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Entertainment => Film & TV Talk => Television => Topic started by: wedge on Jul 04, 2009 at 10:23 AM
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I tried the search function of the forum and it appears that there exists no proper thread for this series.
And one thing because I am trying to look for a certain episode of The Twilight Zone that involves zombies---if there was one. I recall when the 80s reincarnation of the series was broadcasted in Manila, it was a double bill with something similar. Whether it was merely a "special" or not, I don't know (I was too young to care, anyway). If any of you guys can give me an idea of what it was, i'll be extremely grateful. :)
Well this thread can serve as a place for discussion for both the original series and the 1980s revival. The shortlived Forest Whitaker-hosted one can also be plugged in--although admittedly I haven't seen even a single episode.
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Sir,
Are you referring to the episode "nightcrawlers" where a bunch of "marine zombies" shot a roadside cafe to pieces?
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I remember the marine zombies, but that's not the one. Not certain about the entirety of the episode though I recall a young black girl who invited her boyfriend (or whatever he was to her) to her house and although her folks warned her about zombies in their area, she let him anyway. Like I said, I haven't had the slightest clue if it was twilight zone at all, but that specific episode was ran after a segment or two of the 80s TZ.
But thanks anyway for pointing that one to me. :)
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Bro, I don't think it's a Twilight Zone episode. Back in the day, ABS-CBN gave us "Twilight Zone presents: The Monsters." Last year, I looked for it and couldn't find it. However, I did discover that the anthology is entitled simply "The Monsters." It's the one with the family of monsters watching TV in the opening.
I think this is where you'll find your missing zombie episode. I don't think the Twilight Zone ever featured zombies (or monsters for that matter). All seasons of 'The Monsters' are available in Demonoid.
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Oh, thanks bro! I'll go look for it :)
Anyway, before this thread disappears into the forum oblivion, i'll try to revive it as much as I can. I will assume that maybe one or two members here (aside from me) was/is/were/are a TZ junkie back then/presently. So, I'll throw the perennial question to start a discussion:
Any fave episodes?
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ung the movie lang napanood ko nito, di ko kasi naabutan ung time slot sa tv :D
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Studio 23 did a rerun of the original 1960s series back in 2003 or 2004, I think. That was the time me and my wife got hooked into it---and admittedly was better than the 80s revival.
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Any fave episodes?
Quite a lot.
The one where a guy can pause time -ending was a nuclear bomb about to hit the city.
The one which showed how time and events evolve and get created by the "time makers".
That episode about the Xmas star.
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The one where a guy can pause time -ending was a nuclear bomb about to hit the city.
Is this the one wherein she has to yell the word "Stop" and everything would come to a stop? I vividly remember this specific episode because I watched it a few days after I saw The Man Who Saw Tomorrow which pretty much frightened me on Nostradamus' prediction of a nuclear holocaust. ;D
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Is this the one wherein she has to yell the word "Stop" and everything would come to a stop? I vividly remember this specific episode because I watched it a few days after I saw The Man Who Saw Tomorrow which pretty much frightened me on Nostradamus' prediction of a nuclear holocaust. ;D
Yes, the main character says the magic word (stop or pause?). If you're interested in new stuff about Nostradamus, try to look for Nostradamus 2012. Now the so called "experts" are relating the lost books of Nostradamus (found recently) to 21 Dec 2012. Pretty alarming stuff - kung magkakatotoo.
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parang napanood ko yan, "stop" and "start talking" ata ung sinasabi nung girl. eto ba ung last scene is nakita na niya ung missile na papunta sa city nila?
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my fave episode would be where 2 men were trapped inside a rubble after an earthquake, but both are from a different time period...
after 1 of the guys was rescued, he has to wait for 10yrs (not sure) to tell the rescuers where the other guy is...
pretty awesome series...
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Here's a few of mine;
"Her Pilgrim Soul" - a story about love, redemption, reincarnation....and a poem by william butler yeats.
"A Message for Charity" - a new take on witchcraft and love(again) separated by time.
"The Star" - a christmas story set in the far future, between a priest and a scientist. Based on an Arthur C. Clark book...
"A small talent for war"- about man's eventual achievement of peace w/ a twist.
And many many more...
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my memory's too hazy, but i remember this episode about a woman seeing faces in the patterns she sees in the walls, and another one about drones(?) in blue suits constructing and deconstructing time.
di ko na lang talaga ma recall exact plotlines, but still weird nevertheless.
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hehehe the reason i why still remember these episodes including the title is because i have the 80's TZ set season 1-3! ;D
That episode about time is "A Matter of Minutes"...where the couple woke up in a particular point in time, while the rest of the world continued. They were able to get in time by staying in an area where "time" was about pass by and finally carried them back to the "real" time!
