It's not always easy to play two drastically different characters, but the actor really embodied the change through his body language and facial expressions.
I think it’s cool to see the actor pivot between two characters within the same scene. Also love the gangster theme, wish there were more episodes like this
Kinda surprised no one in the comments mentioned that this was also an episode parodied on the Simpsons, in the one where Homer gets a hair transplant from a recently executed Snake.
I was thinking that too was gonna mention it then i saw your comment plus most the treehouse of horror episodes where parodies of the twilight zone specially the earlier ones, there were also some normal episodes too like bart's comet with people trying to get in ned's bunker
That was a parody of this episode and also a parody of a segment of the horror anthology film "Body Bags", with Stacy Keach as a guy who gets a hair transplant that turns out to have of its own. (I'd check out that film too; John Carpenter is not just the director, he also is the Crypt-Keeper equivalent hosting the stories.) But "The Simpsons" have done a LOT of "TZ" spoofs on "Treehouse of Horror."
I read a comic version of this story that ended in a different twist. The man wearing the shoes still has his own personality, but goes along with where they take him as he takes revenge on both his and the victim's old partners. Then, just before taking off the shoes, they take him out to the pier, and force him to run off. He is the last victim of the dead man's revenge.
That works well enough but was there any point at which it dawned on the guy in the shoes that he would be a victim too? I mean, didn't he know the guy would want him too?
@@TroubleToby3040 If memory serves, the rest of the gang had wronged the wearer somehow, so to him, it was like teaming up with his old buddy to get their revenge together. It was only when he started running uncontrollably toward the end of the pier that he realized they intended revenge against him, too. My dad gave me a bunch of these comics in these little booklets from a general store during one of our road trips. I can't even find it online!
@@Sovreign071 I have so much sympathy. When I was a kid, one of my favorite books was a book of Twilight Zone episodes written as short stories. I read it again and again. Don't get me wrong, you can find countless such books today, but I just want the SAME one I had. A copy of it, I mean. But, with so many TZ books to choose from, I can't tell which is the same as mine. I can only remember a few of the episodes for certain. The one with the prisoner that doesn't want to leave behind his robot "girlfriend" was in it. It's basically hopeless. 🤷♂️
This episode was remade in 1985 with Helen Mirren playing a woman possessed by a dead woman's shoes, to seek revenge against her husband, played by Jeffery Tambor, whom had her killed. They remade the episode again in 2002 called Dead Man's Glasses with Portia DiRossi as she plays the wife of a murdered businessman, and putting on his glasses can help her find her husband's killer, but it ends with a shocking surprise.
i feel like simpson's paid homage to this episode with "hell toupee" in treehouse of horror IX. i'm slowing realizing how many of their halloween special vignettes got inspiration from the twilight zone
I'm now 35. I remember seeing this during those XMas/New Years marathons during the late 90s. Most of the Twilight Zone Episodes haven't aged that well. For me this is my #1. It part of those dozen or so Twilight Zone Episodes that make this series amazing more the 60 or so years later!!!
This is the first twilight zone episode I have ever watched in reruns of course back when it was, and sort of is in syndication back when I was a kid, and those are nice shoes though too👍🏻👍🏻.
I found this episode very entertaining and enjoyable from the outset. Warren Stevens was great in his role. After yet another mention I need to get a copy of 'The Forbidden Planet' maybe I can find a cheap copy on ebay!
Also, I just recently watched the 2002 remake (I didn't realize it existed until someone in the comment section mentioned it) and for the most part, it's good. Having the wearer of the murdered person's glasses not only be related to him but having the ability to simply view his memories was a breath of fresh air. I also liked the intrigue of discovering that the time of his killing was wrong and that her husband was having an affair with her friend was also intriguing. Too bad the ending ruined that with a stupid "I repressed my memory of being the killer" twist.
1:27 when I first saw Dagget [Richard Devon] I spend ages here trying to figure out WHERE had I seen him before? Then it hit - the start of Magnum Force - best! Sequel! Ever!
A great video as always!! You always do an amazing job! A good video to review would be Cirque du Freak vampires assistant. I personally enjoy the film if you don't compare it to the books/manga. Maybe it is just me but it would be awesome to see. Anyway you guys are awesome keep up the good work xx
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I can understand the concept of the shoes thing because it's most likely that more than one person can wear the same shoe size. But the glasses won't truly work because if you're wearing someone else's glasses you wouldn't be able to see where you are going.
