Episode 126 marks the climax of the Matthew/Victoria kidnapping storyline and it's an impressive way to end the show. There's good character interplay between Roger and Burke, and some basic but effective special effects which don't disappoint.
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"I am not an animal! I am a human being!"
mark.waltz17 August 2020
Warning: Spoilers
What is she? The Elephant Man?
It's a rather scary but ironic choice of words that Victoria Winters says as Matthew prepares to kill her, believing that the three widows are ordering him to do so. We've seen the ghost of Bill Malloy, visiting David to ask him to protect Victoria, and now that Rodger and Burke are involved in her rescue, it's only a matter of time before she is discovered. Dead or alive, it's a classic case of Gothic melodrama at its very best.
The veteran actors must have been very impressed with young David Hennessy as he like a boy convincingly dramatized the psychological damage of a troubled young child. This episode is as haunting as anything that you seen an old Universal horror films and the German expression ilysm that gave awesome classic horrific cinematic images. Rodger dismisses David's claims of the ghost as hogwash, but it's obvious that Burke for some reason believes him. The two enemies must put aside their differences to at least investigate David's claims.
As Matthew roams around the old house looking for a weapon to finish off Victoria, it becomes very Sinister when he sets his eyes on a hatchet. I'm sure that as the Christmas season of 1966 rolled around, audiences were not prepared for something that would have been more appropriate for Halloween. The ghost of Josette Collins, play by Kathryn Leigh Scott, steps out of her portrait, and Bill Malloy also makes his entrance along with several others. It's chilling and brilliant, and when Josette appears to Victoria, it opens up a whole new can of worms for plots of the future. This culminates a story that has been digging its way up since the very first episode, and this is indeed the very best episode of the show up to this time.
It's a rather scary but ironic choice of words that Victoria Winters says as Matthew prepares to kill her, believing that the three widows are ordering him to do so. We've seen the ghost of Bill Malloy, visiting David to ask him to protect Victoria, and now that Rodger and Burke are involved in her rescue, it's only a matter of time before she is discovered. Dead or alive, it's a classic case of Gothic melodrama at its very best.
The veteran actors must have been very impressed with young David Hennessy as he like a boy convincingly dramatized the psychological damage of a troubled young child. This episode is as haunting as anything that you seen an old Universal horror films and the German expression ilysm that gave awesome classic horrific cinematic images. Rodger dismisses David's claims of the ghost as hogwash, but it's obvious that Burke for some reason believes him. The two enemies must put aside their differences to at least investigate David's claims.
As Matthew roams around the old house looking for a weapon to finish off Victoria, it becomes very Sinister when he sets his eyes on a hatchet. I'm sure that as the Christmas season of 1966 rolled around, audiences were not prepared for something that would have been more appropriate for Halloween. The ghost of Josette Collins, play by Kathryn Leigh Scott, steps out of her portrait, and Bill Malloy also makes his entrance along with several others. It's chilling and brilliant, and when Josette appears to Victoria, it opens up a whole new can of worms for plots of the future. This culminates a story that has been digging its way up since the very first episode, and this is indeed the very best episode of the show up to this time.
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