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10 of 11 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
A great adventure, scary and thought-provoking,
By brian akers (Atlanta formerly) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Outer Limits: Cry of Silence [VHS] (VHS Tape)
Eddie Arnold plays an urbane, well-dressed city man with a hankering to get away from it all by moving out to the country. But his platinum blonde wife isn't too keen on the idea and has to be more or less dragged along under protest. When they get out there, he finds himself surrounded by Utter Weirdness. No, we're not talking about "Green Acres", but rather its science fictional predecessor "Cry of Silence". This is a very enjoyable, zero special-effects classic of the original Outer Limits' budgetarily-challenged second season. I've often wondered whether the creators of "Green Acres" didn't get the idea for that sitcom from watching this show (the chronology would be about right)! This episode targets the viewer's imagination and fear of the unknown with great skill and enjoyable results. As in some earlier OL episodes which cast such mundane items as rocks and dust-bunnies in a paranoid light, so with this one; and after viewing it, one can never view tumbleweeds quite the same again. Frogs and rocks also become objects of fear (the former possibly foreshadowing the Ray Milland film "Frogs"). The plot revolves around an incorporeal alien intelligence that occupies and animates ordinary things in a remote, desolate canyon, in a determined effort to discover and make contact with earthly life. This episode is strong on mood and story (like most classic OL), and one of the most hair-raising moments of all is when the alien possesses a human corpse. The alien force is so different from earthly life in form and substance that it doesn't recognize it as such, just as our earthly protagonists can't easily comprehend what is happening to them. The dramatic theme is the need of separate beings to overcome the differences that divide and separate them, to relate or make contact and thus transcend alienation, or exhaust themselves trying. "This is the only flag we can plant". A great nostalgia trip back to a time when science fiction had dignity and appealed not only to the mind (both intellect and imagination) but also to the heart, instead of just trying to play up to the immaturity and conceits of a spoiled, tasteless mass audience via empty special effects and vacuous psychodrama.
7 of 8 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
One of the creepiest of the series,
By A Customer
This review is from: Outer Limits: Cry of Silence [VHS] (VHS Tape)
June Havoc is fantastic as she and her husband (Eddie Albert) fend off animated tumbleweeds, a frog attack and malevolent boulders in a creepy farm inhabited by an equally creepy farmer (Arthur Hunnicut). The crisp dialogue and uncomfortable sense of confused tension make this a memorable episode
5 of 6 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
The Very Best Episode,
By A Customer
This review is from: Outer Limits: Cry of Silence [VHS] (VHS Tape)
Though I have not seen this episode since the early sixties when I was only a 6 or 7 year-old girl, it always stuck out in my mind as the quintessential episode. Of course, after all these years, I did not recall the title, but never, ever forgot those tumbleweeds. Thanks to a previous reviewer for mentioning them so that I will soon have it in my collection. Can't wait to see it after soooooooooooooo many years!
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