Neștiind cum să-l repare, McNulty imploră ajutor din partea oamenilor din jurul său blocați în timp.ĭistribuție Între timp, acesta decide să jefuiască o bancă, dar într-un moment de neatenție scapă cronometrul din mână, iar aparatul se sparge, fapt care oprește timpul în întreaga lume pentru totdeauna. Când revine la bar, McNulty încearcă să demonstreze puterea cronometrului clienților, însă aceștia nu înțeleg la ce se referă. McNulty încearcă să-i prezinte lui Cooper puterea cronometrului în încercarea de a-și îmbunătăți relația cu acesta, dar Cooper nu-l înțelege și îl spune să părăsească barul. McNulty descoperă repede că darul neobișnuit oprește timpul pentru toți cei din jurul său, cu excepția celui care îl poartă. ![]() Acesta din urmă îi ofer lui McNulty propriul său cronometru. Paluci îi cere acestuia să-și găsească un alt bar, dar McNulty îl ignoră și cumpără o băutură pentru singurul client rămas, bețivul Potts. McNulty vizitează barul lui Joe Palucci, unde opiniile sale despre un eveniment sportiv în desfășurare îi alungă pe ceilalți clienți. ![]() Prin urmare, Cooper decide să-l concedieze. În schimb, este mustrat, deoarece toate sugestiile sale se referă la domenii de activitate în care compania nu este implicată. Acesta este chemat într-o zi în biroul șefului său, domnul Cooper, și este convins că va fi lăudat pentru desele sale contribuții la cutia cu sugestii ( d). Patrick McNulty este un om de prisos și enervant de peste 40 de ani. În acest episod, un bărbat dobândește un cronometru care poate opri timpul. A fost difuzat inițial pe data de 18 octombrie 1963 pe CBS. Bowen, a genre veteran, again plays the appalled, slightly weak normal guy confronted by insanity – his House of the Devil co-star Jocelin Donahue has a significant bit – while Poythress and Burke get to go deeper into twitchy madness.John Rich ]Ī Kind of a Stopwatch este episodul 5 al celui de- al cincilea sezon al serialului american Zona crepusculară. Lobo is so interested in the undercurrents between the central trio that he rather underplays the voice from beyond the door (Chris Sullivan, mostly) which changes (perhaps only in the ears of those who are listening) and rattles through varying arguments about why this Devil should be let free but doesn’t quite emerge as the fearsome presence the story really needs. The last act, in which violence erupts and outsiders venture into the claustrophobic home, is busy and pays off with a nice, unexpected chill – referencing an image of the Devil featured significantly in a run of cult films but very unlike the horned one of Baumont’s vision. The Twilight Zone episode didn’t have time to dither, but even this short feature can’t cut to the door being opened … so there are a muddle of complications, with Matt torn between doing the right thing by the unknown captive and sending his obviously unwell brother to prison, while the edgy, sensitive Karen starts to wonder whether there might not be something in his ravings. And, in the basement, behind a triple lock, Steve has someone captive – who claims to be an abducted innocent who just wants to get home to his family. Matt (AJ Bowen) and his wife Karen (Susan Burke) visit Matt’s reclusive brother Steve (Scott Poythress), who has overdecorated the family house for Christmas and has a serial killer-cum-conspiracy theorist’s loft full of ominous press cuttings and red threads that indicate a global picture of spreading Evil. ![]() Writer-director Josh Lobo is plainly thinking of ‘The Howling Man’ in I Trapped the Devil, but the edgy, modern mood – this isn’t about a big church conspiracy, but a fractured family – is more in line with They Look Like People, Sator, Pod or many another recent movie that suggests the silver foil hat brigade may have a point but that doesn’t make them less impossible to live around. Given that Rod Serling was well-known for treating the entirety of published weird fiction as open source, it’s appropriate that so many filmmakers have riffed off the Twilight Zone in crafting their own works – the formula remains appealing, with the enclosed settings, grabby narrative hooks, arch overall feel of distortion and alienation, opportunities for pithy editorialising and barbed endings. The ending isn’t exactly a twist – though it’s a splendid shocker – since the story is set in 1939. The captive howls (of course) and pleads for release and mercy, but the brothers tell the protagonist that they are charged with guarding the Devil, and the last time he got out the First World War started. Charles Beaumont’s short story ‘The Howling Man’, memorably adapted as a Twilight Zone episode, concerns a traveller who stays overnight at a remote monastery and finds that the monks are keeping a wretched fellow imprisoned in a deep dungeon.
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