The Namtut brothers run the most popular restaurant in town, but their delicious meals contain the byproducts of their after-hours sorcery. They are using human sacrifices to resurrect the ancient and deadly Sheeter, the goddess of blood and lust.
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Season 4 Episode 18
A child innocently builds a device that eats sound in order to make his mother happy, but soon loses control of the creepy machine (which silences things by sucking out their energy and killing them).
Based on a story by Zenna Henderson, adapted by John Harrison (under the name John Sutherland).
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Season 2 Episode 15
After witnessing a brutal murder, a woman (Patricia Clarkson) goes mute and is cared for by a psychiatrist (Richard Thomas) who had committed the murder himself and soon finds out that this woman had witnessed the murder (and wants the woman to be silenced forever).
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Season 3 Episode 7
A vampire (Malcolm McDowell) eschews the tradition of attacking mortals, satiating his need for blood by working as a night watchman at a blood bank, but the owner (George Wendt) soon realizes that his own business is being sucked dry and warns of bankruptcy. The vampire must return to his old ways in order to replete his “embezzlement”, so he tries to solve his quandary by attacking dangerous criminals, all whilst struggling with the romantic advances of a cute secretary (Sandra Dickinson).
Also starring Michael Berryman and Paul Gleason.
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20 years after a horrific accident during a small town school play, students at the school resurrect the failed show in a misguided attempt to honor the anniversary of the tragedy.
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