Ok so at 4:47… I was looking away, and I picked up on that rhythm playing… it kindve sounds like “the beautiful people” by Marilyn Manson… hmmm I wonder….
"Hey, Bernie. It's me again, Dane. I know this like the twenty ninth homeless guy I've possessed, but it should be obvious by now that I'll never rest until I've had my revenge on..." *BANG* "God dammit! I lose more bodies that way!"
This was an episode I just felt didn't work. It starts from nowhere and ends nowhere. The 80s remake sorta had an ending, which kinda came together, but I felt neither one really came together for me.
So the gangster is going to keep posessing people and coming back until he finally gets them and there's nothing they can do about it? What if they dumped the body in the ocean?
I didn’t know there was a version of this story in the 80’s one, or the one in the 2001 version either, or are you talking about that new verison on cbs’s+ thing🤔.
My number 93 episode. Seems like the idea would be used a lot. Joan Marshall was pretty. Warren Stevens wasn't very believable as a "homeless" person .
Say what you will, but this has a happy ending. Dane died but he will keep coming back until he gets Daggat. Daggat will live the rest of his life looking over his shoulder for a brand new face.
This review was a little bit too brown-nosing to Beaumont in my opinion (not the slightest hint that any problem with the script was his doing, 'it was all the other guys fault' kind of feeling). Also no mention of the fact that an innocent man died in this game of revenge, was a notable absence.
I gotta say, I'm very happy the forced live action skits were axed this year, none of those were any fun to watch and just dragged out the video so smart choice leaving those behind
The original episode was just a bit of film-noir vengeance, but when the 80’s series did their “Dead Woman’s Shoes” remake, just for the sake of picking old classic episodes’ bones (like the Game of Pool remake), the story came off as corny mousy-to-bad-girl empowerment fantasy. imagine how “The Four of Us Are Dying” would have similarly played if they gave up 50’s-noir for cheap demographics…
I haven't been able to find the episode on UA-cam (The Twilight Zone fan channel is uploading clips of some '80s series with Paul McCartney for some reason.), but I did find the '80s remake that basically genderbent the story. And I have to say, it's not great. We barely get to know anything about the main character other than she's a miserable thrift store clerk who gets harassed by a guy who looks like he belongs on the Rocky Horror Picture Show. And when she puts the shoes on (how it got sold tp the store is anyone's guess), she turns into an unsubtle caricature of a snobbish rich woman. I laughed every time she opened her mouth because the accent was so ridiculous. And how the hell did she continue to be possessed enough to change into a fancy dress despite showering first? Who wears shoes in the shower? Not to mention, the ending was embarrassing with a random replacement maid putting on the shoes and shooting the rich woman's ex-husband instead of the one he recently fired and had an affair with. The only positive I can think of is the use of the mirror to show the possessor's true form and how she's completely oblivious to the fact she's living in another person's body. That trick should've been done in the 2nd Wonder Woman film.
It's not always easy to play two drastically different characters, but the actor really embodied the change through his body language and facial expressions.
Yeah it’s pretty amazing, a big reason why I think James McAvoy got snubbed at the Oscars for “Split “
Warren Stevens absolutely KILLED this!!
So this episode is literally the expression to walk a mile in another man’s shoes
At 7:07, Rod seems to be looking at the cue card and thinking, "This is going to be the lousiest segue ever."
And it was
I think it’s cool to see the actor pivot between two characters within the same scene. Also love the gangster theme, wish there were more episodes like this
Kinda surprised no one in the comments mentioned that this was also an episode parodied on the Simpsons, in the one where Homer gets a hair transplant from a recently executed Snake.
I was thinking that too was gonna mention it then i saw your comment plus most the treehouse of horror episodes where parodies of the twilight zone specially the earlier ones, there were also some normal episodes too like bart's comet with people trying to get in ned's bunker
Yoooooo I never knew that was the inspiration!
That was a parody of this episode and also a parody of a segment of the horror anthology film "Body Bags", with Stacy Keach as a guy who gets a hair transplant that turns out to have of its own. (I'd check out that film too; John Carpenter is not just the director, he also is the Crypt-Keeper equivalent hosting the stories.)
But "The Simpsons" have done a LOT of "TZ" spoofs on "Treehouse of Horror."
