Twilight Zone: The Movie (1983) Part 7

Directed by John Landis (prologue and segment 1)
Steven Spielberg (segment 2)
Joe Dante (segment 3)
George Miller (segment 4 and epilogue)
Produced by John Landis
Steven Spielberg
Kathleen Kennedy (segment 2)
Jon Davison &
Michael Finnell (segment 3)
Written by Rod Serling (television series)
John Landis (prologue and segment 1)
George Clayton Johnson (original screenplay 'Kick the Can', segment 2)
Richard Matheson and
Melissa Mathison (segment 2)
Jerome Bixby (story 'It's a Good Life', segment 3)
Richard Matheson (segment 3)
Richard Matheson (short story 'Nightmare at 20,000 Feet' and screenplay, segment 4)
Narrated by Burgess Meredith
Rod Serling
Starring Dan Aykroyd
Albert Brooks
Vic Morrow
Scatman Crothers
Kathleen Quinlan
John Lithgow
Kevin McCarthy
Abbe Lane
Dick Miller
Bill Quinn
William Schallert
Nancy Cartwright
Charles Hallahan
Selma Diamond
Donna Dixon
Priscilla Pointer
Helen Shaw
Christina Nigra
John Dennis Johnson
John Larroquette
Larry Cedar
Music by Jerry Goldsmith
Cinematography Allen Daviau
John Hora
Stevan Larner
Editing by Malcolm Campbell
Tina Hirsch
Michael Kahn
Howard E. Smith
Distributed by Warner Bros.
Release date(s) June 24, 1983 (1983-06-24)
Running time 101 minutes
Country United States

Twilight Zone: The Movie is a 1983 film produced by Steven Spielberg and John Landis as a theatrical version of The Twilight Zone, a 1959 and '60s TV series created by Rod Serling. It starred Dan Aykroyd, Albert Brooks, Vic Morrow, Scatman Crothers, Kathleen Quinlan and John Lithgow. Burgess Meredith, who starred in several episodes of the original series, took on Serling's position as narrator, although unlike Serling he did not appear on screen, nor did he receive screen credit. But, his name did appear in the end credits.

The film remade three classic episodes of the original series and included one original story. John Landis directed the prologue and the first segment, Steven Spielberg directed the second, Joe Dante the third, and George Miller directed the final segment. The promotional song from this movie, "Nights Are Forever", written by Jerry Goldsmith with lyricist John Bettis, and sung by Jennifer Warnes, is heard briefly during the jukebox scene in the opening segment with Vic Morrow.

The film garnered notoriety for the helicopter crash which took the lives of actor Vic Morrow and two child actors, Myca Dinh Le and Renee Shin-Yi Chen, during the filming of Landis's segment. The deaths led to high-profile legal action, although in the subsequent trial no one was held criminally culpable for the accident.

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[chewablemoo]

@Nantchev thats creepshow i think

[ajkeel]

1:20 GODDAMNIT xD

[CH3Jason]

Every Twilight Zone has a message.

This one:

Dan Aykroyd and Joe Fogerty are NOT to be trusted!

[OutfacedxViking]

@Nantchev you're thinking of a combination of the 2 creepshow movies, based off of comic books written by stephen king. leslie nielsen and the hitch hiker are in the first, the indian statue and the blob are in the second.

[Nantchev]

Is there another Twilight movie?

I swear there is one where there is a statue of an American Indian that comes alive and avenges an old man.

Which is the one where Leslie Nielsen is a sort of Gangster and kills a couple?

Which is the one where a woman gets a hitchhiker from hell?

Which is the one where there are some young people and they get attacked by some strange blob in a river while in a raft?

[emitremmus]

@puppyloveforu You should expect as much. Laziness just seems to come with the territory where piracy's concerned.

[emitremmus]

@ledzep76 What about the psychotic teddy bear in the original? Speaking of, I actually think its face was much more frightening than the monster's in this movie. The monochromatic film probably helps. Have you noticed how ugly Serling (and/or the TV series crew) think the upturned "pig" nose is?

[emitremmus]

@doorswhofan Thanks for sharing that factoid, doorswhofan :). I can't get over how redundant "Jim Morrison" and "Twilight Zone" look together.

[incrediblehulkmovies]

What, Lightening didn't cause that damage, Mr. Onlooker?

[MejoradaDj]

0:09 fat dude praying with a puppet made me rotflmfao xD