So disappointing that this has Hitchcock's name attached to it. Several times throughout this episode I almost fell asleep or fast-forwarded (recorded on DVR) to just get to the end already.
Ridiculously long bouts of boring and/or absurd filler dialogue: "You will win.." (kiss kiss) "I will win tomorrow" (kiss kiss drink) "Yes you will win tomorrow".. And: "the car's coming" - "I hear his car running" - "Howard is here"...
The long drawn out climax: will the dead disfigured Howard be brought back to life and will his mother see him when she FINALLY gets all the locks undone and gets the door open?? It sure didn't take her any time at all to throw open that same front door when she saw all the people standing in the front yard from her bedroom window!
The unintelligible chanting gibberish and dancing and whatnot at the very beginning lasted way too long, until finally the monkey's paw came into view. I WILL give the whole production this much: the paw was extremely creepy, especially when Lief Ericson rubbed it while holding it in his hand toward the end....ugh!
3 out of 10 / Grade D
Ridiculously long bouts of boring and/or absurd filler dialogue: "You will win.." (kiss kiss) "I will win tomorrow" (kiss kiss drink) "Yes you will win tomorrow".. And: "the car's coming" - "I hear his car running" - "Howard is here"...
The long drawn out climax: will the dead disfigured Howard be brought back to life and will his mother see him when she FINALLY gets all the locks undone and gets the door open?? It sure didn't take her any time at all to throw open that same front door when she saw all the people standing in the front yard from her bedroom window!
The unintelligible chanting gibberish and dancing and whatnot at the very beginning lasted way too long, until finally the monkey's paw came into view. I WILL give the whole production this much: the paw was extremely creepy, especially when Lief Ericson rubbed it while holding it in his hand toward the end....ugh!
3 out of 10 / Grade D