I'm glad someone said it.
@@mst3KGfusing so many quotation marks your comment looks like something you’d see on a tony zaret post 💀
I think the defining feature of this episode is the jazzy music. It's very different from most other episodes.
I read a comic version of this story that ended in a different twist. The man wearing the shoes still has his own personality, but goes along with where they take him as he takes revenge on both his and the victim's old partners.
Then, just before taking off the shoes, they take him out to the pier, and force him to run off. He is the last victim of the dead man's revenge.
That works well enough but was there any point at which it dawned on the guy in the shoes that he would be a victim too? I mean, didn't he know the guy would want him too?
@@TroubleToby3040 If memory serves, the rest of the gang had wronged the wearer somehow, so to him, it was like teaming up with his old buddy to get their revenge together.
It was only when he started running uncontrollably toward the end of the pier that he realized they intended revenge against him, too.
My dad gave me a bunch of these comics in these little booklets from a general store during one of our road trips. I can't even find it online!
@@Sovreign071 I have so much sympathy. When I was a kid, one of my favorite books was a book of Twilight Zone episodes written as short stories. I read it again and again. Don't get me wrong, you can find countless such books today, but I just want the SAME one I had. A copy of it, I mean. But, with so many TZ books to choose from, I can't tell which is the same as mine. I can only remember a few of the episodes for certain. The one with the prisoner that doesn't want to leave behind his robot "girlfriend" was in it. It's basically hopeless. 🤷♂️
There can't be only 10 episodes left! WHY CAN'T OCTOBER BE LONGER.
Tuco: "When you have to shoot, shoot. Don't talk."
Ah~ah~ah~ah~aaaaaahhhhhhh... Wawawaaaaaaaaa
This episode was remade in 1985 with Helen Mirren playing a woman possessed by a dead woman's shoes, to seek revenge against her husband, played by Jeffery Tambor, whom had her killed.
They remade the episode again in 2002 called Dead Man's Glasses with Portia DiRossi as she plays the wife of a murdered businessman, and putting on his glasses can help her find her husband's killer, but it ends with a shocking surprise.
Agreed, it seems like almost every iteration of this show has this plot, except for possibly the most recent version from 2019.
Yeah; we heard when he said this in the video. Thanks.
@@jeffn4836 Pretty sure he didn't wait to watch it first, had to try to get that first comment. It's important.
Why do you tell us what was in the episode at 0:14? Not even thirty seconds!
Damn people getting so mad about this comment, thanks for sharing the extra info I had no idea Helen Mirren was in it.
i feel like simpson's paid homage to this episode with "hell toupee" in treehouse of horror IX.
i'm slowing realizing how many of their halloween special vignettes got inspiration from the twilight zone
Some of my fondest memories include rolling up joints and smoking and watching classic twilight zone in high school, I never stopped watching it
This episode was also adapted into a series of Tim Allen Christmas movies
I'm now 35. I remember seeing this during those XMas/New Years marathons during the late 90s. Most of the Twilight Zone Episodes haven't aged that well. For me this is my #1. It part of those dozen or so Twilight Zone Episodes that make this series amazing more the 60 or so years later!!!
Xmas is shorthand for Christmas
The X is a cross😋
It reminds me of an episode of Rugrats where Chuckie puts on Angelica's shoes which makes him vicious and mean just like her.
The story goes if the shoe fits wear it. Love this episode
I wish you had talked about the music in this episode. It's so recognizable and I would love to know what you thought of it.
This is the first twilight zone episode I have ever watched in reruns of course back when it was, and sort of is in syndication back when I was a kid, and those are nice shoes though too👍🏻👍🏻.
I think this episode is fine, the twist in my opinion is the best part, it’s a little bit creepy and I love how it repeats all over again!
I found this episode very entertaining and enjoyable from the outset. Warren Stevens was great in his role. After yet another mention I need to get a copy of 'The Forbidden Planet' maybe I can find a cheap copy on ebay!
Better than I feel you give it credit for, this is an episode that’s just outside the top 10 for me.
The fake walls in the gangster room are pretty cool
Also, I just recently watched the 2002 remake (I didn't realize it existed until someone in the comment section mentioned it) and for the most part, it's good. Having the wearer of the murdered person's glasses not only be related to him but having the ability to simply view his memories was a breath of fresh air. I also liked the intrigue of discovering that the time of his killing was wrong and that her husband was having an affair with her friend was also intriguing. Too bad the ending ruined that with a stupid "I repressed my memory of being the killer" twist.
