Very Creepy "Twilight Zone" Opening Monologue

[CRAKIZGOOD]

very strange

ive seen every episode but not this one

[Chenisse67]

@CRAKIZGOOD I just saw this one on New Year's day, it was the last one of the marathon! Such a good one!

[la214la]

I love this one! I had never seen it until a few years ago despite watching many TZ marathons on SciFi! 

[mxylpx]

Truly acting is based on an emotional basis but also an intellectual level of sophistication to analyze and divine choices to be made in charactrer development. I would agree with Spartacus that the educational bar today is much lower and wishey-washey to accomodate this new "texting" generation whose attention span is miniscule, retention is nil and point of reference is limited..

[booksramazing]

OMG! i am 14, i am practically in love with the Twilight Zone :D

The Twilight Zone is way better than any scary movies or shows in my generation. The plot is just amazing, without using any blood or swearing or any weapons. The twilight zone is truly amazing ^.^

[7744evol]

this is my favorite episode! :) <3

[RanaRandom]

do you have the link of the whole episode, please?

[fisteberg]

@RanaRandom In france you can watch it on DPSTREAM.I'm french but if you aren't that nationality i just cannot help you and give the link,sorry.Try and you 'll see.This episode isn't creepy in my opinion.A psychological episode with the little girl and we all have a child within us.

[fisteberg]

I watched the whole episode.i just think the blonde little girl is awesome and is real Helen as a little girl.This lady lost her memory and recovered it with the remembrance of her as a kid.But it is my point of view...after...i just think that Ellen found herself confronted with the same her as a kid in a dream or into her couch doctor's sofa.

[Sugarbehr1967]

the little girl is Terry Burnham..who played Susie Meredith in 1959's 'Imitation of Life'...

[MrFalconford]

when did fear become a emotion we believe fear is a result of emotions that have yet to be experienced there is a difference

[Tsagia]

Hooraaah for American 50's!And...60s!

[4lom44]

Lol this episode is calle a nightmare as a child. That little girl Is suppose to be the younger version of that lady but it's all in her head watch the whole episode it's actually really good lol

[fisteberg]

@4lom44 THis is your point of view.Respectable but i just believe Marky was real helen.As a kid and like i said maybe the kid appeared to her at her shrink's sofa or in a dream....

[marshalljimduncan]

My favorite twilight zone is "a stop at willoughby"

[mouthwash909]

@marshalljimduncan OMFG THANK YOU SO MUCH, THATS WHAT I'VE BEEN LOOKING FOR!!!! :\ i think. is that the one where the guy falls a sleep on the train and dreams about going to willoughby, but ends up like, jumping off.

[marshalljimduncan]

@mouthwash909 Yes, thats the one!

[atxbeast7]

Thanks netflix you made the Twilight Zone possible for me to watch.

[RMena64]

what so creepy about this? Looks like a lovely mother and daughter bond...

[Stevie2Sxc]

I swear that's the same girl who got pwned by the car in the "One For the Angels" episode

[hawkas5523]

Just threw a random 'hot chocolate' in there.

[totalrandomcrap]

IT"S MARKY!

[ledebin744]

Rod Serling is the master of monologues.

[kdreamland]

This is where every single creepy little girl in TV comes from. everyone should watch this episode. the whole episode is good, but the little girl is the best out of the whole epiosde imo.

[RudeDog2011]

@kdreamland Haha yeah. She is the best.

[orsocool15]

one... word,,, CREEPY....

[RudeDog2011]

@orsocool15 How is it creepy?

[orsocool15]

@RudeDog2011 the girl is really the woman as a10 year old. plus the music

[RudeDog2011]

@orsocool15 Well yes, I know that... but I still don't see how its creepy lol. I guess I'm just an odd person.

[Andrew33416]

@RudeDog2011 It was the year that Chuck Norris was born.

[hebneh]

Overly perfect, solemn Hollywood child...she's creepy, even without knowing what happens in this episode.

[brainsareus]

okay,her makeup sucks,but she's still pretty.

[brainsareus]

who is the adult?  she's a really beautiful woman.

[coventrygardens]

@brainsareus i looked it up on wikipedia. it said her name is janice rule. she was also listed on another website. the photo sure looks like the woman in this video.

[critchley3819]

@coventrygardens I used to watch this as kid and as I was looking around I came upon this so decided to have look, and like you, say this woman is a stunner, very good looking, I am not a sicko or pervert at all but I do apprieciate beatiful females and this woman is lovely, her eyes are works of female art, funny is that when I would meet women like this I got lost for words,Its only now that Im almost 60 that Im able to.

[coventrygardens]

@critchley3819 i didn't say she was good-looking. though she is good-looking, i didn't say she was good-looking im my comment. i simply replied to a comment left by brainsareus, who had mentioned the woman's beauty. i think you meant to reply to the comment by brainsareus, not to my comment. the comment that i left mentioned the woman's name ( janice rule ), not her beauty.

[critchley3819]

@coventrygardens yes, sorry about this ,you are right, thanks for your reply.

[critchley3819]

@coventrygardens Hi I saw your coventrry gardens address this may seem like an strange question but is this where they built Triumph motorcycles,I dont mean the new ones but the old ones, I spent my youth liking pommy bikes.Norton BSA Triumph Matchless, and whats even better Im still alive to talk about it.Im Aussie...

[coventrygardens]

@critchley3819 very funny comment! i guess i need to change my youtube handle. it confused you and other people. you must be thinking of coventry, the town in england. in truth, i chose this youtube handle because, when i was a young kid, i lived in a neighborhood called "coventry gardens ", near detroit, michigan, u.s.a., near the border with the british territory of ontario, which has toronto in it. in coventry gardens, the streets are named after places in england. i lived on surrey street.

[coventrygardens]

@critchley3819 here's where it gets even more interesting. when i lived in coventry gardens, i had motorcycles. furthermore my parents briefly had a triumph car--- or they said they did. i was too young to know what kind of car it was. though the name "coventry gardens" sounds very english, the neighborhood didn't have many people with english ancestry. it had large numbers with polish & german & italian & french & irish ancestry. my family was one of the few that had english ancestry.

[tall32guy]

@brainsareus Janice Rule.

[myrtlebox]

1 Time Enough at Last (Meredith: Well, that‘s just not fair) 2 Nightmare at 20,000 feet (Shatner: paranoia is REAL) 3 Eye of Beholder (Beauty is in…) 4 Living Doll (Talky Tina) 5 The Silence (a tragedy beyond vocalization) 6 To Serve Man (It’s a cook book) 7 Nick of Time (Make your own Destiny) 8 The Masks (Facades and the inner person) 9 The Grave (Which way is the wind blowing now?) 10 Walking Distance (You can’t go home again)

[pyrofella]

I just bought the full DVD set of the original show... My lovely lady and our nine year old daughter are now avid fans..... great stories with a surprising array of top class actors......

[adg2k11]

@troodon: If you'd look at the description you'd see it clearly says "episode 29, season 1 in the very first sentencde.

[TheDellanator]

this isn't that scary...? I mean sure you'd be fucking shitting yourself if you were like 20 and saw your 6 year old self in your VERY OWN living room but, she didn't know that xD

[thetylife]

Unfortunately the rest of the ep. did not live up to what this great monologue promised IMO...pretty predictable, tho good ep. . Excellent creepy performance by this girl in particular...and great cast ..as with most TTZ.

[spartacus3ful]

The acting ability of children in these earlier days was unbelievable. Far superior to the underaccomplished little brats of today who just seem to be reading the sentences off of the scripts, or in other instances, hamming it up to the point of being sickening. I truly think the artistic abilities of children are reflected by the educational standards of the time.

[KutWrite]

@spartacus3ful - Probably also their willingness to take direction... and sense of thankfulness for such opportunities. At least, their parents would be thankful!

[justsladjana]

@spartacus3ful

you're absolutely right!

[bloodhoof66]

@spartacus3ful one name to disprove this. chloie grace moretz .

[ryantylerMachete]

@spartacus3ful The educational standards today are far beyond what they were then. You lose, good day sir.

[wallofboingo]

@spartacus3ful You really had me until the education comment, which I feel has absolutely zero bearing on a persons ability to ACT. Acting is emotional, not educational.

[drumminghunter]

@spartacus3ful Indeed! As well as the adhearance to standards of morality. By which, now having been trode upon by debased and perverted minds, acting does not require much human substance or character!

