My Blog List

Popular Posts

  • 28 Weeks Later
    Its predecessor 28 Days Later reinvigorated the zombie horror subgenre, re-animating (give me one pun) the deceased as rabid, frenzied c...
  • Inception
    Two years on, who would have thought Christopher Nolan still had more to prove. The Dark Knight was a huge artistic and financial success, a...
  • Prometheus
    I had genuine faith (please don ’ t mention the irony) that Ridley Scott's return to the genre that defined his early career would ...
  • The Twilight Zone: Nightmare at 20,000 Feet
    A favourite among many TZ aficionados, Nightmare at 20,000 Feet is memorable for starring a young William Shatner, and being one of the mos...
  • Killing Them Softly
    I thought this was an excellent, superbly crafted thriller with a strong ensemble of performances and a really fascinating attempt to s...
  • Skyfall
    As both character and franchise, James Bond's cinematic legacy is one of the most famous and quite potentially infinite, at this poin...
  • The Prometheus Trailer
    For the past few months the teasers and trailers for Ridley Scott's Prometheus have been drip fed to a salivating audience until th...
  • Maine to host International Mustache Film Festival
    As a prelude to the international Mustache Film Festival in Maine, USA, and a proud wearer of a mustache myself I thought I'd include a ...
  • Waltz with Bashir
    A documentary based on the massacres of Sabra and Shatila during the Lebanese war, Waltz with Bashir is a powerful, unique example of cine...
  • The Twilight Zone Revisited
    Over the next few weeks and months I'll be (re)visiting Rod Serling's classic series to coincide with the remastered release o...

Total Pageviews

Wednesday, 14 March 2012

The Twilight Zone: Nightmare at 20,000 Feet


A favourite among many TZ aficionados, Nightmare at 20,000 Feet is memorable for starring a young William Shatner, and being one of the most thrilling episodes of all 5 series. Bob is a recently discharged sanitorium patient returning to the original scene of his mental breakdown aboard a plane, which happened over a year ago. His sanity supposedly cured, it is immediately jeopardised when he thinks he has seen something on the wing of the plane, but whenever he accosts someone to look, it mysteriously disappears. Set amidst a storm, the episode is a masterclass in suspense from the Twilight Zone's frequent contributor, Richard Matheson (author of I Am Legend), and the dichotomy between madness and sanity is played brilliantly by Shatner, whose character is so convinced he has seen something, but fears the possibility of being accused of insanity and having a mental breakdown again, thus fulfilling a recurring nightmare.
Posted by at
Labels: , ,

1 comment:

  1. Southwest Manuscripters23 October 2013 at 20:27

    I don't suppose any of you realized that the flight officer that comes up behind him is none other than Ed Kemmer, who, if you remember, was Commander Buzz Corey on the early TV S.F. show Space Patrol and the writer was Richard Matheson, an S.F. writer with credentials...
    Here you have Buzz Corey and Capt. Kirk in one scene together, making this shot symbolic of the original TV S.F. meeting the new.
    Also the creature is played by Nick Cravat, who worked with Burt Lancaster in many films like "The Crimson Pirate."

    ReplyDelete

Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom)