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The original "Twilight Zone" is one of those rare shows that serve as the yardstick for the entire medium of television, which is especially impressive when you remember how all over the place its stories can be. The most notable episodes of "The Twilight Zone" alone range from "Time Enough at Last" to "Eye of the Beholder" (a legendary take on body horror). The only reliable throughlines here are the inventive speculative premises, wild plot twists, and clever parables. Apart from them, anything and everything is possible in the "Zone."

Because of the original show's sheer impact on popular culture, it's no surprise that "The Twilight Zone" at large has grown into a loose franchise that spans over six decades and numerous movies and TV shows. Academy Award winners and visionaries have given their best shot at the property over the years, but how have they succeeded? Let's find out...

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We talk a lot around here about the best episodes of "The Twilight Zone," an influential and heartfelt show that perfected the moralizing genre story more than half a century ago. There's no shortage of great episodes of Rod Serling's fantastical anthology series, from still-timely political allegories like "The Monsters Are Due on Maple Street" to innovative twist-filled tales like "The After Hours" and "Eye of the Beholder" to episodes with great punchlines, like "Time Enough at Last" (which was Serling's personal favorite) and "To Serve Man." When it comes to the question of which "Twilight Zone" episode is the best one, there are a dozen or more correct answers, but there's another question worth asking that's equally loaded: what is the single worst episode of "The Twilight Zone"?

You probably have an answer to this question in mind already.

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Few shows have stood the test of time in the way "The Twilight Zone" has. For a show that ended its initial run 60 years ago, it's downright shocking how relevant and impactful many of the classic episodes are. Like any show that runs for well over 100 episodes, though, there are going to be some stinkers in the bunch. "The Twilight Zone" is no exception, with some truly awful ones in the mix. Fortunately, the good far outweighs the bad, which is all anyone can ask from any long-running series. On the opposite end of the spectrum, what's the best of the bunch? What episode stands tall above the rest?

While this question could be debated (and has been debated) for decades amongst fans, there is, at least, a clear cut winner when it comes to the users of a specific website.

"Uglies," Netflix's latest big movie adaptation of a young adult novel, takes place in a dystopian society in which teens are expected to go through an extreme cosmetic surgery at 16 to make them "pretty." (Spoiler alert: This system turns out to be bad.) The film originally caught some flak online for its choice to cast conventionally attractive actors for the main "Ugly" roles, but director Joseph McGinty Nichol (widely known as McG) has clarified that there's a pretty good reason for this. As he explained in an interview with The Wrap:

"We're saying it's never enough [...] I think, if you spoke to some of the most universally regarded beautiful people in the world, they're some of the people with the most intense body dysmorphia. Nobody's immune from this toxicity that's out there of 'It's never enough. You can always have a thinner waist, bigger hips, fuller lips.' Take your pick.

Blood Stream is a new horror anthology from the producers of “Clownface” and starring Barbie Wilde (Hellraiser 2: Hellbound) and Spencer Wilding (Star Wars: Rogue One).

Hellbound Media has launched an Indiegogo Crowdfunding Campaign that is Live now. Four anthology segments are in various stages of production and two more segments are planned.

The wraparound story Eye Of The Beholder follows the coercive Jake as he descends into the depths of his own appetites. It is a visual feast of exquisite beauty and horror as Jake seeks out the Brass Dahlia bordello and the ultimate in sensation. Whilst waiting to be seen, Jake watches an unusual television streaming service, creating a framing device where the other films will be shown, before returning to him for the shocking finale.

“An Arm and a Leg” stars Phillip Bailey, Thomas Greenhaf, Erin Caust, and Matt Warner. Taking the form of a mockumentary, “An...

Blood Stream is a new horror anthology from the producers of “Clownface” and starring Barbie Wilde (Hellraiser 2: Hellbound) and Spencer Wilding (Star Wars: Rogue One). Hellbound Media has launched an Indiegogo Crowdfunding Campaign that is Live now. Four anthology segments (Eye of the Beholder, An Arm and a Leg, Eating Disorder, and Fox and …

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Warning: contains spoilers for…well, loads of stuff.

Before we start this article, we need to deliver possibly one of the most comprehensive spoiler warnings in the history of the site, as this article will contain spoilers for Doctor Who series 14, The Twilight Zone episodes “Five Characters in Search of an Exit”, “To Serve Man”, “Nothing in the Dark”, “Death Ship”, “Judgement Night”, “The Hitch Hiker”, “Eye of the Beholder”, the Black Mirror episodes “Playtest” and “Hang the DJ”, and the movies, Existenz, Vanilla Sky, The Thirteenth Floor, The Usual Suspects, Planet of the Apes, The Village, Citizen Kane, Memento, The Others, The Sixth Sense, Fight Club and the books La Planète des singes, The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Cinderella, and the biblical parable of the Good Samaritan.

