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Post by Calenture on Feb 14, 2010 18:10:40 GMT
I remember a story from an old black and white American horror or SF series from way too long ago, but can't remember the series.
The story concerned a plastic surgeon who'd discovered a way of making human skin malleable, like plasticine, and a murderous spy who kills the surgeon and uses the formula to disguise himself.
At the end of the story, the agent is exposed - at a crowded dinner party, I think - and his captor tells him that he'll never operate as a spy again as everyone will know him. He injects the spy with the last of the formula, then digs his fingers into the man's face, and tears hideous furrows into the skin.
Grisly little scene, but I can't remember what series it appeared in.
Anyone?
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Post by ramseycampbell on Feb 15, 2010 12:53:51 GMT
It's The Outer Limits - the "Hundred Days of The Dragon" episode, directed by Byron Haskin.
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Post by Calenture on Feb 15, 2010 15:36:13 GMT
It's The Outer Limits - the "Hundred Days of The Dragon" episode, directed by Byron Haskin. Thanks for this, Mr Campbell. It did occur to me that the story would have fitted that series (there's another episode where surgical change plays a part - The Architects of Fear - where a man volunteers to be changed into an 'alien', the idea being that the people of Earth (i.e. a small part of America) will unite and forget their differences in order to overcome the 'alien threat' which now appears to be among them). The Hundred Days of the Dragon is unfortunately not one of those analogue tapes I've transfered to disk, so it looks as if I'll have to brush the cobwebs off my wallet if I want to see that episode again. But thanks again; that ghastly scene with the hands gouging into a face has haunted me for years, and at last I know what it was. Rog |
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Post by allthingshorror on Feb 15, 2010 15:53:19 GMT
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