This was the most frightening television episode I viewed as a child. It was broadcast Thanksgiving night 1960. Thriller was shown on NBC TV Thursday nights at 10 PM so normally I wasn't allowed to stay up and view the program because of school but since it was the holiday I was able to stay up and watch it.
The teleplay was based on horror master Robert Bloch's story "The Hungry Mirrors". Stars William Shatner, Russell Johnson, and Donna Douglas would go on to much bigger things but they give chilling performances in this story. Ottola Nesmith gives another one of her creepy old hag turns wearing virtually the same makeup she wears in her two other Thriller appearances.I always wondered if she and Jeanette Noland had some kind of agreement for Thriller as they both played the same kind of roles usually alternately. Ms Noland always had more dialog, however.But I digress.
The real star of this episode is the house with all its reflections that seem to lead to another more terrifying world. As I said,this episode scared the bejezzuz out of me when I first saw it and it still gives me goose bumps. I have a copy and it always is shown at our Halloween parties. The FX is quite effective and the ending will send chills up and down your spine. Shatner is his usual hammy self with his grim stares and pronouncing each line as though his life depended on it, but for this role it's called. I give it a "9" because the memory of the goosebumps it gave me still makes me smile with pleasure 53 years later.