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Doug Krentzlin is a professional freelance writer, guest lecturer and actor living in Silver Spring, Maryland, with his cats, Buffy and Angel. Doug covers the classics of television, including comedies, dramas, mysteries, thrillers, horror, sci-fi, fantasy, animation and literary adaptations. He has also had articles published in the New York Post and Movie Maker Magazine. Doug can be reached here.

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TV's 25 Scariest Episodes - #6 - The X-Files: 'Home'

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The X-Files produced some scary as hell episodes, but it’s safe to say the single most terrifying episode was Home (originally broadcast on Oct....
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TV's 25 Scariest Episodes - #23 - Tales from the Crypt: "Food for Thought"

As Stephen King pointed out in his book Danse Macabre, Tod Browning’s 1932 seminal film Freaks was the precursor of the twisted morality fables...
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TV's 25 Scariest Episodes - #24 - The Outer Limits: "Nightmare"

One of the major reasons Rod Serling decided to create The Twilight Zone was that he was sick of writing scripts tackling such thorny subjects as...
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TV's 25 Scariest Episodes - #25 - Buffy the Vampire Slayer: "Lie to Me"

It’s been generally acknowledged that, although the Buffy the Vampire Slayer television series was a vast improvement on the original theatrical...
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Alfred Hitchcock Presents: "Revenge"

The films of the late, great Alfred Hitchcock were often very dark. (So dark, indeed, that the fact that three of his grandparents were Irish explains...
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La Femme Nikita: "Obsessed"

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For decades, television producers have been trying to come up with a small-screen equivalent of the James Bond movies, such as The Man from U.N.C.L.E....
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Classic Cinema: "Freaks"

“Gooble gobble, Gooble gobble, We accept you, One of us, One of us”Even in this jaded era of “torture porn” flicks like Hostel...
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Classic Cinema: "King Solomon's Mines"

The 1937 Gaumont British Pictures production of H. Rider’s Haggard’s 1885 adventure novel King Solomon’s Mines is not only the first...
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Netflix tip: Love from a Stranger

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Although he was best known for playing Sherlock Holmes, Basil Rathbone’s other claim to fame was as one of the cinema’s greatest heavies....
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Netflix tip: Black Legion

In the 1930s, Warner Brothers Pictures made a series of topical melodramas depicting social issues that the other Hollywood studios avoided like the...
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