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Twilight Zone: The Movie
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An Anthology Film based on the 1959 Twilight Zone television series, released in 1983. It follows the show's anthology format by presenting four segments (all but one remakes of classic episodes), which are directed by four different directors. Prologue: "Something Scary" (Directed by John Landis): Two men discuss old television shows. This leads to the improved Title Sequence directed by animator Hal Miles. "Time Out" (Directed by John Landis): A bigot is taught a fantastic lesson as he finds himself traveling through time and hunted down for being a minority (a Jew in Nazi Germany, a black man living in the Deep South during the 1950s, and a Vietnamese man during The Vietnam War). "Kick the Can" (Directed by Steven Spielberg): A mysterious man arrives at a retirement home and shows its inhabitants how to be young again. "It's a Good Life" (Directed by Joe Dante): A woman meets a young boy who has a very special power, which he uses to hold his family in a grip of terror. "Nightmare at 20,000 Feet"/Epilogue: "Even Scarier" (Directed by George Miller): A man who is scared of flying finds out that the plane he is in is being sabotaged by a gremlin.This film became infamous for a ghastly accident that took the life of Vic Morrow and two child actors named My-Ca Dinh Le and Renee Shin-Yi Chen. The script for "Time Out" called for a scene in which Morrow's character is supposed to be carrying two Vietnamese children across a river to safety during an American bombing raid in Vietnam. Director John Landis was shooting late at night, violating child labor laws, and ignoring the helicopter pilot's concerns about flying so close to the ground and so close to explosive detonations. The cameras rolled anyway, and the explosive charges meant to simulate bombs caused the helicopter to crash, crushing Chen under its landing skid and causing the rotor to decapitate Morrow and Le. Landis was later tried and acquitted on charges of involuntary manslaughter. The 2020 documentary series Cursed Films shows the actual, uncensored footage of the incident and its direct aftermath. | |
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Canon Foreigner | |
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Canon Foreigner: Helen does not appear in the short story. In the short story, Anthony is an only child. In the film, he has an elder sister named Sarah. | |
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Age Lift | |
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Age Lift: Anthony is three years old in the short story and six in the original episode. He is about ten or eleven in the film. | |
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Graceful Loser | |
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Graceful Loser: After John manages to shoot the gremlin (to very little effect), it starts to clamp him with a Facepalm of Doom, but then realizes that the plane is about to land, and so just gives him a Finger Wag and a malevolent grin before flying away. | |
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Remake Cameo | |
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Remake Cameo: Burgess Meredith, who starred in four episodes of the series, including the all-time classic "Time Enough at Last", is the Narrator of the film. Rod Serling's widow Carol has a cameo as an airline passenger in "Nightmare at 20,000 Feet". Bill Mumy, who played the creepy omnipotent boy Anthony Fremont in the original episode "It's a Good Life", plays a diner patron named Tim in this film's adaptation. He sarcastically tells his friend Chris that it was "real good" that he attacked Anthony. William Schallert, Kevin McCarthy (actor), and Murray Matheson all had parts in the original series and also appear in the movie. | |
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Breaking the Fourth Wall | |
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Breaking the Fourth Wall: Watching Mr. Conroy playing Kick the Can, Mr. Bloom then turns to the camera and smiles, saying, "He'll get it!" | |
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Adaptational Villainy | |
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Adaptational Villainy: The gremlin was merely curious in the original episode. Here, it has vile intentions. (see For the Evulz) | |
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Aborted Arc | |
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Aborted Arc: In the original intended ending, Bill manages to redeem himself by rescuing two Vietnamese children, who time jump with him, not back to 1982/83, but back to Nazi Occupied France. The Kids are then taken by the Nazis to be executed, while Bill is put on a train bound for a Concentration Camp, making it a Cruel Twist Ending. However, due to the invokeddeath of Vic Morrow and the two child actors, all scenes featuring the children were cut and Bill's cruel twist turned into a deserving one. | |
