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-> '''Rod Serling:''' A most hearty welcome to those of you whose tastes in art lean toward the bizarre.
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-> '''Rod Serling:''' A most hearty welcome to those of you whose tastes in art lean toward the bizarre. Our first painting, submitted for your approval, is an item of real estate. But you won't find it advertised in the classifieds. Oh, it's light and comfortable and altogether well-heated, but there's a chill to the place. So bundle up when you look at this one. Our painting is called: '''The House''', and this is the Night Gallery.
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-> '''Rod Serling:''' A most hearty welcome to those of you whose tastes in art lean toward the bizarre. Our first painting, submitted for your approval, is an item of real estate. But you won't find it advertised in the classifieds. Oh, it's light and comfortable and altogether well-heated, but there's a chill to the place. So bundle up when you look at this one. Our painting is called: '''The House,''' House''', and this is the Night Gallery.
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Elaine Latimer (Joanna Pettet) has spent the last 10 years voluntarily committed to a mental hospital, primarily to combat a recurring dream. The dream is said to follow the same pattern every time, where Elaine drives through the countryside and comes upon a house. She knocks on the door, but drives off when no one answers, until the door begins to open just as she leaves. After she is discharged from the hospital, Elaine ends up finding the house she’s been seeing in her dreams. Real estate agent Peugot (Paul Richards) tells Elaine that the house is for sale, but at such a low price because it’s been rumored to be haunted.
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Elaine Latimer (Joanna Pettet) has spent the last 10 years voluntarily committed to a mental hospital, primarily to combat a recurring dream. The dream is said to follow the same pattern every time, where Elaine drives through the countryside and comes upon a house. She knocks on the door, but drives off when no one answers, until the door begins to open just as she leaves. After she is discharged from the hospital, Elaine ends up finding the house she’s been seeing in her dreams. Real estate agent Peugot Peugeot (Paul Richards) tells Elaine that the house is for sale, but at such a low price because it’s been rumored to be haunted.
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* RiddleForTheAges: Even though Elaine seemingly discovers the truth about herself, the segment doesn't give a full explanation vehind why she's this way, or what the previous owners experienced that forced them to sell the house.
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* RiddleForTheAges: Even though Elaine seemingly discovers the truth about herself, the segment doesn't give a full explanation vehind behind why she's this way, or what the previous owners experienced that forced them to sell the house.
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Elaine Latimer (Joanna Pettet) had herself has spent the last 10 years voluntarily committed to a mental hospital 10 years ago hospital, primarily to combat a recurring dream. The dream is said to follow the same pattern every time, where Elaine drives through the countryside and comes upon a house. She knocks on the door, but drives off when no one answers, until the door begins to open just as she leaves. After she is discharged from the hospital, Elaine ends up finding the house she’s been seeing in her dreams. Real estate agent Peugot (Paul Richards) tells Elaine that the house is for sale, but at such a low price because it’s been rumored to be haunted.
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* BulletTime: Elaine's dream usually plays out in slow motion, as she drives up to the house and knocks on the door having her hair and clothes blown about by unseen winds.
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* BulletTime: Elaine's dream usually plays out in slow motion, as she drives up to the house and knocks on the door having her hair and clothes blown about by unseen winds.winds. The end of the episode has her running down the stairs and out the house's door in the same manner, indicating that the dream and her waking life have merged.
* {{Foreshadowing}}: The reveal of Elaine being the "ghost" is hinted at by an old woman who is glad to see her leave the asylum, complaining that she was "dreamy" for the way she wafted along everywhere instead of walking. After this, she puts down the newspaper she was reading, the front page displaying the titular house with the word "haunted" written above it.
* {{Foreshadowing}}: The reveal of Elaine being the "ghost" is hinted at by an old woman who is glad to see her leave the asylum, complaining that she was "dreamy" for the way she wafted along everywhere instead of walking. After this, she puts down the newspaper she was reading, the front page displaying the titular house with the word "haunted" written above it.