Twist endings have always been a bit of a double-edged sword. When they land right, they’re brilliant and clever and beloved,...

When a story enters "The Twilight Zone," it can traverse genres ranging from fantasy to science-fiction to horror. My favorite episode of the series is one that fits mostly into the last category: season 2 episode 5, "The Howling Man," which takes a classic "don't judge a book by its cover" premise into creepy (and theological) directions.

Five years after World War 1, American traveler David Ellington (H.M. Wynant) is lost in a storm and stumbles on a monastery. The men — clad in robes, carrying staves, and using only candles for light — turn away Ellington's request for shelter. While leaving he hears a horrible howling and finds the source is a ragged man (Robin Hughes) who is locked in a cell. Brother Jerome (John Carradine) warns that this prisoner is Satan himself, imprisoned by his brotherhood to prevent evil on the scale of the Great War. A disbelieving Ellington frees the Howling...

The world recently said farewell to Roger Corman, the legendary B-movie producer, writer, director, and performer who passed away at the well-lived age of 98. Corman completely revolutionized the film industry, not only with his independent spirit and penchant for low-budget fare, but also serving as a launchpad for some of cinema's greatest creatives, including Robert De Niro, Martin Scorsese, Jonathan Demme, Francis Ford Coppola, James Cameron, Jack Nicholson, and Penelope Spheeris, and that's just scratching the surface.

Known by many for his hundreds of produced films, Corman was also a well-decorated director in his own right, helming 55 films before his death. Corman dabbled in any and all genres, with comedy, drama, horror, exploitation, monster, sci-fi, sexploitation, gothic, and action all well-represented throughout his filmography. In honor of the King of B-movies and one of the most prolific filmmakers of all time, here are his 10 best films as a director, ranked.

For a show as ambitious as "The Twilight Zone," with seemingly so many storytelling opportunities to choose from, it's vital to maintain a bit of structure. Not only did the first three seasons stick to a clear 22-minute format with narration and act breaks happening right on cue, but there were clear guidelines on how speculative they should get and how much they should always be asking of their audience. According to the producer Buck Houghton in his 1991 book "What a Producer Does," he and creator Rod Serling established a list of rules that every episode needed to follow. An episode could be about nearly any speculative premise, they decided early on, as long as it remembered to do a few things:

"Find an interesting character, or a group, at a moment in crisis in life, and get there quickly; then lay on some magic. That magic must be devilishly...

Following the success of Jonathan Demme's "The Silence of the Lambs" in 1991, Hollywood released an eight-year-long tidal wave of serial killer thrillers, each one pulpier than the last. This was the era of "Seven," "Copycat," "Along Came a Spider," "Jennifer 8," "See No Evil," "Eye of the Beholder," "Sliver," "Knight Moves," and any number of others. Right at the end of the decade came Phillip Noyce's 1999 thriller "The Bone Collector," based on the airport novel by Jeffery Deaver. Deaver's original novel was the first of the long-running Lincoln Rhyme series, a series that saw its 16th installment published in 2023. Lincoln Rhyme, thanks to a spinal accident, could not move his body below his neck, and fought crime from his bed, deducting details, looking at pictures, and relying on his team. 

In the film adaptation, Denzel Washington played Lincoln Rhyme and Angelina Jolie played his plucky crime fighting partner Amelia Donaghy.

Rod Serling's "The Twilight Zone" has likely inspired more nightmares than any other TV series in history. Several of the show's notorious twist endings often revealed horrors and grotesquerie typically not seen on the airwaves in the late '50s and early '60s, leaving younger viewers rattled and afraid. 

The above image, from the episode "The Masks" came at the end of an episode where a quartet of greedy gold-diggers were forced to wear personality-based masks by the rich patriarch they hoped would die. The patriarch does indeed die, but when the characters remove their masks, they find their faces have mutated underneath. That one kept this author up a few nights. 

Other scary faces popped up all across "The Twilight Zone." Many might immediately think of the episode "Eye of the Beholder", which was wholly a close-up of a young woman (Maxine Stewart) waiting to remove her bandages after extensive cosmetic surgery.

Short of "To Serve Man," the most famous "Twilight Zone" twist ending is probably "Eye of the Beholder." Set in a hospital, the episode follows surgeons and nurses discussing patient Janet Tyler, who's undergone treatment to remove a facial deformity. Miss Tyler's face is hidden behind bandages and the hospital staff are glimpsed only in shadow or from behind — until the third act. It turns out, by the audience's standards, Janet is a blonde bombshell and everyone else is pig-faced. Beauty truly lies in the phrase that gives the episode its title.

