The Village

Shyamalan coasts into this village that is wracked by the wages of fear, manipulation, and forestry.

"...anyone with a passing knowledge of Rod Serling’s The Twilight Zone (or even that old also-ran Thriller) will likely..."

Aug. 6, 2004 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Tales From the Hood

"...(there's even a tip of the skull to several Twilight Zone episodes, not to mention Christopher Young's decidedly Zone-esque..."

June 2, 1995 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Dark Skies

Aliens mess with a suburban family's peace of mind in this unsettling, slow-burn thriller.

"...science-fiction thriller that plays like an episode of The Twilight Zone crossed with Poltergeist. More chilling than terrifying, this..."

March 1, 2013 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Touchback

It’s a Wonderful Life meets Twilight Zone in this film about a high school quarterback a second chance to score during the big game.

"...but for all the It’s a Wonderful Life meets Twilight Zone obviousness, Touchback is a quietly affecting film. While..."

April 13, 2012 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

The Box

Donnie Darko director Richard Kelly goes for full-fledged suspense in this studio thriller.

"...Based very loosely on a short story by original Twilight Zone scribe Richard Matheson, The Box is a convoluted..."

Nov. 13, 2009 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Timecrimes

Spanish director Nacho Vigalondo's first feature film is a tremendously entertaining bit of Kafka that whirlpools down into The Twilight Zone – and one helluva blast to watch.

"...entertaining bit of Kafka that whirlpools down into The Twilight Zone. Spanish director Vigalondo's first feature film is an..."

Jan. 16, 2009 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Right at Your Door

Harrowing doesn't even begin to describe this low-budget exercise in siege paranoia, which builds on our current terrorist-related night sweats.

"...twist that seems to have come straight from The Twilight Zone. That's not necessarily a bad thing, but it..."

Aug. 24, 2007 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

A Day Without a Mexican

What if Californians awoke one day to discover that all the Mexicans in the state had mysteriously vanished overnight?

"...continuity. A Day Without a Mexican plays like a Twilight Zone episode conceived for Mexican television and padded out..."

Sept. 24, 2004 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Catch That Kid

Kids commit heist – all for a good cause.

"...guards, but the film seems trapped in a strange Twilight Zone somewhere between comedy and drama, and it’s neither..."

Feb. 13, 2004 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

The Truman Show

Life is a 'round-the-clock “reality” TV program in this prescient film, and Truman Burbank (Carrey) is its unwitting subject/hero/leading man.

"...a disconcerting stance that intentionally teeters between comedy and Twilight Zone-like nightmare. It's unusually provocative and challenging for a..."

June 5, 1998 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Love Serenade

"...cloistered world of the Hurley sibs is a surreal twilight zone of mixed emotions, filled with garish, Kmart clothes..."

Sept. 19, 1997 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Boys' Shorts: The New Queer Cinema

"...of thematics from The Wizard of Oz and a Twilight Zone episode comes to mind. The narrative concerns a..."

Feb. 18, 1994 Movie Review by Pamela Bruce

City Zero

"...life lived in the shadows of Stalinism and the Twilight Zone. Alexei (Filatov) is a Moscow engineer who arrives..."

Dec. 6, 1991 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Child's Play 3

"...so what we're getting here is like some warped Taps/Twilight Zone hybrid without the chutzpah. Director Bender has fashioned..."

Sept. 6, 1991 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

1991 Festival of Animation

"...deftly knocks it out of cliche and into the Twilight Zone, but I've only got so much room to..."

Aug. 23, 1991 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Rules for Werewolves

This tale of runaways prowling suburbia in a pack recalls the eerie unreality of The Twilight Zone

"...it, you definitely won't confuse Rules for Werewolves with Twilight, but you may feel you've entered The Twilight Zone...."

Dec. 11, 2015 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Darna Zaroori Hai

Unusual Bollywood film is an anthology horror film with segments directed by seven different directors.

"...they make the John Landis' tragically uncompleted segment of Twilight Zone: The Movie look like Kwaidan by comparison. Sajid..."

May 12, 2006 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

White Man's Burden

"...almost as if Ted Turner had resurrected some well-intentioned Twilight Zone and colorized it for the Nineties, diluting the..."

Dec. 8, 1995 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Austin Film Festival: The Golden Ages of Matthew Weiner

Mad Men auteur enters the Twilight Zone

"...Weiner himself took time out to honor Serling’s The Twilight Zone as a major formative influence on his work...."

Oct. 25, 2014 Screens Post by Michael Agresta

Screen Play

What to do at the writers' conference

"...imagination. It is an area which we call the Twilight Zone. So went, in part, the intro to one..."

Oct. 24, 2014 Screens Feature by Kimberley Jones

There Will Be Blood

... And bloodsuckers and zombies and ghosts and murderers all over our stages this week

"...of the audience is cordoned off as a "splatter zone." And yet, despite these rather singularly daunting production demands;..."

Oct. 23, 2009 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Film Reviews

Recommended

"...almost as if Ted Turner had resurrected some well-intentioned Twilight Zone and colorized it for the Nineties, diluting the..."

Dec. 8, 1995 News Feature

Deterrence

"...most resembles, though, is one of Rod Serling's mid-Sixties Twilight Zone teleplays, with all of that format's advantages and,..."

April 21, 2000 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

The Apparition

A supernatural presence is released during a college experiment.

"...Greene (of the Twilight zone) and Stan play Kelly and Ben, a pair..."

Aug. 31, 2012 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Brightwood

Time loop drama is a twisted depiction of codependence

"...Baumbach as it does with H.G. Wells and The Twilight Zone. The Baumbach comparison is at its strongest when..."

Aug. 25, 2023 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Scary Movie Comes Back From the Grave

Austin's 1991 indie horror rises again

"...as a Hitchcock-style thriller," he explained. "Almost like an extended Twilight Zone episode." To prepare for the role, Erickson had young..."

Oct. 21, 2022 Screens Feature by Matthew Monagle

Old Man

Uninspired cabin-in-the-words horror elevated by engaging acting

"...an uninspired, mechanical tale, derivative of a first draft Twilight Zone episode or the chorus of that one Neil..."

Oct. 14, 2022 Movie Review by Josh Kupecki

Old

Beach vacation, anyone?

"...Shyamalan's early films channeled the resilient compassion of The Twilight Zone, Old aligns closer to the supernatural amorality of..."

July 30, 2021 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Happily

Deliciously acerbic comedy finally knows what to do with Joel McHale

"...but also curiously romantic, like an episode of The Twilight Zone with a score by the Mountain Goats...."

March 26, 2021 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Go/Don't Go

Enigmatic end-of-the-world story blossoms into quiet hope

"..."Time Enough at Last," the famous episode of The Twilight Zone, Burgess Meredith's bookworm thought he would relish the..."

Jan. 22, 2021 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

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