Yeah it's mainly due to painstaking remastering removing grain from both sound and picture removing cracks etc some episodes look better than others if they were recorded with video or film.
Someone needs to make a supercut of all of the times someone died on The Twilight Zone from falling either out a window or off a building to their death.
This one is in my top 3 favorite Junji Ito stories... I've myself been plaggued by sleeping troubles ever since I was a very small child, and over time it deteriorated from insomnia, recurring nightmares, to lucid nightmares where I know I'm dreaming but can't wake up, and sleep paralysis, perhaps the worst of the bunch... Considering all that, Ito's "Long Dream" is obviously a special king of scary to me. And "Perchance to Dream" has always stuck with me since I was a kid.
I'd say the Batman version, but it's a bit apples-and-oranges. Both use the dreamworld to explore dual themes; in BTAS, it's the choice between what you want to be true vs what you know to be right, and in TTZ, it's the allure of the Void, both seductive and terrifying. But in BTAS, you already have Batman's character well-established, so you can go into it a lot deeper, with more personal touches and introspection into Bruce's character and psyche. With TTZ, you just get this one shot with this one character, so it's done in a more general, conceptual way.
@@MadHatter42 And a fine design it was you made for him, shame the reading glitch wasn't overcome otherwise you would had kept Batman within the perfect kind of prison..
@@worldofthought8352 Alas, indeed! If only he had been content with picture books, for, honestly, what is the use of a book without pictures? They're most slithy and frumious things, these words...
Yup, all the amusement park and fun house footage was filmed in 1959 at San Francisco’s Whitney’s Playland at the Beach. Sadly the park was demolished in 1972, but thankfully the historic Looff Carousel (built in 1905) has been restored and still runs at Yerba Buena Park in downtown SF
I really like how this episode explores Freudian themes without being too overt about it (probably because of the censorship), this along with the visuals and atmosphere, make it one of my favourites.
When he jumps out the window its hilarious lol.. like my boy take your chances with sleeping... go to the hospital, have them monitor your heart rate, take some meds... lol
How the man tells about his nightmares in that Twilight Zone episode ( Perchance To Dream) makes it very interesting. That is why it is one of my favorite Twilight Zone episodes! ❤
This episode was so trippy the first time I saw it. The ending felt like waking up after you dream you fell off a cliff, which might be intentional now that I think about it.
This was a creative premise, and I had no idea that it may have indirectly inspired "Inception" and the "Elm Street" flicks. The cinematography is also impressive, especially for 1950's standards. 😍🎡🎪
I figured it inspired the Freddy Krueger series. Instead of a badly scarred serial killer that is the antagonist in dreams we get this femme fatale who had a secret identity!
Then you should check out El Indio from the movie For a few dollars more. That guy looked just like my father who's in his late 50s but the actor was in his mid 30s
Amusement park footage was filmed in 1959 at San Francisco’s Whitney’s Playland at the Beach. Which operated on Ocean Beach off the Great Highway from 1923 thru Labor Day 1972 when it was demolished for modern condos
I feel like Maya is just another Grim Reaper in the Twilight Zone. She knows Edward has a heart condition and uses it to her advantage to send him to the Promised Land.
anyone else think that picture of Charles Bomant 4:23 the guy who wrote this episode looks like one of those character radio portraits you see in Bioshock 1 & 2?
I think the worse thing I’ve ever screamed out when waking from a nightmare is “That’s not going to fit!” (And no it wasn’t like that) For some reason my brain concocted a story that made it actually scary when my baby cousin couldn’t put the blocks in the holes correctly🤣
That skyscraper shot at 2:55 is from The Crowd (1928). The shot is played in reverse in this episode, as the original film has the camera going up the building, and inside one of the upper windows.
If you've never read Beaumont's short stories, I cannot recommend them enough. The Howling Man (a collection named after a story he wrote and Twilight Zone episode) is a great start. He creates such a creepy and oppressive atmosphere.
This episode is famous for introducing John Larch to Twilight Zone. He went on to make more memorable appearances and is considered Twilight Zone legend.
There's actually a condition where people can slip so far into their daydreams that they'll imagine an entire lifetime going by. Unfortunately this is more of a curse than a blessing as the daydreams can take hours without them even realising it
I like the idea of exploring dreams, from never remembering the beginning of a dream: to dreaming in black and white vs in color as well as what a dream could mean.
I just watched this episode for the first time about 4 hours ago, having received the 24-disc Blu-ray set for Christmas. The element that I found most interesting is that I too sometimes dream in chapters. I didn't know that anyone else did that. I've seen most of the episodes from this series before, but somehow I missed this one.