Since her appearance is initially concealed, the crew was able to cast two actors as Janet: Maxine Stuart when she's bandaged up and Donna Douglas (future star of "The Beverly Hillbillies") when she's unmasked. (Both actors are no longer with us.)

n 2004, Stuart sat down with the Archive of American Television to discuss "Eye of the Beholder." She...

Over 60 years after its cancellation, "The Twilight Zone" still commands an intense fascination. Rod Serling's iconic anthology series dabbled in science fiction, horror, and fantasy, crossing the genre streams and delivering a kind of imagination and filmmaking that was uncommon in the late '50s and early '60s. That's why we're still talking about it right now -- few shows from that era have aged so well, and so powerfully. Serling and his team rarely just told a spooky or exciting story (although they were so good at doing just that). Instead, they wrapped the genre storytelling around bigger ideas: political commentary, social justice, and what it means to be human. It's easy to say that "The Twilight Zone" was decades ahead of its time, but it really does feel like it exists in its own pocket universe (one that allows it to feel as timeless and as...

Looks can be deceiving in A Different Man, writer-director Aaron Schimberg’s endearingly twisted take on actors, playwrights, egos and the plight of the profoundly disfigured.

Like the famous “Eye of the Beholder” episode of The Twilight Zone, in which humans turn out to be society’s freakish outcasts, this dark comedy suggests what happens when an aspiring thespian afflicted with neurofibromatosis manages to find a miracle cure, only to long for the life he had when he was still deformed.

The thesp in question — a nebbishy New York actor named Edward, or Ed — is played with tongue-in-cheek gravitas by Sebastian Stan, who dons several layers of prosthetics (courtesy of ace makeup designer Mike Marino) until peeling them away to reveal his true face. But that hardly gives Ed the life he bargained for, in a film that piquantly questions how others look at us and, more importantly, how we look at ourselves.

Along with being one of the finest shows in the history of television, the original run of Rod Serling's "The Twilight Zone" could function as a laboratory for advancements in visual effects. The often fantastical nature of the series, and Serling's desire to push the envelope of the still-developing medium's potential, was something of a creative sandbox for directors. As such, the show attracted not just aspiring young filmmakers like Richard Donner, Jack Smight, and Richard C. Sarafian, but established masters on the level of Jacques Tourneur, Don Siegel, and Norman Z. McLeod.

Douglas Heyes was more of a journeyman director when entered "The Twilight Zone." His experience and skill were highly valuable to Serling, who assigned him a total of nine episodes – the second most over the show's five seasons next to John Brahm's 12. Heyes' most celebrated episode is probably "Eye of the Beholder," the creepy tale...

As October turns to November, it is a great time to be a subscriber to Peacock as not only is the NBCUniversal streaming service able to bring audiences a ton of titles perfect to watch in preparation for Thanksgiving, Christmas, and New Year’s, but it also is the streaming home to some of the best football action at both the college and NFL levels. When you throw in new movies and series that are original and exclusive to Peacock and from across the NBCU family of networks, it is a good time to sign up for either a Peacock Premium ($5.99) or Peacock Premium Plus ($11.99) plan.

So, we here at The Streamable have put together a list of the five most exciting things coming to Peacock in November, and down below, you can take a look at everything new coming to the streaming service in the month.

What Are the...

You never knew exactly what you would get when "The Twilight Zone" began. The series — produced and largely written by celebrated Emmy-winning writer Rod Serling — was a loose collection of fantastical tales. Some were supernatural, some were science fiction. Some were comedies, and some were scary as hell.

It should come as little surprise that the "scary as hell" episodes are among the most memorable installments of the series. William Shatner's desperate screaming that there's a man on the wing of the plane in "Nightmare at 20,000 Feet" was instantly iconic, and repeatedly remade. Agnes Moorehead silently fighting off an invading force of tiny homicidal aliens in "The Invaders" was strange and shocking, and seemingly set the stage for future "tiny monster" horror movies like "Don't Be Afraid of the Dark" and "Gremlins."

But perhaps no "Twilight Zone" episode is more overwhelmingly terrifying than the one about a little kid with godlike powers.

Fighting against the impending dangers of AI is nothing new, but Gareth Edwards' new film "The Creator" is a sci-fi story prioritizing the human elements of a potential, dystopian future. During a Q&a following a 30-minute preview of the film (read our footage reaction here), Edwards talked at length about how "The Twilight Zone" has influenced his work and approach to storytelling.

"That's probably why I like science fiction because there is that chance [to add social commentary]," he said. "You can also sneak it under the radar." Genre creatives have been using horror and science fiction as vehicles for sociological storytelling since the earliest days of movie-making, but "The Twilight Zone," which Edwards called his "favorite TV show growing up," was revolutionary.

