Ensofter Overrated and overhyped

Intcatinfo A Masterpiece!

KnotStronger This is a must-see and one of the best documentaries - and films - of this year.

Ezmae Chang This is a small, humorous movie in some ways, but it has a huge heart. What a nice experience.

classicsoncall My summary quote is from Charlotte Rae's character Hazel Atterbury, wife of the guy (Don Keefer) in the 'Death Wish' episode, the one where he wants to kill her but the mortician turns the tables on him. As creepy and mysterious as the shows were, there was just the slightest enough hint of realism to make you think twice. For one season in 1961, 'Way Out' was the lead-in to that other imaginative show hosted by Rod Serling, everyone's favorite 'Twilight Zone'. Like many of the other posters on this board, I would have been about ten years old when this program first appeared, and the one I remember best even to this day was 'The Croaker'. I just finished watching it, along with the other four episodes that seem to be the only ones readily available. The surprise this time around was learning that the oddball guy turning victims into frogs was portrayed by venerable character actor John McGiver, and the neighborhood kid Jeremy was played by Richard Thomas. I recall sitting on the couch with my Dad fifty years ago when this episode first aired, and we both looked at each other with barely disguised glee when Jeremy concocted his own formula to one-up old Mr. Rana (McGiver). I won't reveal it, but that ending just blew me away. Very clever too, that name Rana, which is a genus of frogs used for McGiver's character.The shows opened with pairs of buried hands clawing out of their presumed burial places, consumed by smoke and fire. Host Roald Dahl greeted the viewer with a droll "How are you"?, and then did a bit of a somber monologue that was about as creepy as the show itself. Duplicate images of his talking head lent an even eerier quality to the rhythm of his voice, and he had this mesmerizing effect on the viewer making you hang on every word.Count me in as a fan who would love to see these shows remastered and brought out for a modern day audience. There's a reason why series like this, 'The Twilight Zone', 'The Outer Limits', and 'One Step Beyond' hold sway with such large numbers of fans today. They tap the imagination in a way that's not done any more with stories that both frighten and amuse, and as Roald Dahl would be inclined to say, "You can be quite sure, it is Way Out".

haquenin I really want to thank the commenter named Guanche for confirming that the opening of this series featured a bunch of hands coming out of the sand. I was about 10 years old when this series aired and ever since the early 1960's, I've been trying to recall the name of the scary TV show with the hands coming out of the sand. As a kid, I was a nut for every type of horror and science fiction program on television. I loved One Step Beyond, Twilight Zone, Thriller, Alfred Hitchcock, and The Outer Limits. This short-lived TV show, though, became my favorite. I won't write any spoilers but I remember one episode that was very creepy about a man who has a terminal disease and who has his brain preserved and hooked up to a computer. He learns that his wife has been cheating on him. I remember a funny scene when the wife visits the lab and blows cigarette smoke at her husband's brain. If I remember well, this series was not shot on film but was like the earlier Twilight Zone episodes in that it was shot on tape. It might even have been live television. I ended up liking this show more than Twilight Zone because it had a more dark edge and more daring horror. Next to the episode of Thriller called 'The Hungry Glass' (which had school kids all across America sleeping with their lights on for weeks after it aired), this was the scariest and edgiest horror and science fiction on early television that I can recall.

hardybing Way Out was a show of the type like Twilight Zone, One Step Beyond, or Alfred Hitchcock Presents. I was only a kid, but I watched it fairly regularly and enjoyed it. The opening showed a hand coming out of dirt and then being consumed by flames- very dramatic; and a little scary for a kid. The one episode that really sticks out in my mind was of the hen-pecked photographer with the nagging wife. When the were young, she was very attractive but he was a homely type in appearance. He invented/found a photo correction solution that when you used it to correct photos, whatever was corrected became like that in real life. So, to get back at his wife, he took a photo of her and made her gradually look ugly over a period of years; and he made himself look younger and more handsome. This really rankled her. The one day, she caught him correcting his photo, and realized what he had been doing. She attacked him and made him drop the bottle on the floor and the solution spilled on his photo. In his haste to recover the priceless solution, he stepped on the photo with his shoe; and when he raised his head up, his face had a big shoe print on it, and the solution was gone.

evilgrows The 12th episode ("Side Show") of this GREAT terrifying anthology series was one of it's BEST and most unsettling and left a lot of kids (including myself & my best friend) - VERY scared! It had to do with a carnival Sideshow where there was this "Lady with a light bulb for a head". She was strapped into this electric chair and 10,000 volts of electricity ran through her and kept her alive... This meek henpecked husband (Harold) goes to the sideshow and falls in love with this "Headless" woman named Cassandra who begs him to free her from the chair. He returns the third night with pliers to free her, which they show him trying to do. BUT, the final ending sequence is the most unsettling and unforgettable - when you see that the MAN is now strapped into the electric chair with a light bulb in place of HIS head and the headless woman (Cassandra) is standing next to him, laughing, with a *HEAD that looks like it was sew on (*from an opening sequence where the head of a woman is guillotined into a basket as one of the Sideshow's other attractions...) Anyone else who saw this episode - will NEVER forget it (even after 55 years) - it is THAT haunting! Anyone else recall seeing this extremely SCARY one? I would love to see it again, but unfortunately THIS episode has NOT been unearthed on any kind of VHS or DVD (even a "bootleg" or unauthorized one!) as yet. We can only hope that someday the superb WAY OUT series will finally be made available again! ;)**ATTENTION (April 2016) - This episode has just shown up on you tube under: WAY OUT - Incredible!! Check it out while you can!**