Stick around on this rock called Eath for awhile and you may have heard of the Twilight Zone.  Go back even further and you probably watched it.  I watched it on cable from time to time as a kid.  It was largely uninteresting, but may prove better as an adult.  One episode that sticks out in my mind, and one that is referenced by this movie - as well as other sapients called humans  - is the man wishing all of humanity dead so he is unbothered while he reads.  He gets his wish, a nuclear war wipes out everything.  He has a full library to himself.  Until his glasses break.

Such is the Twilight Zone.  It is a very hard genre to describe.  Sometimes a moral, a horror story, karma spreading around and… this movie also has a few happy moments which is strange.  It opens up with two men on a back country road, the tape player jams, and the two men (Dan Akroyde is one of them) start comparing show tunes, spooking each other out… until… I won’t spoil it.  It looks cheesy, and I did jump.

The first story is wonderfully told.  An American white male is jealous that a lesser individual (who had full rights to the promotion) receives a promotion.  The American male is better, for he is rascist.  He leaves the bar with his friends, and is thrust into each of the main eras of racism, Nazi Germany, the Vietnam War, and the KKK.  The third story is wonderfully told about old people regaining their youth.   There’s a little kid that wants a real family.  He has a certain ability - he may finally have met his match.  The last and final one is about a mad man on a plane.  He has a lot of phobias and… maybe he isn’t hallucinating?  Dan Akroyde appears once again with his catch phrase, and the phobic man is left with a sudden realization.  It’s too late, close of the movie.

Hopefully it will entice you into watching, this movie is definitely… far out there to say the least.  Wonderfully written, and with a few cheesy and unbelievable effects thrown in.

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