"Rod Serling, who wrote a lot of those shows, the reason he did science fiction was because he could get it under the radar of the censors and say things...

As beloved as "The Twilight Zone" is, it often gets made fun of for its occasionally shoddy twists. Sometimes the twist is so obvious everyone could see it coming from a mile away, and sometimes the twist feels random and arbitrary. There's a balancing act to making a plot twist both well-foreshadowed yet still surprising, and not all of the series' 156 episodes managed to pull it off.

Then there are the revered episodes like "Eye of the Beholder," which manages a twist that's obvious in hindsight, yet somehow still a total shock on first viewing. The episode follows a bunch of doctors who try to "fix" an ugly patient whose face is bandaged up for the whole first half. "Ever since I was a little girl, people have turned away when they looked at me," the masked woman, Janet, laments. "Funny, the very first thing I can remember is another...

Between June 28th and 30th, Propstore (described as “one of the world’s leading film and TV memorabilia companies”) will be holding its annual live auction. More than 1400 unique and original items will be auctioned off, and are expected to draw in a total over $12 million. Among the many items that will be up for grabs are props from Tobe Hooper and Steven Spielberg’s Poltergeist, John Carpenter’s The Thing, Friday the 13th (2009), Friday the 13th Part VII: The New Blood, and many other notable horror films.

If you would like to bid on these items yourself, registration for the auction is open at This Link. Online proxy bids can now be submitted. In-room bidding will be open to the public at The Petersen Automotive Museum in Los Angeles on June 28th. Online and telephone bids can also be placed throughout the event.

The list of items that will...

Propstore, one of the world’s leading film and TV memorabilia companies, is back with another horror-heavy auction this summer, and it’s one of their wildest auctions to date.

The company’s annual live auction of film and TV memorabilia will be taking place beginning June 28, with the items on offer expected to fetch over $12 million!

“Over 1,400 rare and iconic lots will be sold during Propstore’s unique Entertainment Memorabilia Live Auction over three days from Wednesday 28th to Friday 30th June 2023 from 8 Am Pdt each day. Registration is now open at https://propstore.com/liveauction.”

Propstore lets us know, “Online proxy bids can now be submitted. In-room bidding will be open to the public at The Petersen Automotive Museum, Los Angeles, on June 28th. Online and telephone bids can be placed across the whole event.”

Top Horror items to be sold at the Propstore auction (with estimated sale...

The new lord mayor of Portsmouth in the UK took an unconventional approach to his inauguration ceremony, using the Metallica song “Eye of the Beholder” as his walk-in music.

It was certainly a scene at the Portsmouth Guildhall on Tuesday (May 16th) when Lord Mayor Tom Coles walked to the podium with the …And Justice for All track blaring. The contrast of the ceremony’s pomp and circumstance with the rather brutal thrash number is sketch-comedy levels of absurd.

Coles’ eccentricities didn’t stop there. During his speech, the new lord mayor recited a passage in the Star Trek language Klingon, garnering smiles from his colleagues. As for his motivations for the playing the metal song and speaking Klingon, Coles simply told the BBC that he went “with what he liked”.

“It went down well with the audience, I had a really good feedback,” he said, adding that he was “a big heavy metal fan.

Killer Collectibles highlights five of the most exciting new horror products announced each and every week, from toys and apparel to artwork, records, and much more.

Here are the coolest horror collectibles unveiled this week!

V/H/S/99 Blu-ray from Rlje Films

Produced by Bloody Disgusting, V/H/S/99 is going to Hell on Blu-ray and DVD on May 23 via Rlje Films. Pre-orders are only $14.99.

The fifth installment in the found footage horror franchise consists of five segments from directors Johannes Roberts (47 Meters Down), Vanessa & Joseph Winter (Deadstream), Maggie Levin (Into the Dark: My Valentine), Tyler MacIntyre (Tragedy Girls), and Flying Lotus (Kuso).

Special features include a filmmaker audio commentary, New York Comic Con panel, deleted scenes, bloopers, and more.

Bride of Chucky Vinyl Soundtrack from Enjoy the Ride Records

Bride of Chucky’s original motion picture soundtrack is available on vinyl for the first time for $40 via Enjoy the Ride Records.

Dungeons & Dragons is one of the most influential franchises in gaming history. Since it was published in 1974, the pen-and-paper roleplaying game has been turned into books, comics, cartoon series, action figures, movies, and even a breakfast cereal! Sure, it’s had its share of controversies, but this game’s influence has withstood the test of time and helped millions of people across decades create memories of glory, fellowship, and that most powerful magic of all: A well-placed critical hit turning your Dungeon Master’s hand-crafted boss monster into a fine red smear. Oh. And friendship, we guess.