[brownies4you]

@spartacus3ful After seeing this episode on DVD I told my friend something similar to what you wrote....except you phrased everything intelligenty. I can relate to what you wrote.

[telamon2011]

@brownies4you

Thanks for the thumbs up!

[jjdebenedettojr]

@spartacus3ful im not saying your wrong or anything, but you do realize she only said one line and the rest was her just looking around

[KryptonianBaby]

@spartacus3ful actually, the IQ standard of today is 22 points higher than it was in 62. An average IQ from then would register at a 78 today, almost a "mentally retarded" classification.

[WhiteKestrell]

@KryptonianBaby IQ seems to follow the same trend as wealth. The Genius gets wiser and the Idiot gets.. stupider.

[materialgirl8707]

@spartacus3ful I know, wow this little girl's acting is marvelous. Children too were better dressed back then. Her clothes are very pretty she looks like a cute and pretty dolly

[Archangel101576]

This was one of the most disturbing episodes of the series. When Helen remembered who killed her mother, and with the murderer standing right beside her when she had this revelation was very scary.

[Javier23gol]

Actually in the Twilight Zone movie, the woman who founded the boy that everyone is scared of is called Helen Foley

[DumblyBrilliant]

A little girl will lead her by the hand and walk with her into a nightmare........

Feminism. Dum Dum Dahhhhh.

[lilclerk]

This is one of my favorites, thoroughly creepy.

[repelghosts]

This one was f--king awesome..I only have it on the old vhs, I purchased in L.A. like 5 years ago....I am so sorry for all..It is amazing...

Gemma

[TheDellanator]

whats scarrry about this? fuck that i'm watching the episode! probably going to scare myself to death but meh, worth it~!

[ImNotYourFriend212]

This is pretty much the best show ever. It's entertaining, it's scary and sometimes a little comical and even eerie. My mom raised me on this show. :-)

[FancySmancyFancy]

what is this episode called? thanks in advance(:

[troodon311]

It's in the first sentence of the video description.

[earp1673]

@troodon311 What episode number is this?

...Sorry couldn't resist...

[paule3d]

@troodon311 hahaha :)

[mandybarr80]

@FancySmancyFancy nightmare as a child. It has a nice twist ending i reccomend it

[FancySmancyFancy]

@mandybarr80 thanks (:

[Jor282]

@FancySmancyFancy its called nightmare as a child but good luck finding it cause i cant find it in the internate :( but if u do than please tell me how

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[lorealmadonna8]

@FancySmancyFancy Read the damn description

[TheCatsLastWord]

@MRJAVINR If you get netflix they have up to season 5, but I think it skips season 4...or you can just watch it on youtube :) I know during New Years they usually have a Twilight Zone marathon on the Scifi channel

[troodon311]

I wish I could explain it to you. But fear is an emotion, and as such it must be experienced in order to be understood.

[returnoftheramble]

I understand fear. I was "good."

[Funnyfish66]

Nothing al that creepy realy happened... :l

[cffnmkr13]

I feel like I missed something.

[dltanner99]

Horror novel see video book trailer

[Spartacus217]

Is the adult female Carol Burnett?

[Tina85ok]

@Spartacus217 No, its Janice Rule (1931-2003).

[filmfreak9115]

@Spartacus217 It's Janice Rule.

[Bombeni]

Girl played "The Bad Seed" --- awesome movie you should check it out, it's a classic.

[GypsyFairy85]

@Bombeni

This little girl is Suzanne Cupito who later became known as Morgan Brittany.

Patty McCormack played the little Rhoda in The Bad Seed.

[Bombeni]

@GypsyFairy85 Yeah you're right, they look alot alike though. I haven't seen Bad Seed in a long time going to have to go look for it. Thanks.

[charcas67]

@GypsyFairy85 The little girl is Terry Burnham,not Suzanne Cupito. Burnham was in Imitation of Life as Lana Turner's daughter Susie as a little girl (Sandra Dee played Susie as a teen).

[EpicNinja42]

The beginning kind of sounds like an underground haiku:

Month of November

Hot chocolate

A child's face

[ThoughtsUCantDecode7]

This is a little creepy... Maybe it's because I've never seen the episode, but this wasn't too strange

[shootingstarzzz]

I dont get it??