I was going to type a while big thing about Dr.Caligari because I'm an uber fan of that classic. But you mention in the video so I'll just say thank you
I’ve thought about this episode every day since i had seen it as a kid in elementary school. I’m 35 now. I feel like it tells me my anxiety is warranted, no matter how much everyone tells me I’m just overreacting.
I feel like this episode was probably an inspiration for the black mirror episode “playtest” it has a really similar twist just dealing with video games instead of dreams
Part of me thinks M. Night must’ve gotten his “twist ending” ideas from this show. Problem is his twists are about as subtle as Hadraniel walking through a city. (Hadraniel is an extremely tall angel, 200 miles in height.)
This episode reminds me of a mystery illness that caused some men to die in their sleep. Reportedly, they would be having a nightmare, and then all of a sudden have a heart attack and die. The men were mostly refugees from Laos who had survived terrible events. The syndrome did inspire "A Nightmare on Elm Street." I am not sure if the Twilight Zone episode came before or after this occurrence, however. Here are some articles about it: History Channel article: www.history.com/news/nightmare-on-elm-street-real-inspiration-hmong-death Journal of the American Heart Association (more in detail, a lot of scientific stuff): www.ahajournals.org/doi/full/10.1161/JAHA.117.007837
Richard Conte plays a man of realitvely young age afraid that he will die of a heart attack. Conte passed away from a sudden heart attack in 1975 at relatively young age of 65. Despite Edward being stated to be 35, it is very obvious that Conte was alot older then 35. In fact, he was 49 at the time of this episode.
One thing that always puzzled me about this episode was how he saw that the receptionist resembled Maya. But how did he not see that when he first walked in?
Fear can be both terrifying and seductive. Fighting to stay awake seems to imply that part of him wants to dream that dream again. Perhaps he walked into his dream and got lost in it. The leap out the window might have his last effort to wake up!
The real question is, why did the psychiatrist's receptionist still look like Maya, even outside of his dream? It's implied he'd been having dreams about her before he even went to see a psychiatrist.
late reply but the ending seems to imply that the entire episode was essentially a dream from the moment he laid down in the psychiatrist office, he was imagining the receptionist as maya, rather than the other way around
It's ironic that he has an overactive imagination that won't let him sleep because that deprivation is going to make his overactive imagination far worse to the point of hallucination. Like a feedback loop of terror, insanity and even more sleep deprivation.
Edward is presented as being 35 and obviously quite a few years younger then the doctor. In real life, Richard Conte was four years older then John Larch. Conte was 49 and Larch was 45 at the time of this episode.
One thing that always bugs me about Twilight Zone is they stated the ages of their characters. When the actors were way older then what the narration stated. The actor here was nowhere near 35 years old (he was around 48) so it’s odd for them to even state the age when it’s not even that important.
They used to say a dream was almost instantaneous, but as a kid I knew they weren't! Sure enough as time went on they reversed this posit. The same with nerve transmission. They used to say it was like lightning, but I always used to wonder why when I stubbed my toe, I would have to wait for the pain to register in my brain !
When your dreams seem a little too real, when you can't fathom why those images emerged from your mind, it can be thrilling or petrifying. My subconscious can be a twisted bitch.
It may be due to the footage probably being remastered but I am always astonished how clear and sharp black and white movies and shows can be.
It’s actually because film technology had existed for decades , then we switched to digital and that was new tech that we had to perfect.
Yeah it's mainly due to painstaking remastering removing grain from both sound and picture removing cracks etc some episodes look better than others if they were recorded with video or film.
35 mm can be remastered in 4k. So maybe, one day, we'll have the whole serie in 4k 😍😍😍
Someone needs to make a supercut of all of the times someone died on The Twilight Zone from falling either out a window or off a building to their death.
Just the window ones. Call the supercut, "The Defenestration Zone"
Everyone else talking about batman, and I'm just thinking about Junji Ito's long dream.
I see youre also a person of culture. ❤
Exactly
This one is in my top 3 favorite Junji Ito stories... I've myself been plaggued by sleeping troubles ever since I was a very small child, and over time it deteriorated from insomnia, recurring nightmares, to lucid nightmares where I know I'm dreaming but can't wake up, and sleep paralysis, perhaps the worst of the bunch...
Considering all that, Ito's "Long Dream" is obviously a special king of scary to me. And "Perchance to Dream" has always stuck with me since I was a kid.
Charles Beaumont was a brilliant writer. His premature death was a great loss to science fiction fans everywhere.