But given the near-ubiquity of this franchise, it only makes sense that there would be plenty of video games set in one of D&d’s various worlds. So if you can’t get a group together, or you’re just dying to indulge in a deep and primal desire to pretend to be an elf,...

After the surreal adventure game Strangeland, developer Wormwood Studios are back at it again with a new Kickstarter for Hibernaculum, a Survival Horror RPG with an art style that draws from the biomechanical leanings of H.R. Giger, though not as outright as Scorn. As you might expect, the campaign has already been a success, drawing more than $47,000 US with 23 days left to go.

Hibernaculum is described as a retro-inspired dungeon crawler in the vein of classics such as Eye of the Beholder, but tinged with the “gothic shock” of Horror Soft’s Elvira & Waxworks series. And like all good Survival Horror games, Hibernaculum takes after Resident Evil 2 and System Shock 2 for that component.

The story as it stands sees you on board a ship that is appropriately dark, grimy, and holding mysteries long forgotten. That also includes its inhabitants, which is where the Giger influence comes in. There’s...

We’ve had some bad weekends this year, but this past weekend took the cake with the worst showing for the Top 10 since late January. The big difference with this weekend’s box office is that there were actually three new wide releases, including one from an Oscar-winning filmmaker.

The #1 movie of the weekend was Sony/Screen Gems’ vampire thriller “The Invitation,” starring Nathalie Emmanuel (“Game of Thrones”) and Thomas Doherty (“Gossip Girl”), which was released into 3,114 theaters on Friday with no early reviews. It ended up taking in 775,000 in Thursday previews and 2.6 million on Friday, which allowed it to take the lead over the weekend with an estimated 7 million. Directed by Jessica M. Thompson, the movie did eventually see reviews that weren’t particularly kind, only achieving a 26 rating on Rotten Tomatoes (about half its Audience Score). That didn’t make much of a difference, since more moviegoers were...

‘American Horror Stories’ targets the plastic surgery industry with a wild episode that hinges upon its transformative finish.

“What’s your secret?”

The world is a superficial place and it’s hard to not get caught up in physical appearances. It’s no surprise that a wealth of horror films and social satires focus on plastic surgery, the cosmetics industry, and the pursuit of “perfection.” Crimes of the Future, The Neon Demon, or a myriad of Tales From the Crypt episodes like “Beauty Rest,” “Only Skin Deep,” or “Judy, You’re Not Yourself Today” all attack the subject matter from uniquely creepy perspectives. In fact, “Facelift” is one of the episodes of American Horror Stories that most closely resembles a Tales From the Crypt installment, which is high praise for a series that occasionally feels like it’s phoning it in.

In “Facelift,” American Horror Stories has a lot of...

Night Gallery (Season 1)

Blu ray

Kino Lorber

1969/ Color / 1.33:1 / 408 Minutes

Starring Joan Crawford, Richard Kiley, William Windom

Directed by Steven Spielberg, Boris Sagal, Jeannot Szwarc

A modern-day mythologist with a populist bent, Rod Serling fused the cautionary tales of fantasists like Ray Bradbury to the righteous anger of muckrakers like Ambrose Bierce and A.J. Leibling. Add to that mix the never ending run-ins with network honchos and we can assume that the beleaguered Everyman who populated Serling’s most enduring creation was more than a little autobiographical.

Serling began his long journey on October 2, 1959—and while the signpost up ahead may have read “The Twilight Zone”, the world-weary Serling’s real destination was the past. An early entry in that ground-breaking series was the writer’s own Walking Distance, the story of Martin Sloan, a burned-out ad man who, thanks to some homespun hocus-pocus, has a heart-to-heart chat with his own 11-year-old self.

Rolling Stone’s Essential Albums guides survey an iconic artist’s discography, breaking down their finest LPs into three tiers: Must-Haves, Further Listening, and Going Deeper. We also recommend key songs from other releases.

When James Hetfield and Lars Ulrich formed Metallica in 1981, they were a couple of pimply faced, adrenaline-starved teenage outcasts obsessed with the speed of Motörhead, weightiness of Black Sabbath, and intricate riffs of New Wave of British Heavy Metal bands like Iron Maiden and Diamond Head. They wanted their metal faster, tougher, and more intense than anything they had ever heard,...

Someone must have left the freezer door in the morgue open, because grisly reminders of the past are thawing before our eyes. You can see it this weekend with the release of John Lee Hancock’s The Little Things, a throwback to the days when movie stars hung out at crime scenes instead of in spandex, and it’ll be more apparent next month with the launch of Clarice, a television spinoff of 1991’s The Silence of the Lambs. All the evidence points to only one conclusion: the serial killer thrillers of the ‘90s are back!

