Fresh
Plays much like a traditional vaudeville card, what with its tantalizing teaser opening followed by three sketches of increasing quality, all building up to a socko headline act.
Variety Staff, Variety
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 · 1h 41m · PG
Fantasy, Horror, Science Fiction
Directed by
John Landis
,
Steven Spielberg
,
George Miller
,
Joe Dante
Overview
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."
Director and cast
- John Landis Director
- Steven Spielberg Director
- George Miller Director
- Joe Dante Director
- Dan Aykroyd as Passenger / Ambulance Driver (Prologue / segment "Time Out")
- Albert Brooks as Car Driver (Prologue)
- Vic Morrow as Bill Connor (Segment #1)
- Scatman Crothers as Mr. Bloom (segment "Kick the Can")
- John Larroquette as K.K.K. (Segment #1)
- John Lithgow as John Valentine (segment "Nightmare at 20,000 Feet")
- Kathleen Quinlan Cast
- Charles Hallahan Cast
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
60%
Tomatometer
Rotten
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
Rotten
...a flabby, mini-minded behemoth...
Vincent Canby, New York Times
Fresh
Miller [leaves] no doubt that he was the finest stylist to emerge in the early 80s, with a sense of narrative rhythm linked to visual development that is wholly original and ravishing.
Dave Kehr, Chicago Reader
Fresh
The others have a comic strip zeal which makes them intensely watchable, but ultimately it's left to Mad Max wizard Miller to steal the show.
Time Out
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