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Twilight Zone – The Movie [Blu-ray] Reviews

Twilight Zone – The Movie [Blu-ray]

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TWILIGHT ZONE:MOVIE – Blu-Ray MovieA highly anticipated release for fantasy fans in the summer of 1983, Twilight Zone: The Movie presents three adaptations of classic episodes (and one original story) from Rod Serling’s anthology series by a quartet of the biggest directors in Hollywood. With Stephen Spielberg (also the film’s co-producer), John Landis, George Miller (The Road Warrior, Happy Feet), and Joe Dante behind the camera for this portmanteau feature, one might expect Serling’s episodes to positively gleam with star power, but the truth is that Twilight Zone: The Movie is a hit-and-miss affair. Landis opens with an amusing nod to the original series’ pop-culture appeal with Dan Aykroyd and Albert Brooks riffing on their favorite episodes before a hair-raising shock finale; unfortunately, his second offering is a bland morality plan about racial tolerance that will forever be overshadowed by the accident that claimed the lives of star Vic Morrow and two child actors during shoot

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  1. Geoffrey Johnson "sitebender"

    April 23, 2011 at 6:19 pm

    33 of 40 people found the following review helpful:
    4.0 out of 5 stars
    Four tales, great actors and great acting, August 5, 2001
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    Geoffrey Johnson “sitebender” (Lake Villa, IL United States) –

    This review is from: Twilight Zone [VHS] (VHS Tape)

    This movie features four classic stories from the Twilight Zone recreated for the big screen. There are several cameos in each story and a big leading star in each tale. The first story is of a man tired of the racial diversity in the US, where he then finds himself leading the life of a Jewish man in Nazi Germany, a black man caught in the KKK tribe and another. The second is a good story of a retirement home that finds youth in its heart after becoming children again and finding that it is not worth staying young. The third is a twist on the original tale of a boy who’s wishes come true as an unknowing women looking for adventure was lured in by the child. The final story is of the Gremlin on the wing of a plane as John Lithgow plays the sole man who sees the monster ripping up the plane. With this performance you can put John Lithgow in an empty room with a window and it would still be just as terrifying from the way he conveys what is out there.

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  2. John Lindsey "John"

    April 23, 2011 at 5:29 pm

    11 of 11 people found the following review helpful:
    5.0 out of 5 stars
    A great anthology!, October 29, 2007
    By 
    John Lindsey “John” (Socorro, New Mexico USA.) –
      

      

    This review is from: Twilight Zone – The Movie (DVD)

    Our film begins with a prologue directed by John Landis (“An American Werewolf in London”, “Kentucky Fried Movie” and “Animal House”) pair of friends (Dan Ackroyd and Albert Brooks) who play TV trivia in the car as they drive and also a special scaring contest for each other then our stories begin. In the first story directed also directed by John Landis, a racist business man (Vic Morrow) who gets travled back in time to the 1940’s, 1950’s and 1960’s where he becomes the three races he hates the most and becomes the one being hunted. The second story directed by Steven Spielburg is a gentle tale of a special magical old man (Scatman Crothers) that helps a group of senior citizens at a retirement home to make them young again, the third story is directed by Joe Dante (“Gremlins”, “The Howling”, “Pirahna”) about a traveling school teacher (Kathleen Quinlan) that accidently hits but doesn’t injure a young boy as he gives him a ride home where he invites him to stay for a while with his strange family and discovers that the boy has magical powers that can alter reality and make wishes come true. And the final story directed by George Miller (“Mad Max”) is a terrying story of a nervous airflight passenger (John Lithgow) that sees a strange creature on the wing of the plane trying to destroy the airplane.

    A splendid anthology of horror and fantasy stories from four directors and inspired by the classic TV series by Rod Sterling. The stories except the first one are based on classic episodes from the TV series while the first tale is a very original story, this movie got me hooked into watching the classic TV series and is a great anthology movie in it’s own right. In fact, this was Vic Morrow’s last movie cause he died during filming and the film is narrated by Burgess Merideth, this is a must have for fans of the series and anthology movies like “Creepshow”, “Grindhouse”, “Heavy Metal”, “Cat’s Eye”, “Dead of Night” etc. This one of my personal favorites since i was a kid.

    The DVD contains great picture and sound quality and the only extra is the theatrical trailer.

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