{"id":1297,"date":"2010-02-17T00:01:32","date_gmt":"2010-02-17T05:01:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ringsidereport.com\/?p=1297"},"modified":"2010-02-17T00:01:32","modified_gmt":"2010-02-17T05:01:32","slug":"twilight-zone-the-howling-man-1960","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/?p=1297","title":{"rendered":"Twilight Zone: The Howling Man (1960)"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Reviewed by Geno McGahee
\n<\/strong><\/span>
\nI had to see this episode for a few reasons.\u00a0 Mostly because my friend Crazy Carl Robinson recommended it, making his top 10, but there is the cool storyline.\u00a0 Monks have a man imprisoned that they claim to be the devil.\u00a0 The title of the episode is \u201cThe Howling Man\u201d and it refers to the prisoner howling, which is not uncommon with inmates, especially the newbies.\u00a0 They usually get them in the prison shower\u2026a whole bunch of them.\u00a0 They call it a \u201ctrain\u201d I think.\u00a0 As far as I know the monks do not run a train on the Howling Man, but then again, I never saw the \u201cuncut\u201d version of this one.\u00a0 Maybe they did.\u00a0<\/p>\n

We begin with David Ellington (H.M. Wyant) stumbling through a horrible thunderstorm and discovers a castle with a bunch of weird dudes with beards and big staffs.\u00a0 Ellington is really impressed with their big staffs.\u00a0 Their beards, not so much.\u00a0 \u00a0<\/p>\n

The monks are very apprehensive about allowing Ellington to remain in the castle, but the storm is bad enough to merit it.\u00a0 Ellington is curious about the howling that he is hearing, but when you get a bunch of guys in robes hanging out, you will hear a lot of moaning and howling.\u00a0 So I\u2019m sure that Ellington was probably just assuming that there was some Brokeback Twilight Zone action going on.\u00a0 That\u2019s what I would assume.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

Ellington lets his curiosity get the best of him and visits the man that is making all that noise and he has quite the story.\u00a0 The Howling Man (Robin Hughes) states that he was kidnapped by Brother Jerome (John Carradine) because of a common love interest.\u00a0 His story is compelling and believable\u2026much more believable than Brother Jerome\u2019s.\u00a0 Jerome claims that he and his bunch of bearded boyfriends have captured the devil, but Ellington does not buy it.\u00a0 He feels that the Howling Man\u2019s story is the true one and is now going to release him.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Is it the devil?\u00a0 Is it Brother Jerome\u2019s prison fantasy?\u00a0 Well, I won\u2019t spill the beans, but the ending is really neat and it really addresses those people that have dismissed religion as a fairy tale but want to believe in it nonetheless. That is Ellington\u2026and although he wanted to believe in the God story, he couldn\u2019t accept it over what he considered to be reality. Rod Serling really knows how to challenge people and what they believe and that is a great part of this episode.\u00a0 He steers the viewer into the position of: what would they do, if they were Ellington. \u00a0I would have let the dude go, personally.\u00a0 I can\u2019t go to my grave knowing that I allowed a man to be raped by monks.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The Howling Man is a very decent Twilight Zone episode\u2026not that there are any really bad ones, and I do recommend it.\u00a0 Crazy Carl was right.\u00a0 This was pretty darn good.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n


\n<\/span>Ringside Report Rating: 8\/10<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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Reviewed by Geno McGahee I had to see this episode for a few reasons.\u00a0 Mostly because my friend Crazy Carl Robinson recommended it, making his top 10, but there is the cool storyline.\u00a0 Monks have a man imprisoned that they claim to be the devil.\u00a0 The title of the episode is \u201cThe Howling Man\u201d and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[23,198,336,393,621,729],"class_list":["post-1297","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-boxing-news","tag-23","tag-devil","tag-howling","tag-john-carradine","tag-rod-serling","tag-twilight-zone"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1297","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1297"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1297\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1297"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1297"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1297"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}