Eye of the Beholder
So I came across another Twilight Zone episode, called Eye of the Beholder.
Now this title has some special meaning to me in its own right, because in a distant past there was a videogame which bore the same name. It was a classic RPG game which I never got to play because I was too young and prolly would not have understood it (I attempted to play King's Quest when I was.. what, 7 perhaps? I couldn't do much more than type things like "climb tree" or so (although I did manage to find that golden egg up there I think)).
Anyway, my (older) cousin had this huge (or it seemed huge at the time) poster of Eye of the Beholder in his bedroom.. and it was fantastic to look at. It had all these skeleton warriors fighting each other and going to war, and in the middle of it there was this ancient looking wizard. There were all these small details to look at and although it was pretty dark and perhaps a bit gruesome, I remember staring at it for a really long time everytime we visited (I suppose I always had a thing for the dark ever since I was little). This was the same cousin who introduced me to The 7th Guest.. but I'm really starting to digress here now.
So about the episode, it's about this woman who's head is covered in bandages, supposedly because she looks hideous. Her first memory is of another girl screaming at her and getting all scared after seeing her face. So now she's at the hospital for her 11th treatment (the other 10 hadn't changed a thing about her), hoping she will look like everyone else now. If she doesn't she will be put in a special camp with people who are like her ( "your kind of people" they tell her). We don't get to see the faces of the nurses or doctor either (they're always standing in the dark or something like that), so you quickly get the idea that something funny is going on. When they finally do take off the bandages of the poor woman we see that there's nothing wrong with her face, if anything she's actually quite pretty. We then get to see the faces of the hospital staff though.
I was so thrilled with the make-up! Sure you can see that it's quite fake, but it's still incredibly effective. And the black & white just makes it creepier! There was also a leader who gave speeches with the use of big videoscreens throughout the hospital whose gestures and speeches resembled Hitler, although this "leader" was all about conformity.
Anyway, in the end she's being introduced to a man "like her" who is a representative of the camp she's going to now. He reminds her of an old saying, that beauty is in the eye of the beholder..