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Adaptation Deviation | |
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Adaptation Deviation: This segment is only loosely adapted from the short story by Jerome Bixby. In the short story, Anthony uses his immense powers to terrorize the residents of his hometown Peaksville, Ohio and no one is able to exercise any control over him. In the film, Anthony's victims are limited to his real family and the people whom he has forced to act as his new family. Helen Foley recognizes that he needs guidance and offers to be his teacher so that he can find new uses for his powers. The segment ends with the two of them driving off together happily, giving it a happy ending which was not present in either the short story or the original episode. | |
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Surprisingly Happy Ending | |
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Surprisingly Happy Ending: Anthony frees his "family" presumably sending them to someplace nice (no word on whether Ethel and his real family are given the same break, but there's nothing to suggest it's beyond Anthony's power, either) and is talked down from going full Suicidal Cosmic Temper Tantrum by wishing away himself, Helen and the whole house. The short ends with Helen and Anthony driving away together, happy and hopeful for the future. | |
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Mythology Gag | |
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Mythology Gag: Helen tells Walter Paisley that she is going to Willoughby and that she is from Homewood. Walter tells her that it looks like she missed a turnoff at Cliffordville. | |
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The Scrooge | |
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The Scrooge: Mr. Conroy. Like the trope namer, he takes out his loneliness and frustration on his fellow retirees. | |
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Lie to the Beholder | |
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Lie to the Beholder: Bill appears as a Jew in Nazi-occupied France, a black man to the Ku Klux Klan in the 1950s Deep South and as a member of the Viet Cong Army to American soldiers during The Vietnam War. He protests that he's not Jewish, that he's white, and that he's an American respectively but to no avail. | |
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Lightmare Fuel | |
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Lightmare Fuel/Schmuck Bait: "You wanna see something really scary?" | |
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Full-Name Basis | |
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Full-Name Basis: Mrs. Dempsey always refers to her late husband as Jack Dempsey. | |
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Color Me Black | |
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Color Me Black: Bill finds himself placed in the fates of various oppressed minorities, first a Jew being chased by the SS in occupied France, then a black man hunted by the Ku Klux Klan in the 1950s, next he's mistaken for a a North Vietnamese man facing American troops and ultimately as a German Jew sent off to a concentration camp. | |
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Magical Negro | |
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Magical Negro: Mr. Bloom is an African-American man who has the ability to make elderly people young again so that they can live their lives over again. Prior to his arrival at Sunnyvale Retirement Home, he had previously done so at six or eight other retirement homes. | |
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Adapted Out | |
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Adapted Out: A variation. In the film, John Valentine is traveling alone, like his counterpart Arthur Wilson in the short story by Richard Matheson. However, Bob Wilson, the protagonist of the original episode, was traveling with his wife Julia. | |
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Gender Flip | |
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Gender Flip: In the original episode, the Sunnyvale Rest Home administrator is Mr. Cox. In the film, it is Miss Cox. | |
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Please, Don't Leave Me | |
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Please, Don't Leave Me: Leo Conroy begs this of a young Mr. Agee, though it's more a "Take Me With You". | |
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Actor Allusion: Dick Miller plays Walt, named after his character, Walter from A Bucket of Blood. | |
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Reality Warper | |
