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- Spoilers (7)
Certification
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Sex & Nudity
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- None whatsoever.
- One possible oblique reference in "Kick the Can."
Violence & Gore
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- There is no violence or blood in the "Kick the Can" segment.
Profanity
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- 5 uses of the name "Jesus," and 2 uses of "Christ."
- Other cursing too, including "damn" and "hell," plus crass insults like "bitch" and "nigger."
Alcohol, Drugs & Smoking
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- "Time Out" uses alcohol and beer.
- John Valentine from "Nightmare at 20,000 feet" takes panic attack pills in an airplane lavatory in order to coax himself from horror. He also smokes a cigarette, and takes a sedative from an assistant on the plane.
Frightening & Intense Scenes
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- A man asks if another man wants to see something scary. The man turns his face away, then pops out as a creature that kills his friend
- A girl without a mouth is seen.
- There is a scene where a man and two children are running near a burning helicopter. In real life, the helicopter malfunctioned during the scene and came crashing down onto the actors. All three were killed. These very real deaths were not shown in the film but is certainly a disturbing fact.
Spoilers
Violence & Gore
- In the "Prologue" segment, a driver and passenger are listening to "The Midnight Special" until the tape breaks. They then play a game of guessing the theme song from television shows. When the passenger asks the driver of he wants to see something scary, he transforms into a disturbing beast (fangs, rotten blue flesh.) and attacks the driver. We see his hands around the drivers throat, then the scene cuts to the outside of the car, where crunching is heard.
- In the "Time Out" segment, William Cooper, who now presumes the racial ethnicities he had slurred against, is shot in the arm in Nazi Germany, with bloody results, almost lynched in a Ku Klux Klan camp (he is not harmed) as an African, is blown up by a grenade in Vietnam as an Asian (you just see him jump), while he is shot at constantly through-ought the first segment. He is later captured, though the ending remains ambiguous.
- In "It's a Good Life", Anthony is on a bike when he is almost run over by Helen Foley, though it happens partially offscreen. Earlier, Anthony is pushed over by a man in order to get to a video game. In response, Helen leaves the restaurant, due to the person being the manager's customers. A girl, Sara, Anthony's sister, is seen crippled and with no mouth, after an indescribable accident, which was caused by Anthony, who is able to wish anything. Anthony's family is seen as frantic, quirky, and off-the-wall, and they have a scene of chaos, though scenes of them frantically happen often. His uncle does a hat trick, which ultimately releases a demonic rabbit, which will frighten younger viewers. Ethel is seen in a cartoon world where she is chased by various creatures, one carries a bloody ax, and then eaten in a horrific way. A TV is broken in half, as we hear cartoon sounds, as cartoon characters come out. They are very disturbing, and, in fact, are shown in a surreal way. Then, Anthony wishes everything away, except for Helen. Anthony then wishes back everything, except his parents. In the end, flowers bloom as they drive off.
- In "Nightmare at 20,000 feet", John Valentine is repeatedly scared by a gremlin dismantling the left wing of an aircraft. The segment begins with him surrealistically frightened, as he cries and takes pills. He is described as a "white knuckle type". He is, as described in the original episode, scared of traveling on air. He causes disturbances to passengers, as he is held back and restrained. The second time he sees the gremlin, it is close up at the window, as John Valentine's eyes bug out, though it's hard to see. Later on, he grabs a gun, and starts shooting at the creature, the creature grabs on to his face and frightens him some more, but he remains unharmed, as he waves his finger into his face. In the end, he is locked in a straitjacket, and carried into the ambulance, into the "Epilogue", as the damage in the second engine is unexplained. Overall, this is the most surrealistic segment, as there most of the situations are over-exaggerated, and a newspaper that implies of the same gremlin overruling that flight.
- In the "Epilogue", the same passenger who was implied to have killed the driver in the "Prologue", is driving the ambulance in which John Valentine is in now. They have a brief conversation, as the driver puts in "The Midnight Special". The driver asks if he wants Valentine to see something scary, as Valentine's eyes widen, implying that he is next. After this, it cuts to the stars where a recorded message of Rod Serling speaking "The Twilight Zone" narration, from Season 1.
Frightening & Intense Scenes
- In segment 3, "It's a Good Life," a character is trapped inside a TV and eaten by cartoon monsters.
- A man is hunted by solders from different periods in time.
