Lovesusti The Worst Film Ever

GamerTab That was an excellent one.

Exoticalot People are voting emotionally.

Zlatica One of the worst ways to make a cult movie is to set out to make a cult movie.

tightjeansdude More creepy than The Twilight Zone, this obscure series had a brief run of only 14 episodes which were filmed live back in 1961. You can see many veteran actors and actresses in these macabre little stories. Charlotte Ray, Rosemary Murphy, Richard ("John Boy") Thomas, Martin Balsam, Madeleine Sherwood (who later played the reverend mother on Flying Nun) and many others. Apparently, the debut episode "William and Mary" garnered very positive ratings on both coasts, but the Midwest wasn't all that impressed with this creepy little series and so it was cancelled. None of the episodes were ever shown again on TV after this initial broadcast run. However all 14 shows still exist as kinescopes that were donated by David Susskind to The Paley Center for the Media in NY. 10 of the 14 episodes have been on You Tube. Pity that such a cool albeit short lived series couldn't be released to the public on DVD but I think that CBS or the Susskind Estate may own the rights and what with it being such an obscure series, I just don't see an official release happening. The Paley Center appears to be the only place to have all 14 surviving kinescopes of the series. So unless you go there, there's always You Tube for 10 of the 14.

ctomvelu-1 I had forgotten the wonderful Roald Dahl hosted this short-lived horror anthology series, and thinking about it today makes me realize how much creepier the show was for Dahl's droll narration. Each episode had a bit of a THRILLER feel to it, only darker. Too bad it didn't last. Everyone who saw it remembers the episode where a pompous actor eventually finds he cannot remove his scary makeup. I was 11 when the show aired, and it jolted me far more than anything Alfred Hitchcock or Boris Karloff or Rod Serling (all three had popular TV anthology shows in roughly the same time frame) could throw at me. Years later, Dahl would have a show exclusively devoted to his own writings, much like Ray Bradbury did.

ramarex1 For years after this show aired, I could not hear the theme song to the TV program "Route 66," the lead-in to this show, without getting all apprehensive and "goose bumpy." I associated it with "Way Out's" gnarly hands protruding from the ground at the end of the show's opening credits. Or were they sticking out of lava? Or boiling sand? I seem to recall the ground around the hands being cracked... broken, and steam coming out...? Boy, a remastered DVD release of these 14 titles would be fab-u-lous, if only for their historical value. I know I love to be scared and most modern television is far, far too timid. Too bad, these were classics. And TV execs in the sixties were just as predictable as those of today when it comes to green lighting schlock and canceling greatness before it has a chance to blossom. Imagine if less than insightful TV execs had controlled "Seinfeld" or "The Twilight Zone." And, just in passing, parents are too soft and protest against TV programs too much, claiming that their children would be adversely affected by scary programs. Hey, mom and dad, HIDE THE REMOTE or PUT THAT SINISTER "V-CHIP" TO A REAL TEST! Just because the occasional serial killer comments on how much he loved scary programs in his youth, does not mean that your little Jill or Johnny will likewise succumb to such a fate. Lots of us "little morons" loved this stuff as children, even if it did give us nightmares, but as the old saw tells us, what doesn't kill us, makes us stronger, right? In fact, Way Out scared me so much that I'm surprised I didn't turn out to be like Stephen King, Clive Barker, or Wes Craven. Then again, maybe it did and I just haven't realized it yet...

mitch-diamond I most certainly remember the "side Show" episode. I was 10 years old when it aired and had nightmares for years. I would love to see it again. I am told that David Susskind, who produced the show, gave video tapes to the museum of broadcasting in New York. I do have an episode of "Way Out" on video but the name escapes me at the moment. If I remember correctly, it was somewhat standard fare about manikins coming to life. Rather mediocre. It is only an okay ep and nowhere near as frightening as "Side Show".I heard that the station got loads of complaint calls from parents with scared kids, after broadcasting that one.I may be wrong, but I seem to remember an episode about a man chopping up his wife and mixing her remains up with the food for his pigs. All went well until somebody finds a wedding ring in their Pork Chop.