For tonight’s excursion into televised horror, we have an episode of Thriller!
This episode is called La Strega and it deals with an artist (Alejandro Rey) who saves a young woman (Ursula Andress) from drowning. It turns out that the local villagers believe that the woman is a witch. The artist has no time for superstition and takes the woman back to his home. She starts as his model and then becomes his lover. She may not be a witch but her mother (Jeanette Nolan) definitely is…
And, of course, this episode is introduced by the one and only Boris Karloff!
The episode premiered on January 15th, 1962.
Ida Lupino was the only woman to direct an episode of original version of The Twilight Zone (The Masks). Additionally, she acted in another episode from the series (The Sixteen Millimeter Shrine), making her the only person to both act in and direct episodes of the original Twilight Zone.
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