* RiddleForTheAges: Even though Elaine seemingly discovers the truth about herself, the segment doesn't give a full explanation vehind why she's this way, or what the previous owners experienced that forced them to sell the house.
* SelfFulfillingProphecy: Elaine apparently makes both her own dreams and hauntings of the house come true by purchasing it on a lark.
* SelfFulfillingProphecy: Elaine apparently makes both her own dreams and hauntings of the house come true by purchasing it on a lark.
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Former doctor Stephen Brigham (Louis Hayward) reads Charles Dickens to his dying sister Emma (Creator/AgnesMoorehead), as he often does every night. Stephen’s other sisters Ann (Grayson Hall) and Rebecca (Rachel Roberts) discuss Emma’s failing health, before she abruptly dies in bed. After his sister’s death, Stephen and the others begin seeing Emma’s shadow, unmoving, on the wall. Stephen claims it to be a stain or discolored patch, but it doesn’t go away after Emma’s funeral, leading Stephen to ponder whether it’s a supernatural means of tormenting him for subtly killing Emma himself.
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Former doctor Stephen Brigham (Louis Hayward) reads Charles Dickens Creator/CharlesDickens to his dying sister Emma (Creator/AgnesMoorehead), as he often does every night. Stephen’s other sisters Ann (Grayson Hall) and Rebecca (Rachel (Grayson Hall and Rachel Roberts) discuss Emma’s failing health, before she abruptly dies in bed. After his sister’s death, Stephen and the others begin seeing Emma’s shadow, unmoving, on the wall. Stephen claims it to be a stain or discolored patch, but it doesn’t go away after Emma’s funeral, leading Stephen to ponder whether it’s a supernatural means of tormenting him torture for subtly killing Emma himself.
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* BigScrewedUpFamily: The Brighams, considering that two of the daughters are spinsters, the third lies dying in bed all day, and the son is a doctor who shut down his practice and kills his dying sister so she can stop being such a burden to him.
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* BigScrewedUpFamily: The Brighams, considering that two of the daughters are spinsters, the third lies dying in bed all day, and the son is a doctor who shut down his practice and kills his dying sister so he can get her riches and she can stop being such a burden to him.him.
* {{Bookends}}: The segment begins with Emma and Stephen's shadows framed against the wall as the latter reads Dickens to his dying sister. The last shot of the segment has their shadows permanently stuck on that wall, with Stephen reading to the sister he murdered forevermore.
* {{Chiaroscuro}}: Shadows play a heavy role in this episode, with Emma's (and later, Stephen's) displayed on her bedroom wall before and after her death.
* {{Bookends}}: The segment begins with Emma and Stephen's shadows framed against the wall as the latter reads Dickens to his dying sister. The last shot of the segment has their shadows permanently stuck on that wall, with Stephen reading to the sister he murdered forevermore.
* {{Chiaroscuro}}: Shadows play a heavy role in this episode, with Emma's (and later, Stephen's) displayed on her bedroom wall before and after her death.
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* EveryoneHasStandards: Ann rightfully suspects Stephen murdered Emma by poisoning her with her "medication," but is still shocked at the implication Rebecca (accidentally or not) gave him that same medication to help him sleep.
* IronicHell: Stephen murders his sister Emma, but her shadow remains stuck on the wall. In the end, he's killed as well, and his shadow remains stuck on the same wall as hers is.
* ItRunsInTheFamily: The Brigham siblings are shown to be adept at murder, whether they realize it or not. Stephen intentionally kills Emma with tainted medicine, but Rebecca accidentally kills ''him'' by putting said medicine in his food.
* OhCrap: Ann's reaction when Emma casually reveals Stephen is unwittingly "taking his own medicine."
* OnlySaneMan: Ann among the three siblings following Rebecca's death. She's not a conniving murderer like Stephen, nor is she a ditz like Rebecca. She very clearly understands the shadow on the wall is supernatural, and she knows exactly why Stephen is obsessing over it.
