I loved this series. I well remember the episode "Face of
Ice", whereupon a dead man in a cryogenic chamber kept coming back to life and
murdering his relatives.
What struck me as elegant, simple and harrowing
was some of the camera work in that episode, especially when the dead man had
come back to life. You never saw the dead frozen guy until the end, but you knew
he was coming to get somebody when the camera did an extreme close-up of a
doorknob, which started to ice over and then turn. The door would crack open and
you KNEW the frozen guy was beghind it, waiting to clutch your throat with his
cold, dead hands. . . .
Brrrr. I woke up screaming after watching that
episode and my mother swore I wan never going to watch it again. Of course, you
know I did.
I loved THE SIXTH SENSE and its companion series like DARK
SHADOWS and KOLCHAK: THE NIGHT STALKER. Nobody manufactured horror in the
Super70s like ABC-TV. If only that sort of writing were still around today.
--MichaelCNH
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