Storyline
Four directors collaborated to remake four episodes of the popular television series 'The Twilight Zone' for this movie. The episodes are updated slightly and in color (the television show was in black-and-white), but very true to the originals, where eerie and disturbing situations gradually spin out of control. "A Quality of Mercy", "Kick the Can", "It's a Good Life", and "Nightmare at 20,000 Feet".
Directors
Cast
Norbert Weisser, Albert Brooks, Dick Miller, John Lithgow, Larry Cedar, Dan Aykroyd, Al Leong, Priscilla Pointer, Donna Dixon, Charles Hallahan, Kathleen Quinlan, Scatman Crothers, Doug McGrath, John Dennis Johnston, John Larroquette, Kevin McCarthy, Nancy Cartwright, Rod Serling, Steven Williams, Elsa Raven, William Schallert, Burgess Meredith, Selma Diamond, Peter Brocco, Christina Nigra, Cherie Currie, Patricia Barry, Bill Quinn, Kai Wulff, Eduard Franz, Evan Richards, Vic Morrow, Jeremy Licht, Bill Mumy, Helen Shaw, Lana Schwab
Trailer
Reviews
63
Chicago Tribune
A mixed bag of four short films done in the style of famous '60s TV show. Two work; two don't. [July 22, 1983]
60
Chicago Reader
The first two are total stinkers, but things pick up with Joe Dante's creepy, claustrophobic, and very funny study of a brattish kid who lives in a cartoon universe, and come slamming home with George Miller's final sketch about a paranoid airline passenger.
60
Ultimately it's left to Mad Max wizard Miller to steal the show with an extraordinary remake of Richard Matheson's story about an airline passenger who spies a demon noshing the starboard engine.
50
The beauty of Twilight Zone -- The Movie is the same as the secret of the TV series: It takes ordinary people in ordinary situations and then (can you hear Rod Serling?) zaps them with "next stop -- the Twilight Zone!"
50
Based on the popular television series, Twilight Zone--The Movie is a frightfully lopsided omnibus that begins with two wretched episodes by John Landis and Steven Spielberg and finishes with an engrossing pair by Joe Dante and George Miller.
