Twilight Zone: The Movie (1983)
This two-hour Twilight Zone movie contains an original prologue and four segments. The first segment, "Time Out", develops the themes of two of the original series episodes ("A Quality of Mercy" and "Deaths-Head Revisited") into an entirely new story. The three remaining segments are remakes of the original series episodes.
| Segment | Title | Director | Movie Screenplay Writer(s) |
|---|---|---|---|
| "Really Scary" | John Landis | John Landis | |
| A driver (Albert Brooks) and passenger (Dan Aykroyd) sing, chat and reminisce during a night-time drive, including about episodes of The Twilight Zone they found memorable, before the passenger challenges "Hey, do you want to see something really scary?" The driver's acceptance proves fatal as the passenger reveals he is actually a demon (with a morbid sense of humor). | |||
| 1 | "Time Out" | John Landis | John Landis |
| After publicly bemoaning his missing out on a promotion to a Jewish man, a bigot named William Conner (Vic Morrow) is transported through time to experience racial discrimination firsthand, consecutively as a Jew in Nazi-occupied France, a black man about to be lynched by the Ku Klux Klan in the Deep South in the 1950s, a Vietnamese man being hunted by American soldiers during The Vietnam War and then a Jewish man again, caught by the Nazis and sent to the concentration camps. | |||
| 2 | "Kick the Can" | Steven Spielberg | Richard Matheson & Melissa Mathison |
| An elderly new arrival who calls himself Mr. Bloom (Scatman Crothers) brings fun and hope into the lives of the residents of the Sunnyvale Rest Home by playing a game of "Kick The Can". | |||
| 3 | "It's a Good Life" | Joe Dante | Richard Matheson |
| A school teacher named Helen Foley (Kathleen Quinlan) moving to a new job encounters a young boy named Anthony who has mental powers to get what he wants, but for reasons only he knows. | |||
| 4 | "Nightmare at 20,000 Feet" | George Miller | Richard Matheson |
| During an airplane flight through a severe storm, a nervous man named John Valentine (John Lithgow) is the only one who can see a destructive creature on the wing of a plane he is traveling on, yet nobody believes him. | |||
| 5 | "Even Scarier" | John Landis | John Landis |
| The man who was the airline passenger from the previous scene is in an ambulance going to the hospital. The ambulance driver turns out to be none other than the passenger of the car from the prologue (Dan Aykroyd). He says, "Heard you had yourself a bit of a scare back there, did you? Do you want to see something really scary?" Before that can be seen, the screen goes to black and into space as Rod Serling's opening narration from the first season of the original show is heard. |
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