Season 1 Episode 12
A two-bit thug thinks he’s found the key to a better life in an old sidewalk salesman who has the uncanny ability to tell people what they need the most.
Read more “Horror History: Friday, December 25, 1959: “The Twilight Zone” episode “What You Need” premiered”Three English archaeologists find the tomb of an Egyptian high priestess buried nearly four thousand years before. They discover a guard who had been buried alive with her.
Read more “Horror History: Wednesday, December 16, 1959: The Mummy was released in theaters”Season 1 Episode 11
Three astronauts have returned from this first space flight. Major Gart is hospitalized with a broken leg. The other two, Colonels Harrington and Forbes head for a bar. Harrington gets a strange feeling…
Read more “Horror History: Friday, December 11, 1959: “The Twilight Zone” episode “And When the Sky Was Opened” premiered”Season 1 Episode 10
In 1942, a German wonders why he’s on the deck of a British steamship, with no memory of how he got there, and an overwhelming sense of impending doom.
Read more “Horror History: Friday, December 4, 1959: “The Twilight Zone” episode “Judgment Night” premiered”Season 1 Episode 9
A man is terrified of falling asleep for fear he might die.
Read more “Horror History: Friday, November 27, 1959: “The Twilight Zone” episode “Perchance to Dream” premiered”Season 1 Episode 8
A bank teller, Henry Bemis, longs for time alone to read books. He gets his wish…
Read more “Horror History: Friday, November 20, 1959: “The Twilight Zone” episode “Time Enough at Last” premiered”Season 1 Episode 7
Corry is stranded on an asteroid after being convicted of a crime. He receives as a present a robot who looks, sounds, and acts like a real woman.
Read more “Horror History: Friday, November 13, 1959: “The Twilight Zone” episode “The Lonely” premiered”Season 1 Episode 6
A hypochondriac exchanges his soul for immortality and indestructibility.
Read more “Horror History: Friday, November 6, 1959: “The Twilight Zone” episode “Escape Clause” premiered”Season 1 Episode 5
Martin Sloan, driving through the country, leaves his car and starts to walk toward his hometown, Homewood. He finds things exactly as they were when he was a child. He soon realizes he’s gone back in time.
Read more “Horror History: Friday, October 30, 1959: “The Twilight Zone” episode “Walking Distance” premiered”Season 1 Episode 4
An aging, former movie star lives and dreams in the past, constantly watching her old movies alone in her room.
Read more “Horror History: Friday, October 23, 1959: “The Twilight Zone” episode “The Sixteen-Millimeter Shrine” premiered”Season 1 Episode 3
A has-been, drunk gunslinger finds his fast-draw abilities magically restored.
Read more “Horror History: Friday, October 16, 1959: “The Twilight Zone” episode “Mr. Denton on Doomsday” premiered”Season 1 Episode 2
A street salesman cleverly eludes Death. But if he lives, a little girl must die in his place.
Read more “Horror History: Friday, October 9, 1959: “The Twilight Zone” episode “One for the Angels” premiered”Season 1 Episode 1
Mike Ferris finds himself in a town strangely devoid of people. But despite the emptiness, he has the odd feeling that he’s being watched…
Read more “Horror History: Friday, October 2, 1959: “The Twilight Zone” episode “Where is Everybody?” premiered”Vincent Price stars as a very wealthy man who gives a haunted house party, offering to give each of his guests $10,000 — if they can survive the night.
Read more “Horror History: Tuesday, February 17, 1959: House on Haunted Hill was released in theaters”A cult classic of gooey greatness, The Blob follows the havoc wreaked on a small town by an outer-space monster with neither soul nor vertebrae, with Steve McQueen playing the rebel teen who tries to warn the residents about the jellylike invader. Strong performances and ingenious special effects help The Blob transcend the schlock sci-fi and youth delinquency genres from which it originates.
