I’m a fan of Rod Serling’s Night Gallery. Night Gallery is an anthology series devoted
to horror and the supernatural. Some of
the episodes are hit or miss, but for the ones that hit…they hit.
One of my favorite episodes is called “The Caterpillar.” It takes place in the jungles of Borneo. A man, Steven Macy, has been stationed with a
couple as part of his job. The couple is
a 66-year old colonel, John Warwick, and his beautiful 26-year old wife,
Rhoda. Macy becomes infatuated with Rhoda
and cannot understand how she can be so devoted to a man who is old enough to
be her grandfather.
Macy seeks the help
of a ne’er-do’ well who promises him that he can get the husband out of the
way. The way he plans to do it is to put
an earwig in the husband’s ear. But there’s a mix-up and the earwig gets planted in Macy’s
head, not the husband’s. Macy undergoes
a long period of excruciating agony because the earwig is chewing its way through his brain
(but this is just for dramatic effect because the brain feels no pain) and he
is restrained to keep from clawing his face off. In time, the earwig exits the other ear—having
chewed its way through in a straight line—and during Macy’s recovery, he learns
from the local physician that the earwig was female and it laid thousands of
eggs in his head.
Like I said, when Night Gallery hits, it fucking SLAPS!!!
That's totally gross.
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