Review – The Twilight Zone: Rod Serling’s Lost Episodes

Of the two apparently lost TZ scripts shot here for the first time in the late 90s, the first one could probably have stayed lost. It’s a tired little ditty about a woman who can see her past and future enacted on the screen during an art house revival showing of His Girl Friday. That this odd phenomenon allows her to predict her own death doesn’t make the story radically more interesting. On the other hand, the second entry is a bit more engaging. A doctor in 1860s Massachusetts discovers an island of people who’ve managed to cheat death thanks to a serum administered to them by the local mad scientist. Sadly for the reanimated villagers, their benefactor decides to stop administering the stuff when he feels his own death is imminent. The result is a Romero-esque spectacle that would have been something if it had been done as one of the original series episodes back in the 50s. As it was, however, the entertainment value it possessed was dampened more than a little by the decision to sepia-tone most of the shots (for that once-upon-a-time look, I guess) and the fact that zombies have been done to death (pardon the turn of the phrase). Mildly amusing