This episode is so great, and Maya is such a good antagonist.
So which "Perchance to Dream" episode was better? "The Twilight Zone" or "Batman the Animated Series"?
I'd say the Batman version, but it's a bit apples-and-oranges. Both use the dreamworld to explore dual themes; in BTAS, it's the choice between what you want to be true vs what you know to be right, and in TTZ, it's the allure of the Void, both seductive and terrifying. But in BTAS, you already have Batman's character well-established, so you can go into it a lot deeper, with more personal touches and introspection into Bruce's character and psyche. With TTZ, you just get this one shot with this one character, so it's done in a more general, conceptual way.
@@MadHatter42 And a fine design it was you made for him, shame the reading glitch wasn't overcome otherwise you would had kept Batman within the perfect kind of prison..
@@worldofthought8352 Alas, indeed! If only he had been content with picture books, for, honestly, what is the use of a book without pictures? They're most slithy and frumious things, these words...
Yes
The twilight zone one love both shows and both are good episodes but this episode was a turning point for cementing my enjoyment for twilight zone
I loooove this one. I love the creepy visuals and the use of the theremin throughout to give an eerie vibe. The funhouse scene is just fantastic.
Yup, all the amusement park and fun house footage was filmed in 1959 at San Francisco’s Whitney’s Playland at the Beach. Sadly the park was demolished in 1972, but thankfully the historic Looff Carousel (built in 1905) has been restored and still runs at Yerba Buena Park in downtown SF
I really like how this episode explores Freudian themes without being too overt about it (probably because of the censorship), this along with the visuals and atmosphere, make it one of my favourites.
When he jumps out the window its hilarious lol.. like my boy take your chances with sleeping... go to the hospital, have them monitor your heart rate, take some meds... lol
How the man tells about his nightmares in that Twilight Zone episode ( Perchance To Dream) makes it very interesting. That is why it is one of my favorite Twilight Zone episodes! ❤
This episode was so trippy the first time I saw it. The ending felt like waking up after you dream you fell off a cliff, which might be intentional now that I think about it.
One of the first twilight zone episodes i ever watched and is still my favorite
The title was used in a fantastic episode of Batman that's a version of a classic Superman comic "For the Man Who Has Everything".
The opening pan upward shot of a skyscraper is the same shot used in 1928 movie The Crowd.
This was a creative premise, and I had no idea that it may have indirectly inspired "Inception" and the "Elm Street" flicks. The cinematography is also impressive, especially for 1950's standards. 😍🎡🎪
I figured it inspired the Freddy Krueger series. Instead of a badly scarred serial killer that is the antagonist in dreams we get this femme fatale who had a secret identity!
@@melissacooper4282 Also Inception with the time dilation aspect.
Inception, Nightmare on Elm Street, Child's Play, Donnie Darko, What Women Want, Poltergeist, Toy Story... damn. What else ripped off TZ?
Also, "Maya" means illusion in Bengali and Hindi (Indian languages)
I've always liked this episode. It's one of the first I can remember watching as a kid, I thought it was very interesting and creepy.
I did not see that ending coming. It was really well done
That's the oldest 35-year-old man I've ever seen.
35 was the 55 of the era. Damn inflation.
Right, when I saw it, I had to look him up to check his actual age, because there was no way this man was 35 at the time.
Not sure but that may have been on purpose.
Someone dealing with perpetual stress due to terror and lack of sleep would probably look much older.
~_~
Then you should check out
El Indio from the movie For a few dollars more. That guy looked just like my father who's in his late 50s but the actor was in his mid 30s
Cool Cache he did go 87 hours without sleep
Amusement park footage was filmed in 1959 at San Francisco’s Whitney’s Playland at the Beach. Which operated on Ocean Beach off the Great Highway from 1923 thru Labor Day 1972 when it was demolished for modern condos
Info is important
I feel like Maya is just another Grim Reaper in the Twilight Zone. She knows Edward has a heart condition and uses it to her advantage to send him to the Promised Land.
I absolutely love the visuals in this!
anyone else think that picture of Charles Bomant 4:23 the guy who wrote this episode looks like one of those character radio portraits you see in Bioshock 1 & 2?
One of the weirdest endings but a great episode non the less
*nonetheless.
Maya was played so well man shes absolutely fucking haunting.
I think the worse thing I’ve ever screamed out when waking from a nightmare is “That’s not going to fit!”
(And no it wasn’t like that)
For some reason my brain concocted a story that made it actually scary when my baby cousin couldn’t put the blocks in the holes correctly🤣
That skyscraper shot at 2:55 is from The Crowd (1928). The shot is played in reverse in this episode, as the original film has the camera going up the building, and inside one of the upper windows.
