As Halloween comes to a close, so does both horror month here at the Shattered Lens and our series of televised horrors. What better way to finish out this feature than with one of the best known and most popular episodes of The Twilight Zone?
There’s a lot I could say about The Monsters Are Due On Maple Street but really, all that needs to be acknowledged is that it’s a classic and it features one of the best endings ever. As well, it also contains an important message about paranoia and conformity that remains as relevant today as when the episode was first broadcast.
The Monsters Are Due On Maple Street was written by Rod Serling and directed by Ron Winston. The episode was originally broadcast on March 4th, 1960.
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I really liked this episode, as well as “a stopover in a quite town”, and “Elegy”, two other episodes about bewildered, astounded people in bizarre, intriguing situations. “Monsters”, “Stopover”, and “The shelter” also all look like they were filmed on the same residential street, along with a few other twilight episodes also having parts seemingly filmed on same street. “Monsters” and “The shelter” both contain themes where a previously friendly, neighborly, family residential neighborhood gets emotionally and socially torn apart due to extreme scares and paranoia, and where nothing(such as aliens, war, or physical destruction) actually happen, but due to all the upheaval and fear and paranoia, nothing is the same between the neighbors afterwards.
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