The Twilight Zone Zone - Episode 5: “A World of His Own” and “The Howling Man”

Every week on The Twilight Zone Zone,we go down Donald
Liebenson's list The 26 Episodes We Talk About When We Talk
About The Twilight Zone from Vanity Fair, chronologically by
release date and compare two episodes and choose which one to
recommend. This week we watched “A World of His Own” and “The
Howling Man.”


From the Article:


“A Nice Place to Visit”


The Twilight Zone also delighted in dicking around
characters in need of retribution. Another case in point: Rocky
Valentine, a petty criminal shot to death. A jovial guide
(Sebastian Cabot) in the afterlife tends to his every desire,
giving him a swinging pad, sure-thing bank robberies, and
beautiful dolls on demand. Sounds like heaven, right? This was
the first episode to employ a classic Twilight Zone trope,
in which the come-upper gets the last maniacal laugh at the
eternal expense of the come-upped. (See also on this list: “The
Grave” and “Will the Real Martian Please Stand Up?”)


“The Howling Man”


You’re lost in a torrential storm. You seek refuge in a
foreboding castle. Inside are members of some kind of fanatical
religious cult that is keeping a man imprisoned. The cult leader
insists the man is actually the devil himself. Who are you going
to believe: the desperate man pleading to be set free, or a
staff-carrying John Carradine?


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