Good eye
If you've never read Beaumont's short stories, I cannot recommend them enough. The Howling Man (a collection named after a story he wrote and Twilight Zone episode) is a great start. He creates such a creepy and oppressive atmosphere.
This episode is famous for introducing John Larch to Twilight Zone. He went on to make more memorable appearances and is considered Twilight Zone legend.
I would be happy to fall asleep for a long time 😅
Really enhances ones fear of death in a dream. But that scream and laugh did it for me, makes my skin crawl everytime lol
Charles Beaumont is a GREAT writer. I found a collection of his about 30 years ago.
This is my favorite episode of the twilight zone ever!!!
There's actually a condition where people can slip so far into their daydreams that they'll imagine an entire lifetime going by. Unfortunately this is more of a curse than a blessing as the daydreams can take hours without them even realising it
wait, stuff like that can actually happen? Oo
Yep, it's called Maladaptive daydreaming
@@ashleightompkins3200 mmmh... something word looking up or is this the kind of knowledge you would regret?
@@toongrowner1 I discovered it on TV tropes so make your own decisions on that. I find it curious more than anything
No it's true. I have had dreams that took place over the course of many years. Then I woke up, I was surprised that I was the same age.
I'm anxiously waiting for the I Shot an Arrow Into the Air episode
I like the idea of exploring dreams, from never remembering the beginning of a dream: to dreaming in black and white vs in color as well as what a dream could mean.
The funhouse scene alone is worth the price of admission!
I have never been this early before.
All I have to say is, love the show and this series.
Keep up the good work!
Thank you for letting me relive my love of twilight zone
I just watched this episode for the first time about 4 hours ago, having received the 24-disc Blu-ray set for Christmas. The element that I found most interesting is that I too sometimes dream in chapters. I didn't know that anyone else did that. I've seen most of the episodes from this series before, but somehow I missed this one.
I was going to type a while big thing about Dr.Caligari because I'm an uber fan of that classic. But you mention in the video so I'll just say thank you
Love The Dream Sequences, Amazing Acting
I honestly love that track that goes
“AAAAaah, AAAAaah” repeatedly.
I’ve thought about this episode every day since i had seen it as a kid in elementary school. I’m 35 now. I feel like it tells me my anxiety is warranted, no matter how much everyone tells me I’m just overreacting.
did you know theres a part of the sea named after this show
No, but consider me enlightened! 😁
@@trinaq what do you mean by no?
@@williamswonderland3636 I hadn't realised that a part of the sea took its name from this show before! 🌊😁
@@trinaq or at lest it's a quwisedensc
The music was terrifying in this Twilight Zone episode.
nice to see what inspired one of my favorite batman the animated series episodes
That actor was Barzini in The Godfather
I feel like this episode was probably an inspiration for the black mirror episode “playtest” it has a really similar twist just dealing with video games instead of dreams
THE TWIST: He met the Merryville Brothers on the ride.
The surreal dream sequences informing reality give off heavy Twin Peaks vibes
Have you seen "Twenty-Two"? To me, it's even more Twin Peaks-esque, especially the opening scenes.
This episode always creeps me out , and even creepier is that mysterious hitchhiker
You Go Walter ! You are the REAL NOSTALGIC CRITIC !!
Part of me thinks M. Night must’ve gotten his “twist ending” ideas from this show. Problem is his twists are about as subtle as Hadraniel walking through a city. (Hadraniel is an extremely tall angel, 200 miles in height.)
Im just waiting for Maya to say "Lali-ho!"
Another one of the best
Easily one of my fave episodes.
Is this the real life?
Is this just fantasy?
-Queen Bohemian Rhapsody
It could be a sweet dream, or a beautiful nightmare...
This episode used to creep me out and give me nightmares, it’s one of the most tangible stories in the series, this stuff happens
Scares himself into thinking terrifying things are happening and is afraid to sleep.
-Basically everyone in 2020
It was Barzini all along!!
Awesome 🤩
love this episode!!
Maya: We've been expecting you Mr. Hall.
Mr. Hall: No! It's all a lie!
1:05 okay but who doesn't trick themselves into thinking there's something in the rear view mirror at night?
I like some of the twilight zone episodes
This episode reminds me of a mystery illness that caused some men to die in their sleep. Reportedly, they would be having a nightmare, and then all of a sudden have a heart attack and die. The men were mostly refugees from Laos who had survived terrible events. The syndrome did inspire "A Nightmare on Elm Street." I am not sure if the Twilight Zone episode came before or after this occurrence, however.
