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If someone made a Twilight Zone Movie today....

posted 17 years ago by SteveM-1
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Let's say that somebody wants to make a new Twilight Zone Movie for Theatrical release. It will be another anthology style movie, but with different story segments. The segments that appeared on the last movie will not be repeated or "re-imagined".

What stories would you like to see? Let's limit it to 3 or 4 segments, just like the last movie (ok, 5 if you want to count a short prologue).

I would like to see (in no particular order)

"The Howling Man": traveler finds himself stranded at a monestary during a storm and the monks there have a man in captivity who they claim is the Devil himself.

"Mr. Dingle the Strong": old Burgess Meredith one where a meek guy is given Superstrength by some aliens. The Two Headed alien in this one looked really stupid, but that can be updated very easily.

"The Obsolete Man": another great Meredith performance

For the fourth one, I can't find the title, but it's the one where a "disfigured" woman has just had corrective surgery and her face is in bandages and she wonders if she will finally be able to fit in with the "beautiful" people. Everyone knows how this will end, so there's no suspense anymore, but it was still a good story about beauty and the eye of the beholder.

"Number 12 looks just like you": kind of like the previous one I mentioned, but in this society, everybody has to have surgery at a certain age to look beautiful and perfect, so a lot of the people have the same face. One girl faces her surgery, but desperately wants to keep her own identity.

[–] jrs-8 17 years ago

I'd like to see a remake of the one where the old woman receives mysterious phone calls in the middle of the night from her dead fiance. That was a chilling one. I also liked the one with the group stranded at the diner after a UFO is spotted and the headcount is one more then it should be so everyone knows there is an alien amongst them and they begin doubting even their very own loved ones.

[–] wallacesawyer 17 years ago

Wasn't there going to be a sequel?

Anyone I'd like to see an alien story. I can't remember the title but I had to read the script back in high school. It was a neighborhood that's electricity is turned off, everything stops working, the people turn on each other and become paranoid and leads to the death of one of them. And then at the end it turned out aliens turned the electricity off all over the world and are watching the humans destroy themselves over it.

I think this was TWILIGHT ZONE episode. Which episode was this?

[–] druggie102 17 years ago

The Monsters are Due on Maple Street

Everyone has a right to be an idiot, but you are abusing the privellege.

[–] wallacesawyer 17 years ago

The Monsters are Due on Maple Street

I'd like to see that in a new movie. The script didn't have the ending I expected though.

[–] gljbradley 17 years ago

1. A Most Unusual Camera
2. The Bewitchin' Pool
3. Spur of the Moment
4. Mirror Image

[–] Pplf18 17 years ago

DEFINITLEY The Mosters are Due on Maple Street, but how about Time Enough At Last or Eye of the Beholder (I haven't seen Beholder, I just know about the episode and the ending).

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[–] childers-3 15 years ago

I loved the Howling Man - it's one of my favorite episodes.

I'd also like to see "Will the Real Martian Please Stand Up"

Little Girl Lost - about the kid who rolls off the bed and into another dimension.

Don't remember the name, but the one with Agnes Moorehead as a mute woman in a house with no electricity being menaced by tiny aliens.

The one where the sun is coming toward earth - that was a great one - really terrified me when I was a kid.

I'd like to see those have the big screen treatment - I'm glad you posted this question.

"Hey, I should be mad at YOU . . . now turn around."-Bender/Futurama

[–] SilverCreedWolf 15 years ago

I'd love to see "Time Enough At Last" as one of the segments.

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[–] mixedmed 14 years ago

The one where the sun is coming toward earth - that was a great one - really terrified me when I was a kid.

I believe that one was called "The Midnight Sun". And the one with Agnes Morehead was "The Invaders".

I'd love to see "The Parallel" that one where the astronaut gets sent on a mission, comes back and everything, including his ship came back slightly different.

"The Howling Man" would be awesome. The could really do it up the transformation with today's special effects.

Definitely "The Monsters Are Due On Maple Street" should be redone too.

I also loved "The Hitch-hiker". The one where the woman gets into a car accident on a cross-country trip and find herself stalked by a hitchhiker. That creeped the hell out of me when I was a kid.

A few other episodes I'd also like to see redone, Number Twelve Looks Just Like You (everyone one is surgically altered to look like everyone else), The Masks (dying man tricks his ungrateful family into masks that reflect their personality), Death Ship (astronauts sees their dead bodies on crashed replica of their spaceship), The Purple Testament (army guy sees death on the faces of people), and The Shelter (people fight over the only available bomb shelter).

Oh dear...looks like we'll need at least two more TZ new movies.

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[–] bransrubar 13 years ago

I'd love to see a remake of "The Obsolete Man"

[–] mchlebda1 13 years ago

MOVIE 1:

Jess-Belle (A woman inlists the help of a witch to win back her sweetheart)
Two (In the aftermath of WW3, an American civilian and a Russian soldier must settle their differences in order to survive)
The Shelter (A neighborhood feels they must survive, even though they could die in the process)
Trouble With Templeton (a Broadway actor only wants the memories of when his wife was still living and “the glory days” of 1927. But it is not the reunion he expects it to be.)

Movie 2:
I Sing the Body Electric (A man needs care for his children)
Time Enough at Last ( A man who loves to read turns into the last man on Earth)
Fear of Dying (A man who has a physchcotic fear of dying has entered his personal Hell)
Twenty-Two (A professional dancer has a recurring dream involving the hospital morgue)

Movie 3:
Nothing in the Dark (A woman fears to let a wounded policeman into her shack for fear he is Mr. Death and has come for her)
Night of the Meek (A man who is fired on Christmas finds a bag that gives everyone his heart's desire)
He's Alive (A neo-nazi is inspired by Hitler's ghost)
A Passage for Trumpet (A man who feels his life is meaningless by just playing music is encountered by a strange woman)

Movie 4:
Shadow Play (A criminal believes the world only exists because he dreams it)
The Masks (A dying man shows his relatives what they are like inside through masks)
The Lateness of the Hour (A young woman worries her prents have become too reliant of the household help)
Where is Everybody? (A man finds himself in a town completely devoid of people)

[–] Strazdamonas 13 years ago

the fear.

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All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is for enough good men to do nothing.

[–] lostinthes81 12 years ago

there's one from a twilight zone book i have that was written by rod serling. the house on the square: two paranormal investigators (one a believer, and the other a skeptic) spend the night in a house with an unusual past, but get more than they bargained for.