The Twilight Zone: The Fugitive (1962)
Season 3, Episode 25
8/10
She's got a monster as a friend and even bigger one as an aunt!
3 September 2019
Warning: Spoilers
Don't expect the kind but officious Jane Hathaway of "The Beverly Hillbillies" from Nancy Kulp where "the monster in the closet" really lives next door and the little girl's aunt is equivalent of "Auntie Dearest". Nancy Kulp is absolutely deplorable and abusive, so for 20 minutes, you want to see her dispatched by the creature whom J. Pat O'Malley really is. Kulp gets a few minutes to make it seems as if she cares, but she's a shrill harpy of the worst kind, treating sweet Susan Gordon as if she is an intrusion into a life that really has no purpose.

O'Malley is kind and loving to sweet Susan Gordon (as well as all of the neighborhood kids) at has the ability to turn into monsters from outer space at a whim. He even sounds like a Pac-Man machine of 25 years later when he morphs into different looks, a nice little effect. There's a little piece of evidence behind thanks to the two visitors who show up on Kulp's doorstep asking questions about O'Malley who is not what he seems and not what the script makes us believe for the first 15 minutes. So not all monsters are really monsters, and the creatures we think we should love us unconditionally are the real monsters. This episode is totally charming that has a terrific and unexpected twist.
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