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This episode of Outer Limits starts out great, but it
gets worse the longer it lasts: You see, there are these two women, Kasha
(Vera Miles) and Leonora (Barbara Rush), who have just poisoned their
mutual boyfriend André (Scott Marlowe), a blackmailer who was spelled
asshole with a big A. Now they have his body in the trunk of their car,
which breaks down in the middle of nowhere, and the only house nearby that
belongs to blind man Colus (Cedric Hardwicke) and inventor Hobart (David
McCallum) is nothing short of spooky. Add to this a constant thunderstorm,
a corpse that seems to pop in and out of the cartrunk rather at random, a
surreal chamber full of old clocks held together by a sort-of spider's web
and a story that above all follows the logic of a nightmare and you have a
pretty good horror tale ...
And this is where the story goes totally wrong, because now the story
starts to explain everything away: Mad inventor Hobart obviously tries to
bring the dead back to life, for which reason he needs both his room of
clocks and André's corpse ... but what he didn't expect was that André
might be a bit cranky once brought bck to life, and that he might hold a
grudge especially against the two women who murdered him ...
Of course it all ends with the demise of André, but then Leonora
decides to take apart Hobart's room of clocks - which makes him evaporate
because quite obviously he was a creation of his own experiments (?).
Too bad, too bad. This one started really good, a moody almost surreal
horror show ... and then the second half does everything in its power to
destroy the whole build-up in one go. Of course, The Shape of Things
Unknown is far from being the worst episode of Outer Limits
... though considering the atrociuos quality of some of the other
episodes, this is hardly any kind of achievement.
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