Tag: The Twilight Zone
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‘The Twilight Zone’s Best Western Episode Is Also a Ghost Story
The Twilight Zone is a show that is remembered for its horror, science fiction, thriller, and mystery-centric episodes… which is what makes it weird when your occasional Western episode pops up. That being said, it wouldn’t be a Twilight Zone episode if there wasn’t a little bit of genre storytelling thrown into the mix. Every…
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‘Twilight Zone’s Rod Serling Is Connected to ‘Planet of the Apes’
Everyone thinks of Rod Serling as the voice (and brain) behind The Twilight Zone, but he actually has a way wider range of credits to his name than people realize. Aside from Night Gallery, he was also one of the main minds behind the original Planet of the Apes movie. Serling wrote the screenplay for…
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This Classic Episode Of The Twilight Zone Didn’t Win An Emmy – It Won An Oscar
At a time when weird tales were often dismissed by respectable critics — a time in which, sadly, we have never actually stopped living — the anthology series “The Twilight Zone” wasn’t just popular, it was widely acclaimed. The show even won three Emmy Awards: two for its creator and writer, Rod Serling, for his…
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How The Twilight Zone (Kind Of) Predicted Neil Armstrong’s Landing On The Moon
64 years after its debut on CBS, no series has been able to match the consistency of quality or the rigorousness of thought that Rod Serling’s “The Twilight Zone” demonstrated over its five stellar seasons. For many, the series’ most memorable episodes set us on edge via science fiction or straight-up horror elements, but Serling…
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How One Of The Twilight Zone’s Worst Episodes Eventually Became The Waltons
Every episode of the classic sci-fi/horror anthology “The Twilight Zone” begins with the introduction of some seemingly normal people, usually in the midst of a seemingly normal day. What they don’t realize, of course, is that this will be the day they encounter the strange, the fantastic, and sometimes the horrifying. And just as they…
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Why The Twilight Zone Is The Creator Director Gareth Edwards’ Favorite TV Show
Fighting against the impending dangers of AI is nothing new, but Gareth Edwards’ new film “The Creator” is a sci-fi story prioritizing the human elements of a potential, dystopian future. During a Q&a following a 30-minute preview of the film (read our footage reaction here), Edwards talked at length about how “The Twilight Zone” has…
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‘Taxi Driver,’ ‘The Twilight Zone,’ and Hitchcock All Have This in Common
There isn’t much that makes Taxi Driver, The Twilight Zone, and Alfred Hitchcock feel like they have a ton in common, but one thing that unifies these three things is film and TV composer Bernard Herrmann. You can make the argument that many film composers are the best in the entire field, but few had…
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Rod Serling Committed Plagiarism In The Twilight Zone – By Accident
The pilot episode for Rod Serling’s seminal sci-fi TV series “The Twilight Zone” was called “Where Is Everybody?,” and it aired on October 2, 1959. It was directed by Robert Stevens and, like most episodes of “The Twilight Zone,” was written by Serling himself. This was, according to an article in LitHub, part of his…
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How The Twilight Zone’s Howling Man Pushed The Limits Of ’60s Special Effects
My favorite episode of “The Twilight Zone” is “The Howling Man.” Self-adapted from a short story by Charles Beaumont, the episode’s star is David Ellington (H.M. Wynant), an American hiker in post-war Europe. Caught in a storm, he stumbles upon a monastery and meets the secretive Order of Truth, led by Brother Jerome (John Carradine).…
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Dimension-Shattering Behind-The-Scenes Stories From The Twilight Zone
“The Twilight Zone” may have only lasted for five seasons during its initial run from 1959 to 1964, but its legacy appears to be eternal. In addition to being revived multiple times over the decades as well as receiving the feature-length treatment from Steven Spielberg and John Landis, the original show is widely regarded as…