra-creepy), "Gran" thumping from upstairs and the thought that
your own television set can attack you! The television set seems to
break a cardinal rule of the old series: not to show something too
common place turn into a nasty monster, etc, and reminds me of the
criticism "Terror of the Autons" received for showing a killer doll.
David A McIntee
"Stephen Wilson" <sr.w...@ntlworld.com> wrote
> I think this was one of the segments from the 1983 Twilight Zone movie,
> which itself was a remake of a 1961 episode featuring Billy Mumy (who made
> a cameo appearance in the updated version).
Actually, the little I've heard of the plot of episode 11, Fear Her, sounds
awfully like that one...
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Chris Heffernan
Yes, it's from the movie and the girl (or one of her family members)
was the actress who does the voice of Bart Simpson.
Chris
Elvis Gump
mtab...@NOSPAMhotmail.com on 5/28/06 6:36 PM:busted out this wacky shit:
It would have been better if it was better grounded in some condition
REMOTELY realistic such as the afflicted people having all the color drained
from their irises say and left in a catatonic state, with the alien doing
something other than feasting on their 'life essence' which is getting a bit
old at this point. Anyway you slice it there's not much in the way of
electrical energy contained in the human nervous system. If the alien needed
some sort of power she'd have done better to use the taps the TVs were
plugged into.
There's only so many things an alien can be using humans for. Harnessing
brains for computing power like in "School Reunion" is silly if you know
anything about computing and programming and likewise is this silly story.
Other than slave labor, food or inconvenient inhabitants that need to be
exterminated so aliens can get at our fabulous resources what else is there?
It might have been a better premise to have the mad monks from "Tooth and
Claw" return and menace Elizabeth's coronation. They could have used that TV
footage along with staging some in close crowd mock-ups and had the monks
taking BBC jobs to try to get in close to the proceedings and even a double
for Elizabeth not realizing say Rose had just saved her life and repeating
the "we are not amused' motif.
Even something that corny would have been preferable to this dumb story. We
knew the alien couldn't win so it was boring, boring, boring.
And an insult to anyone who passed sixth grade biology.
And don't try to argue it's aimed at kids when you would be insulting even
their intelligence.
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Monsieur Tabernac
<elvisg...@SPAM.fastmail.us> wrote:
>Even something that corny would have been preferable to this dumb story. We
>knew the alien couldn't win so it was boring, boring, boring.
>
>And an insult to anyone who passed sixth grade biology.
>
>And don't try to argue it's aimed at kids when you would be insulting even
>their intelligence.
Well, all I can say is that I enjoyed it and didn't feel insulted,
even though I have a master's degree in biology. :P
whodunit
teenager had 'magic' powers given to him from aliens to survive
on a planet somewhere, and he 'erased' a girl's face--that scene
creeped me out when I was around 4 and it still creeps me out today!
Geoff
> The was an original Star Trek episode called "Charlie X" where a
> teenager had 'magic' powers given to him from aliens to survive
> on a planet somewhere, and he 'erased' a girl's face--that scene
> creeped me out when I was around 4 and it still creeps me out today!
I'd forgotten the Star Trek one. As has been said elsewhere, there's also
the Sapphire & Steel "As I was going up the stair, I met a man who wasn't
there" story of a faceless entity/man who lives in photographs.
I also seem to recall this in a book.
Perhaps this a homage to the Faceless Ones?
Geoff
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Sapphire and Steel is the one most people remember - "The Shape" man thing
with no face that lives in photographic images. very like The Wire lives in
TV images.
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FishFood
And lets not forget Neo in the Matrix, denied his voice by the
Smiths.
Eric Cordian
It's a fairly famous 1961 episode of Twilight Zone, titled "It's a Good
Life," where Billy Mummy plays Anthony Fremont, a small boy with
omnipotent telekinetic powers. Cloris Leachman also stars. The girl in
the story irritated Anthony by singing, so her mouth was removed.
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mick
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Is that the one where someone get's turned into a jackinthebox and all you
see is the shadow against the wall of a head on a spring? Ooer that was very
creepy.
MH
Or the video of "If you tolerate this, your children will be next", by
the Manic Street Preachers (or was it S Club 7?), where they did the
same thing.
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Eric Cordian
> Is that the one where someone get's turned into a jackinthebox and all you
> see is the shadow against the wall of a head on a spring? Ooer that was very
> creepy.
Yes.
FishFood
It was the Manic Street Preachers, with a welsh connection to boot.
lurkio
There.
lurkio
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MH
magic or hallucinations. In "Idiot's Lantern" the victims faces were
"eaten" by some electrical thing. But they grew back again instantly
at the end, as we knew they would, although it was not explained why.
The wicked witch was dead, so her spells were broken?
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> One thing about all these other stories is that they were all either
> magic or hallucinations. In "Idiot's Lantern" the victims faces were
> "eaten" by some electrical thing. But they grew back again instantly
> at the end, as we knew they would, although it was not explained why.
>
> The wicked witch was dead, so her spells were broken?
So this is a deux ex beta machina story?
Elvis Gump
whod...@sbcworldly.com on 6/1/06 8:06 PM:busted out this wacky shit:
> MH wrote:
>> One thing about all these other stories is that they were all either
>> magic or hallucinations. In "Idiot's Lantern" the victims faces were
>> "eaten" by some electrical thing. But they grew back again instantly
>> at the end, as we knew they would, although it was not explained why.
>> The wicked witch was dead, so her spells were broken?
> So this is a deux ex beta machina story?
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