;D
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i remember the episode where aliens were observing people. it was like they were fish in a bowl, or animals in a zoo, and the aliens were people observing them. it was cool because that fact wasn't revealed until the very end.
i think this series was shown alongside Alfred Hitchcock Presents. good times indeed...
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One of the original episodes that I really like is the one entitled: To Serve Man. ;)
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my only gripe now is that i should have paid more attention back then.
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Any fave episodes?
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Hey Wedge. Just saw this.
That Nightcrawlers episode mentioned a few posts back was one of my favorites. One of my favorite works by William Friedkin. I'm still trying to find a copy of it. I always thought it was an episode of Amazing Stories but I must've confused it with Joe Dante's Shadowman or something like that.
There was also another episode about a man who wakes up one day and all the words mean different things.
And that one where this guy starts to see what happens between every second - - -and why sometimes you lose things and then find them in the exact place you looked at just minutes ago.
As for the old series, I still have a soft spot for Time Enough At Last - - that was the one where the bookworm bank teller survives a nuclear war because he was reading inside the vault and then something juicily ironic happens on his way to the library.
There's probably a lot more but brain is on the fritz at the moment. ;D Later,perhaps.
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The episode that stuck most in my mind, was the one about this girl who got trapped in a mall after closing hours. Suddenly the mannequins came to life and began calling ("Marsha! Marsha!") and chasing her. Every part of her body that got touched by a mannequin turns stiff, until finally, she became one of them. I think I was 9 or 10 when I saw that. I think it's from the new series since it's in color.
Also, I'm not sure if this is an episode from TTZ. It's about a housewife who one night is tormented by a strange tiny creature. She was freaked out because the creature keeps appearing in every nook and cranny of her home, despite her efforts to get rid of it. In the end, it's revealed that the creature is actually an astronaut from the US, out on a space mission.
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Quite a lot.
The one where a guy can pause time -ending was a nuclear bomb about to hit the city.
The one which showed how time and events evolve and get created by the "time makers".
That episode about the Xmas star.
This was the one i remember the most. Chillin' isn't it?
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Is this the one wherein she has to yell the word "Stop" and everything would come to a stop? I vividly remember this specific episode because I watched it a few days after I saw The Man Who Saw Tomorrow which pretty much frightened me on Nostradamus' prediction of a nuclear holocaust. ;D
Yep, it was also the nostradamus trend back then that made that episode a little more enticing. I remember the man actually confined himself to a bombshell. :)
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The episode that stuck most in my mind, was the one about this girl who got trapped in a mall after closing hours. Suddenly the mannequins came to life and began calling ("Marsha! Marsha!") and chasing her. Every part of her body that got touched by a mannequin turns stiff, until finally, she became one of them. I think I was 9 or 10 when I saw that. I think it's from the new series since it's in color.
Also, I'm not sure if this is an episode from TTZ. It's about a housewife who one night is tormented by a strange tiny creature. She was freaked out because the creature keeps appearing in every nook and cranny of her home, despite her efforts to get rid of it. In the end, it's revealed that the creature is actually an astronaut from the US, out on a space mission.
I remember the episode with the mannequins. That was really ,really creepy.
At first I thought the one with the tiny creature might be from an old anthology movie called Trilogy of Terror but I suddenly remembered that was a little African doll so this could be different and one I haven't seen. Now I want to. That ending sounds really neat.
One Twilight Zone I particularly remember was about this dog who responded to the command "bring!" and bring his master all kinds of stuff. Creepy,too, that one.
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And a reminder in case you meet the omnipresent, omnipotent devil who challenges you to tell him something he cant possibly do.
Get lost.
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The one where a guy can pause time -ending was a nuclear bomb about to hit the city.
I think I remember that too.
How I wish old episodes of TTZ are public domain so we can download them freely. I've been downloading classic, public domain horror movies from Archive.org lately: link (http://www.archive.org/search.php?query=mediatype%3Amovies%20AND%20collection%3Amoviesandfilms%20AND%20subject%3A%22Horror%22)
The site even has funny what-to-do-on-a-date instructional movies from the 1950's.
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I think I remember that too.
Babae yata yung main character. I recall na maingay at magulo yung mga kids nya sa first scenes kaya she got stressed out and shouted "stop"..Pati yata dog, nag-pause.
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Babae yata yung main character. I recall na maingay at magulo yung mga kids nya sa first scenes kaya she got stressed out and shouted "stop"..Pati yata dog, nag-pause.
babae nga sir. i remember meron nagconduct ng awareness survey she said "stop" then pinahiga niya sa grass ung 2 ;D
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Babae nga. I finally pulled my boxed set off the shelf and began watching it last night, due to this thread. ;D
It's the second segment of the 80s revival's very first episode. The first segment starred Bruce Willis.
