The Twilight Zone: Rod Serling's Lost Classics
1994 | 89m | English
Popularity: 4 (history)
| Director: | Robert Markowitz |
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| Writer: | Rod Serling |
| Staring: |
| James Earl Jones hosts this film based on two stories by the late Rod Serling, who wrote the stories of the original 'The Twilight Zone' (1959) series. In "The Theatre," a young woman attends a movie only to find that her life story is being revealed on the screen. In "Where the Dead Are," a Boston surgeon in 1868 searches for a scientist who may have the answer to a medical mystery. | |
| Release Date: | May 19, 1994 |
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| Director: | Robert Markowitz |
| Writer: | Rod Serling |
| Genres: | Fantasy, Science Fiction, Horror, Mystery, Thriller, TV Movie |
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| Production Companies | O'Hara-Horowitz Productions |
| Box Office |
Revenue: $0
Budget: $0 |
| Updates |
Updated: Feb 02, 2025 Entered: Apr 20, 2024 |
| Name | Character |
|---|---|
| James Earl Jones | Host |
| Amy Irving | Melissa Sanders (segment "The Theatre") |
| Gary Cole | James (segment "The Theatre") |
| Patrick Bergin | Dr. Benjamin Ramsey (segment "Where the Dead Are") |
| Julia Campbell | Maureen, Barmaid (segment "Where the Dead Are") |
| Jack Palance | Dr. Jeremy Wheaton (segment "Where the Dead Are") |
| Heidi Swedberg | (segment "The Theatre") |
| Priscilla Pointer | Woman in cinema (segment "The Theatre") |
| Scott Burkholder | (segment "The Theatre") |
| Don Bloomfield | (segment "The Theatre") |
| Michael Burgess | (segment "The Theatre") |
| Grey Silbley | (segment "The Theatre") |
| Alex Van | (segment "The Theatre") |
| Deborah Winstead | (segment "The Theatre") |
| Peter McRobbie | Dr. Ames (segment "Where the Dead Are") |
| Bill Bolender | Ezekiel Perkins (segment "Where the Dead Are") |
| Malachy McCourt | Mr. Flanagan (segment "Where the Dead Are") |
| J. Michael Hunter | (segment "Where the Dead Are") |
| Stan Kelly | (segment "Where the Dead Are") |
| Tony Pender | (segment "Where the Dead Are") |
| Hank Troscianiec | (segment "Where the Dead Are") |
| Mark Joy | (segment "Where the Dead Are") |
| Richard K. Olsen | (segment "Where the Dead Are") |
| Chris O'Neill | (segment "Where the Dead Are") |
| Jenna Stern | Susan Wheaton (segment "Where the Dead Are") |
| Ralph Bellamy | Bruce Baldwin (archive footage) (uncredited) |
| Earl Dwire | Pete Davis (archive footage) (uncredited) |
| Joanne Pankow | Ticket Lady (uncredited) |
| Rosalind Russell | Hildy Johnson (archive footage) (uncredited) |
| Name | Job |
|---|---|
| Robert Markowitz | Director |
| Rod Serling | Writer, Story |
| Richard Matheson | Teleplay |
| Patrick Williams | Original Music Composer |
| Jacek Laskus | Director of Photography |
| Name | Title |
|---|---|
| S. Bryan Hickox | Producer |
| Lawrence Horowitz | Executive Producer |
| Michael O'Hara | Executive Producer |
| Robert F. Phillips | Associate Producer |
| Joey Plager | Associate Producer |
| Carol Serling | Supervising Producer |
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OK, it has James Earl Jones hosting it so it gets 10 stars and a note that I'm still disappointed that he was replaced as the goto narrator. I mean, don't get me wrong, I love Morgan Freeman too, but I do miss the days where you were guaranteed Jones or Nimoy as hosts and narrators. So Jones brin ... gs it to the 10 star mark, even though it was only two episodes and the first episode was so forgettable that, honestly, I literally forgot about it... which is a pretty poor showing for a VHS that consists of only two episodes. But the second is good, it has the irony, it has an H.G. Wells/Mary Shelly feel to it set in the Civil War and a path to hell that is all good intentions. It is good old fashioned Twilight Zone irony right there. But it still doesn't have that classic Twilight Zone feel to it, so you don't really get what you expected. It's a little too modern for the early 60s, but the story is there... at least in the second, which was a strong finish for a two episode video tape that was only half good.