Evengyny Thanks for the memories!

Vashirdfel Simply A Masterpiece

FeistyUpper If you don't like this, we can't be friends.

Murphy Howard I enjoyed watching this film and would recommend other to give it a try , (as I am) but this movie, although enjoyable to watch due to the better than average acting fails to add anything new to its storyline that is all too familiar to these types of movies.

gwnightscream This TV anthology series unfolds tales occurring in the past, present & future whether they're bizarre, eerie or even silly. It changed TV in the early 60's consisting of sci-fi, horror & fantasy with the late, Rod Serling as creator, narrator & host. This is the pinnacle of anthologies and features stars like, William Shatner, Burgess Meredith and Jack Warden. I highly recommend this.

George Redding The unforgettable zone was definitely what this was as well as anything else you could say about it. Sometimes you could laugh at the far-fetchedness of this five-year-lasting program and there were times you would be frightened by it, so much so you would have to watch a program following it just to go to avoid a possible nightmare. In one particular episode a baseball player, who was actually a robot, one dressed in a baseball uniform, could pitch so hard he could literally burn a catcher's glove, but later the manager of the team read that the player would have to have a heart. (Something new!?)Another time a couple in Las Vegas, or maybe Reno, was being chased by a gambling machine. Then there was occasionally "good 'ole western action", which Rod Serling must have loved. Occasionally some characters encountered giants, and one of that type I saw was one of the scariest things I've ever seen in my whole life! There was one episode which was actually touching, and bordered on the spiritual. In it a young man in maybe his twenties was injured in Vietnam, (and this particular episode was filmed when that was the real conflict there in southeast Asia), and he wasn't given much time to live. At the same time his not-so-good drunk father (played very well by Jack Klugman) learned of this. Naturally, there was the surreal aspect of the episode, in which his son, just a young boy here, was wandering in an amusement park(?), and in so many words the boy said he could have been a better father to him. After the surreal had taken place, this particular dark night the father made what may have sounded like an almost irreverent prayer, but it was very sincere. He said to God that if he would take him the sorry self he was, just save his son; this was actually the way it did happen, and at the end the soldier in his twenties had survived, and we were left to believe that the son felt his father did love him. Unforgettable. The series provided an opportunity for big-time stars to appear, such (again) Klugman, Earl Holliman, Carol Burnett, Cliff Robertson, Bob Cummings, Dana Andrews, Dennis Weaver, Mickey Rooney, Janice Rule, Lee Marvin, Inger Stevens, Donna Douglas, and Buddy Ebsen, just to mention a few, and Jerry Goldsmith provided a haunting-yet-fitting music score. Also, as I heard it once said, it was a big overflow of the creator Rod Serling's imagination, and that was definitely the case for sure. It also, again, provided a diversity of different types of drama. In addition to all else about it, this is most likely why it has been a mind-sticker for over fifty years, since it lasted from 1959 to 1964.

Eric Stevenson What else can you say about one of the most loved shows ever created? It certainly lives up to its hype. The best episodes are probably the ones that end up with some ironic inversion or scenario reversal. It helps that Rod Serling has one of the best voices of any host you've ever heard. I realize the sheer number of horror anthology series there are right now. Well maybe not even anthology, but simply short horror stories. A lot of these might not even be considered horror, just mystery or thriller. Some of my favorite episodes include "Time Enough At Last", "Five Characters In Search Of An Exit" and "The Obsolete Man". FCISOAE is great because the whole thing plays like some riddle you know you're eventually going to find the answer too. It's quite worth it.I realize that a lot of short horror stories make up pop culture or some of the most acclaimed and popular stories of their kind. I realize now that this show set the precedent for so many others, whether it be something for kids like "Are You Afraid Of The Dark?" or internet memes like Creepypasta. These are all great in their own rights, but have never been able to top this. The imitations have been direct or indirect, but were never able to be better or even as good. It's interesting to just recognize some actors and actresses given how this song had so many. It's hard to review a show that was all about unrelated stories, but I've tried my best. As Roger Ebert said in his review of the movie, this is great because it puts ordinary people in strange situations they have no idea how to deal with.How would we react to these? There was always something different in every single episode. They tried to tackle as many themes as possible. It was even hard to determine if something was supposed to be happy, bittersweet, or a simple downer. Maybe it was more interesting to leave things open for interpretation. This series was truly timeless and shall live in our hearts and minds forever. ****

tsmith417 I was about 10 or 12 when "Twilight Zone" was in its heyday and my parents would let us watch it every week; my whole family looked forward to it.When taken one episode at a time it's a masterpiece of early television, and Rod Serling is a veritable genius who could weave words together beautifully and effortlessly. But now, 45 years later, I've been watching marathons of "Twilight Zone" and I have to say that when you watch 20 episodes in one day it becomes rather disturbing.Rod Serling was apparently a very troubled man because he had several depressing, recurring themes in his stories (I must say here that it is possible that some of the stories were written by other writers, and I apologize if I'm giving Mr. Serling too hard a time, but the themes seem to remain the same).What we see, time and time again, in the episodes are these themes: - weak husbands with shrewish wives who force the men to work at jobs they hate - mean men who take delight in belittling women - a fear of what we might find in outer space - a fear of being conquered by beings from outer space - a hatred of machines that are devoid of human kindness and compassion - regret, sadness, and longing for "the good old days" - complete and utter hopelessness for the whole of mankind.Inanimate objects take on human characteristics and then try to get rid of their human owners. Humans are at the mercy of time and wish to remain young at any cost. Man is beaten down at every opportunity and death is welcomed and longed for as the only way to escape the ugliness of this world.Very few episodes have what you might call a happy ending; at the most some of them have an ending that is just slightly optimistic, but the viewer knows that this tiny bit of happiness won't last very long.I still watch "Twilight Zone" and still enjoy it for the artistic value and intellectuality that is sorely lacking in newer television series, but I am watching them now thru different, older eyes, and can't help but feel sorry for the man behind it, whose mind was so obsessed with these troubling thoughts.