Twilight Zone: Season 1 - Episode 6: Escape Clause (1959) - TV Episode Review

[caption id="attachment_330" align="alignright" width="220"] Official Score = 2 1/2 Devils[/caption]

You know there is a lot of people who think  the concepts of true immortality (literally living forever and never aging would be something truly awesome (myself being one of them.) As a matter of fact, rather it is the mystics of yesteryear, or the Scientists of today, mankind has invested a lot of effort in to finding out what the secret to eternal life truly is!

But what would you do with your time? I imagine scholars, if given the opportunity would choose to read every book that has ever been written, or will ever be written, to watch every documentary, and every lecture (and the like), that has ever been recorded, or will ever be recorded... I imagine thrill seekers would try to see how far that they can take things before things start causing damage again... And for others... Well who knows... I mean you do have a long time to figure that out.

The reason that I mention this is the fact that this is the topic of the next episode of, 'Twilight Zone' the original series!

Written by: Rod Serling (Planet Of The Apes) & Directed by: Mitchell Leisen (Hold Back The Dawn). Starring: David Wayne (The Andromeda Strain), Thomas Gomez (Force Of Evil) & Virginia Christine (Invasion Of The Body Snatchers).

[caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="404"] Walter Bedeker (David Wayne) is going to try to spend eternity killing himself![/caption]

The truth is, is this is a fun episode, it has an awesome story about one of those types who paranoid that they are getting sick, and what they will end up doing with their eternity after they make a deal with the devil... The cast is amazing... And I mean, it is the Twilight Zone after all, so the special effect for, (1959) are truly spectacular, there is only one problem!

This episode is to short... This episode should have been either a full hour at the very least, or even turned in to a movie... Well because it wasn't, in the end this episode looks rushed, and not he usual polish that comes with a twilight zone episode!

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The Mummy's Curse (1944) - Movie Review

[caption id="attachment_330" align="alignright" width="220"] Official Score = 2 1/2 Devils[/caption]

Before Ghostface, Before Pinhead, before Freddy, before Jason... Hell, even before Norman, the masters of horror were not what most of the time is now considered the standard in horror movie villain, as a matter of fact... They were a lot more Victorian... They were the monsters that were first made popular (with the exception of Dracula, who had been made popular in movie form as, 'Count Orlok' in F.W. Murnau's classic, Nosferatu eine Symphonie des Grauens (1922),) by, 'Universal Pictures' back in the 30s and 40s!

Personally, as a a serious horror fan, I have to admit that up until a few years ago (when I finally happen to be able to watch, Dracula (1931),) and I have to say that I was extremely impressed with how true to the original novel the cast and crew kept in that movie! And so I endeavored to eventually make a study of these movies... And the latest one I am proud to report having watched being, The Mummy's Curse (1944)!

[caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="250"] A classic![/caption]

Written by: Bernard Schubert (Mark Of The Vampire), Leon Abrams (Sunset In El Dorado), Dwight V. Babcock (She-Wolf Of London), Oliver Drake (The Sky Dragon), Ted Richmond (Red Sun) & Directed by: Leslie Goodwins (My Favorite Martian). Starring: Lon Chaney Jr. (The Mummy's Tomb), Peter Coe (House Of Frankenstein), Virginia Christine (The Killers), Kay Harding (Weird Woman), Dennis Moore (Raiders Of Ghost City), Martin Kosleck (The Flesh Eaters), Kurt Katch (Watch On The Rhine), Addison Richards (Flying Tigers), & Napoleon Simpson (Jungle Queen).

This movie... Which as it turns out was the second sequel in this series of mummy movies that helped to cement Lon Chaney Jr. (High Noon), (like his father), as a trailblazing horror movie icon... Tells the story of how after the events of, The Mummy's Tomb (1944)...

[caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="400"] The small town residence are about to get a rude awakening![/caption]

The year is 1995... Kharis (Lon Chaney Jr.) and the damage that he caused 25 years ago has begun to fade in to superstition... never the less, the people of the small Louisiana town are scared to go in to the Bayou regardless... And when things at a work camp that is working on an irrigation project at that Swamp start to go awry... Well that doesn't help!

But when Doctor's James Halsey (Dennis Moore) & Ilzor Zandaab (Peter Coe) show up in this small town to do, 'some excavation work' for a Museum... Things start to get really strange...

You see Dr. Zandaab and his assistant, 'Ragheb' (Martin Kosleck) have actually come to the small town, not just to dig up the mummy and his bride, but to also resurrect them and bring them back to Egypt...

[caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="525"] Zandaab & Ragheb with the mummy, as they start they're unholy quest![/caption]

In the end, it will be up to Dr. Halsey, and the irrigation team to and stop Zandaab, his team, and the mummy he has resurrected, before the mummy can be reunited with his beloved!

In the end, this may have been the last time that Lon Chaney Jr. would don the role of, 'Kharis' (It turns out that he was not a huge

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