Here are some articles about it:
History Channel article:
www.history.com/news/nightmare-on-elm-street-real-inspiration-hmong-death
Journal of the American Heart Association (more in detail, a lot of scientific stuff): www.ahajournals.org/doi/full/10.1161/JAHA.117.007837
Interesting. Thank you!
Richard Conte plays a man of realitvely young age afraid that he will die of a heart attack. Conte passed away from a sudden heart attack in 1975 at relatively young age of 65. Despite Edward being stated to be 35, it is very obvious that Conte was alot older then 35. In fact, he was 49 at the time of this episode.
so Black Mirror took the twist from this episode for their episode “Playtest”?
Black Mirror, as much as I like it, took everythign from this show
Yep black Mirror is a hack show that steals from all the better Anthology shows/books.
Black mirror is good in its own right, but I would argue that they are doing what the twilight zone did, but decades later. But they do it well
Would you consider doing a review for the Twilight Zone concept episode, The Time Element? I thought it was pretty good
Day nine? YEEEEESSSIRRRRRR
should check out night gallery good stuff
I remember watching this when I was younger!
Next time Judgment Night!
One thing that always puzzled me about this episode was how he saw that the receptionist resembled Maya. But how did he not see that when he first walked in?
He saw her and then went to the couch and dreamt of her. Right?
Fear can be both terrifying and seductive. Fighting to stay awake seems to imply that part of him wants to dream that dream again. Perhaps he walked into his dream and got lost in it.
The leap out the window might have his last effort to wake up!
❤ this vid music same fro SHB Mike
The real question is, why did the psychiatrist's receptionist still look like Maya, even outside of his dream? It's implied he'd been having dreams about her before he even went to see a psychiatrist.
late reply but the ending seems to imply that the entire episode was essentially a dream from the moment he laid down in the psychiatrist office, he was imagining the receptionist as maya, rather than the other way around
Moral of the story is a weak heart and a vivid imagination are a dangerous combination.
35 years old my ASS. The actor was 49!
Maya definitely was the highlight of this episode, a seductive and frightening presence.
It's ironic that he has an overactive imagination that won't let him sleep because that deprivation is going to make his overactive imagination far worse to the point of hallucination. Like a feedback loop of terror, insanity and even more sleep deprivation.
Edward is presented as being 35 and obviously quite a few years younger then the doctor. In real life, Richard Conte was four years older then John Larch. Conte was 49 and Larch was 45 at the time of this episode.
its one of the great BTAS episodes.
wait what were we talking about again?
The real question is, which is the worse nightmare scenario in this series...this episode, or the perpetual torment in "Shadow Play"?
One thing that always bugs me about Twilight Zone is they stated the ages of their characters. When the actors were way older then what the narration stated.
The actor here was nowhere near 35 years old (he was around 48) so it’s odd for them to even state the age when it’s not even that important.
In this case it works because of how anxious and worried he is. He should appear prematurely aged since he hadn't been taking care of himself.
Just found out Hulu has the whole show
0:51 - 0:53 For those of you who don’t know, that’s 3 days, & 15 hours he hasn’t slept.😢
They used to say a dream was almost instantaneous, but as a kid I knew they weren't! Sure enough as time went on they reversed this posit. The same with nerve transmission. They used to say it was like lightning, but I always used to wonder why when I stubbed my toe, I would have to wait for the pain to register in my brain !
35????!!!
Susan Lloyd is a BABE
Following the death of John Larch on 16 October 2005, Susan Lloyd is the sole surviving cast member of this episode.
Theres also a British film from the 70s that dealt with the dream stuff that inspired inception. Forget what the name was
That guy's supposed to be 35? Yeah, 35 going on 58. I guess all the _actual_ 35 year-old actors were busy playing teenagers somewhere.
When your dreams seem a little too real, when you can't fathom why those images emerged from your mind, it can be thrilling or petrifying. My subconscious can be a twisted bitch.
I'm still hoping that they do my favorite episode "A World of his Own"
Edward Hall survived .He then changed his name and became Vito and Michael Corleone's nemesis.
What is the music thats playing i know the tune but cant place it please help
Personally i love this episode. What are the other ones he wrote?
You can find them on wikipedia, charles beaumont's page.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Beaumont#Twilight_Zone_credits
FUN FACT: The main character in this episode (Richard Conte) played Barzini in “The Godfather”.
I knew he looked familiar but I couldn't figure out from where! Thanks for the fun fact!
Do the one which a man bets another man to stay silence for a year