The Amazing Falsworth is truly an episode living up to it's name. It's well filmed, written, and Gregory Hines gives a fine performance as the title character. Also, unlike some Amazing Stories episodes, the musical score is fitting, and almost sounds like a classic John Williams score.
The piano wire killer is on the loose, and he's struck again. The episode starts off with a woman being strangled to death, what the murderer's identity is, is unknown. After the opening scene, we are introduced to The Amazing Falsworth, a magician performing some crowd pleasing tricks. When doing one trick where he combs the audience, blindfolded, telling them all about themselves, he detects the presence of a serial killer. A detective visits Falsworth, and the story goes from there. Like most anthology show episodes, this was about waiting for the plot to unravel, rather than a "figure out who the killer is" murder mystery. It's effective, creepy, entertaining and is one of my top 5 Amazing Stories episodes.
My rating: **** out of ****. 26 mins. TVPGV
The piano wire killer is on the loose, and he's struck again. The episode starts off with a woman being strangled to death, what the murderer's identity is, is unknown. After the opening scene, we are introduced to The Amazing Falsworth, a magician performing some crowd pleasing tricks. When doing one trick where he combs the audience, blindfolded, telling them all about themselves, he detects the presence of a serial killer. A detective visits Falsworth, and the story goes from there. Like most anthology show episodes, this was about waiting for the plot to unravel, rather than a "figure out who the killer is" murder mystery. It's effective, creepy, entertaining and is one of my top 5 Amazing Stories episodes.
My rating: **** out of ****. 26 mins. TVPGV