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Pretty good movie overall. First half was nothing special but it got better as it went along.

The film makes a home in your brain and the only cure is to see it again.

I wanted to like it more than I actually did... But much of the humor totally escaped me and I walked out only mildly impressed.

The film's masterful storytelling did its job. The message was clear. No need to overdo.

This movie predicts smart TVs and Smart homes in 1953.

This film was made two years prior and then it was shelved until 1953. When it debuted, finally, it appeared in only three theaters and apparently a lot of folks walked out of the screening!"The Twonky" is a strange sci-fi comedy...complete with a completely ridiculous 'monster'. And, the monster is a TV set that seems possessed!! It can walk, it can talk, it can use mind control AND it can make or destroy things. Because of that, although Professor West (Hans Conried) is scared of it, the robotic TV keeps out-thinking him and seems indestructible! No matter what he does, the TV survives and thrives...and in the process the Professor seems ready to lose his mind!The movie is dumb...that goes without saying. But unlike some dumb monster films of the 1950s, this one doesn't take itself seriously...which is why I think it's worth seeing provided your expectations aren't high! Ultra-silly, that's for sure!

Hans Conreid is one of my favorite character actors of all time, and here he is put to the test as a man whose wife has bought him a television to entertain him while she is away So many people don't get the point of this movie, and it really is quite simple considering the history of the time. This is in the infancy of television and the motion picture industry was suffering at the time because people found it was cheaper to stay at home for their entertainment. So what does the industry do? They hire Arch Oboler of radio fame to write a screenplay about an almost despotic TV set. It's pretty basic, and makes for a surreal and entertaining time. Think of "The Twilight Zone" with a sense of humor and you get "The Twonky Zone" basically. Just sit back and enjoy, and if smoke 'em if you got 'em. The Twonky will light it for you.

I remember watching this on the afternoon movie when I was around 11 or 12. That would have put it around '71 or '72. It was a really old movie then, but geez it was creepy. It did have some funny parts, but that TV walking around zapping people was just plain weird. Later in life the creepy TV was replaced by that Zuni fetish doll from Trilogy of Terror with Karen Black as the thing that scared the poop out of me, but up until that, the walking TV was at the top of the "creep scale". At this point in life I figure the creature from "Alien" has taken over the "things I don't want to find in the closet" category. Though I can't imagine it selling well, I'd love to see an "Alien vs. Twonky" feature film come out. It probably doesn't help the odds that no one I've ever talked to has even heard of the Twonky. Wonder what the odds are of finding a copy on e-bay or something?