Lucybespro It is a performances centric movie

Konterr Brilliant and touching

Dynamixor The performances transcend the film's tropes, grounding it in characters that feel more complete than this subgenre often produces.

Claire Dunne One of the worst ways to make a cult movie is to set out to make a cult movie.

ramarex1 For years after this show aired, I could not hear the theme song to the TV program "Route 66," the lead-in to this show, without getting all apprehensive and "goose bumpy." I associated it with "Way Out's" gnarly hands protruding from the ground at the end of the show's opening credits. Or were they sticking out of lava? Or boiling sand? I seem to recall the ground around the hands being cracked... broken, and steam coming out...? Boy, a remastered DVD release of these 14 titles would be fab-u-lous, if only for their historical value. I know I love to be scared and most modern television is far, far too timid. Too bad, these were classics. And TV execs in the sixties were just as predictable as those of today when it comes to green lighting schlock and canceling greatness before it has a chance to blossom. Imagine if less than insightful TV execs had controlled "Seinfeld" or "The Twilight Zone." And, just in passing, parents are too soft and protest against TV programs too much, claiming that their children would be adversely affected by scary programs. Hey, mom and dad, HIDE THE REMOTE or PUT THAT SINISTER "V-CHIP" TO A REAL TEST! Just because the occasional serial killer comments on how much he loved scary programs in his youth, does not mean that your little Jill or Johnny will likewise succumb to such a fate. Lots of us "little morons" loved this stuff as children, even if it did give us nightmares, but as the old saw tells us, what doesn't kill us, makes us stronger, right? In fact, Way Out scared me so much that I'm surprised I didn't turn out to be like Stephen King, Clive Barker, or Wes Craven. Then again, maybe it did and I just haven't realized it yet...

tomneiman Does anybody remember the TV show Great Ghost Tales. This show was very similar to Way Out. First, it was filmed live in New York City. Second, the show came on at 8:30 P.M. CST. Like Way Out, the show was short lived. Great Ghost Tales ran for 12 episodes, Way Out for 14. Fourth, Richard Thomas of The Waltons fame starred in one episode of Way Out and one episode of Great Ghost Tales. Way Out aired on CBS from 3/31/61 to 7/14/61. Great Ghost Tales aired on NBC from 7/6/61 to 9/21/61. The show replacing Great Ghost Tales was Hazel. A viewer would almost get the impression that Great Ghost Tales was a continuation of Way Out on another network with another announcer, Frank Gallop. On Way Out the episode that frightened me the most was "I Heard You Calling Me" about a woman who drowned 49 years ago aboard the Titanic. She haunted the room on the 7th floor of a hotel in London. On Great Ghost Tales, it was "A Phantom of Delight". This episode was about a woman who died forty years ago on her wedding day. Wearing her wedding gown, she would haunt her bedroom that was left locked and untouched by her parents.

bppuppy1 This T.V. show aired when I was 9 years old. All I can remember about it was that the first episode scared the heck out of me, the second episode scared the heck out of my grandmother and the third episode ( having to do with nuclear war, I believe) scared the heck out of my parents. After that, we weren't allowed to watch it anymore, and I wish it was available on tape or DVD so I could see for myself what I missed. Now that I look back, after seeing everything in the horror and sci-fi field that's come out since, I wish I could see these episodes and compare them to all the shows I've loved since then, like Twilite Zone or Outer Limits.

guanche The "galaxybeing" did a good job of describing this series and did so with a good deal more specificity than I could. The show was genuinely frightening. I do remember the episode about the love affair with the headless "electric woman". It gave me nightmares as a child. One of the most chilling things about the show (I hope I'm remembering this correctly) was the lead in at the beginning. I recall hands sticking up out of sand and writhing to the tempo of beatnik bongo drums. As the drum crescendo increased in intensity, the hands would burn up.No wonder it lasted just fourteen episodes in the days of Ward and June Cleaver! Definitely ahead of its time.