1983 · horror · sci-fi · fantasy
Twilight Zone: The Movie
Directed by John Landis, Joe Dante, Steven Spielberg, George Miller1h 41m1983
An anthology film presenting remakes of three episodes from the "Twilight Zone" TV series—"Kick the Can", "It's a Good Life" and "Nightmare at 20,000 Feet"—and one original story, "Time Out."
Our read: Twilight Zone: The Movie (1983) reads as a heavy, kinetic, surreal horror · sci-fi · fantasy entry — measured in intensity, intimate in scope, cold in temperature, nihilistic in outlook.
Heavy, kinetic, measured horror / sci-fi, surreal in texture. Nihilistic, intimate, cold.
- heavy
- brisk
- intense
- surreal
- bleak
Watching Twilight Zone tonight? Spin for your lens.
Everyone on the couch spins once and gets one craft to watch for. After the credits, compare what you caught.
Your lens for tonight
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Everyone on the couch gets one craft to watch for. Spin the wheel to get yours. Sound on: the narrator reads your mission.
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How Twilight Zone feels to watch.
Each axis is scored by hand, not from votes or genre averages. The bar uses the film's own colours.
What watching it is actually like.
“You want classic Twilight Zone wonder and dread packaged as a four-story anthology ride.”
Skip it tonight — You dislike uneven anthologies or remember the notorious production tragedy uncomfortably.
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Discussion
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