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Twilight Zone: The Movie
Horror · Fantasy · Science Fiction · 1983
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."
Movie details
Twilight Zone: The Movie
“You're travelling through another dimension. A dimension, not only of sight and sound, but of mind. A journey into a wondrous land whose boundaries are that of imagination. Next stop, the Twilight Zone!”
1983 Horror · Fantasy · Science Fiction 1h 41m
Critical arithmetic
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TMDB
6.5 / 10
Community rating
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."
CriticWise case file
What this film says about your taste.
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The archetype split
Who fights over Twilight Zone: The Movie?
For the defence
The Arthouse Gremlin
“The stranger, the better.”
Read their case For the prosecution
The Popcorn Loyalist
“Big screen, big feelings, no apologies.”
Read their objectionThe split comes from the same five-axis model used by the test, not audience ratings or review sentiment.
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Cast & crew
Directed by
John Landis · Joe Dante · Steven Spielberg
Written by
Richard Matheson · George Clayton Johnson · Melissa Mathison · Jerome Bixby
Dan Aykroyd
Passenger
Albert Brooks
Driver
Scatman Crothers
Mr. Bloom
John Lithgow
Valentine
Vic Morrow
Bill
Kathleen Quinlan
Helen Foley
Charles Hallahan
Ray
Court is in session
Put Twilight Zone: The Movie on trial.
Two incompatible taste archetypes. One film. Read the arguments, then issue a completely binding cultural ruling.
The prosecution The Popcorn Loyalist
“Oddness is not depth.”
A film can break every rule and still leave nothing behind but the memory of how hard it tried to be singular.