The Twilight Zone is known for its excellent twists, which is why TV Line has recently ranked the "10 Best Twilight Zone Endings." Coming in second was “Eye of the Beholder,” a season two episode that was extremely hard to film.
The 1959 episode, which was written by Rod Serling, was about a woman who recently completed her eleventh plastic surgery procedure, which was the maximum number of procedures allowed in their world. Her face was completely bandaged during most of the episode, and the doctors spoke poorly about the way that she looked and described the procedure as a failure.
However, when the bandages were removed, it was revealed that the woman was conventionally beautiful by our standards. Meanwhile, the hospital staff had monstrous, beastly faces. At the end of the episode, the woman was rescued by another attractive stranger who whisked her away, assuring her that even though this society found her ugly, others would find her beautiful.
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“The old saying happens to be true,” the ending narration said. “Beauty is in the eye of the beholder, in this year or a hundred years hence. On this planet or wherever there is human life—perhaps out amongst the stars—beauty is in the eye of the beholder. Lesson to be learned in the Twilight Zone.”
This episode was one of the most difficult to film in the entire series, because the director had to find clever ways to hide all of the actors’ faces until the twist was revealed. It was important to get the camera angles just right.
In the 2017 book, The Twilight Zone Encyclopedia, Director Douglas Heyes said, "What I had to do was try and hold [the viewer's] attention and yet not let them see any faces—without having the audience say, 'Hey something's wrong. They're not showing faces.' In other words, there is constantly a very subtle camera movement, so that you're not aware of the fact that when somebody turns around, for example, and starts to turn towards you, someone else walks in front of the camera just at the moment he's turning so that you don't actually see the front of his face. I was trying very hard to make it look like I wasn't doing what I was doing!"
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He continued, "With the woman's face under the bandages, I tried to suggest that she couldn't see them, that this was her vision. She didn't know what they looked like; she could only hear them around her. And I think it worked visually. She isn't seeing, so we're not seeing them yet. When I watch that episode now—and I've seen it a few times recently—I'm very pleased with the way the camera enhances the effect I was after. By now, of course, everybody knows what the trick is."
Although the episode was difficult to film, Heyes was thrilled with the end result. He called it one of his favorite episodes to direct of The Twilight Zone.
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