Read more “Horror History: Wednesday, September 10, 1958: The Blob was released in theaters”The first Hammer Dracula film in which, the infamous vampire (Christopher Lee, Star Wars) is given a new, elegant and ruthless persona as he descends upon England.
Read more “Horror History: Thursday, May 8, 1958: Horror Of Dracula was released in theaters”What’s worse than a horde of locusts? A gigantic man-eating praying mantis, released from a million years of deep, frozen sleep and ready to claw its way to world domination!
This menacing insect kills everything in its path while scientists and military men work feverishly to stop it. Craig Stevens (Abbott And Costello Meet Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde) stars as the commander in charge of putting an end to this beastly insect with William Hopper (20 Million Miles To Earth) as the paleontologist and Alix Talton (The Man Who Knew Too Much) as his beautiful assistant, a photojournalist, assigned to help in this epic battle between man and mantis!
Read more “Horror History: Sunday, May 26, 1957: The Deadly Mantis was released in theaters”The Frankenstein epic finds Baron Victor Frankenstein in jail, attempting to convince his jailers that a monster he created was responsible for the crimes for which he is accused.
Read more “Horror History: Thursday, May 2, 1957: The Curse of Frankenstein was released in theaters”Rest In Peace, Mr. Lugosi.
Read more “Horror History: Thursday, August 16, 1956: Bela Lugosi passed away”Two bumbling Americans (Abbott and Costello) stumble on the discovery of a lifetime when their search for a mummy leads them to a sacred medallion that holds the key to buried treasure.
Read more “Horror History: Thursday, June 23, 1955: Abbott and Costello Meet the Mummy was released in theaters”Happy Birthday Mr. Todd!
Read more “Horror History: Saturday, December 4, 1954: Tony Todd was born”In one of the most beloved sci-fi horror classics ever, a mysterious amphibious monster escapes captivity in order to be with a scientist’s beautiful female lab assistant.
Read more “Horror History: Friday, March 5, 1954: Creature from the Black Lagoon was released in theaters”A museum fire turns a handsome man into a human monster who steals the bodies of his victims from the morgue to create life-like wax images.
Read more “Horror History: Saturday, April 25, 1953: House of Wax was released in theaters”An Englishman enters an Austrian nobleman’s castle, complete with torture chamber and alligator moat.
Read more “Horror History: Thursday, November 20, 1952: The Black Castle was released in theaters”Screen legends Charles Laughton (Witness for the Prosecution) and Boris Karloff (Black Sabbath) haunt the dungeons of a medieval château in this horrific adaptation of the classic Robert Louis Stevenson (The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde) story. Laughton, the Sire de Maletroit, is an evil French nobleman, so obsessed with hatred of his own brother (Paul Cavanagh, A Bill of Divorcement) that he imprisons him in the castle dungeon. The Sire also tries to destroy the life of his brother’s daughter (Sally Forrest, Not Wanted) by forcing her to marry a rogue (Richard Stapley, The Girl from Rio), but his plans are upset when they fall in love. Aided by Voltan (Karloff), an abused servant, the lovers attempt to escape, but the Sire imprisons them in a cell with closing walls that may spell violent deaths for the young lovers. Directed by Joseph Pevney (Female on the Beach).
Read more “Horror History: Saturday, December 8, 1951: The Strange Door was released in theaters”Happy Birthday, Mr. Dourif!
Read more “Horror History: Saturday, March 18, 1950: Brad Dourif was born”There’s plenty of hilarious monster mayhem afoot when Abbott and Costello are forced to retrieve Dracula (Bela Lugosi) and the Monster (Glenn Strange) from a secret hideaway island.
Read more “Horror History: Tuesday, June 15, 1948: Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein was released in theaters”Happy Birthday Mr. Carpenter!
Read more “Horror History: Friday, January 16, 1948: John Carpenter was born”Happy Birthday, Mr. King!
Read more “Horror History: Sunday, September 21, 1947: Stephen King was born”#horror – #HorrorHistory – #RobertEnglund –
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