Twilight Zone: The Movie
Rod Serling’s iconic anthology TV series has inspired plenty of movies over the years, including this 1983 feature officially branded to its source. While the behind-the-scenes tragedy that occurred on its set has come to eclipse the film itself, Twilight Zone: The Movie still boasts a quartet of heavy-hitting directors: Stephen Spielberg, John Landis (An American Werewolf in London), Joe Dante (Gremlins), and George Miller (Fury Road), with an equally A-list cast. The Landis-directed prologue, featuring Dan Aykroyd and Albert Brooks and the question of what is really scary, terrified me as a kid—and I still can’t take a flight without looking for a gremlin on the wing, like John Lithgow does in the movie’s vivid homage to the William Shatner-starring Twilight Zone episode.
