An episode that is derived from Robert Aldrich's cult films: "Kiss Me Deadly" (for Pandora's box analogy) and "What Ever happened to Baby Jane?" (for the sick behavior leaning a la Bette Davis) and appreciated by H. P. Lovecraft's fans who are interested in prohibited libido topic with frustrated young adults and a crackpot old maid ("And where there is love, there is nooo... evil... Ohhh, très nouveau, isn't it?"): i.e., how Joseph Stefano try to taint this script with a heavy, opaque and private bent for psycho-analysis. My opinion is that it's a talky-stagey story whose conclusion is much too rushed (see the cheap negative reversed explosion of the house): we're left unsatisfied. Nevertheless, Conrad Hall lets unforgettable pictures (especially, the first five minutes that takes place in the 1920's from Act I with the extreme close-up of Mr. Kry's eye who stares at the box's interior). As in "O.B.I.T.", there's an eyeball art direction: the flashlight close-ups of Harvey Kry-Vivia-Mr. Belfour's eyeballs, the eyes' makeup (clown-like) of Marry Kry, the rounded hole of the box and the cyclop creature (also see the Moonstone's eyeball aliens). Witness, if you will, another "Psycho"-like house with an obsolete and desolated car. As in "Corpus Earthling", the runaway couple find a sanctuary, the male runs from it and finally returns. As in "The Guests", Nellie Burt leads and is locked up (here, she's disabled) in a house with a weak husband. Gerd Oswald calls the butler's character Justman as a nod to the First AD of the same name. The doomsday monster delivers the best catch-phrases which epitomizes the episode's overtones but highlit by John Elizalde's saturated sound illustration, full of gritty noises in the line of "O.B.I.T."and a very Chromoite-like distorted voice ("... We were to rejoin here to blend our frequencies...", notice the reference to the wedding and sound itself and by extension: to communication; "If I cannot annihilate the world, then I must uncreate myself... and you!", notice the odd neologism "to uncreate"), and the music score is one of the best of the season—due to Robert Van Eps (for the wonderful Ragtime music and credited for Music Score by) and Dominic Frontiere—recycled in many episodes like "The Children of Spider County", "The Bellero Shield", "Second Chance", "Fun and Games", "The Mutant", "Moonstone", "The Chameleon". For the anecdote, British actor David Frankham (Cf. "Nightmare") appears four times in the 1960’s horror anthology "Thriller" and one of his episodes titled “The Prisoner in the Mirror” has a trapped doorway too. Notes: Frank Delfino plays the Box Creature, Robert Johnson is the voice of the Box Creature and Vic Perrin is the voice of Dr. Spazman.