It Crawled Out of the Woodwork

Yet another energy being creates death and terror.

This series was beginning to repeat itself in plots and the lead actor (Scott Marlowe) is now way too associated with another Limits episode (The Forms Of Things Unknown) where he played a much more memorable/colourful character: "Andre".

I am so glad that shows like The Outer Limits and QM's The Invaders had a massive parade of guest stars each week, it gave the shows variety in faces on the screen, the only negative side to that is that both shows often demanded each guest star come back for a second or third episode playing a totally different character in the same series. Not a big issue but in the case of "Woodwork" this got on my nerves.

"Woodwork" might not be a favourite but it is still good entertainment.

I was 8 when this show aired. All of us kids in the neighborhood were nearly traumatized by it every week yet couldn't not watch it. Yet nothing but nothing terrorized me more than the truly alien "life form" of this episode. As frightening as the Zanti Misfits were, this is the only thing from my entire childhood besides Margaret Hamilton's Wicked Witch of the West that actually gave me nightmares. Superbly imaginative rendering of a thing as truly alien and terrorizing as could be. The film noir and desolate presentation is reminiscent of Carpenter's "The Thing".

Another classic episode with a early appearance of Ed Answer and possibly the best quote of the season "She knows I am independently wealthy but she still loves me" lol.

Weird episode over two brothers who goes to California to works at Norco, a center of studies and research of experimental physics, the old brother Dr. Stuart was hire, however he was induced to enter in a narrow passageway that ends up in a pit, two doors control the access, suddenly the last door opens and release an unknown creature of utter energy of a dust shape, he died of fear, it was appeared on the lab out from nowhere, therefore the director Dr. Bloch got to rise again with a special cardiac peacemaker, but no longer as a usual human being, the young brother Jory Peters received a sudden visit of the disappeared, after a little chat on the bathroom he feels that his brother is too shallow and odd, Dr. Stuart fell down in bathtub, in contact with water he receives an electric discharge from the peacemaker and going to die, aftermath on the lab the Seargent Siroleo has been making his regular inquire, then Jory appears later, together they can solve the murders and what's really was the unrestrained creature!!!

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First watch: 2019 / How many: 1 / Source: DVD / Rating: 7

I was two years old when this episode originally aired in 1963 - and I was allowed to watch it. To this day, when I exit our basement I leave the light down there on until after shutting and locking the upstairs basement door (the switch for the light is upstairs) so that the "Energy Monster" is attracted to the light bulb and doesn't come upstairs with me. LOL This fact demonstrates both the power (pardon the pun) of this particular episode, and also, how much a two year old can understand (admittedly a very smart two year old). And yes, this also demonstrates how strongly a scary program can effect a little kid.

Note that I fully realize that the Energy Monster is not real (I sure hope it can't read!).