Question: When I was a kid, I caught part of an old black-and-white movie in which a man was running away from monsters or aliens that looked like television sets with legs. They could use their antennae to electronically control something. Do you know the title?
Answer: I can't imagine it's anything but The Twonky (1953), based on a short story by veteran sci-fi writer Henry Kuttner and directed by Arch Obler, who wrote, directed and hosted the 1930s and '40s radio show Lights Out. In The Twonky, college professor Hans Conried finds that his new TV set — and remember, in 1953 TVs were new — is possessed by a futuristic entity that sets about remaking the professor's life to its distinctread more