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Reality Warper: Anthony displays the ability to alter reality by creating monsters, bringing cartoon characters to life, transporting Ethel into a cartoon and stimulating the growth of plants. | |
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Bittersweet Ending | |
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Bittersweet Ending: John saves the plane from being destroyed, but he's hauled away as a crazy person in an ambulance. And unlike the TV episode, in which Bob Wilson killed the gremlin, this one is at best mildly inconvenienced and is still flying around up there somewhere. Also, we actually get to see the passengers on the plane discover the damage done to the wing. | |
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Ambiguous Ending | |
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Ambiguous Ending: John Valentine's fate is ultimately left unresolved. At a promotional event for his autobiography John Lithgow commented that in response to the ambulance driver's question "Do you want to see something scary?" he would have just replied "No", whereupon the driver would have simply shrugged and driven him to the hospital. | |
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Worst News Judgment Ever: Valentine noticed one of the passengers reading a newspaper, with its front page telling of a plane crash, which only made him more nervous. It also implied that the gremlin caused that crash as well. | |
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Human Popsicle: Discussed. Mr. Conroy tells the other residents of the Sunnyvale Retirement Home that his son has promised to have him frozen that he dies. Mr. Weinstein mockingly calls him "Popsicle Head." | |
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Angel Unaware | |
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Angel Unaware: Strongly hinted of Mr. Bloom. | |
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Stock Footage: Bimbo's Initiation, Case of the Missing Hare, Behind the Meat-Ball, The Great Piggy Bank Robbery, Mouse Wreckers, The Power of Thought, It's Hummer Time, Feed the Kitty and Feline Frame-Up are played on the various televisions in Anthony's house. With the exception of Bimbo's Initation, all of them are Looney Tunes cartoons. | |
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Adaptational Ugliness | |
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Adaptational Ugliness: Zig-zagged. The gremlin in the original episode looked more like an ugly hunched-over Bigfoot. Here, the gremlin is a tall, scaly humanoid with large sharpteeth smile. | |
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Almost Famous Name | |
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Almost Famous Name: Mrs. Dempsey's husband was named Jack Dempsey. When Mr. Bloom jokingly asks her if he was the fighter, she clarifies that he wasn't. | |
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Bond One-Liner | |
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Bond One-Liner: Played for Horror: After wishing Ethel into the cartoon, which causes her to be eaten by a monster, Anthony reacts rather callously: | |
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Obliviously Evil: Anthony wants to be a good little boy, but his "family" is so terrified of him that they don't set any limits on his actions. | |
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Book Ends: The ambulance that John is placed in is driven by the hitchhiker from the prologue, who pops in "Midnight Special", asks him if he "wants to see something really scary". . | |
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Game Show Appearance | |
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Game Show Appearance: Brief clips from the April 24, 1974 episode of the original Jeopardy! appear during the segment. | |
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Green Thumb | |
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Green Thumb: In the final scene, Anthony turns the desert landscape into a beautiful garden filled with many different kinds of flowers as he and Helen drive away from his old house. | |
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Not-So-Imaginary Friend | |
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Not-So-Imaginary Friend: Though "friend" is probably the last word that John would use. | |
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Man on Fire: A Klansman goes on fire after Bill kicks him into a burning cross as he tries to escape. | |
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One Character, Multiple Lives | |
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One Character, Multiple Lives: Connor is shuttled back and forth in time to live lives as a Jew, a black man, and as Lieutenant Douglas Neidermeyer who is mistaken for a Vietnamese person, during the worst times to be part of their minorities respectively. | |
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I Am a Monster | |
