Short-lived anthology series offered both spooky and more conventional suspense tales. Too bad it only lasted a few episodes. Familiar faces from bothy TV and movies dotted each episode, and Henry Rollins of all people served as a Rod Serling-type narrator. Watching the series again on CHILLER, I was struck by an episode involving four young people at a rustic rest stop who are captured one-by-one by shadowy figures. The ending is a real shocker, and reminded me to some small degree of the movie WRONG TURN. Another episode that stood out was a variation on Shirley Jackson's THE LOTTERY, with a decidedly supernatural twist. A very TWILIGHT ZONE-ish episode had a college coed finding herself in a different time plane and dimension after successfully negotiating a maze on her campus. Another episode had a scientist trying to figure a way to enter a bubble-like dimension showing a bucolic landscape that suddenly appears one day in the desert. In a really chilly episode, a man returns from the dead only to find himself forever changed. Yet another episode involved a small band of eastern European stowaways locked in a large storage container who are being picked off and eaten by an unseen monster. Once again, the ending came as quite a surprise. It really is a shame the show didn't last longer. It appears to have been Fox's answer to HBO's TALES FROM THE CRYPT.
Review of Night Visions