[LINDSAYLIKEOMG]

All of the women in the original twilight zone episodes are so classically beautiful. If only it were like that today...maybe we'd have less heidi montag types

[75Krusty]

uuuhhh...hot chocolate with mamma.....very scarry.

[MyMerryMelodies]

totally thought that girl was Michelle Williams for a moment

[xxMissRoxyGirl96xx]

I saw this episode, it's really creep! Omg, I'm getting chills right now!

[dbrockett50]

Actually, the little girl is Terry Burnham. She appeared in other series in the early 60's. One was a Thriller episode. Very talented.

[mondocaneman]

This reminds me of the movie "the Bad Seed!" look it up!

[gabbydeb]

@mondocaneman The little girl was Patty McCormick in this episode, that is why it probably reminds you of the "Bad Seed", as Patty McCormick was the child star of the Bad Seed, and in my opinion one of the most talented child stars of the 1950's.

[mondocaneman]

@gabbydeb did this episode come out first before the movie? which? just wondering.

[gabbydeb]

@mondocaneman The movie was in the theaters in 1956, this TZ episode was broadcast in the first season, so it was after the movie. This episode was the spookiest one for me, when I was little. LOL

[Dracoa79]

I find the "It's a Good Life" opening creepier, personally. This wasn't all that creepy to me.

[znarf541]

That's a young Janice Rule.. she was so foxy..

[MrOoo11]

i dont get it can soeone tell me

[myhairiswaving]

Ummm....Holy false eyelashes?

The 60s certainly had their styles didn't they?

[SwarthySkinnedOne]

@myhairiswaving



Ummm.....are the these eyelashes any more worse than sacred phony boobs made prominent by our silicone age today? (And I heard they feel like rubber in the squeeze)

So let's not get too immersed into the pot calling the kettle here.

[spacejesusadventure]

@myhairiswaving 50s

[VRmission38]

@myhairiswaving No different than fake boobs or hair weaves today I guess.

[wolf25ph]

This is a bit of a spoiler so if you haven't seen it don't read on.

I never bought this as the girl needed to have darker hair or the woman needed to have lighter hair. They looked too dissimilar in my opinion.

[OneThousandHomoDJs]

@wolf25ph -- which would be legit if people's hair didn't often get darker as they got older, or if it wasn't common for women to dye their hair on purpose.

BTW, I heard about this episode only because Helen Foley was the name of the character played by Kathleen Quinlan in the TZ movie. Doesn't seem all that creepy, though....

[troodon311]

"Doesn't seem all that creepy"

+1 disagree

[sume555]

@OneThousandHomoDJs there was a TZ movie! :O

no one told me! where can i find it 'im a Twilight zone fan

[troodon311]

You should be able to find it just about anywhere you go to for movies. It was made in the 80s and is 4 stories put together in a single movie. It's not bad entertainment, though in my opinion 2 of the stories (#s 1 and 3) don't have a good Twilight Zone feel, and another (#2), while it has that feel, is rather boring. The final story in the movie is a classic though.

[deaddoc]

@wolf25ph With all the mixed race babies these days, I am surprised anyone would notice a lighter haired child with a darker haired mother. But they do it all the time in films today and make it look as ridiculous as they can, for SOME reason.

[wolf25ph]

@deaddoc - That would be fine except for one thing, that little girl isn't her daughter, it's her when she was a child.

[deaddoc]

@wolf25ph That's not my point. I had blonde hair as a child and then only dark brown that easily bleached in the sun and could have red highlights too (when I was one of those, "longhairs"). Now it's going gray.

[FetaCheese222]

@deaddoc It's not nessisarily mixed race. The mother could have a recessive blonde hair gene .

[deaddoc]

@FetaCheese222 That isn't what I was saying. Being a doc, I know something about genetics.

[TJWhitewolf]

Where is the full episode?

[STONECOLD1987]

wow that is creepy the way they used to make them. love twilight zone

[fromthesidelines]

Nope- Terry Burnham was never on "SPACE: 1999"., 'iwatcher'.

[fromthesidelines]

Terry Burnham, not Patty McCormack, appeared in this episode as "Markie", the solemn and mysterious little girl.

