I thought I’d bring an episode from our neighbors to the north for tonight’s Spooktacular with the Canadian Broadcasting Company’s Nightfall. Nightfall was a show which aired from 1980 through 1983 and featured some of the craziest, scariest, and downright black tales ever to grace the airwarves anywhere. Since Nightfall is an 80’s program, the series features some excellent effects and incidentals while also possessing a real “feel” of that decade; hard to put into words but giving the show a listen I think you’ll hear what I mean.
In The Porch Light, a couple rent a house out in a remote place in the middle of the country. What they failed to learn before moving in is the house was also a scene of a brutal murder spree twenty years ago. While the concept of a couple threatened in the woods isn’t the most original ideas out there, this still turns out to be one of the most creepy episodes of Nightfall ever produced.
So turn out those lights (even those on the porch…) and give a listen to The Porch Light as it aired on Nightfall on February 26th, 1982.
Download the show to take on the go right here.
