Description:Based on Rod Serling's hit TV series, this anthology features four tales of fantasy and horror. A bigot (Vic Morrow) experiences prejudice; a man (Scatman Crothers) with special powers helps the elderly regain their youth; a woman (Kathleen Quinlan) discovers a town controlled by an odd child; and a passenger (John Lithgow) sees sometBased on Rod Serling's hit TV series, this anthology features four tales of fantasy and horror. A bigot (Vic Morrow) experiences prejudice; a man (Scatman Crothers) with special powers helps the elderly regain their youth; a woman (Kathleen Quinlan) discovers a town controlled by an odd child; and a passenger (John Lithgow) sees something horrifying on the wing of his plane. John Landis, Steven Spielberg, Joe Dante and George Miller direct.... (more)(less)
"Release Date - June 24th, 1983
Box Office Gross - $29,500,000
Watched June 1st - My DVD collection - Rewatch
"Hey, you wanna see something really scary?"
- Car Passenger
Started off June by watching another of my favorites from 1983 - Twilight Zone: The Movie - one of the first and still one of the best TV to movie adaptions. At the time the film was best known for the tragic accident that killed Vic Murrow during filming, and John Landis did a good job of editing his segment so that it "
"The surprising thing is, the two superstar directors are thoroughly routed by two less-known directors whose previous credits have been horror and action pictures.
- Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times"
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"Fun and campy, but nothing special. Basically four episodes of the Twilight Zone circa 1983 comprise this movie. The first "segment" is about an angry middle-aged drinker who feels that his job has been unfairly given to a Jewish colleague (he is fairly vocal about this belief). The guy also calls blacks the "N" word, etc. He stumbles out of the bar in a rage and finds himself back in Berlin in 1939 and pursued by Nazis, then he suddenly finds himself being attacked by members of the KKK, then h"
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