I guess the old saying is applied here: "Shoes make the man".
The style is definitely the best part of this episode. Its also all sorta subtle.
1:27 when I first saw Dagget [Richard Devon] I spend ages here trying to figure out WHERE had I seen him before? Then it hit - the start of Magnum Force - best! Sequel! Ever!
I really don't blame the homeless man for taking that guy's shoes.
Yes the spirit that inhabits those shoes is all about that business of vengeance.
Always loved this one for the music!
This is awesome keep up the good work!
A great video as always!! You always do an amazing job! A good video to review would be Cirque du Freak vampires assistant. I personally enjoy the film if you don't compare it to the books/manga. Maybe it is just me but it would be awesome to see. Anyway you guys are awesome keep up the good work xx
I don't necessarily agree with everything you say but these individual reviews are excellent - please keep 'em coming. Thank you.
You do know this isn't Doug/Nostalgia Critic right? This is Walter. He only really comes on once in a while, and mostly
In October for Twilight-tober.
@@PrizeJ Could just be in reference to Walter's opinions. I know I often disagree, but still appreciate the videos.
I've seen the 80's version with Helen Mirren in the lead. Interesting concept that could have been taken further
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I liked it, and apparently, so do the writers of this franchise, since a similar plot was done in the 80's and 2000's reboots.
It’s cool and I liked the shoes also👍🏻👍🏻.
So Dane's soul is in the shoes all along
Shoe soles indeed ;)
Interesting that they used this story in both remakes. I’d love to see reviews for each of them.
This episode holds the record for being remade the most times in other incarnations with two remakes, record it shares with Nightmare at 20,000 Feet.
Love the music in this one
Wait until the next guy finds out that the guest chair is actually another henchman (à la Spy Hard).
Great video as always
Amazing stories did a similar concept with a wig. They called the episode "hell toupee." It was done for comedy not to be dramatic.
Man those pictures of the writers, like the one with all smoke. Something manly and of the time.
I gotta say, those are some damn nice dress shoes.
Makes you wonder how many times this happened before Daggett got what was coming to him.
I saw a pair on a body in a back alley, ya know, if you want to risk it.
I’d like to know where those shoes are now. Does anyone know if they’ve survived?
I'm size 15/4E. So never have to worry about coming across a pair of size nine black and Grey loafers
Das wassup yo
This episode is top ten for me in the original twilight zone
This reminds me of a Boris Carlos movie that they did once called black Friday
I love Cycles!
This episode Reminds me on that Simpsons threehouse Horror segment; "the Hell toupée"
I think this was his source of that parody
I can understand the concept of the shoes thing because it's most likely that more than one person can wear the same shoe size. But the glasses won't truly work because if you're wearing someone else's glasses you wouldn't be able to see where you are going.
You got all the alternate titles... all but one: dead man's toes.
This the best version of the story (although the 1985 & 2002 version
were pretty good).
Ben Wright appeared as Doctor at the end of Death-Heads Revisited.
Dead shoes walk no more. Like dead men tell no tales!
I don't know this one well, but the actress Joan Marshall (under a different name) played the transvestite in the William Castle film HOMICIDAL.
Ok so at 4:47… I was looking away, and I picked up on that rhythm playing… it kindve sounds like “the beautiful people” by Marilyn Manson… hmmm I wonder….
Coincidentally, the ads that played end to end (at least when I was watching) involved shoes.
Great episode.
12 and a half? Daaaaamn 😂
"Hey, Bernie. It's me again, Dane. I know this like the twenty ninth homeless guy I've possessed, but it should be obvious by now that I'll never rest until I've had my revenge on..."
*BANG*
"God dammit! I lose more bodies that way!"
All those cigarette plugs really seem dark when you remember Rod died at only the age of 50 because of his smoking...
Spooky
It's a good thing Dean had such an average foot size.
Shoes from a corpse is a curse!!! 😳
♫ Dead men wear no shoes! ♫
Or tell no tales. But they DO wear plaid!!!
These r so awesome
Size 12.5!?
Damn!
Is it true what they say about having big shoes?
.
You got big socks?
Daggett? As in... Daggett Cosmetics? As in... the guy Daggett who created Clayface in Batman: The Animated Series?