* IronicHell: Stephen murders his sister Emma, but her shadow remains stuck on the wall. In the end, he's killed as well, and his shadow remains stuck on the same wall as hers is.
* ItRunsInTheFamily: The Brigham siblings are shown to be adept at murder, whether they realize it or not. Stephen intentionally kills Emma with tainted medicine, but Rebecca accidentally kills ''him'' by putting said medicine in his food.
* OhCrap: Ann's reaction when Emma casually reveals Stephen is unwittingly "taking his own medicine."
* OnlySaneMan: Ann among the three siblings following Rebecca's death. She's not a conniving murderer like Stephen, nor is she a ditz like Rebecca. She very clearly understands the shadow on the wall is supernatural, and she knows exactly why Stephen is obsessing over it.
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* ItRunsInTheFamily: The Brigham siblings are shown to be adept at murder, whether they realize it or not. Stephen intentionally kills Emma with tainted medicine, but Rebecca accidentally kills ''him'' by putting said medicine in hisfood.
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* ObfuscatingStupidity: Though she's noted to be a kindly ditz, when Rebecca absent-mindedly tells Ann about what she did to Stephen and Ann tells her the truth, her tone and dialogue implies that she was actually fully aware of what was happening, and she may have instigated her own form of revenge against Stephen for her sister's death.
* OhCrap: Ann's reaction whenEmma Rebecca casually reveals that Stephen is unwittingly "taking his own medicine."
* OnlySaneMan: Among the Brigham siblings, Annamong is the three siblings following Rebecca's death. most logical. She's not a conniving murderer like Stephen, nor is she a an innocent ditz like Rebecca. She Rebecca, but she very clearly understands that the shadow on the wall is supernatural, and she knows as well as why exactly why Stephen is obsessing over it.
* IronicHell: Stephen murders his sister Emma, but her shadow remains stuck on the wall. In the end, he's killed as well, and his shadow remains stuck on the same wall as hers
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* TamperingWithFoodAndDrink: Rebecca secretly slipped the medicine Stephen was killing Emma with in his food, tea, wanting to help him sleep after he exhausts exhausted himself obsessing over Emma's the shadow. Ann is horrified when Rebecca tells her, because she Rebecca doesn't realize that Stephen was actively killing Emma with that medicine.
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* OnlySaneMan: Ann among the three siblings following Rebecca's death. She's not a conniving murderer like Stephen, nor is she a ditz like Rebecca. She very clearly understands the shadow on the wall is supernatural, and she knows exactly why Stephen is obsessing over it.
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!! The House
-> '''Rod Serling:''' A most hearty welcome to those of you whose tastes in art lean toward the bizarre. Our first painting, submitted for your approval, is an item of real estate. But you won't find it advertised in the classifieds. Oh, it's light and comfortable and altogether well-heated, but there's a chill to the place. So bundle up when you look at this one. Our painting is called: '''The House''', and this is the Night Gallery.
Elaine Latimer (Joanna Pettet) had herself committed to a mental hospital 10 years ago to combat a recurring dream. The dream is said to follow the same pattern every time, where Elaine drives through the countryside and comes upon a house. She knocks on the door, but drives off when no one answers, until the door begins to open as she leaves. After she is discharged from the hospital, Elaine ends up finding the house she’s been seeing in her dreams. Real estate agent Peugot (Paul Richards) tells Elaine that the house is for sale, but at such a low price because it’s rumored to be haunted.
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* AmbiguousEnding: Elaine soon discovers that she herself is the ghost haunting the house, as she watches herself drive up to it as in her dream. But has she been DeadAllAlong, or is she astrally projecting her dream to the house's location?
* BulletTime: Elaine's dream usually plays out in slow motion, as she drives up to the house and knocks on the door having her hair and clothes blown about by unseen winds.
* GainaxEnding: As described above, the segment ends with Elaine somehow switching roles between her dream self and reality. It's obliquely suggested that the house's "haunting" has been an astral projection of her recurring dream all along, but the story doesn't give a concrete explanation as to the cause, or to what sort of ghostly activity the house's previous owners experienced that made them enough to sell the house.
