The Faces are the main antagonists of "Something in the Walls", the 19th episode in the third season of the 1985-1989 The Twilight Zone series.
They are an enigmatic extradimensional race that sought to possess humans through points where their dimension intersected with Earth, which happened to be patterns in walls, floors, and other surfaces. The Faces themselves appear humanoid, and mostly featureless. They can only manifest on Earth if a select person sees a face-like pattern on a given surface, and can start pushing out of the walls when manifested, although they appear incorporeal. When they possess humans, they trap the human souls in the patterns that they manifested from.
The Faces were portrayed by Janice Green, Martha Cronyn, Aaron Ross Fraser, and Douglas Carrigan.
History[]
In the 1980s, a human woman named Sharon Miles was sitting in her bed late at night, looking at a wall, when she noticed a face-like pattern on it, allowing a Face to manifest. From Sharon's perspective, the pattern turned to look at her, and she managed to make it vanish by looking away. However, sometime later, multiple Faces managed to manifest their bodies from the walls, trying to push their way out while screaming at Sharon, yelling at her not to resist. They then swarmed the room of Sharon's baby son, and while she was fast enough to beat them to her son, the Faces carved a glowing warning into the wall: Tell no one. After the incident, Sharon sent her son to live with relatives and committed herself to Crest Ridge Sanitarium. The Faces continued to stalk her, but she managed to stop them by constantly painting the inside of her cell pure white and wearing only solid colors, leaving no patterns for the Faces to manifest from, allowed to do so by the sanitarium staff, who believed it was therapeutic for her.
Two months later, despite the Faces' warnings, Sharon wanted to tell Dr. Mallory Craig of the sanitarium about the Faces, but could not bring herself to reveal the truth. She resolved to tell the doctor everything the next day, but that night, a thunderstorm caused water damage to the roof of Sharon's cell, forming a pattern. Despite screaming for help, no attendants came to her aid, and a Face was able to possess Sharon, trapping her soul in the pattern. The next day, in Sharon's body, the Face checked out of the asylum, with a dreamy attitude and wearing patterned clothing. When Dr. Craig tried to question them, the Face merely stated that it was silly to give into irrational fears. After Dr. Craig left, the Face looked back up at the pattern, smiling at Sharon's screaming soul, which was unheard by anyone else, before leaving the building.
