The Twilight Zone (TV Series) Our Selena Is Dying (1988) User Reviews

The Wasp Woman Returns

[Hitchcoc · 8/10 · 3 July 2017]

A horror film staple, going back to Dorian Gray, is the idea of an aging person stealing the life blood of a living one. In this one, a matriarch named Selena, who is on her death bed, touches a young woman and takes her essence. As she begins to recover, the young woman begins to age prematurely. A family doctor is on the scene and begins to investigate the goings on in the house. His suspicions are tested. He obviously has feeling for the young woman. I have to admit that the ending to this episode is quite striking, making it one of the better of the second generations Twilight Zones.

The Twilight Zone: Our Selena Is Dying

[Scarecrow-88 · 7/10 · 16 August 2011]

One of the weirder episodes of the 80s Twilight Zone has Debra Brockman (Terri Garber) visiting her dying aunt, Selena (Jennifer Dale), suddenly finding herself aging! Even odder still, Selena begins to reverse in health, beginning to not only recover but is starting to emerge younger as if she is "pulling the youth away" from her niece! Charmion King is excellent as Diane, a young woman who is hiding something for which Dr. Burrell (RH Thomson) will soon discover to his horror. Burrell is Selena's doctor and becomes perplexed with Debra's worsening state, and rightfully so. This episode gets more fascinating as it continues, with a solid macabre twist regarding Diane (and her mute "mother", Martha(Alleen Taylor-Smith)) and a certain escaping burn victim who "gets the treatment" she so desires. This episode focuses on the desperate attempt to hold on to life by any means necessary, even if it includes sacrificing your loved ones in order to do so. The story really takes the idea of immortality and runs with it, producing quite a pair of sociopaths who find a way "to cheat death by way of the aging process" and set aside the moral complications because living, to them, is better than dying.

Requires full attention

[flyingbustard · 6/10 · 31 July 2020]

I watched this on my comp while going through some IMDB pages simultaneously and by the end of it I couldn't piece together what had happened. I got that the aunt was stealing the youth from the niece but then there is another niece who has stolen the youth from her daughter, and so switching places. I had to read the Wiki page on this episode to work out what I had missed. I even went over the episode again, and so it does require your full attention, but, ultimately, there's too much going on with no explanation as to why. There is a bit of a twist ending, with not much of a punch to it. 6/10

All said and done, our memories of this series are the unforgettable endings.

[mzvirblis · 9/10 · 22 March 2010]

One of the very best episodes of the series! Gothic terror brought to the 80's.While we have seen "The Fountain Of Youth" done countless of times in film, never has it resulted in quite an ending! The ending, alone is worth the price of admission, for it could never have ended it this way back in a 60's episode of the series.Think I'm kidding? Watch the episode, and when all is said and done, would you switch places at the end with the nurse looking at her arm! This could have been a two part episode, since the horror is far from over and we need a little more information about the occupants of this house and of our story. We remember The Twilight Zone for those creepy endings.Please check this one out!