A wax-museum employee fights to preserve five figures of famous murderers.A wax-museum employee fights to preserve five figures of famous murderers.A wax-museum employee fights to preserve five figures of famous murderers.
Margaret Field
- Emma Senescu
- (as Maggie Mahoney)
Leonard Bremen
- Van Man
- (as Lennie Bremen)
Eddie Barth
- Sailor
- (as Ed Barth)
Robert McCord
- Burke
- (as Robert L. McCord)
Rod Serling
- Narrator
- (uncredited)
- …
- Director
- Writers
- Charles Beaumont
- Rod Serling
- Jerry Sohl(uncredited)
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Did you know
- TriviaOne of many episodes solely credited to Charles Beaumont, though due to Beaumont's failing health, Jerry Sohl was his ghostwriter. Beaumont plotted this episode with Sohl, the screenwriter.
- GoofsAs Balsam's character says, "The museum can't be held responsible..." the "wax figure" on the right can be seen to swallow.
- Quotes
Narrator: [Closing Narration] The new exhibit became very popular at Marchand's, but of all the figures, none was ever regarded with more dread than that of Martin Lombard Senescu. It was something about the eyes, people said. It's the look that one often gets after taking a quick walk - through the Twilight Zone.
- ConnectionsFeatured in Twilight-Tober-Zone: The New Exhibit (2023)
Featured review
Martin Balsam shines as wax museum worker in episode directed by John Brahm...
John Brahm (director of feature film classics THE LODGER and HANGOVER SQUARE), directed this "Twilight Zone" episode starring MARTIN BALSAM, giving it the sort of Gothic touches he gave his full-length feature films. This one is about a wax museum curator who delights in taking the customers on a tour of "Murder's Row", including lifelike wax figures of infamous criminals like Jack the Ripper. Balsam is so obsessed with these figures that he's soon a good candidate for "the twilight zone" himself.
When told that the museum will have to be demolished to make way for a supermarket, Balsam sees his thirty-year career as a curator coming to an end. The owner explains that "People aren't interested in wax figures any more" when Balsam suggests opening another museum. He shows Balsam the waning cash receipts, but Balsam is obsessed with preserving the five wax figures of murderers in his basement.
What happens next, makes for a very intriguing episode of "The Twilight Zone" called THE NEW EXHIBIT under the expert guidance of John Brahm.
Balsam is excellent as the caretaker who talks to the figures as though they were real. The story takes a sharp turn into high suspense when his wife enters the cellar with every intention of turning off the air-conditioner that keeps the figures from melting. The suspense is even further heightened when her brother becomes suspicious of her eventual disappearance as well as when the museum owner arrives with the news that the figures have been sold to another museum, but has to take their measurements first. What happens can only be described as something that can only occur in "The Twilight Zone".
Well done, it's a special treat for fright fans.
When told that the museum will have to be demolished to make way for a supermarket, Balsam sees his thirty-year career as a curator coming to an end. The owner explains that "People aren't interested in wax figures any more" when Balsam suggests opening another museum. He shows Balsam the waning cash receipts, but Balsam is obsessed with preserving the five wax figures of murderers in his basement.
What happens next, makes for a very intriguing episode of "The Twilight Zone" called THE NEW EXHIBIT under the expert guidance of John Brahm.
Balsam is excellent as the caretaker who talks to the figures as though they were real. The story takes a sharp turn into high suspense when his wife enters the cellar with every intention of turning off the air-conditioner that keeps the figures from melting. The suspense is even further heightened when her brother becomes suspicious of her eventual disappearance as well as when the museum owner arrives with the news that the figures have been sold to another museum, but has to take their measurements first. What happens can only be described as something that can only occur in "The Twilight Zone".
Well done, it's a special treat for fright fans.
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- Doylenf
- Feb 15, 2008
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- Runtime51 minutes
- Color
- Aspect ratio
- 1.33 : 1
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