Comments on: Episode 74: The Shadow of Death

By: David Daley

David Daley — Sun, 14 Feb 2021 08:25:26 +0000

I’m with the MORLS crew as liking this one as Inner Sanctum has always been enjoyable for me. The sardonic humor in the story and intro just works for me. There was a bit of a letdown after Howard tells the psychiatric doctor about his dream where Marie’s mother and the doctor didn’t want him to leave the Sanitarium, a reference which placed them together which amounted to nothing later but could maybe have made the story more interesting or provided a twist. I love all the episodes though, whatever happens in the reliably sinister stories. I think there are only a handful where nobody gets killed. I like the mid 20th century film noir flavour they all have and the use of dreams in this one. Widmark was great as an earnest homicidal lunatic.

By: Doug Shaw

Doug Shaw — Wed, 09 May 2018 20:12:20 +0000

I loved this one. The first twist (It wasn’t supernatural – it was HE who was doing the killing!) genuinely surprised me. At the commercial break – I thought it was over (“Wow! That was a really short episode!”) If you think about it – that could have been an ending point. The tension throughout the episode was real for me – it all worked. I was scared for each of his victims. I also liked how the heroine was able to have actual agency and outwit him.

I didn’t read the end as saying “he was dead all the time” – I thought it meant “He was so convinced he was going to die that he did. Mental patients, right? What can ya do?” But yeah, that was not up to the quality of the rest of the episode.

What can I say? This one really scared me. I was glad I wasn’t listening to this episode as I often do – late at night, on the highway in my car, on one of those stretches of midwestern highway where the only light is from my headlights reflecting off of the solitary white lines in the road.

Oh – and that break, where the tea lady started making puns – oh that was delightful.

By: Joshua English Scrimshaw

Joshua English Scrimshaw — Fri, 23 Mar 2018 17:16:09 +0000

In reply to Mark Forrester. More fun than good is an apt description. The story falls to pieces under any real scrutiny, but thanks to the intensity of the individual scenes (not to mention the comedy of Mr. Host and Mary), it keeps you entertained from beginning to end. Well, almost to the end. There's no reading of that final graveyard twist that makes any sense.

By: Mark Forrester

Mark Forrester — Fri, 23 Mar 2018 14:01:42 +0000

I’d say that was more fun than good . . . but sometimes that’s exactly what you want! I didn’t think he was dead the whole time. If he was, what makes him fall over and be more dead? (Was it the Lipton tea???)

By: William munson

William munson — Sun, 11 Mar 2018 03:49:03 +0000

I want some lipton’s