Unlimitedia Sick Product of a Sick System

Dirtylogy It's funny, it's tense, it features two great performances from two actors and the director expertly creates a web of odd tension where you actually don't know what is happening for the majority of the run time.

Janae Milner Easily the biggest piece of Right wing non sense propaganda I ever saw.

Kaydan Christian A terrific literary drama and character piece that shows how the process of creating art can be seen differently by those doing it and those looking at it from the outside.

PeterBlues this was the first twilight zone piece i saw, but after gotten used to the original 1959 twilight zone series, i realize this seem to rely too much on special effects and strange camera shots, and it lacks the amazing dialogue the original series had, but still i give it good rating cause lets face it, the original series is something else, and this has some groovy stories and in the last piece the actor gives an intense mind blowing performance.

Theo Robertson It seems a bit strange waiting till 20 years after a TV show has been cancelled before making a film version . That said THE TWILIGHT ZONE is one of the shows that's always being syndicated somewhere and the directors involved in this project were all established movie brats who really know pop culture and live sleep and breath nostalgia . Indeed it was the likes of THE TWILIGHT ZONE that fired their imagination and got then in to the film industry in the first place . This is an affectionate tribute to the original show using an amusing linking sequence bookending the film and like the TV series it's rather jit and miss . Unfortunately it's probably best remembered for the film that ended the life of actor Vic Morrow !!!! SUGGESTIVE SPOILERS !!!!!Segment 1 ) Bill Connors is a bitter and twisted bigot who has just been passed over for promotion . Exiting a bar he finds himself in Nazi conquered France . A very obvious type of redemption plot . Or it would have been if Vic Morrow hadn't been killed on set . Instead we get a different type of ending which is both downbeat and surprising Segment2 ) Residents of a care home find their lost youth . Dear oh dear . If you think Spielberg is the greatest director who ever lived take a look at this and tell me it doesn't belong on the Disney Channel . Mawkish , silly , manipulative and just in case you don't get it the musical score does all the thinking for you .Certainly one of his creative low points Segment 3 ) A strange tale featuring a teacher arriving at the house of a boy and everything being not what it seems . Not a brilliant story or told particularly well but Joe Dante concentrates on the technical merits . Check out the impressive use of shadows and bare in mind the monsters seen were created by hard working effects men and not done via CGI Segment 4 ) A man is on a plane and sees a demon on the port wing . Yes it's a remake of Nightmare At 20,000 Feet but while that episode now comes across as high camp here it's merely tongue in cheek and concentrates on tension and does have a couple of very effective startle moments along with an intense performance from John Lithgow

leplatypus First of all, i can watch at last this movie. When i was a teen, our parents allowed to see the first sketch but then we had to go to bed as we got school the next day (see also « poltergeist » for more details). I just remember that the prologue really scared me and that my friends told me accurately the next sketches. Then, in 2012, i got the ticket to watch it on screen at the Cinematheque during Spielberg's retrospective but i didn't go. Today, i rent it and if the movie was not really bad, with all the excellent directors here, it's still a disappointment. The major defect for me is that they could have tried to link all the sketches to have a basic unity : as the prologue ends with a automobile parking in a road, i would have started with Dante's part. Then, as this one ends in the same way, i would have cross the « family's » car with the racist one arriving at his bar. Then, as this one ends on the street, i would have put Gloom's in the street before entering Sunnyvale. As Spielberg ends with a street view, i would have shoot the sky to find Miller's plane.Next, if the Zone is a place of mystery and discomfort, Spielberg's sketch should have been cut as it's too sugary and optimist. The interesting fact is that it had the same feeling and atmosphere as its future « Hook » !The Miller's sketch is wrong since its beginning as Lithgow is already crazy (the same thing that Stephen King said about Nicholson in « Shining »).Thus, you have really two good sketches : Landis' one about a punished racist and Dante's about a terror kid ! They were indeed interesting as you don't see often those kind of stories often and their cast is good (with Dante's familiars and the future Mr X). Finally, the result is mixed but i don't remember to have seen a memorable sketch movie either.

gwnightscream Dan Aykroyd, John Lithgow, Vic Morrow, Scatman Crothers and Kathleen Quinlan star in this 1983 sci-fi/horror anthology film based on the TV series. This features 4 tales directed by John Landis (An American Werewolf in London), Steven Spielberg (E.T.), Joe Dante (The Howling) and George Miller (Mad Max). The 1st focuses on bigot, Bill (Morrow) who becomes trapped as people he can't stand. The 2nd focuses on man, Conroy (Crothers) who brings youthful magic to a group of senior citizens in a nursing home. The 3rd focuses on school teacher, Helen (Quinlan) who meets a young boy with magical powers. The 4th features man, Valentine (Lithgow) who gets terrorized by a monster aboard his airplane. Aykroyd (Trading Places) appears in the prologue and end as a mysterious passenger. I've always liked this film, the cast is great, Rob Bottin & Craig Reardon's effects are terrific and the late, Jerry Goldsmith's score is excellent as usual. I recommend this good 80's anthology film.