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I Am a Monster: Anthony's Heel Realization, admitting he teleported everyone back to their normal lives so they have what they wanted: to be away from him. | |
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Trapped in TV Land: Anthony sends Ethel into a cartoon world to be eaten. | |
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| Twilight Zone: The Movie / int_6edc54d5 | type |
Here We Go Again! | |
| Twilight Zone: The Movie / int_6edc54d5 | comment |
Here We Go Again!: The segment ends with Mr. Bloom arriving at Driftwood Convalescent Home, where he will once again use his powers to make the residents young. | |
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1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
| Twilight Zone: The Movie | hasFeature |
Twilight Zone: The Movie / int_6edc54d5 | |
| Twilight Zone: The Movie / int_700e17ed | type |
Special Effects Evolution | |
| Twilight Zone: The Movie / int_700e17ed | comment |
Special Effects Evolution: The opening features updated visual effect versions of the fourth and fifth season Title Sequence. For example, the window doesn't collapse — instead it explodes outwardly. | |
| Twilight Zone: The Movie / int_700e17ed | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
| Twilight Zone: The Movie | hasFeature |
Twilight Zone: The Movie / int_700e17ed | |
| Twilight Zone: The Movie / int_72a3f091 | type |
Giant Eye of Doom | |
| Twilight Zone: The Movie / int_72a3f091 | comment |
Giant Eye of Doom: Helen meets one when she tries to leave the house. | |
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1.0 | |
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| Twilight Zone: The Movie | hasFeature |
Twilight Zone: The Movie / int_72a3f091 | |
| Twilight Zone: The Movie / int_735e71c2 | type |
Recursive Canon | |
| Twilight Zone: The Movie / int_735e71c2 | comment |
Recursive Canon: Played with, as the characters discuss the old TV series before a Twist Ending reveals they're in the Zone. Granted, if any franchise was tailor-made to mess around with this stuff, this one's it! | |
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Twilight Zone: The Movie / int_735e71c2 | |
| Twilight Zone: The Movie / int_7453bc5b | type |
Spared by the Adaptation | |
| Twilight Zone: The Movie / int_7453bc5b | comment |
Spared by the Adaptation: As noted above, the gremlin. | |
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1.0 | |
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| Twilight Zone: The Movie | hasFeature |
Twilight Zone: The Movie / int_7453bc5b | |
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Wham Shot | |
| Twilight Zone: The Movie / int_795a041c | comment |
Wham Shot: "That's enough of that noise..." See Book Ends. | |
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1.0 | |
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Twilight Zone: The Movie / int_795a041c | |
| Twilight Zone: The Movie / int_7fa82d2a | type |
Wipe That Smile Off Your Face | |
| Twilight Zone: The Movie / int_7fa82d2a | comment |
Wipe That Smile Off Your Face: Anthony took away his real sister Sarah's mouth so she would not be able to yell at him anymore. | |
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1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
| Twilight Zone: The Movie | hasFeature |
Twilight Zone: The Movie / int_7fa82d2a | |
| Twilight Zone: The Movie / int_80a247a9 | type |
Breather Episode | |
| Twilight Zone: The Movie / int_80a247a9 | comment |
Breather Episode: Spielberg directed the lone segment that isn't scary. | |
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1.0 | |
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Twilight Zone: The Movie / int_80a247a9 | |
| Twilight Zone: The Movie / int_823c6e3e | type |
Large Ham | |
| Twilight Zone: The Movie / int_823c6e3e | comment |
Large Ham: It's John Lithgow channelling William Shatner. 'Nuff said. | |
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1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
| Twilight Zone: The Movie | hasFeature |
Twilight Zone: The Movie / int_823c6e3e | |
| Twilight Zone: The Movie / int_83a903f6 | type |
Stepford Smiler | |
| Twilight Zone: The Movie / int_83a903f6 | comment |
Stepford Smiler: Anthony's "family". No bad emotions allowed. | |
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1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
| Twilight Zone: The Movie | hasFeature |
Twilight Zone: The Movie / int_83a903f6 | |
| Twilight Zone: The Movie / int_898ff050 | type |
Villain Protagonist | |
| Twilight Zone: The Movie / int_898ff050 | comment |
Villain Protagonist: Bill, since his supposed development to stop being a bigot was cut out. | |
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1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
| Twilight Zone: The Movie | hasFeature |
