Richard Dominguez My Second Favorite Anthology (Nightmares 1983 Is My First) ... This Has The Same Feel As The Original TV Series ... I Believe (Could Be Wrong) The First Story Was An Original Script For The Movie (See Notes In Comments) ... The Other Three Stories Were All Remakes From The Original Series ... My Favorite One Is The Second One "Kick The Can" ... An Episode That Proves Not All Twilight Zone Stories Were Full Of Horror ... Some Were Happy And Even Funny ... "Kick The Can" Has (What Is To Me The Happiest Ending I Have Seen In Any Story Or Movie) ... The First Episode "Time Out" Saw The Accidental Death Of Vic Morrow And 2 Child Actors (Myca Dinh Le And Renee Shin-Yi Chen) ... All In All An Excellent Anthology And A Wonderful Tribute To An Old Old TV Show Friend ...**Comment https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twilight_Zone:_The_Movie

SnoopyStyle This is a series of vignettes recreating three of the classic Twilight Zone episode and one original work. The prologue has Albert Brooks driving Dan Aykroyd in the middle of the night. I'm not happy with Dan Aykroyd. He's too comedic and sets the wrong tone. The character needs somebody darker to play him.First is "Time Out", the only original segment, directed by John Landis. Bill Connor is a racist drinking at a bar with his work friends. He leaves and finds himself as a Jew in Nazi occupied France, then as a black man in the KKK American south and as a Vietnamese man against American soldiers. This is my least favorite and also the cause of the tragic accident on set. The switching between time periods is too random and feels like somebody's idea of the worst kind of greatest hits. If the movie stayed with the Nazis, this segment could have worked much better.The second segment is "Kick the Can" directed by Steven Spielberg. Mr. Bloom has just moved into Sunnyvale Retirement Home. He invites the residents to play kick the can in the middle of the night and the old folks turn back into the child self. This is a perfectly fine segment but it struck me recently that this is a magical Negro story.The third segment is "It's a Good Life" directed by Joe Dante. Helen Foley befriends little Anthony who is getting bullied. She drives him home to find his family in terror of his impossible powers. This is by far my favorite of this movie. Kathleen Quinlan is brilliant. She has a motherly way about her despite the outlandish situation.The fourth segment is "Nightmare at 20,000 Feet" directed by George Miller. It allows John Lithgow to go nuts but I don't know if anybody could top William Shatner.So there is one great segment, two middling ones and one poor one. Add on the prologue, this is a functional but not spectacular effort. The tragedy makes this a dubious enterprise. The fact that the only original segment ranks the lowest makes me wonder if they should have picked another classic episode.

TBJCSKCNRRQTreviews Bill(Morrow as a bigot, R.I.P.) is certain he's lost out to the Jews, the African-Americans and the Asians, and gets a nasty surprise. An old folks home is visited by the mysterious Mr. Bloom(Crothers with his inimitable charm), who influences the inhabitants. School teacher Helen(Quinlan, patient) comes across a very peculiar kid(played to perfection by Licht... all of the performances here are solid, even the child actors). And finally, John(Lithgow, paranoid) is, well, not a good flier - but he'll swear on his life, there was something on that wing...This is essentially giving a bigger budget and talent to some stories known from the show, and while I haven't watched the original episodes for ages, but on the issue of reusing them, I always say that a good tale is worth retelling. At one point, this was going to be a single scenario, not four separate ones. I'm glad they abandoned that - with this, we have 93 minutes(not counting end credits) which is, no less than four plots(and a prologue), all of them short enough that character development, pacing and staging is all economical.Landis' is surprisingly "meh". Maybe he left his talent in London. In a werewolf. From America. Spielberg's is not really scary, nor is it meant to be, instead it's emotionally compelling fantasy, and, well, there's a reason his name is highly regarded - it's great. Dante really kicks things into high gear with quirk giving way to twisted terror, also putting amazing practical effects to good use. And Miller closes this out on a claustrophobic, nerve-shredding note.There is some violent and/or disturbing content and a little strong language in this. I recommend this to any fan of horror. 7/10

jokerswild1 The prologue and first segment are both directed by John Landis. While the prologue is one of the best parts of the film due to how great the dialogue is and the ending, the first segment is an uneven and mediocre part of the film, left unfinished due to a tragic accident on set. The plot of the first segment is similar to two episodes of the show, "A Quality of Mercy" and "Deaths-Head Revisited", and though while the segment does have a very Twilight Zone feel to it, it is obviously unfinished, and thus very flawed.When people say Steven Spielberg makes saccharine films that have no real point, his segment of this film must be what they're referring to. Spielberg is among the greatest directors of all time, but his segment is definitely what I feel is his worst directorial work. Scatman Crothers is good in it, but it just seems like Spielberg was half-asleep when directing this. A shame, because originally Spielberg was planning to direct a far more interesting segment involving a nasty kid being pursued by real monsters on Halloween night.The film definitely picks up a great deal with Joe Dante's segment. A new version of the episode "It's a Good Life", it involves a young schoolteacher dropping off a strange young boy off at his house, and is invited to stay for dinner by the boy and his family, but something's a bit off about the family, and it becomes clear something is seriously wrong with the boy. This segment has great and intentionally cartoonish special effects, with many unnerving and creepy moments.The fourth segment is easily the best, and I feel it's actually better than the episode it's based on, "Nightmare at 20,000 Feet". John Lithgow plays a passenger on an airplane with an extreme fear of flying, and while he at first has it somewhat under control, it soon becomes quite severe when a lightning storm continues to get worse, and worse yet when Lithgow's character seems to be the only one to notice a gremlin tearing apart the wing of the plane. The gremlin causes more damage to the plane, and as the storm gets worse, so does the man's fear. Lithgow's performance is great, and the special effects for the gremlin are excellent, it looks menacing and expressive.Though uneven, this film is definitely good, and should be an enjoyable viewing experience whether or not you're familiar with the TV series.