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Originally Posted by Hanxter
actually not so inane...
either the twilight zone or outer limits... an episode where this guy had severe headaches...
an earwig had crawled into his ear...
because of it's front feelers couldn't turn around...
it laid it's eggs and kept on going thru his brain to the opposite ear...  |
It believe it was Rod Serling's Night Gallery, a sort of sequel to The Twilight Zone. The segment 'The Caterpillar' was probably the scariest story they ever did. I think it was set in Malaya and starred Laurence Harvey as Macy. He'd hired a hitman to kill somebody in a bizarre, hideous way, 'cept the hitman put the earwig into the wrong ear - Macy's.
The resulting irritation leads people to tear their own faces off, killing themselves in the process. The only way of avoiding this death is to strap themselves down until the agony is over. It's after the earwig tunnels its way out the other side, that the doctor gives Macy the bad news - the earwig was pregnant and laid eggs in his brain.