Not that we’re complaining. For a macabre minute or two, every Hollywood name appeared eager to play either the detective or the killer—the hunter or the obsessed, which often proved interchangeable for both characters. Granted that means there can be something formulaic about many of these movies. Yet they can also be bleak,...

Sony/Screen Gems’ “The Grudge” has now joined an infamous list of movies by becoming the 20th film to receive an F in the CinemaScore audience poll.

Directed by Nicolas Pesce and produced by horror maven Sam Raimi, the film was an attempt to revive Takashi Shimizu’s famed horror series about the vengeful ghost of a woman who kills anyone who enters the home where she was murdered and spreads her curse to the various murder scenes. First released in 2002, Shimizu directed an American remake for Sony in 2004, the events of which occur alongside this new film starring Andrea Riseborough, Demián Bichir, John Cho and Betty Gilpin.

But the film’s violent nature and inability to add anything new to the “Grudge” formula has resulted in it being panned by both audiences and critics.

Chris Longo Dec 31, 2019

Ready to enter the fifth dimension? We have the Twilight Zone New Year's Marathon schedule right here.

The Twilight Zone is as timeless as infinity. In this dimension, 2019 was a special year for the iconic sci-fi anthlogy as it marked the series' 60th anniversary. We may be entering a new decade, but Rod Serling will be there to greet us once more with the annual New Year's Twilight Zone marathon on Syfy.

The marathon begins on Tuesday, Dec. 31st at 6:00 a.m. with "One For The Angels" and concludes on Thursday, Jan. 2nd at 3:30 a.m. with "A Piano in the House."

This time of year is always special in The Twilight Zone. Rod Serling was born on Christmas Day in 1924. The New Year's Marathon is just one of the many ways Serling's legacy lives on. Earlier this year, his daughter, Anne, wrote in an...

While the ahead-of-its-time The Twilight Zone has fascinated and influenced countless viewers since it first aired in 1959, the man behind the show—the one who introduced the episodes—is equally as intriguing. With his new graphic novel, The Twilight Man: Rod Serling and the Birth of Television, Koren Shadmi looks back at the life of the legendary Rod Serling, exploring the complexities of the great creator before, during, and after The Twilight Zone, as well as his undeniable influence on the rise of television as not only a source of entertainment, but of thought-provoking (and oftentimes chilling) intellect. With The Twilight Man out now from Humanoids, we caught up with Shadmi for our latest Q&a feature to discuss researching Serling, the process of portraying his life in graphic novel form, and what he hopes readers will take away from this memoir.

Thanks for taking the time to answer questions for us,...

You've just crossed over into the Twilight Zone.  Ariana Grande took a cue from the spooktacular series for her Halloween party on Thursday.  The 26-year-old singer went all out for the party, too. For starters, she had a killer costume. The Grammy winner transformed into the woman from the episode "Eye of the Beholder." The décor was also over-the-top. From the eerie entrance to the scary skeleton figures, the "7 rings" star didn't miss a single detail. There were also contortionists, magicians and more.  The artist invited several of her celebrity pals to the big bash, including Nicki Minaj, Lizzo and Blackpink's Jennie. Grande's brother, Frankie Grande,...

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What you're about to see is nightmarishly good. Ariana Grande revealed her Halloween costume a day early, and it's a throwback to a classic Twilight Zone moment. The 26-year-old singer has been teasing her look over the past couple of days by sharing clips from the show, and she finally unveiled the eerie (yet spot-on) homage to the "Eye of the Beholder" episode from 1960.

The original episode centers on Janet, a woman who has undergone several surgeries in an attempt to look "normal." After her bandaged face is unwrapped, it's revealed that she is beautiful by conventional standards, but in her own society, she is an outcast. The doctors and nurses around her have twisted faces with sunken eyes and morphed mouths, which Ariana modeled with her extensive FX makeup. "Final procedure was a success,...

Ariana Grande is inviting you into the Twilight Zone. After several days of dropping hints and spooky sneak peeks, the pop star has finally debuted one hell of a Halloween costume. Inspired a 1960 The Twilight Zone episode called "Eye of the Beholder," Ariana portrays the woman in the episode who undergoes a series of surgeries to look "normal." But when her facial bandages are removed and it's revealed that she's been beautiful all along, the surgeons—whose body parts are disfigured and pig-like—deem the surgery a fail. Much to the woman's horror, she's then exiled to a village where such pretty features aren't so out of the ordinary. The moral...

Thanks to Fathom Events we will have the opportunity to watch six episodes of Rod Serling’s The Twilight Zone on the big screen! I never thought that I’d have the opportunity to watch The Twilight Zone in a movie theater but it’s actually happening as a way to celebrate the show’s 60th anniversary.