Twilight Zone: The Movie / int_898ff050 | |
| Twilight Zone: The Movie / int_8a3c406e | type |
Hair-Raising Hare | |
| Twilight Zone: The Movie / int_8a3c406e | comment |
Hair-Raising Hare: Anthony asks his uncle Walt to pull a rabbit out of a hat as a magic trick, then the rabbit turns into a hairless, hulking, snarling monstrosity before it goes back into the hat. | |
| Twilight Zone: The Movie / int_8a3c406e | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
| Twilight Zone: The Movie | hasFeature |
Twilight Zone: The Movie / int_8a3c406e | |
| Twilight Zone: The Movie / int_8ed5c6e4 | type |
Asshole Victim | |
| Twilight Zone: The Movie / int_8ed5c6e4 | comment |
Asshole Victim: Bill. | |
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1.0 | |
| Twilight Zone: The Movie / int_8ed5c6e4 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Twilight Zone: The Movie | hasFeature |
Twilight Zone: The Movie / int_8ed5c6e4 | |
| Twilight Zone: The Movie / int_8f370b3d | type |
Fandom Rivalry | |
| Twilight Zone: The Movie / int_8f370b3d | comment |
Fandom Rivalry: In-Universe and lampshaded during the Zone or Limits debate. | |
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1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
| Twilight Zone: The Movie | hasFeature |
Twilight Zone: The Movie / int_8f370b3d | |
| Twilight Zone: The Movie / int_90e31482 | type |
Laser-Guided Karma | |
| Twilight Zone: The Movie / int_90e31482 | comment |
Laser-Guided Karma: The only segment that portrays this trope. | |
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1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
| Twilight Zone: The Movie | hasFeature |
Twilight Zone: The Movie / int_90e31482 | |
| Twilight Zone: The Movie / int_9141fba3 | type |
Fountain of Youth | |
| Twilight Zone: The Movie / int_9141fba3 | comment |
Fountain of Youth: Playing Kick the Can makes the retirement home residents (with the exception of Mr. Conroy) children again. | |
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1.0 | |
| Twilight Zone: The Movie / int_9141fba3 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Twilight Zone: The Movie | hasFeature |
Twilight Zone: The Movie / int_9141fba3 | |
| Twilight Zone: The Movie / int_95bca4c9 | type |
Tuckerization | |
| Twilight Zone: The Movie / int_95bca4c9 | comment |
Tuckerization: Helen Foley is named after Rod Serling's favorite teacher. She shares her name with the protagonist of "Nightmare as a Child". Walter Paisley mentions a town named Beaumont. This is a reference to Charles Beaumont, who wrote numerous episodes of the original series. Uncle Walt is named after Walt Disney. | |
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1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
| Twilight Zone: The Movie | hasFeature |
Twilight Zone: The Movie / int_95bca4c9 | |
| Twilight Zone: The Movie / int_96a33f11 | type |
Riddle for the Ages | |
| Twilight Zone: The Movie / int_96a33f11 | comment |
Riddle for the Ages: What was that Gremlin? Where did it come from, and where did it go? Why is destroying planes and trying to doom people to a grisly death? We'll never know, much like John Valentine. | |
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1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
| Twilight Zone: The Movie | hasFeature |
Twilight Zone: The Movie / int_96a33f11 | |
| Twilight Zone: The Movie / int_98576799 | type |
Throw the Dog a Bone | |
| Twilight Zone: The Movie / int_98576799 | comment |
Throw the Dog a Bone: Before leaving Sunnyvale, Mr. Bloom promises that Mr. Conroy will soon get his own chance to be young again — although he may just be saying that Mr. Bloom will get the hang of feeling young even though he's old. | |
| Twilight Zone: The Movie / int_98576799 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
| Twilight Zone: The Movie | hasFeature |
Twilight Zone: The Movie / int_98576799 | |
| Twilight Zone: The Movie / int_99db72ee | type |
Immune to Bullets | |
| Twilight Zone: The Movie / int_99db72ee | comment |
Immune to Bullets: As noted, the Gremlin physically shrugs off Valentine shooting it with the aforementioned gun, though it appears to be a bit pissed off. It then eats most of the gun, leaving Valentine just holding the now-useless grip. | |
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1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
| Twilight Zone: The Movie | hasFeature |
Twilight Zone: The Movie / int_99db72ee | |
| Twilight Zone: The Movie / int_9afa05c7 | type |
Family-Unfriendly Death | |
| Twilight Zone: The Movie / int_9afa05c7 | comment |
Family-Unfriendly Death: Ethel is eaten by a monster after Anthony transports her into a cartoon. | |
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1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
| Twilight Zone: The Movie | hasFeature |
Twilight Zone: The Movie / int_9afa05c7 | |
| Twilight Zone: The Movie / int_9bee1a7f | type |
