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wilight Zone enters the '80s in stunning style with four new stories (or updated) for a modern audience...
It opens with Dan Aykroyd and Albert Brooks driving along a lonely road in the sticks. The radio is broken so they play "Guess TV Themes", then following that the subject changes to The Twilight Zone. Prepare yourself for the next bit. It might make you jump!!
Time Out, being an original is also the most infamous, as it involved the death of actor Vic Morrow and two children on set. It opens with a rascist called William Connors, played by Morrow, meeting two friends in a bar. He tells them that he failed to get a promotion because a Jew got the job before him and following a torrent of abuse, he leaves the bar. Shortly after arriving outside the doors, he realises he's in Nazi Germany, being treated as a black person, then at a Ku Klux Klan ceremony, etc. This is a very dark episode, and given the circumstances not one which I remember which great affection. I am a fan of John Landis work, but this one just didn't really do it for me.
Kick The Can is Steven Spielberg's directional segment. It's a fanatsy about a man who arrives at a Sunnyvale rest home, and decides a little magic is needed to bring back the old peoples youth, and he knows where to get it. A magical story, which is not horrifying at all! but it works anyway and Spielberg adds on a wonderful conclusion.
Segment three is called "Kick The Can" (one of my favourites!) and is a remake. It stars Bill Mumy who starred in the original. The story opens with a school teacher called Helen Foley, played by Kathleen Quinlan (later from Apollo 13), who knocks down a young kid named Anthony who she gives a ride home to. Needless to say, she doesn't quite realise what she's getting into! Anthony has powers beyond belief and has the power to control everyone! Is Helen the answer to his prayers? This segment was directed by Joe Dante, who went on to directed many other 80's classics including Gremlins and The Burbs.
The final story is a remake of the classic "Nightmare At 30,000 Feet". Directed by George (Mad Max) Miller and starring John Lithgow as the passenger suffering turbulent times and not knowing what's outside the window makes it so much worse! Jerry Goldsmith's music should also be mentioned he, as I consider it to be one of his best. It almost sounds like the kind of thing Danny Elfman would have written had he been given the job in later years.
The conclusion has Lithgow being driven off in an ambulence by Dan Aykroyd, while listening to the midnight special on the radio.
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An thorougly enjoyable 80's take on the classic TV series, with four of the best directors of the time adding some magic to the stories. Each director brings some clever staging and a lot of fun to the proceedings.
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Josh Rogan (writer "Kick The Can") is really Melissa Mathison under a pseudonym. She wrote the script for E.T. The Extra Terrestrial and was married to Harrison Ford for many years. 
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The on-set helicopter crash caused some inevitable changes to the finished movie. Many were suprised that the film was even released at all with the Vic Morrow segment. Originally in the script, whilst running from the American soldiers firing at him and an attack from a US Army helicopter in Vietnam, he would come across two Vietnamese orphans and, moved by their plight, would rescue them from the air attack by carrying them across the river -redeeeming himself in process. At the end of the segment, as an entire village was to be destroyed in the background, the reprieved racist would reassure the youngsters: “I’ll keep you safe, kids! I swear to God!” -Thanks to Nick
After the opening segment, where the movie really starts. Burgess Meredith narrates the classic "You're Travelling through another dimension. A dimension, not only of sight and sound, but of mind". "You've just crossed over to The Twilight Zone". If you look real close you can see (Rod Serling) the creator of the Twilight Zone in the pupil of the eyeball....Also, Burgess Meredith was in four original Twilight Zone episodes: Time Enough At Last (1959), Mr. Dingle The Strong (1961), The Obsolete Man (1961) and Printers Devil (1963). -Thanks to Derek
"Kick The Can", "Terror at 20,000 Feet" and the "It's a Good Life" segments were all originally Twilight Zone episodes. "Terror At 20,000 Feet" originally starred William Shatner. -Thanks to Bob
In the now infamous example of failed on-set safety precautions and dubious Hollywood labor practices, both Vic Morrow (Bill Connor in the "Time Out" segment) and two child actors, Renee Chen and My-ca Le, were tragically killed on July 23rd, 1982 in a horrible 3am accident on the set while filming a scene involving pyrotechnic blasts causing a helicopter to crash right on top of him and two young children --who were improperly recruited to the set on a cash basis, in direct contradiction of the child labor laws.
John Landis attended both funerals and said at Morrow's: “Tragedy can strike in an instant, but film is immortal. Vic lives forever. Just before the last take, Vic took me aside to thank me for the opportunity to play this role.”
An unsuccesful criminal charge of manslaughter against Landis and others followed, as well as many multi million dollar lawsuits -including one by Vic Morrow’s daughters, Carrie Morrow and actress Jennifer Jason Leigh. The terms of the following settlements have never been made public. You can read more here -Thanks to Kara Victoria
Nancy Cartwright, who appears in this movie later went on to provide the voice of Bart in The Simpsons and of Chucky in The Rugrats. The Simpsons also spoofed Cartwright's segment in a Halloween special with Bart being the boy everyone was afraid of. Ironically Cartwright's character in The Twilight Zone ends up trapped forever inside a cartoon. Funny how life works out!! -Thanks to Geoffrey Robe
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Jerry Goldsmith provides an absoultely outstanding score to this wonderful film. He is working under the direction of Steven Spielberg for the second time since "Poltergeist" in 1982. The themes for Kick The Can and It's A Good Life are simply amazing. There are some fun synth sounds blended with the orchestral music.
The soundtrack also features the superb "Nights Are Forever" by Jennifer Warnes which is heard in the bar scene where Vic Morrow's character rants about missing the promotion. The soundtrack was released by Warner Brothers and is available as a German Import CD.
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| | "You're travelling through another dimension. A dimension, not only of sight and sound, but of mind"
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| 1983 | Studio:
| Warner | Director:
| John Landis, Steven Spielberg, | Starring:
| Albert Brooks,
Kathleen Quinlan , John Lithgow, Dick Miller, Scatman Crowthers,
Pricilla Pointer , Vic Morrow , Dan Aykroyd | | - | - | Genre:
| Sci-Fi / Fantasy | | | | + | The last three stories, especially Kick The Can are magical and told in typically 80's style (I love it!) | - | Although I still like it, my least favourite tale was "Time Out". I feel that the disaster on set marred the finished product somewhat. |
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