Not only will we get to watch six episodes, but there will also be a new documentary that focuses on creator Rod Serling. This is an event that no fan of the classic series is going to want to miss!

The Twilight Zone is one of the best TV shows of all time. It’s had a major influence on the world and inspired so many filmmakers and stories over the years.

The screening will only take place on one day and that day is November 14th. Tickets to The Twilight Zone: A...

In today’s film news roundup, Fathom Events has set a one-night showing to celebrate the 60th anniversary of “The Twilight Zone” and “Lazy Susan” and “Liberte” get distribution.

Anniversary Show

Fathom Events and CBS Home Entertainment have scheduled a Nov. 14 showing for “The Twilight Zone: A 60th Anniversary Celebration” at more than 600 North American cinemas.

The shows will combine digitally restored versions of six episodes with an all-new documentary short titled “Remembering Rod Serling” about the life, imagination and creativity of the show’s creator. It’s the first time that original episodes of the series, which ran from 1959 to 1964, have been presented on the big screen.

Fathom Events CEO Ray Nutt said, “‘The Twilight Zone’ has inspired many filmmakers and storytellers, so it is a great honor to be able to bring these classic stories to the big screen, and to offer such an incisive look into the...

From the four repeating notes of its theme music to its unforgettable tales of the supernatural and the surreal, few television series have reshaped the medium as much as Rod Serling’s “The Twilight Zone.” On November 14, Fathom Events and CBS Home Entertainment celebrate the series’ 60th anniversary with a one-night-only event exclusively in cinemas nationwide.

“The Twilight Zone: A 60th Anniversary Celebration” will combine digitally restored versions of six quintessential episodes with an all-new documentary short titled “Remembering Rod Serling” about the life, imagination and creativity of creator Serling, whose thought-provoking introductions continue to mesmerize fans.

Tickets to “The Twilight Zone: A 60th Anniversary Celebration” are available beginning Friday, September 27, at www.FathomEvents.com and at participating theater box offices.

“The Twilight Zone: A 60th Anniversary Celebration” will be presented in more than 600 movie theaters across the country on Thursday, November 14, at 7:00 p.m. local time through Fathom Events...

Chris Longo Sep 25, 2019

Fathom Events is bringing the iconic anthology to the big screen for a one-day only screening.

Rod Serling’s The Twilight Zone is coming to movie theaters around the country, hopefully on screens as vast as space itself. The iconic sci-fi anthology series is celebrating its 60th anniversary in 2019 and to commemorate the landmark moment in television history, Fathom Events and CBS Home Entertainment partnered to screen six classic episodes on the big screen. It marks the first time the original episodes will be shown in theaters.

The one-night-only event takes place on November 14th and features digitally restored episodes and an all-new documentary short titled Remembering Rod Serling. According to a Fathom release, the doc “offers a closer look at the life experiences that inspired Serling’s unique blend of thought-provoking and visionary storytelling, from his time as a paratrooper in World War II to his...

On October 2nd, 1959, television as we know it was forever changed when a new show called The Twilight Zone premiered on CBS with "Where is Everybody?", an episode directed by Robert Stevens and written by Rod Serling. To celebrate its 60th anniversary, Fathom Events and CBS Home Entertainment are bringing Serling's game-changing anthology series to the big screen for a one-night-only screening of six seminal episodes and a new documentary short film, Remembering Rod Serling.

The Twilight Zone: A 60th Anniversary Celebration will screen in over 600 theaters in the Us on Thursday, November 14th. We have the full episode list and additional details below. Tickets will go on sale at Fathom Events' website beginning Friday, September 27th.

Press Release: Denver – September 25, 2019 – From the four repeating notes of its theme music to its unforgettable tales of the supernatural and the surreal, few television series have reshaped the medium as much as...

[Editor’s Note: The following contains spoilers from “The Twilight Zone” Episode 1, “The Comedian,” and Episode 2, “Nightmare at 30,000 Feet.”]

CBS All Access’ reimagining of “The Twilight Zone” delivers true anthology storytelling in that each episode is a standalone plot than can be enjoyed all by itself. But for “Twilight Zone” diehards, the reboot also has fun paying homage to Rod Serling’s classic series through visual, character, or narrative references. They’re not only an entertaining way to honor the show’s roots, but each nod to the past also creates a connection to the present — as if they all exist in the same universe, or zone.

The new “Twilight Zone” also adds to the mythology with its own references within Jordan Peele’s rebooted universe, creating new connections that knit the episodes together in spirit.

“We’ll always try to integrate the world as much as possible, both with the original series and with our own series...

