The Twilight Zone - Season 1 (1985 - 1986)
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Actor: Charles AidmanBrand: Image Entertainment
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language)
Format: Box set, Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, Full Screen, NTSC
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 1020 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2004-12-28
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: Image Entertainment
Movie Reviews of The Twilight Zone - Season 1 (1985 - 1986)
Movie Review: The Twilight Zone (1985) is not the best but still a very entertaining and superior anthology series
Summary: 5 Stars
I am a big fan of anthology series ("The Twilight Zone", "Tales From The Crypt", "Amazing Stories", "The Outer Limits", "Tales From The Darkside"), so the 1985 Twilight Zone was something I was interested in seeing. Since I was born in 1986, of course I couldn't watch the series when it aired on CBS. I also never caught it on re-runs like I have every original Twilight Zone episode from 1959 through the early 60's. When I saw it available on dvd, I thought I would buy it to check it out; and I really enojoyed it. One thing I liked right away is that these are hour-long episodes with two or three stories in them. Whether or not I liked every story, I did appreciate the structure of the series. I also liked the theme by the Grateful Dead. As a viewer looking back on something I missed when it aired, of course I viewed it as very nostaligic. Recognizing many actors and actresses who are stars today, whereas if I were watching it back in 1985, I wouldn't know them from Adam because they were either just beginning their careers or not well-known at the time.
To save on space, I will only comment on the first story, which happens to be one of the best of the 1985 series in my opinion....
"Shatterday" Starring Bruce Willis / Directed by Wes Craven
One of the best episodes of this series. A then unknown Bruce Willis stars as Peter Jay Novins, a man who accidentally dials his own phone number and it's picked up by, to his surprise, Peter Jay Novins. It's an original twist on a classic Twilight Zone episode titled "Mirror Image" with Vera Miles as a woman waiting in a train station who encounters her own mirror image trying to take her life over. In "Shatterday", however, there is much more reason behind it and character depth that it makes it less scary as "Mirror Image" because in "Mirror Image", it was not explained why her other self wanted to take over her life so it was more mysterious and, therefore, scary. "Shatterday" is more psychologically haunting as it is a character study of a man who fully realizes why this is happening it him. It makes you stop and think about the things you do and how it can effect others as well as yourself. It is a lesson in life and how we live it with sometimes the harshest consequences. Modern master of horror Wes Craven does a masterful job of directing, and Bruce Willis' performance(s) in this episode is some of his best work.
Other four star stories from the series that I put right next to "Shatterday" are "Word Play" with Robert Klein & Annie Potts, "Examination Day", "A Message From Charity", "The Burning Man" (very terrifying) with Roberts Blossom, "Dealer's Choice" with Morgan Freeman, Garrett Morris, M. Emmett Walsh, Barney Martin & Dan Heydaya (all great character actors), "One Life Furnished In Early Poverty" with Peter Riegert, "Her Pilgrim Soul", "A Small Talent For War" with John Glover, "Need To Know" with William Petersen & Frances McDormand, "Shadow Play" with Peter Coyote, "Quarentine", "Dead Woman's Shoes" with Helen Mirren & Jeffrey Tambor, "Dead Run" with Steve Railsback, "The Library" with Lori Petty.
Some of the other stories are good, but the stories that I don't like very much whether they were boring in a non-forgiving way or they were just plain stupid are "The Elevator", "Devil's Alphabet", "Tooth Or Consequences", "Grace Note", "Ye Gods", "The Little People Of Killany Woods", "The Last Defender Of Camelot". Even the stories I didn't like were interesting to watch... but only once.
In the end, "The Twilight Zone (1985)" is not the best but still a very entertaining and superior anthology series that is a must-own on dvd.
Summary of The Twilight Zone - Season 1 (1985 - 1986)
Travel into the fifth dimension once again with The Twilight Zone testing the limits of reality and exploring the mysteries of the universe. Airing from 1985 to 1989 this critically acclaimed anthology series carried on the legacy of the original Rod Serling program and attracted a brand-new audience of fans. The series features major stars in compelling tales of intrigue by such noted writers as Ray Bradbury Stephen King Harlan Ellison Rockne S. O'Bannon Arthur C. Clarke and Theodore Sturgeon. Now the entire thrilling first season of 24 one-hour episodes can be seen in their entirety! Season One Episodes include: Shatterday A Little Peace and Quiet Wordplay Dreams for Sale Chameleon Healer Children's Zoo Kentucky Rye Little Boy Lost The Wish Bank Nightcrawlers If She Dies Ye Gods Examination Day A Message from Charity Teacher's Aide Paladin of the Lost Hour Act Break The Burning Man Dealer's Choice Dead Woman's Shoes Wong's Lost and Found Emporium The Shadow Man The Uncle Devil Show Opening Day The Beacon One Life Furnished in Early Poverty Her Pilgrim Soul I of Newton Night of the Meek But Can She Type? The Star Still Life The Little People of Killany Woods The Misfortune Cookie Monsters! A Small Talent for War A Matter of Minutes The Elevator To See the Invisible Man Tooth and Consequences Welcome to Winfield Quarantine Gramma Cold Reading Personal Demons The Leprechaun Artist Dead Run Button Button Profile in Silver Need to Know Red Snow Take My Life Please! Devil's Alphabet The Library Shadow Play Grace Note A Day in Beaumont The Last Defender of Camelot Featured directors include: Wes Craven (Scream) William Friedkin (The Exorcist) Tommy Lee Wallace Robert Downey Peter Medak (The Changeling) Joe Dante (The Howling) John Milius (Conan the Barbarian) Martha Coolidge Jeannot Szwarc (Somewhere in Time). Stars include: Bruce Willis (Die Hard) Morgan Freeman (Seven) Elliott Gould (Ocean's Eleven) Helen Mirren (Calendar Girls) MaScience Fiction & Fantasy DVD Video
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