The Twilight Zone - Season 1 (1985 - 1986)
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Movie Reviews of The Twilight Zone - Season 1 (1985 - 1986)
Movie Review: Prepare to have your eyes bleed
Summary: 1 Stars
The video quality of this set is so poor that Image Entertainment should be ashamed of itself. The picture is often pixelated and grainy, with halos and color bleeding everywhere. No company with any respect for it's customers would release a video set that looks this bad. How unfortunate, because the episodes are great and there are so many talented people involved in its production. Maybe Image will double-dip this series like they have done with the original Twilight Zones. Untile then - Buyer Beware.Movie Review: The Best Twilight Zone Boxed Set Out There
Summary: 5 Stars
I felt like I am in the Twilight Zone when I finally got my hands on this boxed set. I was waiting for this dvd all my life. I guess there's still room for improvement, these 80's adaptation is far more superior to the latest TZ offering. Just listening to Charles Aidman's narration at some of the openings will keep you glued to your tv, nope, no Forrest Whittaker pop-ups here. With a plethora of good acting portrayal by an up and coming Bruce Willis in "Shatterday", a funny Morgan Freeman in "Dealer's Choice", a scary but realistic character by Ralph Bellamy in "Monsters",and the genius of Stephen King, Wes Craven, Harlan Ellison and others working behind the scenes, you can't go wrong in getting this dvd set. I would get this set just to watch Danny Kaye in "Paladin of the Lost Hour" or to see "Her Pilgrim Soul" again. This dvd collection will touch you, scare you, amaze you as only Twilight Zone can. Movie Review: Her Pilgrim Soul
Summary: 5 Stars
This DVD Collection is a "must have" if for no other reason than Alan Brennert's "Her Pilgrim Soul."
This sensitive and touching story transcends the genre. It resonates beyond a TV show. It truly moves everyone who sees it.
Kris Tabori and Anne Twomey give performances of such subtlty that I find something new every time I watch this. So often in our modern lives we get hung up in our own petty problems and get into a funk and have no idea why or how to get out. Watching this episode of the series always breaks me out of my depression. We have to live in the here and now and not let ourselves be stuck in the past, afraid to move forward.
Life is about taking risks. "Her Pilgrim Soul" dares us to risk everything for love.
There are some other wonderful episodes on this collection but I'll leave those for other reviewers.
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Stompy
Movie Review: Breaking the Rules of The Twilight Zone
Summary: 3 Stars
After a year and a half of waiting, I finally had the opportunity to veiw CBS's The New Twilight Zone on DVD. I think the quality of it can be veiwed based on what you want to see. If you are a big Serling fan and beleive in the original Twilight Zone format, you might not find this series very appealing. It does not exactly follow all the rules the original TZ and UPN's TZ followed. For example, most TZ episodes consist of either a 30 minute episode OR a one hour episode. The lengths of the stories on each of these vary. Each episode is one hour but the stories can be as short as 5 minutes or as long as the entire hour. They also don't always have to come with both opening and closing narrations. And for the record. does anyone know who was narrating it, the narrator remained uncredited. The thing that I found most disapointing was the introduction to each episode. It doesn't really seem like the opening of a TV show at all until you hear the original do-do-do-do's of the original TZ theme.
However, if you have a free spirit in science fiction, this can easily become your favorite DVD box set. I found the writing to be exceptional. To my very pleasent surprise, a good number of the episodes were directed by Wes Craven (director of Nightmare on Elm Street, Scream,and Last House on the Left). There is also a short documentary with Wes on the final disc. The pilot stars Bruce Willis (as a man who accidently dials his home phone number and gets an answer from his alter ego) and Melinda Dillon (who digs up a small sundial in her garden that gives her the power to freeze time). The different lengths of the shories made this series unique. It was refreshing to watch short epidoes such as Examination Day, The Uncle Devil Show and Children's Zoo. The series also includes remakes of original TZ episodes like Shadow Play, Night of the Meek and Dead Man's Shoes (renamed Dead Woman's Shoes). If you have a passion for short science fiction stories, this DVD is for you. And to all fan's of the original series, I hope you aren't disapointed.
Movie Review: 5 star sequel to a 5 star original series
Summary: 5 Stars
It is indeed rare that a remake of a classic television series could be considered a gem in my eyes, especially a remake of such a spectacular series as the original "The Twilight Zone". But this 1980s remake makes the grade.
The most important aspect of any great series is good writing. The original series had that. This remake also has excellent writers. I was pleasantly surprised when I began watching these stories. Right away I was taken back by how fun and original it was to watch Bruce Willis talking to himself in SHATTERDAY, Melinda Dillon yearning for silence in LITTLE PEACE AND QUIET, Robert Klein listening to his wife call lunch DINOSAUR, or Meg Foster realizing that her perfect world was just an illusion. And that's just part of the first disk.
I have to agree that I was disappointed in the quality of the shows. They are very grainy compared to what we are used to seeing on DVDs. But I can overlook that after seeing how well this remake is done. Mr. Serling himself would probably be pleased (more than he was in NIGHT GALLERY).
This DVD set is a bit pricey but the biggest disappointment would probably be the video quality as a whole. But, as I stated previously, it can be overlooked as you watch this outstanding series.
One last point is that I am a big fan of TZ. I have many books with the original short stories or original scripts. I also have a book with several of these stories from this remake. It is great fun to go back to the stories and read them after watching them on this DVD set. The producers, actors, and directors did an outstanding job staging these timeless tales of drama and suspense.
It's well worth purchasing. You can enter the zone again and know that you ARE indeed in the TWILIGHT ZONE. (Unlike the UPN version where you are somewhere, but definitely NOT in the Twilight Zone)