The Worst Film Ever

This is a small, humorous movie in some ways, but it has a huge heart. What a nice experience.

The film may be flawed, but its message is not.

It is neither dumb nor smart enough to be fun, and spends way too much time with its boring human characters.

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.

"The following is a review of the complete series released on disc by CBS" Growing up in the fifties and sixties gave fans of science fiction and mystery the best years available when it came to TV series. Anthology shows were the norm rather than the exception and the eerie made its way to television screens weekly with shows like THRILLER and ONE STEP BEYOND. But the granddaddy of them all was written by a man named Rod Serling, one of the best screenwriters of all time, who appeared at the beginning of his series each week to take us to…the Twilight Zone.The name itself has become synonymous with the odd and out of place, a location where time stands still and dreams come true. As Serling said each week "There is a fifth dimension beyond that which is known to man. It is a dimension as vast as space and as timeless as infinity. It is the middle ground between light and shadow, between science and superstition, and it lies between the pit of man's fears and the summit of his knowledge. This is the dimension of imagination. It is an area which we call…the Twilight Zone." Rarely is prose like this found on TV today.For most THE TWILIGHT ZONE is nothing more than a marathon shown on the SyFy network every so often. One episode after another for three days straight. For fans it's a gift, for those unfamiliar with the show it's a novelty and for those who don't give it a chance it's a tedious chore to watch. Unlike series today with quick cuts, fast moving shots and locations and plot lines that have to be understood in nanoseconds rather than take the time to play out, THE TWILIGHT ZONE took the time to tell stories, to take new ideas as well as the works of famous authors to be shown each week.Serling chose the best of the best from stories that drifted from science fiction to fantasy to eerie tales to downright mysteries. Many are well remembered and some forgotten, but once seen they are difficult to forget. Consider "Time Enough At Last", the story of a henpecked man who loves to read and does so by escaping to a vault on his lunch break. When the apocalypse arrives and wipes out mankind, he now has all the time he wants to read. SPOILER. And then he drops and breaks his glasses. It was twists like this that made the series must see TV.Or how about "The Monsters Are Due on Maple Street" where a group of neighbors display their deepest fears about each other when it appears one of them might indeed be an alien from outer space. As they try and determine who it is the paranoia can be sliced with a knife. "A Nightmare at 20,000 Feet" tells the tale of a man who looks out the window of the airplane he is on to see a creature tearing the plane apart in mid-flight but who can't convince anyone else of what he is seeing. These are some of the more notable episodes that people have discussed for years.So why talk about this series now? Because it is finally available at a decent price in the best transfer possible. Individual seasons of the show previously released on blu-ray ran anywhere from $40-56 each. At that price being able to afford the entire 5 year series was a bit pricey. But now you can find THE TWILIGHT ZONE: THE COMPLETE SERIES on blu-ray for just $84-180 depending on the sales going on. That might still be higher than most would pay for a recording of their favorite show but when you consider you get all 5 seasons, all 156 episodes of the now classic series, it's honestly a bargain.No longer will the fan have to wait until SyFy runs a marathon, staying up until the wee hours of the morning to get a glimpse of that favorite episode. Watch it whenever you want and in the best format possible. In addition to the episodes you also get the original pilot, interviews with cast and crew, isolated music scores, audio commentary by author Marc Scott Zicree, radio dramas and more. This makes the greatest gift possible for that hard to find person, the one who loves this series but has held off on buying it.Fans of the series will delight to find this item under the Christmas tree. Once again it will take them to that fifth dimension, the dimension of the imagination, a dimension knowns as the Twilight Zone. And with any luck while watching, a new generation will have the chance to discover some of the best TV has ever had to offer.

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. ****

I would like to see if possible on Memorial and Veterans day's military themed episodes of the Twilight Zone as a marathon. Many episodes dealt with military stories and even vets. Mr. Serling himself was a WW2 veteran serving in the Army as a paratrooper. This could prove both worthy and entertaining. It would do a stations great service to both veterans and those who paid the ultimate sacrifice. Think about it, 6 hours of the best if not all of the military stories being shown in honor of those who served. There's the episode where 3 soldiers are lost and wind up fighting in Little big horn. The episode where a soldier knows who's going to be a casualty by seeing a ray of light over their head. The 3 Air Force pilots that return to Earth only to disappear from life. The Nazi U-boat commander who sinks a liner only to experience their pain. The 3 pilots who land on a planet and later become display pieces. And the guy who read a newspaper article on a bomber plane found in a desert believing he was there also. The list can go on and on. How about it TV stations?