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The Devil & Mr O "The Hungr...
July 11, 2008
The Devil and Mr. O - Wyllis Cooper, who created, wrote, and produced it, was then a 36-year-old staffer in Chicago's NBC Studios. Cooper created h... More
The Devil and Mr. O - Wyllis Cooper, who created, wrote, and produced it, was then a 36-year-old staffer in Chicago's NBC Studios. Cooper created his horror "by raiding the larder." For the purposed of Lights Out sound effects, people were what they ate. The sound of a butcher knife rending a piece of uncooked pork was, when accompanied by shrieks and screams, the essence of murder to a listener alone at midnight. Real bones were broken - spareribs snapped with a pipe wrench. Bacon in a frypan gave a vivid impression of a body just electrocuted. And the cannibalism effect was actually a zealous actor. Gurgling and smacking his lips as he slurped up a bowl of spaghetti. Cabbages sounded like human heads when chopped open with a cleaver, and carrots had the pleasant resonance of fingers being lopped off. Arch Oboler's celebrated tale of a man turned inside-out by a demonic fog was accomplished by soaking a rubber glove in water and stripping it off at the microphone while a berry basket was curshed at the same instant. The listener saw none of this. The listener saw carnage and death. THIS EPISODE: January 14, 1972. Program #18. CBS net origination, syndicated rebroadcast. " The Hungry One ". Commercials added locally. An monster-from-outer-space story. This one has a sinister appetite. Syndicated program name: "Lights Out" The story is also known as "Meteor Man." Arch Oboler (writer, host). 25 minutes. Less
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