Review – Twonky

I could have sworn this was literally an overblown episode of The Twilight Zone, but what little I could find out about it online indicated that it was a stand-alone movie. Well, it plays like an overblown Twilight Zone episode anyway, especially the preachy script and terrible production values. Hans Conried plays a hapless professor whose wife goes off to visit relatives, leaving him with a new TV for company. Unfortunately the idiot box turns out to be no mere television set. It’s a Twonky, a robot from the future that makes no end of trouble for everyone in the picture, especially our hero. The tale is a ham-handed allegory about the evils of modern technology, and the whole show is peppered with some of the most witless gags ever committed to film (or whatever this mess was shot on). See if desperate