Tag: 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’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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The Twilight Zone Needed A Favor From A Disney Great To Make The Dummy Work
One thing you can always count on from horror anthology shows is that eventually, they’ll get to an episode about ventriloquist dolls. Don Rickles starred in an episode of “Tales from the Crypt” about a ventriloquist and his dummy and the granddaddy of them all, “The Twilight Zone,” had multiple episodes centered around a ventriloquist…
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Guillermo del Toro’s Favorite Movies: 45 Films the Director Wants You to See
[Editor’s note: The following gallery was originally published in July 2019. It’s been updated multiple times since.]Guillermo del Toro’s boundless imagination, from the gothic horrors of “Crimson Peak” to the creature-feature-inspired “The Shape of Water,” has been cultivated by a lifelong love of cinema. The Mexican filmmaker proudly wears his influences on his sleeves, while…
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‘Don’t Worry Darling’ Review: Olivia Wilde Goes The Mystery Box Route With ‘The Stepford Wives’ Meets ‘The Matrix’ [Venice]
Following her outstanding and irreverent directorial debut, “Booksmart,” actor-turned-filmmaker Olivia Wilde returns with a much more ambitious effort in “Don’t Worry Darling.” Taking the mystery box route, “Twilight Zone” meets “The Stepford Wives,” with a little dash of “The Matrix,” the audacious film is ultimately a misfire because of its overextending mystery conceit. But regardless,…
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Richard Donner: His Life and Career in Photos
Richard Donner, who died July 5 at 91, directed for TV series including “Twilight Zone,” “Get Smart” and “Man From U.N.C.L.E” before becoming one of the top movie directors of the 1970s and ’80s with films including “Superman,” “The Goonies” and “Lethal Weapon.” His later films included “Conspiracy Theory” and “Timeline.”More from VarietySteven Spielberg, Mel…
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Undergods review – nightmare visions of a familiar world
Chino Moya’s stylish debut, an anthology of unsettling dystopian tales, lacks subtlety but brims with exceptional performancesThe Spanish film-maker Chino Moya, who directed the colourfully Orwellian music video for St Vincent’s Digital Witness, makes his feature debut with this eye-catching, Twilight Zone-style anthology of future-tense tales. Laced with a graveside humour reminiscent of the old…
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‘The Twilight Zone’ Season 2 Trailer Reveals June Premiere Date
The Twilight Zone is back with more tales from the fifth dimension. Jordan Peele‘s revival of the classic Rod Serling supernatural anthology series has set its season 2 premiere for this June on CBS All Access. CBS announces the date, along with the release of the season 2 trailer, on National Twilight Zone Day, one…