Saunders and the Grateful Dead, featuring Huey Lewis on harmonica. Exene Cervenka of the punk group X plays a waitress. "Nightcrawlers" was one of the most expensive segments to film in the entire series, chiefly due to its pyrotechnic finale, since all of the explosions and destroyed vehicles were real and not miniatures. The exterior of the diner was filmed on location by the side of a real highway, while the interior was a set built on the CBS Radford lot. The interior lights were rigged so that they would flicker whenever there was supposed to be a lightning strike. Cinematographer Bradford May said director William Friedkin was the most challenging director he had ever worked with because he demanded utmost intensity from every shot. Wanting more intensity from Scott Paulin, the actor who played Price, Friedkin put his face right up to Paulin's and shook him, to the shock of the cast and crew. References Zicree, Marc Scott: The Twilight Zone Companion. Sillman-James Press, 1992 (second edition) External links 1985 American television episodes The Twilight Zone (1985 TV series season 1) episodes Television episodes about Vietnam War Television shows based on short fiction fr:La Lumière des ténèbres