[fromthesidelines]

Serling also wrote this script as well; in the first season (1959-'60), he delivered his opening monologues off-camera, appearing only at the the end to describe "next week's story" (omitted from syndicated and cable rebroadcasts). In season two, he began to appear on camera to deliver his opening monologues, a la Alfred Hitchcock. Jerry Goldsmith wrote the percussive score for "Nightmare as a Child".

[iwatcher69]

@fromthesidelines

is she that lady from space 1999?

[Cyyael]

That girl was creepy.

[tall32guy]

@Cyyael Yep. She did a good job. Watch the full episode to find out exactly who she's supposed to be in this. :)

[weponized]

man twighlight zone owned

[61550LizziE]

Does anyone know which series (Twilight Zone or Outer Limits) and which episode was about the family who moved into a house in a neighborhood and the little girl went around saying she was from the third planet from the sun, the neighbors became paranoid, there was an investigation, the family was mobbed and surrounded and things escalated? I can't seem to find it.

[thechaz83]

@61550LizziE Well the title "third Planet From The Sun " was a Twilight Zone episode. I've forgotten how that episode panned out.

[61550LizziE]

@thechaz83 Thank you! I'm going to see if I can find it. : D

[EvelTwinOfSlogmaster]

@thechaz83 It was actually "Third From the Sun," iirc, no mention of "Planet" in the title. If that helps to find it...

[thechaz83]

@EvelTwinOfSlogmaster Thank you. I own all of the twilight zone definitive editions and its been a long time since I watched "Third From The Sun". Thanks again :)

[joanota]

i cant find this episode anywhere not even in other languages...anyone know where i can watch it???

[SuperMetroCardMan]

It actually is Season 1 Episode 29 "Nightmare as a Child".

Not Little Girl Lost.

[markcruiser64]

I believe the episode is called "Little Girl Lost".

[SuperMetroCardMan]

It is actually Season 1 Episode 29 "Nightmare as a Child".

[JennyFromTheVlog]

Little Girl Lost is the one where the girl has disappeared in the wall, not this one

[markcruiser64]

@JennyFromTheVlog Thanks. It has been a while since I watched The Twilight Zone. AMAZING writing.

[dbmrhi]

She did do The Bad Seed her name is Patty McCormack.

"Creepy. The little girl reminds me of the girl in the movie 'The Bad Seed."

[kurtb8474]

Half of the effectiveness of this monologue was the way it was written. The other half is the way Rod Serling read it. A creepy combo.

[dolly32112]

ughh i jst got chills all over, i love the whole look of the characters in the twilight zone episodes, like even though they are soo pretty there is something that is very chilling there

[americangalbasseyfan]

Creepy. The little girl reminds me of the girl in the movie 'The Bad Seed.'

[GingerChild11]

i cant find the whole episode. does anyone know where i can find it?

[bussyism]

@GingerChild11

veoh or CBS TWILIGHT ZONE CLASSICS

[store275]

As my dad would always say....'that Rod Serling was a genius!!! "

[tall32guy]

@store275 That he was! I've long been bummed out that he left us as early as he did. I wish he was still around.

[agentjs09]

@store275 That's what I always say!

[jhunted7667]

@store275 Rod Serling really knew how to scare people but has nothing in that department compared to Bernanke , his policies scare the shit out of me

[ihasaccount]

This narrator's voice makes me think of David Carradine, anyone got the facts on it?

[troodon311]

It's Rod Serling, the guy who created the show and wrote most of the episodes. He narrates a monologue at the beginning of every episode.

[ihasaccount]

Thank you very much!

[plove53]

@ihasaccount You must be SOOO young... I weep for our future LOL

[dubsleazy420]

@ihasaccount

WOW... 

[msHuggables1]

Is the full episode on you tube?

[tall32guy]

Yep! It was the last time I checked for it although that's been some time. It still ought to be around; do a check on it.

[Teflon65]

Awesome scene, from an awesome episode!

[NellyNinja]

brb shitting self

[kkgirl300]

this one alwayts scared the shit out of me

[fromthesidelines]

"Helen Foley" was also the name of Rod's childhood teacher as well. He occasionally sprinkled past "mileposts" in his scripts [the frequent references to "upstate New York", his old home address in Binghamton N.Y., "Bennett Avenue" {in "The Shelter'}, and so on]..