Eldritch Location | |
| Twilight Zone: The Movie / int_9bee1a7f | comment |
Eldritch Location: Anthony's house looks normal (even though it's based on a subtle cartoon design), its upper floor is gray and very Tim Burton-esque with a portrait of a family of blank faces. | |
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1.0 | |
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| Twilight Zone: The Movie | hasFeature |
Twilight Zone: The Movie / int_9bee1a7f | |
| Twilight Zone: The Movie / int_9d0bc885 | type |
Eye Pop | |
| Twilight Zone: The Movie / int_9d0bc885 | comment |
Eye Pop: When John removes the cover from his window, the gremlin is behind it, which makes him do this briefly. | |
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1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
| Twilight Zone: The Movie | hasFeature |
Twilight Zone: The Movie / int_9d0bc885 | |
| Twilight Zone: The Movie / int_9e447c8c | type |
Suspiciously Apropos Music | |
| Twilight Zone: The Movie / int_9e447c8c | comment |
Suspiciously Apropos Music: "Midnight Special" may seem like Soundtrack Dissonance for Twilight Zone, but the lyrics are quite apropos, especially for the series it's based on. | |
| Twilight Zone: The Movie / int_9e447c8c | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
| Twilight Zone: The Movie | hasFeature |
Twilight Zone: The Movie / int_9e447c8c | |
| Twilight Zone: The Movie / int_a11a0831 | type |
ToonTown | |
| Twilight Zone: The Movie / int_a11a0831 | comment |
Toon Town: Anthony brings a cartoon character to life to terrorize Helen and his "family." | |
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1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
| Twilight Zone: The Movie | hasFeature |
Twilight Zone: The Movie / int_a11a0831 | |
| Twilight Zone: The Movie / int_a56e3cba | type |
Language Barrier | |
| Twilight Zone: The Movie / int_a56e3cba | comment |
Language Barrier: Bill, when he is sent back in time to Nazi Germany and questioned in German. | |
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1.0 | |
| Twilight Zone: The Movie / int_a56e3cba | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Twilight Zone: The Movie | hasFeature |
Twilight Zone: The Movie / int_a56e3cba | |
| Twilight Zone: The Movie / int_ad1db87c | type |
Oh, Crap! | |
| Twilight Zone: The Movie / int_ad1db87c | comment |
Oh, Crap!: Valentine, when the hitchhiker asks if he "wants to see something really scary". | |
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1.0 | |
| Twilight Zone: The Movie / int_ad1db87c | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Twilight Zone: The Movie | hasFeature |
Twilight Zone: The Movie / int_ad1db87c | |
| Twilight Zone: The Movie / int_adfd3165 | type |
For the Evulz | |
| Twilight Zone: The Movie / int_adfd3165 | comment |
For the Evulz: Strongly implied to be the "reason" for the gremlin's attack. When it sees it has a single witness, it starts showing off, just for him. And as noted below, its reaction to being thwarted is essentially a cheerful shrug. | |
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| Twilight Zone: The Movie | hasFeature |
Twilight Zone: The Movie / int_adfd3165 | |
| Twilight Zone: The Movie / int_b15ad926 | type |
Time-Shifted Actor | |
| Twilight Zone: The Movie / int_b15ad926 | comment |
Time-Shifted Actor: Mr. Agee is played by Murray Matheson as an elderly man and by Evan Richards as a child. Mrs. Dempsey is played by Helen Shaw as an elderly woman and by Laura Mooney as a child. Mr. Weinstein is played by Martin Garner as an elderly man and by Scott Nemes as a child. Mrs. Weinstein is played by Selma Diamond as an elderly woman and by Tanya Fenmore as a child. Mr. Mute is played by Peter Brocco as an elderly man and by Christopher Eisenmann as a child. | |
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| Twilight Zone: The Movie | hasFeature |
Twilight Zone: The Movie / int_b15ad926 | |
| Twilight Zone: The Movie / int_b73a2a6f | type |
Finger Wag | |
| Twilight Zone: The Movie / int_b73a2a6f | comment |
Finger Wag: See below under Graceful Loser. | |
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1.0 | |
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| Twilight Zone: The Movie | hasFeature |
Twilight Zone: The Movie / int_b73a2a6f | |
| Twilight Zone: The Movie / int_b78ccff7 | type |
Griping About Gremlins | |
| Twilight Zone: The Movie / int_b78ccff7 | comment |
Griping About Gremlins: The villain of the piece, obviously. | |
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1.0 | |
| Twilight Zone: The Movie / int_b78ccff7 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Twilight Zone: The Movie | hasFeature |
Twilight Zone: The Movie / int_b78ccff7 | |
| Twilight Zone: The Movie / int_b7b1aa73 | type |
And Then What? | |
| Twilight Zone: The Movie / int_b7b1aa73 | comment |