* TomatoInTheMirror: Though we don't know all the variables, Elaine happens to be the "ghost" haunting the titular house.
* WindsAreGhosts: Given that Elaine is the one really "haunting" the house, her dream self is always having her hair and clothes blown about by phantom winds.
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!! Certain Shadows on the Wall
-> '''Rod Serling:''' The least permanent, the most fleeting of man's proof of existence: his shadow. It comes and goes with light. Hours of the day, point of the sun, angle of the moon. It is a quickly daubed and imperfect outline of a certain object at a certain given moment. This painting is called: '''Certain Shadows on the Wall.'''
Former doctor Stephen Brigham (Louis Hayward) reads Charles Dickens to his dying sister Emma (Creator/AgnesMoorehead), as he often does every night. Stephen’s other sisters Ann (Grayson Hall) and Rebecca (Rachel Roberts) discuss Emma’s failing health, before she abruptly dies in bed. After his sister’s death, Stephen and the others begin seeing Emma’s shadow, unmoving, on the wall. Stephen claims it to be a stain or discolored patch, but it doesn’t go away after Emma’s funeral, leading Stephen to ponder whether it’s a supernatural means of tormenting him for subtly killing Emma himself.
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* BewareTheNiceOnes: Stephen ends up getting his karma for killing Emma when Rebecca, his nicer and ditzier sister, secretly gives him a giant dose of the medication he was slowly poisoning Emma with, explaining to Ann that she was hoping to "Help him sleep." Whether or not Rebecca did it on purpose is left for interpretation, but the minute Ann hears that Stephen is "taking his own medication," she's clearly horrified.
* BigScrewedUpFamily: The Brighams, considering that two of the daughters are spinsters, the third lies dying in bed all day, and the son is a doctor who shut down his practice and kills his dying sister so she can stop being such a burden to him.
* DeadlyDoctor: Stephen was a doctor before he shut down his practice and devoted all his time to Emma. He also kills her with poisoned medicine so he can inherit the fortune his family left to her.
* TheDitz: Rebecca is the kindest, but also the dimmest, of the Brigham siblings. That said, she kills Stephen by giving him the poisoned medication he was killing Emma with, and doesn't really have a problem with it when Ann tells her the truth.
* IronicHell: Stephen murders his sister Emma, but her shadow remains stuck on the wall. In the end, he's killed as well, and his shadow remains stuck on the same wall as hers is.
* ItRunsInTheFamily: The Brigham siblings are shown to be adept at murder, whether they realize it or not. Stephen intentionally kills Emma with tainted medicine, but Rebecca accidentally kills ''him'' by putting said medicine in his food.
* SinisterSilhouettes: Emma's shadow remains stuck on the wall after she dies, and it drives Stephen to madness for defying his logical theories as to what it's doing there. At the end of the segment, his own shadow joins hers, reading Dickens to Emma like he used to do.
* TamperingWithFoodAndDrink: Rebecca secretly slipped the medicine Stephen was killing Emma with in his food, wanting to help him sleep after he exhausts himself obsessing over Emma's shadow. Ann is horrified when Rebecca tells her, because she doesn't realize that Stephen was actively killing Emma with that medicine.
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-> '''Rod Serling:''' A most hearty welcome to those of you whose tastes in art lean toward the bizarre. Our first painting, submitted for your approval, is an item of real estate. But you won't find it advertised in the classifieds. Oh, it's light and comfortable and altogether well-heated, but there's a chill to the place. So bundle up when you look at this one. Our painting is called: '''The House''', and this is the Night Gallery.
Elaine Latimer (Joanna Pettet) had herself committed to a mental hospital 10 years ago to combat a recurring dream. The dream is said to follow the same pattern every time, where Elaine drives through the countryside and comes upon a house. She knocks on the door, but drives off when no one answers, until the door begins to open as she leaves. After she is discharged from the hospital, Elaine ends up finding the house she’s been seeing in her dreams. Real estate agent Peugot (Paul Richards) tells Elaine that the house is for sale, but at such a low price because it’s rumored to be haunted.