We’ve got a new extended trailer for you to watch for Jordan Peele’s revival of The Twilight Zone. While I liked what I saw in the promo spots for "Nightmare at 30,000 Feet" and "The Comedian," this new trailer offers us a look at all the other episodes that the first season of the new series will entail. Personally, I like what I’m seeing!

The Twilight Zone is one of the greatest shows ever created, and while this revival won’t be as good as the original, it still looks like a solid series that will entertain and tell some interesting stories. I’m curious to see how this turns out.

You’ll also see many of the cast members in the series that includes Greg Kinnear, Kumail Nanjiani, Seth Rogen, John Cho, Ike Barinholtz, Taissa Farmiga, Ginnifer Goodwin, Luke Kirby, Sanaa Lathan, Adam Scott, Rhea Seehorn, Alison Tolman,...

Chris Longo Mar 16, 2019

The playwright behind The Twilight Zone's stage adaptation whittled down the iconic series into eight carefully chosen stories.

The inescapable sights and sounds of The Twilight Zone are cherished and tightly protected intellectual property. Some 60 years after Rod Serling took us into the fifth dimension, CBS is rightfully selective about who is granted licence to a crown jewel of sci-fi and fantasy storytelling. We’ll soon find out if Jordan Peele is a worthy steward on the television side with his CBS All-Access reboot. When it came to securing the rights for a stage adaptation, it took producer Ron Fogelman nearly three years to convince CBS they had the right plan in place to do the source material justice.

Though a departure from the usual fare at London’s historic Almeida Theatre, the venue took a chance on The Twilight Zone, which opened in December 2017, and...

It was an incredibly soft start to the February box office with the top 12 grossing just a combined $55.4 million. You'd have to go back to the first weekend in September 2017 to find a worse performance from the top twelve films. The top of the box office was a repeat from the last three weekends with Glass taking the top spot while Sony's Miss Bala debuted in third place. Overall, the weekend is expected to be the worst Super Bowl weekend at the box office since 2000 when Destination Films's Eye of the Beholder starring Ashley Judd and Ewan McGregor topped the box office. Universal's Glass topped the weekend box office for a third straight week, bringing in an estimated $9.5 million, pushing the film's domestic gross over $88 million. Internationally the film added $12.2 million this weekend from 54 markets, for an overseas cume that now totals over $110 million and a global tally just shy of $200 million.

Given the sheer number of costume pieces, props, and other slices of production design that go into the average film/TV production, it’s no surprise that it takes decades for all that memorabilia to become available to the public.

One such opportunity is happening next month, when an upcoming Prop Store auction will see the release of a number of classic series’ set dressing to the highest bidders. Among the wide, insane variety of options are a few items from the original “Twin Peaks” run. The starting bid for Laura Palmer’s casket is $1,000 (the estimate is around double that), but other random items like the signage from the Great Northern Hotel runs a little cheaper.

To begin to summarize the sheer quantity of random items as part of this auction is an impossible task, but some of the items with the highest opening bids are pretty recognizable. An...

When Lars Ulrich reflects on Metallica’s massive Damaged Justice tour now, he marvels that they were able to pull it off at all. “No band as extreme as ours had ever done a full arena tour,” he says. “So it was definitely a crapshoot, and it paid off.”

“Those were the years that we proved ourselves,” Jason Newsted, the band’s bassist at the time, says. “We were firing on all cylinders. Once the ‘One’ video came out, we were ready for it and the world was ready for Metallica.

Metallica became a force to be reckoned with on … And Justice for All, their fourth album and first after the death of bassist Cliff Burton. On their three previous LPs, they’d laid the groundwork for thrash metal, introduced melody and catchiness to the genre and built a following through relentless touring. If their third album, 1986’s Master of Puppets, was the apotheosis of their formative, underground years, then Justice, released two years later, ushered in a new, mainstream era for the band.

Dense, complex and mad at the world...

Chris Longo Feb 12, 2019

After a successful first run, The Twilight Zone play is set to return in 2019.

It’s a good time to be in The Twilight Zone.

Jordan Peele’s small screen revival is coming to CBS All Access with an all-star cast, and now after a successful first run, a stage adaptation of Rod Serling’s iconic anthology series will transfer to London’s prestigious West End in 2019.

The Twilight Zone premiered in 2017 at London’s Almeida Theatre. It’ll move over to the West End’s Ambassadors Theatre beginning on March 4, 2019. The stage production was adapted by Anne Washburn (Mr. Burns: A Post Electric Play), who took eight stories from Twilight Zone writers Rod Serling, Charles Beaumont, and Richard Matheson and weaved them into a two-act play. Richard Jones, who directed the first run, will return.

The play featured takes on classic episodes like “Will The Real Martian Please Stand Up?...