And Then What?: After the elderly people become young they wonder who will take care of them now and what they'll do now that they're kids, so all but Mr. Agee decide to just go back to being old again. The original episode left it more open-ended but we were left to assume the magic only works one-way. | |
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1.0 | |
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| Twilight Zone: The Movie | hasFeature |
Twilight Zone: The Movie / int_b7b1aa73 | |
| Twilight Zone: The Movie / int_ba46585b | type |
Adaptational Backstory Change | |
| Twilight Zone: The Movie / int_ba46585b | comment |
Adaptational Backstory Change: In the film, Valentine suffers from a fear of flying. In the short story, Arthur Wilson is extremely apprehensive about flying but no specific reason is given as to why. In the original episode, Bob Wilson suffered a nervous breakdown on a plane six months earlier. | |
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1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
| Twilight Zone: The Movie | hasFeature |
Twilight Zone: The Movie / int_ba46585b | |
| Twilight Zone: The Movie / int_bcbf7aef | type |
Plucky Comic Relief | |
| Twilight Zone: The Movie / int_bcbf7aef | comment |
Plucky Comic Relief: The little girl with the W. C. Fields doll takes great delight in mocking Valentine and takes everything in her stride, even when all of the adults around her are panicking. She maintains her composure right up until Valentine shoots open the window so that he can kill the gremlin. | |
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1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
| Twilight Zone: The Movie | hasFeature |
Twilight Zone: The Movie / int_bcbf7aef | |
| Twilight Zone: The Movie / int_bcd27e37 | type |
Improbable Aiming Skills | |
| Twilight Zone: The Movie / int_bcd27e37 | comment |
Improbable Aiming Skills: Averted, in contrast to both the short story and the original episode. Valentine fails to hit the gremlin with a revolver while hanging outside of a flying plane in the middle of a storm. | |
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| Twilight Zone: The Movie | hasFeature |
Twilight Zone: The Movie / int_bcd27e37 | |
| Twilight Zone: The Movie / int_c04b1231 | type |
Jump Scare | |
| Twilight Zone: The Movie / int_c04b1231 | comment |
Jump Scare: The segment ends with the hitchhiker revealing his Nightmare Face to the driver. | |
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1.0 | |
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| Twilight Zone: The Movie | hasFeature |
Twilight Zone: The Movie / int_c04b1231 | |
| Twilight Zone: The Movie / int_c54d550d | type |
Novelization | |
| Twilight Zone: The Movie / int_c54d550d | comment |
Novelization: Robert Bloch wrote the book adaptation. Bloch's order of segments does not match the order in the film itself, as he was given the original screenplay to work with, in which "Nightmare at 20,000 Feet" was the second segment, and "Kick the Can" was the fourth. Both the movie's prologue and epilogue are missing in the novelization. Bloch claimed that no one told him the anthology had a wraparound sequence. Bloch also said that in the six weeks he was given to write the book, he only saw a screening of two of the segments; he had to hurriedly change the ending of the first segment, after the helicopter accident that occurred during filming. As originally written, the first segment would have ended as it did in the original screenplay (Connor finds redemption by saving two Vietnamese children whose village is being destroyed by the Air Cavalry). The finished book reflects how the first segment ends in the final cut of the film. | |
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| Twilight Zone: The Movie | hasFeature |
Twilight Zone: The Movie / int_c54d550d | |
| Twilight Zone: The Movie / int_c75df49a | type |
Shout-Out | |
| Twilight Zone: The Movie / int_c75df49a | comment |
Shout-Out: Dick Miller plays a character named Walter Paisley, which was the name of his character in the 1959 film A Bucket of Blood. | |
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1.0 | |
| Twilight Zone: The Movie / int_c75df49a | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Twilight Zone: The Movie | hasFeature |
Twilight Zone: The Movie / int_c75df49a | |
| Twilight Zone: The Movie / int_ca87e3ec | type |
No Name Given | |
| Twilight Zone: The Movie / int_ca87e3ec | comment |
No Name Given: Anthony's fake mother and father are not named. | |
| Twilight Zone: The Movie / int_ca87e3ec | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Twilight Zone: The Movie / int_ca87e3ec | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Twilight Zone: The Movie | hasFeature |
Twilight Zone: The Movie / int_ca87e3ec | |
| Twilight Zone: The Movie / int_d8d22bb0 | type |
Dutch Angle | |
| Twilight Zone: The Movie / int_d8d22bb0 | comment |
Dutch Angle: They are used extensively throughout the segment. | |
