The Twilight Zone is known for the weird, the macabe and the dark. At first, he dismisses the dolls cryptic messages as an elaborate prank, but he soon realizes the fake dolls threats are all too real. Erich Streator, an estranged step father, is less than pleased when his daughter brings home her own Talking Tina. No doubt some type of ancestor to 1988’s Child’s Play, Talking Tina is a loveable child’s toy-with murderous, psychopathic tendencies. However, under its enjoyable thrills is a message of finding peace in unsuspecting tragedy. The unexplainable phenomena, Stevens’ lonesome paranoia and the twist ending is textbook Twilight Zone. One of Inger Stevens’ two appearances on The Twilight Zone, “The Hitch-Hiker” is a simple-yet-cryptic story of young woman traveling cross country while being pursued by an unnamed hitcher. Bill Mumy and Chloris Leachman reprise their original roles, and Mumy’s real-life daughter serves as the story’s new tyrant. It also got a sequel in the 2002 Twilight Zone revival series, entitled “It’s Still a Good Life,” wherein Anthony is now a grown-up and his daughter has inherited his abilities. Like “Nightmare at 20,000 Feet,” the episode was remade for the Twilight Zone movie. That ever-present sense of menace exuded from the adorable face of Mumy is what makes things work. The adults tiptoe around the kid, but it never really matters, because he’s six, and six-year-olds aren’t particularly rational in the first place. It’s sort of like Game of Thrones, if little King Joffrey could simply think you out of existence for displeasing him. The fantasy of every child - to have unlimited power against grown-ups - is made horrifyingly real in 1961’s “It’s a Good Life.” Bill Mumy plays six-year-old Anthony Freemont, a boy with incredible psychic powers who holds everyone around him hostage.
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