Comments on: Episode 142: The Dream https://www.ghoulishdelights.com/2019/08/10/episode-142-the-dream/ Sophisticated Scares Sat, 25 Jan 2025 15:37:14 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 By: Smuggins https://www.ghoulishdelights.com/2019/08/10/episode-142-the-dream/#comment-9354 Sun, 13 Mar 2022 17:26:25 +0000 http://www.ghoulishdelights.com/?p=2253#comment-9354 I can’t believe the crew let the “my neck” line go without comment. That was when I really felt this episode cemented itself into the ‘meh, fine’ rating. 2 out of 4.

]]> By: Smuggins https://www.ghoulishdelights.com/2019/08/10/episode-142-the-dream/#comment-9353 Sun, 13 Mar 2022 17:24:02 +0000 http://www.ghoulishdelights.com/?p=2253#comment-9353 In reply to Doug Shaw.

I agree, that was my feeling on this episode as well. They should have setup the haunting to something, new house, or even if his friend’s voice had been part of the chorus, to show he transmitted the haunting.

]]> By: Doug Shaw https://www.ghoulishdelights.com/2019/08/10/episode-142-the-dream/#comment-8055 Mon, 26 Aug 2019 03:11:29 +0000 http://www.ghoulishdelights.com/?p=2253#comment-8055 I disagree with the hosts here. I thought that after an interesting first few minutes, it became tedious for me. I knew he was going to kill someone, and then there was no real twist or suspense or surprise. Just “Then I heard a voice saying ‘kill.’ The next day there was… a voice saying ‘kill’ only louder! The next day was pretty much the same, this time my girlfriend was there so the audience would know who I was going to kill, and it was even louder and I screamed.” That part could have been 50% shorter and it would have accomplished the same thing. I thought the ending might have been interesting, but by the time it came, I was pretty disengaged.

The effect with the voices was really good, but that wasn’t enough to save it for me.

]]> By: Bob https://www.ghoulishdelights.com/2019/08/10/episode-142-the-dream/#comment-8049 Thu, 15 Aug 2019 05:02:16 +0000 http://www.ghoulishdelights.com/?p=2253#comment-8049 A condensed version of Oboler’s “The Harp,” an earlier LIGHTS OUT play with some interesting similarities to this episode, aired on the April 8, 1937 episode of THE ROYAL GELATIN HOUR variety show with actor Henry Hull in the lead. I think it runs about ten or fifteen minutes.

]]> By: Mark Forrester https://www.ghoulishdelights.com/2019/08/10/episode-142-the-dream/#comment-8048 Sat, 10 Aug 2019 21:31:04 +0000 http://www.ghoulishdelights.com/?p=2253#comment-8048 Great episode! I think the fact that this episode of “Lights Out” was so much better than the script and its basic plot led to some particularly interesting analysis and discussion, shedding light not only on “The Dream” itself, but on Arch Oboler as a writer and on the genre as a whole. I just really enjoyed this.

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