Season 2, Episode 5: The Toys of Caliban
 

Season 2, Episode 5: The Toys of Caliban

Airdate: 04/12/86
Writer: Terry Matz/George R.R. Martin
Director: Thomas J. Wright
Starring: David Greenlee

A mentally challenged child has strange powers.

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Caliban here!

I wasnt expecting that, after a bit of a weak start to this episode it rapidly becomes a nice peice of solid horror flash fiction with a few genuine scares.

Again, not amazing, but well worth a watch.

F:S

Yes I enjoyed this one. Was the kid actor genuinely disabled? Very freaky. He looked like Randy Quaid.

Seems he wasnt, IMDB have him listed in a number of films and tv and he did VO for pokemon cartoon.

On another note, they did use the word "retarded" rather liberally in this episode.

Guess that was OK in the 80s

F:S

What was he doing that made his mum collapse?

i think he was pretty much taking her heart apart with his hands.

nice.

Oh right. I find myself not paying as much attention to these new ones. Think they're all done on the horror channel now. Quite glad in a way, there's a lot of dross to get through to see a decent one.