The Twilight Zone (1959)
An anthology series containing drama, psychological thriller, fantasy, science fiction, suspense, and/or horror, often concluding with a macabre or unexpected twist.
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What critics compared The Twilight Zone to
The End of Oak Street is, at its heart, a feature-length Twilight Zone episode…
…the film is essentially an oversized episode of The Twilight Zone (1959-1964)…
“The End of Oak Street” also shows another important influence for Mitchell: “The Twilight Zone,” and the way Rod Serling’s classic series could use horror and science-fiction tropes to explore timely stories of human frailty and resilience.
If you ever wanted to know what it would be like if you placed Anne Hathaway into a Jurassic Park film or The Twilight Zone, you found your answer in watching her performance in The End of Oak Street.
…it operates on a distinctly Twilight Zone-type of logic…
Writer-director David Robert Mitchell has crafted an unashamed Twilight Zone meets Jurassic Park throwback.
…a parody in itself of countless Twilight Zone episodes…
…not to mention W. W. Jacobs’ “The Monkey’s Paw” short story from 1902, many “Tales From the Crypt” comics and episodes, “The Twilight Zone” installments…
It’s a classic Twilight Zone-style premise about being careful what you wish for.
The telling is good, but even the most dynamic plot twists on Twilight Zone had a grim logic behind them.
…it hearkened back to the twists from Rod Serling’s The Twilight Zone TV series, although not quite as impactful as the show’s most legendary episodes.
It’s like The Twilight Zone meets The Shining meets Blue Velvet meets Twin Peaks meets Severance meets Blair Witch Project meets The Silence of the Lambs…
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The Twilight Zone is a masterclass in balancing these two forces. Some episodes are better than others, yes, but when the ending doesn’t fully land, the distance between concept and execution is never too wide.
At times, the film seems to be putting King Lear in the Twilight Zone; at others, it’s like “The Shining” with Harold Pinter soap opera in place of demons.
The Twilight Zone reference hanging around this scene — the Burgess Meredith episode, “Time Enough at Last,” in which a man survives nuclear holocaust and finally has time to read every book he wants before his glasses break — is the episode’s most important piece of intertextual scaffolding.
…and The Twilight Zone and Twin Peaks…
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Thea goes on a break with “political operative” Alex that quickly turns into an episode of The Twilight Zone.
No surprise from a man who claims Rod Serling’s The Twilight Zone as his all-time favourite show, citing the resurrection tale The Last Rites of Jeff Myrtlebank as a guiding spirit.