In this episode, Martin Senescu is so devoted to his job as caretaker at a waxwork museum that, when the museum closes, he takes some of the figures home to look after. But soon the waxworks - all-famous murderers including Jack the Ripper and Burke and Hare - seem to take on a life of their own when Martin's loved ones turn up dead... With The Twilight Zone you expect there to be a supernatural or extra-terrestrial bent to the story so when it's claimed that waxworks of serial killers are coming to life we accept that as true. However, this episode plays off this expectation somewhat and gives us something much scarier. It turns out that Martin is wrong, the waxworks didn't murder those people, he did. This chilling twist means that we've been following the descent of a mild-mannered man into homicidal insanity over the past half an hour and it's something that makes us feel somewhat complicit in his actions. You know, maybe we'd rather it had been evil waxworks. And that's not something you say everyday.
