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Released
1983 · FILM

Twilight Zone: The Movie

When ordinary lives intersect with twisted realities, four characters must survive nightmarish trials that blur the line between imagination and horror, each fighting to escape a fate more terrifying than death.

“You're travelling through another dimension. A dimension, not only of sight and sound, but of mind. A journey into a wondrous land whose boundaries are that of imagination. Next stop, the Twilight Zone!”

Directed by
Joe Dante, John Landis
Written by
John Landis, George Clayton Johnson
Rated
MPA · PG
Runtime
101 min
HorrorSci-Fi

Synopsis

An anthology film presenting remakes of three episodes from the "Twilight Zone" TV series—"Kick the Can," "It's a Good Life," and "Time Enough at Last." Each segment is directed by a different filmmaker, with the original stories adapted for a new audience. The film retains the surreal and often unsettling themes that defined the classic series, while introducing updated interpretations of the original tales.

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How many hands made this film

The scale of the collaboration

Principal cast & crew: 34

These are the principals we have on file — the full crew ran to the hundreds. Every film this size was made by far more hands than any credits list ever names.

Why a floor?

This is a minimum, not a total. We only count the credits we’ve captured so far, and coverage is uneven — a blockbuster might show a few hundred names while another of the same size shows a couple dozen. The real crews all ran into the thousands. The number here only grows as full credits are enriched — so we frame it as a floor, never a headcount.

Craft leads on file

Edited by Tina HirschShot by Allen DaviauScored by Jerry GoldsmithDesigned by Jim Bissell

Box Office

1983 · Box office

✅ Made its money back — grossed 2.9× its budget

Why 2.5×?

Cinemas keep roughly half of every ticket sold, and a wide release’s marketing often costs about as much again as the film — so a movie needs to gross around 2.5× its production budget just to break even theatrically. It’s a rule of thumb, not the studio’s ledger (home video and streaming come later).

Worldwide gross

$29.5M

Budget$10.0M
Worldwide gross$29.5M
break-even (2.5×)

US & Canada: $29.5M — 100% of worldwide · International: $1 (0%)

Opening weekend: $6.6M — 22% of its US run.

Opening week (7-day): $10.4M — 35% of its US & Canada run.

Peak 1,275 theaters

Also known as

  • Twilight Zone - Unheimliche Schattenlichterde
  • Unheimliche Schattenlichterde
  • La Quatrième Dimensionfr
  • Ai confini della realtàit

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