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Night Gallery: The House/Certain Shadows on the Wall (1970)
I still remember this segment 37 years later
I was only eleven years old when I first saw this 1970 episode, "The House"...and have remembered it all these years as it was quite haunting to me. I am actually in the process of downloading it right now (yes I am paying for it) to see if it really stands the test of time within my memory. I have often mentioned this particular episode to my daughter, and cannot wait to share it with her, and see how she reacts to it. It left a big impression on me, and frankly gave me a huge case of the willies. Not from fear, but by an ending I totally did not anticipate at my young age. I have often measured other "shock" endings to films against this one, and only did the movie "The Sixth Sense" come close. What was particularly notable was how pleasant and dreamy this episode was; there was nothing nefarious about how it played out. In fact it was almost subtle. The ending tied everything up into a lovely little package...at least it did for an eleven year old girl watching it with her grandparents.