| Twilight Zone: The Movie / int_d8d22bb0 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Twilight Zone: The Movie / int_d8d22bb0 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Twilight Zone: The Movie | hasFeature |
Twilight Zone: The Movie / int_d8d22bb0 | |
| Twilight Zone: The Movie / int_d99a228f | type |
Unusually Uninteresting Sight | |
| Twilight Zone: The Movie / int_d99a228f | comment |
Unusually Uninteresting Sight / Weirdness Censor: Nobody else on John's side of the plane ever notices the gremlin doing its mischief, despite it prancing about on the wing in full view of anyone who would chance to look out. | |
| Twilight Zone: The Movie / int_d99a228f | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Twilight Zone: The Movie / int_d99a228f | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Twilight Zone: The Movie | hasFeature |
Twilight Zone: The Movie / int_d99a228f | |
| Twilight Zone: The Movie / int_d9c4365c | type |
Reset Button | |
| Twilight Zone: The Movie / int_d9c4365c | comment |
Reset Button: Pressed by Anthony, sending the people he tormented back to wherever they belonged. | |
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1.0 | |
| Twilight Zone: The Movie / int_d9c4365c | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Twilight Zone: The Movie | hasFeature |
Twilight Zone: The Movie / int_d9c4365c | |
| Twilight Zone: The Movie / int_dc057cf3 | type |
Adaptation Name Change | |
| Twilight Zone: The Movie / int_dc057cf3 | comment |
Adaptation Name Change: The protagonist was named Arthur Jeffrey Wilson in the short story and Robert Wilson in the original episode. His name is John Valentine in the film. | |
| Twilight Zone: The Movie / int_dc057cf3 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Twilight Zone: The Movie / int_dc057cf3 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Twilight Zone: The Movie | hasFeature |
Twilight Zone: The Movie / int_dc057cf3 | |
| Twilight Zone: The Movie / int_dc0ca62a | type |
Public Execution | |
| Twilight Zone: The Movie / int_dc0ca62a | comment |
Public Execution: As they see him as a black man, the Klan attempts to lynch Bill but he manages to escape. | |
| Twilight Zone: The Movie / int_dc0ca62a | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Twilight Zone: The Movie / int_dc0ca62a | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Twilight Zone: The Movie | hasFeature |
Twilight Zone: The Movie / int_dc0ca62a | |
| Twilight Zone: The Movie / int_e0aed924 | type |
No Antagonist | |
| Twilight Zone: The Movie / int_e0aed924 | comment |
No Antagonist: All but the final segment. | |
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1.0 | |
| Twilight Zone: The Movie / int_e0aed924 | featureConfidence |
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Explosive Decompression: John grabs an air marshal's gun, and shoots the window, which causes this, forcing the plane to land, ruining the gremlin's plans. | |
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Closed Circle: Anthony's house, while the rest of the town only know that something strange goes on there. | |
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Cigarette of Anxiety | |
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Cigarette of Anxiety: John lights up a cigarette to calm his nerves but the little girl reminds him that there is no smoking. The man sitting in front of him, who is later revealed to be an air marshal, stares at him intently until he puts it out. | |
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Hate Crimes Are a Special Kind of Evil | |
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Hate Crimes Are a Special Kind of Evil: Bill spouts racist and anti-Semitic comments at a bar before he is set on a journey through the Twilight Zone where he is confronted by numerous racist groups at different points in history, each of whom see him as the object of their hatred, such as the KKK seeing him as a black man, or a group of Nazis seeing him as a Jewish man. The story ends with him being put on a train bound for a concentration camp, the extreme end point of the very comments he was making in a bar. note In the original draft of the story, he would have been redeemed, saving two Vietnamese children from a group of soldiers and learning the value of all life. Unfortunately, a tragic accident on the set took the life of the main actor for the segment,Vic Morrow, as well as the two young children who were to feature in the scene, Myca Dinh Le and Renee Shin-Yi Chen, necessitating the Downer Ending for the segment where the man is not given a chance to redeem himself. | |
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Never Found the Body | |
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Never Found the Body: Young Mr. Agee just runs off, confusing the hell out of Miss Cox the next day. | |
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