Welcome to watch Mojo and in this installment of Versus were engaging in TV combat with the Twilight Zone versus American Horror Story.

For this list, we're comparing the original run of the Twilight Zone Tau American horror story to see which grabs the crown as the most iconic SciFi horror anthology.

Round one stories Tales from Rod Serling, Seminal Twilight Zone are iconic.

There's a man out there.

Some stories, moments and characters are so recognizable that even those who haven't seen the original show no them instantly by sight or description.

How about talking Tina, the original killer doll?

Get rid of you or the broken glasses and cries of its Not fair, whether the monsters are due on Maple Street or there's something on the wing of the plane.

These tales have become an indelible part of the cultural zeitgeist of the West.

All this from a show that aired over 60 years ago.

The stories live on with us.

The stories of American horror story have the shock factor for sure and get their share of Internet buzz with each new season's release.

However, outside of the fan base the plots are not well known to the public.

I thought I told you to throw that thing away.

Oh, you're not talking.

I'll give you points for creativity.

Relying on a core concept each season plays in its own sub jar of horror and can be broadly described with those categories.

Slasher, ghost story, dystopia, et cetera, without losing too much in the way of material.

While the first season murder house generated a lot of attention, it was mostly for the awesome shock value the show provided.

And while new viewers will surely be is engaged, as the original audience is, we're gonna have to go with the old school tales winner.

The Twilight Zone round to format The Twilight Zone works like a series of short stories.

Each episode is its own stand alone tail and wraps up within its roughly half hour time slot portrait of a Bush League shura named Peter Bomber, a sparse little man who feeds off his self delusions as an additional bit of drama.

The show's creator, Rod Serling, introduces and closes out each episode in his trim gray suit, and with his detached, observant, narrating style, he provides the audience a glimpse through an open door to the uncanny valley of each tale.

The setup makes for tight, lurid story telling.

One month ago, the Earth suddenly changed its elliptical orbit and in doing so began to follow a path which gradually, moment by moment, day by day to get closer to the sun.

Of course, it also means the audience has limited time to become invested in the characters or plot.

By contrast, the long form anthology format had never really been done in this manner in the U.

S.

Or so successfully on television before.

American Horror Story.

What can you tell me about the Occupant Room 64?

That room's vacant.

You mind if I take a quick look?

Oh, be my guest.

Each season is a contained story, with the next season bringing in a new plot and new core theme while bringing back the actors for new characters and rolls.

The patient's father, including Willie, last night, have disappeared under your supervision.

They die.

That's it, period.

This exciting format, which allows writers and show runners to stretch out and keep things fresh at the same time, has now been mirrored all over the place in particular in horror.

The idea of one full season to tell a big budget story was genuinely innovative.

Winner.

American Horror Story I'm Song Get Over Ice Cream Truck.

They just stood there staring round three.

Plot twists, twist endings.

The twists of the Twilight Zone are legendary, like E.

C.

Comics Tales From the Crypt.

It should risen and fallen in the first half of the 19 fifties.

The Twilight Zone endings are generally ironic or serve up a heap of just desserts.

Way episodes like Eye of the Beholder, The Invaders and To Serve Men are so well done that even modern audiences will find themselves surprised and shocked by what's around the corner.

Well, if The Simpsons hasn't already took them off you big epic Quaker, Nobody but nobody.

And, of course, The Twilight Zone.

Feature stories written by some of the great jar writers of the 20th century Colony is coming, but it's from Venus, and if you're still alive, I think you will see how are we different.

Thief twists of American horror story can be big and even downright gruesome.

But in keeping with the chaotic feel of the show, sometimes also a bit out of nowhere.

You crying?

I held you.

We're safe.

You died.

Oh, Theo Twists frequently go for the shocking rather than ironic, keeping the audience on its toes as the show's creators continue to see just how far they can go and can be allowed to get away with on television, I think it made a run.

I see you found my little.

However, one of the great joys of a well executed twist ending is cleverness, which a shock doesn't need to rely on to be successful.

So we're going old school winner.

The Twilight Zone, Round four Scares The Twilight Zone was, at its time considered a very spooky show.

We still use the term Twilight Zone to describe something uncanny or mysterious.

Yeah, like something out of that twilight.

The show about that don't, however.

Perhaps, unsurprisingly, the 60 plus year old scares don't always quite hold up.

It was a different era, and this is basically much tamer stuff than desensitized.

Modern audiences can now handle being broadcast into people's living rooms, and you keep thinking bad thoughts about May.

There are still some very chilling ideas.

The little boy who sends people to the cornfield or the woman pursued by the relentless hitchhiker, for instance.

But nothing folks these days might consider truly, utterly horrifying.

I believe you're going my way.

Or, on the other hand, is the bloody bread and butter of HS, and we do mean bloody scares run the full gamut of the horror spectrum.

Jump scares Gore body horror.

Creeping dread, haunting visuals.

You name it.

American Horror Story is apt to go there from makeup to effects.

Two plots Things can get twisted enough that even ardent horror fans might have to look away.

Hey, it is called American Horror Story.

It does what it says on the box winner American Horror Story.

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Fine Cultural impact.

Rod Serling's influential show has been parodied, copied and loved for years.

While it was not the first SciFi horror anthology of its kind on either television or radio, the reach of the Twilight Zone has extended into film, TV, art and music.

Stylish and clever, the show has lived on in several incarnations, spotting an entire media franchise.

Its third iteration lit up screens of a whole new generation in 2019 hosted by Comedy and Horror Otar Jordan Peele.

In his final moments, Justin Sanderson made the case that he did everything he could to avert disaster.

But in the end he was an investigative reporter unwilling to investigate himself until it was too late.

Its influence can be seen in many other shows and movies, following similar formats, including, Well, American Horror Story.

The Twilight Zone does have half a century or so on American horror story, so it's hard to compare.

But we're pretty confident about a few things where H F seems primed to achieve a well earned cult status by the end of its run.

Its current cultural impact just isn't there in the same way of Sterling's opus.

While HS did help to shift horror TV in a Boulder edgier direction at the beginning of a decade that would fall in love with war all over again, it's still owes a lot of it's set up to the Twilight Zone.

Technology is what destroyed the world.

Social media give people the illusion they were equal.

But that's all been swept away.

And so we have our final destination winner, The Twilight Zone.

Did we pick the right winner?

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