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Twilight Zone: The Movie
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38 out of 100

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4.9 out of 10

Mixed or average reviews- based on 7 Ratings

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  • Starring: Albert Brooks, Dan Aykroyd
  • Summary: Four big name directors re-imagine classic stories from the Twilight Zone.

Critic Reviews

Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 0 out of 6
  2. Mixed: 4 out of 6
  3. Negative: 2 out of 6
  1. Chicago Reader
    Reviewed by: Dave Kehr
    60
    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.
  2. Chicago Sun-Times
    Reviewed by: Roger Ebert
    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!"
  3. The New York Times
    Reviewed by: Vincent Canby
    30
    The film, which opens today at the Sutton and other theaters, is composed of a prologue, written for the movie, plus four separate stories, each of them either based directly on a script from the television series or suggested by one. A lot of money and several lives might have been saved if the producers had just rereleased the original programs.

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  1. Positive: 1 out of 2
  2. Mixed: 0 out of 2
  3. Negative: 1 out of 2
  1. ConnorK
    7
    Its not as good as the original series or the two revivals but it is still a decent twilight zone adventure. There is four segments sadly the first is the only original one, the other three are based off of past episodes. I liked the first, third and last segment I however did not like the second one ''kick the can'' I saw what they were trying to do but even the original episode was boring. Overall this is a good movie not a great one.… Expand
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  2. TylerW.
    1
    Leave it to greedy Directors and Actors to ruin what is a pure classic. I watched this, completely. But after seeing Rod Serling's brilliance desecrated long enough, I almost turned off the tv.. Until I recognized 'Nightmare at 20,000 Feet'.... But of course, no Shatner.. He was replaced by, John Lithgow. Landis, Spielberg, and Dante had made me sick.. I hoped Miller & Lithgow could make it 'worth while'.... They didn't.. The real problem with this 'film' is that the actors, directors, and producer, Spielsuck..er.. Berg.. only wanted money and didn't care for the show that essentially created the 'anthology' genre and helped Sci-Fi become as popular as it is now. Spielberg really dropped the ball on this one.. right into what used to be respect.… Expand
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