Twilight Zone - Spur of the Moment **


 I think the major problem with Matheson's "Spur of the Moment" remains how I felt the previous time I wrote a review on the blog back in 2017...the twist on who teenage Anne is being pursed by on horseback--as Serling puts it, "The face of terror". Anyone can tell it is Anne Henderson aged with makeup. The old Anne pursuing her younger self. Why she would ride town with a shriek and give chase to her like a witch on a broom is puzzling because that kind of rushing someone, especially yourself from the past in order to warn her not to run off and marry the wrong man, won't accomplish anything. At any rate, as seen above, it makes for quite a startling image even if it remains a bewildering decision by older Anne to cry out like a banshee and scare away her younger self. This also uses that "vicious circle" where time continues to loop over and over with no alteration. Anne will always run away with David Mitchell and cause a life of misery and eventual ruin. Anne as an aged alcoholic who belittles her father, ridicules her pitiable mother, snarks with detest at pathetic David, and feel the need to break from her soon-to-be-foreclosed mansion for that horseback ride is quite a revelation. The old age makeup varies...TZ isn't known to have the best age progression makeup work.

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