'Twilight Zone: The Movie' Finally Gets a DVD Release

Published: July 31, 2007, 9:31 am

Tags: joe dante, joedante, john landis, johnlandis, rod serling, rodserling, steven spielberg, stevenspielberg

Filed under: Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Fandom, New on DVDI don't believe in movies being tampered with at all after their initial release, whether it's 'flashlights instead of shotguns' or the smallest visual touch-ups. I just think it's a terrible precedent to set and sort of fundamentally at odds with the point of film, which is to freeze a story in a certain place and time. The only time I usually change my position on this is with films like Ridley Scott's Kingdom of Heaven, which are completely raped by the studios in their theatrical release, and only really exist in the director's cut. I might also make an exception in the case of Twilight Zone: The Movie -- a solid, scary anthology film that's near-ruined by a couple of ridiculous and outlandish scenes that should be snipped out. I'm talking about those bookends -- an opening one in which a couple of guys traveling in a car along a lonely road get into a discussion about The Twilight Zone show and then one of them

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