Night Gallery, The Caterpillar 1/4

A brand new nightmare starring Laurence Harvey here in the Night Gallery.

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• gallery
• the
• caterpillar
• laurence
• harvey

[here4family]

To this day earwigs send screams of shivers up and down my spine. I mash every one I see because of this episode. I think shows like Night Gallery and The Outer Limits did more to fuck my sleep up over the last 40 years than anything else. Today's "horror", although more technical and gruesome, doesn't hold a candle to watching Night Gallery on a creepy wind-strewn night in our 100 year old house at the end of that darkly unlit dead end street, right beside the old swamp.

[MissMael]

Reminds me of my thoughts after watching Saw. It had a clever little twist at the end but it wasn't close to being scary. The acting was horrifying though.

[Teflon65]

Saw this many years ago, and didn't know who Laurence Harvey was. Many years later, I bought a DVD of the original Manchurian Candidate, and Harvey was superb in that. To now know he not only did a Night Gallery, but one of the best ones, is very gratifying. Thank you very much for posting this.

[ATamandua]

I remember seeing this 40 years ago as a kid (the last 1/3 of the show). Looking at the painting in the beginning of this it's totally appropriate for the episode (the female's, er, woman's face in the man's mouth, especially) but MAN some of the artwork in this was gruesome.

[TSM8088]

....The whole ruddy Malay Arch-i-pel-a-go!

[TheMrBlinx]

The real earwigs don't go in your ears, but they will pinch you if you sleep on the floor. I slept on the floor for back trouble and they would often wake me by pinching me. I hate them. They also put out a stink. Google earwig and you'll see what they are.

[1964nickel]

This one scared the heck out of me as a kid. It still makes my ears itch, even after all these years. *shudder* TY heh

[dirths]

@here4family Try being born in 63 and having four older sisters that didn;t care if you were scared or not! They watched this every week, and I was allowed to, too. Even though I was less than 10 years old and it scared the crap out of me!!!

[5jerry1]

@Teflon65

But this episode couldn't happen that way. ;-)

[5jerry1]

Even though everybody tampered with Serling's scripts and vision, this was an excellent series nonetheless.

[myrtlebox]

This one freaked me out when I was 10. I think its the best that NG had to offer

[capie44]

I love her skirt...they are so beautiful. I wish women still wore them.

[Mufaso1000]

Rod Serling always looked like he needed a bath and a shave.