#Twilight zone the movie tv#
Steven Spielberg's gentle but so-so episode of golden-agers turning young is unusually modest for the spectacle-inclined filmmaker, but this would be done so much better in Cocoon. And first journeyed to the 'Twilight Zone' of Rod Serlings memorable TV series. Episodes seem to have arranged to get better as they go along (which was smart). None of that appears in the disappointing segment itself, a one-note bashing of a nasty guy. In the first, racist Bill Connor (Vic Morrow) is transformed into a Jew in World War II.
#Twilight zone the movie movie#
The gangbusters last story, done by George Miller, is the best (though never likely to be shown as an in-flight movie), but an awkward framing device (guest starring Dan Aykroyd) recurs to remind what a haphazard construct the whole feature is.ĭespite Hollywood's biggest directors involved, TWILIGHT ZONE: THE MOVIE mainly is sad trivia: the feature in which Vic Morrow (and two child actors) died in a freak accident, perishing beneath a crashing helicopter while filming the Vietnam section. This tribute to the beloved supernatural TV show has four episodes. Joe Dante's quirky take on the poor-little-all-powerful-boy Anthony (actually a re-filming of a famed short story, "It's a Good Life") is clever, if a little fixated on f/x. In the finale, a computer scientist ( John Lithgow) with a crippling fear of flying is on a storm-tossed airliner when he sees a sadistic monster outside, seemingly tearing up the wing.
In the third tale a stranger stumbles into the captive household of Anthony (Jeremy Licht), a cartoon-crazed kid with awesome psychic powers to make his every whim come true, but who isn't truly happy. The 4th segment, George Millers gripping adaptation of 'Nightmare at 20,000 Feet' from the original. It gets off to a good start with a brief but effective prologue, while the rest of the film is very uneven. Each segment was helmed by a prolific feature film director, which included John Landis, George Miller, Joe Dante, and. The second story has a magical visitor (Scatman Crothers) to an old-folks home, giving the seniors a chance to start life over as six-year-olds - if they want to. The Twilight Zone adapted into a four-part anthology film, with each part directed by a different director. Twilight Zone: The Movie is the 1983 feature film adaptation of the classic Rod Serling television anthology and was comprised of four segments, three of which were based on classic episodes and one based on an original story. Three parts remake favorite TZ episodes, but the first is original, about a bigoted businessman (Vic Morrow), ranting about losing a job promotion to a Jew, who instantly finds himself knocked about the whole 20th century, suffering the same persecutions as blacks in the Jim Crow South, Jews in the Holocaust, and Indochinese during the Vietnam War. The revered TV half-hour The Twilight Zone, which originally aired 1959-65 and told different sci-fi and fantasy-tinged morality plays each week, inspired this big-budget movie anthology.
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