Follows
"The Twilight Zone" (1959)
Followed by
"The Twilight Zone" (1985)
Twilight Zone: Rod Serling's Lost Classics (1994) (TV)
"The Twilight Zone" (2002)
Remake of
"The Twilight Zone: It's a Good Life (#3.8)" (1961)
- the third segment of the movie was a remake of this episode
"The Twilight Zone: Kick the Can (#3.21)" (1962)
- the second segment of the movie is a remake of this episode
"The Twilight Zone: Nightmare at 20,000 Feet (#5.3)" (1963)
- The fourth segment of the movie is a remake of this episode.
References
The Black Pirate (1926)
The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938)
The Great Piggy Bank Robbery (1946)
"Perry Mason" (1957)
"The Real McCoys" (1957)
"Sea Hunt" (1958)
"Bonanza" (1959)
"The Twilight Zone" (1959)
- Apart from three of its sequences being remakes of three episodes and one referencing a fourth, the characters in the prologue hum the show theme and discuss it in general.
A Bucket of Blood (1959)
"The Twilight Zone: Time Enough at Last (#1.8)" (1959)
- This is one of the episodes from the TV series that Dan Aykroyd and Albert Brooks discuss.
"The Twilight Zone: What You Need (#1.12)" (1959)
- The description "...who carries on his shoulder a chip the size of the national debt."
"Car 54, Where Are You?" (1961)
"The Twilight Zone: A Quality of Mercy (#3.15)" (1961)
- A man sworn against a different race transforms to resemble that race
"The Beverly Hillbillies" (1962)
"The Outer Limits" (1963)
- Albert Brooks' character (incorrectly) thinks the episode about a stopwatch that freezes time was from this anthology series.
"The Twilight Zone: A Kind of a Stopwatch (#5.4)" (1963)
- In the prologue segment, Albert Brooks and Dan Aykroyd are reminiscing about old Twilight Zone episodes. (Brooks says that this episode was from Outer Limits).
"National Geographic Specials" (1964)
"Gilligan's Island" (1964)
"Hawaii Five-O" (1968)
Animal House (1978)
- The troops in Vietnam mention they kill Neidermeyer, which was mentioned as his fate in the epilogue.
Mad Max (1979)
- Eyeball-popping effect in "Nightmare" segment
Referenced in
Memories of Videodisc (1986) (V)
Wired (1989)
Freaked (1993)
"3rd Rock from the Sun: Frozen Dick (#1.12)" (1996)
- Reference to John Lithgow seeing a gremlin on a plane
Snuff Video: Volume Red (1997) (V)
- Behind the scenes footage of the three actors' deaths from this film is included.
"3rd Rock from the Sun: Dick's Big Giant Headache: Part 1 (#4.23)" (1999)
- Reference to John Lithgow seeing a gremlin on a plane
Urban Legends: Final Cut (2000)
WarCraft III: Reign of Chaos (2002) (VG)
Slash (2002)
Disaster! (2005)
- someone has a sign that says "There's something on the wing"
Be Kind Rewind (2008)
- Mentioned as movie "sweded" during montage
Features
Bimbo's Initiation (1931)
Case of the Missing Hare (1942)
Behind the Meat-Ball (1945)
Mouse Wreckers (1948)
The Power of Thought (1948)
It's Hummer Time (1950)
Feed the Kitty (1952)
"Jeopardy!" (1964)
- During the "Kick the Can" segment.
Quasi at the Quackadero (1976)
Tempest (1983) (VG)
- Sound effects
Featured in
Death Scenes 2 (1992) (V)
- Behind the scenes footage of this film is featured.
40,000 Years of Dreaming (1997)
Spoofed in
"The Simpsons: Treehouse of Horror II (#3.7)" (1991)
- The second segment of this episode, in which Bart has magical mental powers, lampoons the "It's a Good Life" segment of the "Twilight Zone" movie. Nancy Cartwright also appears in both.
"The Simpsons: Treehouse of Horror IV (#5.5)" (1993)
- The "Nighmare at 5 1/2 Feet" segment is a spoof of the "Nightmare at 20,000 Feet" segment of the "Twilight Zone" movie.
Tiny Toon Adventures: Night Ghoulery (1995) (TV)
- The final segment is a parody of the famous Twilight Zone movie segment with the Gremlin on the plane
Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa (2008)
- Alex sees Mort on the wing of the plane and thinks that he's a gremlin.
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