The Elevator (The Twilight Zone)

Infobox Television episode
Title = The Elevator
Series = The Twilight Zone


Caption = Scene from "The Elevator"
Season = 1
Episode = 16, Segment 1
Airdate = January 31, 1986
Production = 46
Writer = Ray Bradbury
Director = R.L. Thomas
Guests = Stephen Geoffreys : Will
Robert Prescott : Roger
Brandon Bluhm : Young Will
Douglas Emerson : Young Roger
Episode list = List of Twilight Zone episodes
Prev = A Matter of Minutes
Next = To See the Invisible Man

"The Elevator" is the first segment of the sixteenth episode from the television series "The New Twilight Zone".

ynopsis

Late at night, two brothers, Will and Roger, arrive at a closed factory in search of their missing father, who is undertaking secret experiments there designed to solve world hunger. Though the elder brother, Roger, is skeptical of his father, the younger brother, Will, defends him.

Upon entering the building, they follow a set of footprints in the dust to a room that Will was warned never to enter. Going inside, they find a trail of gigantic dead rats, each larger than the last, followed by the bodies of a housecat and a dog, both also of enormous size. Will turns on the lights to see a mass of white strands in one corner that apparently are pure protein.

Concluding that something even larger killed the cat and the dog, the two brothers follow the footsteps to an old elevator that invokes nostalgic memories. When it reaches the ground, however, the doors open to reveal a huge spider that snatches them and takes them upward into the dark.

External links

* [http://www.tv.com/the-twilight-zone-1985/the-elevator/episode/34372/summary.html?tag=ep_list;ep_title;38 TV.com - The Twilight Zone (1985) episode: The Elevator]
* [http://postcardsfromthezone.blogspot.com/2006/01/139-elevator.html Postcards From The Zone - episode 1.39 The Elevator]