But I doubt that the censors back then would have allowed an ending as shocking as that! Dang my favs weren't mentioned. Perhaps they were the hour long's. I think The Glass Eye is one of the most creepy ones. The ending is as close to horror is Hitchcock gets.
Don't get why Bang You're Dead is among best here. Definitely others trump this one No "The Lonely Place"? Bruce Dern and Pat Buttram were great in that episode. Labels: alfred hitchcock , alfred hitchcock presents , barbara bel geddes , dial h for hitchcock , five best lists , rick29 author , stirling silliphant , vera miles.
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The plot plods as a result of Shamley's shambling gait as much as the difficulty in piecing the mystery together, and gameplay becomes Notorious for leaving you less than Spellbound with its penchant for requiring inexplicable and unrelated goofy actions.
An example or two of the Rope the game uses to hang itself is in order. While investigating the property, looking for clues to unravel the Family Plot surrounding the millionaire, his daughter, and the vanishing act of the crew making a film, Shamley stumbles across a cove, complete with rowboat. While it's no Lifeboat, it does becomes a death boat after Joe finds a diver's mask, dons it, and suddenly finds himself underwater, swimming in a lagoon in red swimming trunks.
There's no transition between scenes. He quickly finds a body, weighted down by some kind of belt with a combination lock on it. Fortunately, Joe had just found a combination of numbers covered by a tarp on the dock prior to his dive, which happened to be a woman's measurements, which happen to be the numbers on the combo lock used to loosen the weight holding her down in the water.
Presto, just like The Sorcerer's Apprentice, Joe solves the problem, drags the body up to the rowboat, and horror upon horror, leaves it laying there.
Poor Joe says wistfully as he departs: "Can't just leave her laying there like that," but then does precisely that, since the interface cursor gizmo that allows you to perform actions doesn't let you put the tarp over the body. The game is riddled with incongruities. If you think Max Payne looks constipated, imagine a cross between Michael Meyers' mask from Halloween and the blank stare of two Strangers on a Train suffering from Stage Fright.
To make matters worse, Joe walks like Max Payne looks. All too often, path finding demands such precision that you won't find the entrance to a room, nook, or cranny until you happen to stumble on it after getting Vertigo from fiddling with the arrow keys to make Joe follow directions. Getting stuck behind furniture or swimming in place while standing up is normal, and oh, to have an axe to break down just one of the dozens of locked doors! The puzzles are either atrociously simple or so complex you'll want to Dial M for Murder.
Approach each puzzle with Suspicion, not borne of difficulty but of foolishness. At times you'll have to take The 39 Steps approach to solve what should be as simple as sipping Champagne. A typical puzzle: enter kitchen, talk with mynah bird, take glass from shelf and put it on the table, open freezer, get two ice cubes, put them in the glass.
Take a bottle of year-old brandy from the cupboard not the five- or year-old brandy , pour it in the glass, let the bird drink it, get the Topaz stopper from the brandy bottle for your inventory, and put the brandy back on the shelf. Then, go outside to a gate that requires the year-old stopper to open it.
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