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Beardguy57 said:
Dave, I hear you about sleeping with the lights on at night!
Several episodes of the ORIGINAL Outer Limits episodes freaked me out and gave me nightmares..one where an alien from another planet is sent here as a criminal exchange program..it kept putting stuf into a pond and the stuff looked like jello? ANd the monster looked HORRIBLE, like he was made from all diffrent flavors of jello! I did not sleep well after that, or the one called THE ZANTI MISFITS, about these six inch long alien ant dudes who had human faces that were nightmarish! I was 6 - 7 - 8 when that show was new on tv...

I saw the 1958 movie THE BLOB on tv when I was 9, and that night after I'd gone to bed, I saw a thing in my room on the floor, and I thought it was moving towards me and I grabbed my baseball bat and started smashing the shit out of.... a pile of laundry ! LoL!!




I loved all those OUTER LIMITS b & w episodes. (The 1990's series was almost total crap, with a few watchable episodes here and there)

But the original series was great. Both seasons are available on DVD. But I already have 41 of the 49 eisodes on videotape, so I haven't rushed to get the DVD's.

I have both the eisodes you list, "The Zanti Misfits"(the ant-aliens are scary looking), and the other you mention titled "The Mice".

The scariest ones for me were :

    "Corpus Earthling" (two black rocks that possess people, with Robert Culp)

    "It crawled out of the Woodwork" (an energy creature that kills people, then re-animates them, with Ed Asner, and Barbara Luna, from the "Mirror, Mirror" episode of Star Trek)

    "The Invisibles" (with Don Gordon, as a pseudo-FBI agent infiltrating a secret conspiracy to take over government officials and control their minds with an alien spore. Richard Dawson is one of the alien conspirators.)

    "A Feasibility Study" (where a whole town is abducted by aliens and taken to another planet, testing to see if Earth people make durable slaves, a precursor to abducting the rest of Earth's population as slaves. )


Especially the first season, everything was great about this show, the musical score, the camera angles and shadowy black-and-white photography, and although a bit preachy and a product of its times (1963-1965), it was mostly very well scripted and provocative.

The cinematographer went on just 5 years later to win an Academy Award for his photography in the movie Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid in 1970.



I enjoyed The Blob too, a treat in color, a rarity for 50's movies. I enjoyed the 1990's re-make a lot less. It's amazing to me that they can re-make so many movies with like 20 or 50 times the budget as the original (King Kong, Planet of the Apes, The Blob, etc.) and not make a movie a fraction as good as the original.