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Movies that remind you of a Twilight Zone episode


Forbidden Planet 1956

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Inception

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Even Rod Serling would have been confused by that movie.

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You think so?

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The village. Didn't like the movie because it was so predictable and had many elements of a zone episode...

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very true

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Frequency (2000)

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I saw the series as well, Rod loved his time travel.

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Arrival

And Rod wrote or co-wrote Planet of the Apes

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Get Out

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Peele is trying to be the next Rod Serling.

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"Something to Tide You Over" and "They're Creeping Up on You," in particular, would have made fantastic episodes of TZ. They both have that "just deserts" feel classic episodes of TZ like "The Masks" embodied.

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Seconds (1966)

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sorry

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are the Cards going to make the post season ?

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That went right over my head. I have seen Creepshow although not recently.

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One of my favs. "Be careful what you wish for" was definitely a TZ sub genre.

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I checked this movie to make sure Serling didn't write it.

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I think not just twist ending but twist ending combined with something supernatural or alien

The Sixth Sense

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a lot of his movies fit

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Being John Malkovich
Moon (2009)
Source Code
The Man Who Fell to Earth
The Truman Show
Primer
The Box (well, it was adapted into an episode for the 1980s iteration of The Twilight Zone).

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all good

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