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* AmbiguousEnding: Elaine soon discovers that she herself is the ghost haunting the house, as she watches herself drive up to it as in her dream. But has she been DeadAllAlong, or is she astrally projecting her dream to the house's location?
* BulletTime: Elaine's dream usually plays out in slow motion, as she drives up to the house and knocks on the door having her hair and clothes blown about by unseen winds.
* GainaxEnding: As described above, the segment ends with Elaine somehow switching roles between her dream self and reality. It's obliquely suggested that the house's "haunting" has been an astral projection of her recurring dream all along, but the story doesn't give a concrete explanation as to the cause, or to what sort of ghostly activity the house's previous owners experienced that made them enough to sell the house.
* TomatoInTheMirror: Though we don't know all the variables, Elaine happens to be the "ghost" haunting the titular house.
* WindsAreGhosts: Given that Elaine is the one really "haunting" the house, her dream self is always having her hair and clothes blown about by phantom winds.
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!! Certain Shadows on the Wall
-> '''Rod Serling:''' The least permanent, the most fleeting of man's proof of existence: his shadow. It comes and goes with light. Hours of the day, point of the sun, angle of the moon. It is a quickly daubed and imperfect outline of a certain object at a certain given moment. This painting is called: '''Certain Shadows on the Wall.'''
Former doctor Stephen Brigham (Louis Hayward) reads Charles Dickens to his dying sister Emma (Creator/AgnesMoorehead), as he often does every night. Stephen’s other sisters Ann (Grayson Hall) and Rebecca (Rachel Roberts) discuss Emma’s failing health, before she abruptly dies in bed. After his sister’s death, Stephen and the others begin seeing Emma’s shadow, unmoving, on the wall. Stephen claims it to be a stain or discolored patch, but it doesn’t go away after Emma’s funeral, leading Stephen to ponder whether it’s a supernatural means of tormenting him for subtly killing Emma himself.
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* BewareTheNiceOnes: Stephen ends up getting his karma for killing Emma when Rebecca, his nicer and ditzier sister, secretly gives him a giant dose of the medication he was slowly poisoning Emma with, explaining to Ann that she was hoping to "Help him sleep." Whether or not Rebecca did it on purpose is left for interpretation, but the minute Ann hears that Stephen is "taking his own medication," she's clearly horrified.
* BigScrewedUpFamily: The Brighams, considering that two of the daughters are spinsters, the third lies dying in bed all day, and the son is a doctor who shut down his practice and kills his dying sister so she can stop being such a burden to him.
* DeadlyDoctor: Stephen was a doctor before he shut down his practice and devoted all his time to Emma. He also kills her with poisoned medicine so he can inherit the fortune his family left to her.
* TheDitz: Rebecca is the kindest, but also the dimmest, of the Brigham siblings. That said, she kills Stephen by giving him the poisoned medication he was killing Emma with, and doesn't really have a problem with it when Ann tells her the truth.
* IronicHell: Stephen murders his sister Emma, but her shadow remains stuck on the wall. In the end, he's killed as well, and his shadow remains stuck on the same wall as hers is.
* ItRunsInTheFamily: The Brigham siblings are shown to be adept at murder, whether they realize it or not. Stephen intentionally kills Emma with tainted medicine, but Rebecca accidentally kills ''him'' by putting said medicine in his food.
* SinisterSilhouettes: Emma's shadow remains stuck on the wall after she dies, and it drives Stephen to madness for defying his logical theories as to what it's doing there. At the end of the segment, his own shadow joins hers, reading Dickens to Emma like he used to do.
* TamperingWithFoodAndDrink: Rebecca secretly slipped the medicine Stephen was killing Emma with in his food, wanting to help him sleep after he exhausts himself obsessing over Emma's shadow. Ann is horrified when Rebecca tells her, because she doesn't realize that Stephen was actively killing Emma with that medicine.
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