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not sure if sa tv series or the movie ung isang episode napanood ko.
its about a little girl kasama niya ang parents niya sa isang park ata, then pinapasok ung parents sa isang room para ilock. then ung girl parang pumili ng replacement parents niya dun sa mga previously nakakulong
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Babae nga. I finally pulled my boxed set off the shelf and began watching it last night, due to this thread. ;D
It's the second segment of the 80s revival's very first episode. The first segment starred Bruce Willis.
Yup! that episode was: "A little peace and quite." While bruce's episode was "Shatterday"
;D
Also liked" "Red Snow".....about vampires in russia!
:D
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Babae nga. I finally pulled my boxed set off the shelf and began watching it last night, due to this thread. ;D
It's the second segment of the 80s revival's very first episode. The first segment starred Bruce Willis.
Same here. Kaya lang yun sakin is the cheapo DivX version hahaha! A lot of the episodes mentioned here are from the first season, like Shatterday, A Message for Charity, and Nightcrawlers.
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I remember the episode with the mannequins. That was really ,really creepy.
"After Hours" was its title, if i'm correct. Yeah, that episode was mucho creepy. I just saw that recently in a TZ marathon on Sci-Fi.
Another good episode was the one with Vera Miles in it, wherein she was at a deserted bus station on a rainy night and found her doppelganger waiting for the exact bus she was going to take. Turned out to be herself on a parallel dimension that accidentally overlapped ours.
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I vaguely remember that Vera Miles episode. That's from the new one? Or the old Rod Serling one?
I was thinking of an episode where these group of people keep meeting each other in different situations that get cut off in mid-stream like those time flashes in the last season of Lost. Neat twist at the end. But I think it's not from Twlight Zone but from Serling's other show, Night Gallery.
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That was from the old Rod Serling one.
Night Gallery was also good, though due to its one-hour length, the pace kind of bogged down a bit unlike TZ. The short bursts of storytelling of the TZ was more effective, methinks.
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Yup me too although sometimes Night Gallery would have two episodes in one or sometimes even three - - woith a reallyh short one somewhere inbetween episodes. I remember this one called Junior which managed to be both creepy and funny at the same time.
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naaalala ko naman sa night gallery yung guy na takot ba sa spiders? there was one big spider in his room towards the end.
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I certainly remember the one with the doppelganger and the bus stop. How about the one with mannequins? Is that the one with the abandoned floor in the department store? I'm suddenly reminded of "Evening Primrose" on Escape old-time radio.
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I remember this one called Junior which managed to be both creepy and funny at the same time.
I know this si Junior ay isa palang Frankenstein na nakahiga sa crib w/c is Odd & Funny. Favorite ko yun Night Gallery pero ibang episodes nila may pagka dragging din. pero iba ok na ok
Anyways Im a huge fan of the Original Series ng TZ (rod serling classic's) already have the Complete Definitive Collection on DVD.
My most favorite episode was to "To Serve Man"
Notable Mentions:
Nightmare at 20,0000 ft (kay william shatner)
Eye of The Beholder
Time Enough at Last (burgess meredith)
The Monsters on due on Maple Street.
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I know this si Junior ay isa palang Frankenstein na nakahiga sa crib w/c is Odd & Funny.
Noong una kong napanood 'to, takot na takot ako pero noong napanood ko ulit - - -sa Studio 23 ata - - -nakakatawa na.
My favorite Night Gallery might be Boomerang about this guy who has an earwig in its ear burrowing its way out his other ear. Creepy twist.
Also, something called Hell's Bells about a hippie who goes to Hell and Hell turns out to be a nice little room where an elderly couple played slides of their vacations . . . forever.
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My most favorite episode was to "To Serve Man"
I like this a lot especially the twisted ending...
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From ComingSoon.Net
Jordan Peele to Host New Twilight Zone
CBS All Access has confirmed that Academy Award winning writer Jordan Peele will be the new host of The Twilight Zone update with a special teaser for the third revival of the classic anthology series. Legendary writer/producer Rod Sterling previously held the hosting position for the original 1959-1964 version, while Forest Whitaker hosted the 2002 version.
Peele had initially resisted taking the hosting gig, as his face is so well associated with comedy that he worried it would take away from the more serious tone of the show. However, the Get Out director and Oscar-winning screenwriter ultimately decided to take the leap.
“Rod Serling was an uncompromising visionary who not only shed light on social issues of his time, but prophesied issues of ours,” said Peele (via Entertainment Weekly), who was previously announced as producing the revival. “I’m honored to carry on his legacy to a new generation of audiences as the gatekeeper of ‘The Twilight Zone.'”
TEASER:
https://youtu.be/dlHnIRu2wcs