No.
This was an episode I just felt didn't work. It starts from nowhere and ends nowhere. The 80s remake sorta had an ending, which kinda came together, but I felt neither one really came together for me.
So the gangster is going to keep posessing people and coming back until he finally gets them and there's nothing they can do about it?
What if they dumped the body in the ocean?
I didn’t know there was a version of this story in the 80’s one, or the one in the 2001 version either, or are you talking about that new verison on cbs’s+ thing🤔.
No. 1985 and 2002. Not the new new one. Apparently, Jeffrey Tambor and Helen Mirren were in the 1985 one.
Hay Critic can you please do the How to train your dragon movies they are my favorite movies and I’d love to see your opinion
My number 93 episode. Seems like the idea would be used a lot. Joan Marshall was pretty. Warren Stevens wasn't very believable as a "homeless" person .
if it was made today it would be " dead person's shoes"
Could you review the hobbit from 44 yrs ago, its a toon thing, its good though
Tequila with a cube of sugar.
You could get a free pair of shoes in the twilight zone. Let's just hope you don't get it just as bad as Warren Stevens did.
I liked Dead Woman's Shoes more. I haven't seen Dead Man's Eyes yet.
not a bad episode really
Say what you will, but this has a happy ending. Dane died but he will keep coming back until he gets Daggat. Daggat will live the rest of his life looking over his shoulder for a brand new face.
12 1/2? damn, Walter has HUGE feet
This review was a little bit too brown-nosing to Beaumont in my opinion (not the slightest hint that any problem with the script was his doing, 'it was all the other guys fault' kind of feeling). Also no mention of the fact that an innocent man died in this game of revenge, was a notable absence.
I can see this with gang bangers and Air Jordans.
Not me snatching deceased zapatos.
Nope.
~_~
I gotta say, I'm very happy the forced live action skits were axed this year, none of those were any fun to watch and just dragged out the video so smart choice leaving those behind
Dagget shouldve gotten rid of the shoes
🌀
The original episode was just a bit of film-noir vengeance, but when the 80’s series did their “Dead Woman’s Shoes” remake, just for the sake of picking old classic episodes’ bones (like the Game of Pool remake), the story came off as corny mousy-to-bad-girl empowerment fantasy. imagine how “The Four of Us Are Dying” would have similarly played if they gave up 50’s-noir for cheap demographics…
Imagine how this story would play out if the shoes contained the soul of the DOOMSLAYER.
What?
@@johnathandenmead7626
What?
Yo
Poor Wilma, she is going to have a whole succession of bums barging into her apartment, pretending to be her boyfriend.
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And I just got a new pair of slippers today... weird...
Its just a slipper, nothing bad is gotta happen. I think?
Did Rugrats rip of The Twilight Zone?
Guys, I think Rugrats ripped off The Twilight Zone. 😧
Day 18 of asking Doug to review Coraline
Seeing Rod Serling flaunt those cigarettes, only to find out he dies of lung cancer is very telling.
Rod didn't die of lung cancer. He died during open heart surgery.
@@mst3KGf Was still a smoking related death though. So you still have the irony of him touting the "benefits" of the things that killed him.
Hold on Partnah. I ain't letting that shoe comment slide. You wear a size 12 and a half!? You got some big ass feet. Your SO must love you!
I haven't been able to find the episode on UA-cam (The Twilight Zone fan channel is uploading clips of some '80s series with Paul McCartney for some reason.), but I did find the '80s remake that basically genderbent the story. And I have to say, it's not great. We barely get to know anything about the main character other than she's a miserable thrift store clerk who gets harassed by a guy who looks like he belongs on the Rocky Horror Picture Show. And when she puts the shoes on (how it got sold tp the store is anyone's guess), she turns into an unsubtle caricature of a snobbish rich woman. I laughed every time she opened her mouth because the accent was so ridiculous. And how the hell did she continue to be possessed enough to change into a fancy dress despite showering first? Who wears shoes in the shower? Not to mention, the ending was embarrassing with a random replacement maid putting on the shoes and shooting the rich woman's ex-husband instead of the one he recently fired and had an affair with. The only positive I can think of is the use of the mirror to show the possessor's true form and how she's completely oblivious to the fact she's living in another person's body. That trick should've been done in the 2nd Wonder Woman film.