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post #1 of 20
6/8/02 at 12:05am
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Just saw an ad on SciFi for Night Visions repeats, starting next Friday. Anyone else get a kick out of this anthology show? It originally aired on Fox last summer. There were some pretty wild stories, as well as some genuinely scary ones.
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post #2 of 20
6/8/02 at 12:19am
Ah, hell ... and I thought you were talking about the Dark Horizons book collection...
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post #3 of 20
6/8/02 at 1:09am
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The show had intro's and outro's by Henry Rollins channeling Rod Serling... corny and unnecessary. There were a couple awful eps, like any show, but here are the ones that kicked butt:

Cary Elwes gets out of the city for a weekend to go camping and get some peace. But there's a killer on the loose and the guy camping nearby (Brian Dennehy) is acting really weird...

Jerry O'Connell and his college buddies stop at a rest stop where hippies are selling their homemade wares. They seem harmless enough until Jerry's friends disappear one by one...

Luke Perry accepts the hospitality of a woman with very nasty dogs...

A glitch in the fabric between dimensions has the military puzzled. Out in the middle of the desert, behind an impervious forcefield, stands a house and its alien inhabitants. Should the military find a way to break through, or leave well enough alone?

A man is accidentally pronounced dead, "coming back to life" at his own funeral. He enjoyed his near-death experience so much, however, that he'd rather be dead...

Anyway, give it a shot. I enjoyed this show much more than the new Outer Limits. Half hour stories helps, too. Get in, get to the hook, throw in a twist, and get out. Too many Outer Limits eps feel padded.
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post #4 of 20
6/8/02 at 5:24pm
I saw one episode, the one with the Jay Mohr Desert Storm thing (which was interesting) and then the one about the supposed child molester, and how it eventually turned out to be someone else (I dug the little girl's lines at the end, "who's the bad guy now, daddy?").

I'd like to see more. Could be interesting.
But good God, get someone else and not Henry Rollins. No offense against the man, but if I remember right, he didn't do Serling very well.
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post #5 of 20
6/8/02 at 6:49pm
I really think those are the first positive comments I ever heard about the show. Amazing. Perhaps I will give it another look when it's on Sci Fi...
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post #6 of 20
6/9/02 at 10:19pm
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I didn't really care for the Jay Mohr Desert Storm story, but I liked the child molester one. It's about paranoia, wrongful accusation, and mob mentality.

A minor correction:
I just checked out the SciFi website for the show at <a href="http://www.scifi.com/nightvisions/" target="_blank">http://www.scifi.com/nightvisions/</a> and found out that Luke Perry's episode was about a psychic therapist. I can't remember who starred in the dog episode now...

Also, I've got to add that the Joe Dante episode with Bridget Fonda kept me awake at night. You see, she thinks people are breaking into her house, but she can't prove it...

Anyway, they have a bunch of episode synopses at the SciFi site, but not all of them. I guess they'll add to it in the coming weeks.
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post #7 of 20
6/10/02 at 2:14am
I'm a sucka for anthology stuff. What day/time are the Night Vision repeats due to start?

reminds me, a good recent anthology movie was Campfire Tales, would love have this one on DVD...
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post #8 of 20
6/10/02 at 2:52am
never seen an episode but i am a HUGE Rollins fan and the other people involved seem cool so im gonna have to check this out.Cary Elwes = my hero.
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post #9 of 20
6/10/02 at 8:09pm
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What day/time are the Night Vision repeats due to start?
Friday, June 14 at 8PM on the SciFi Channel. Check your schedule, cuz they'll probably repeat later that night also.

<a href="http://www.scifi.com/nightvisions/" target="_blank">http://www.scifi.com/nightvisions/</a>
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post #10 of 20
9/9/02 at 1:36am
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Okay, the show was yanked for awhile so SciFi could show repeats of the ultra-popular Dead Zone.

Now Night Visions is back AGAIN. This time it's on Mondays through Thursdays at 8PM.

The re-return of Night Visions starts Monday September 9. Enjoy!
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post #11 of 20
9/9/02 at 9:28am
Great, now Henry Rollins can bitch at us again like we're all a bunch of assholes.
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post #12 of 20
9/9/02 at 1:08pm
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A glitch in the fabric between dimensions has the military puzzled. Out in the middle of the desert, behind an impervious forcefield, stands a house and its alien inhabitants. Should the military find a way to break through, or leave well enough alone?
This was my favorite episode. Great "twist" on that one. Another good one was the one with the kid who was crazy and kept saying over and over again "He's coming through the yard, he's coming in the door, he's coming up the stairs, he's right outside the room..." and the guy who tried to help "cure" this kid. Maybe it's just that I remember hearing that old story around the campfire as a kid and it still gives me chills.

I liked NV. IT was no Twilight Zone, but what is? Some bad episodes, some good, but mostly pretty fun and always with some name actor or other. I was sad they yanked it.

And yet they kept "Fact or Fiction"? THAT show is a waste. It would be better without the Star Trek dude and the 30-second summaries at the end. Plus, when he says, "It was fact--the guy really did wake up on the morgue table" -- he never gives any further detail, which is exactly what a viewer like me wants.

Anyhoo, we need more anthology shows. NV wasn't bad. It was miles better than the Tales from the Darkside repeats I've been seeing.
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post #13 of 20
9/9/02 at 1:09pm
Oooh, I forgot another good NV epidode--one with Randy Quaid where he's died and come back, and he thinks he went to heaven and wants to go back there. Cool twist at the end of that one too.
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post #14 of 20
9/9/02 at 1:35pm
My fave one was with Bridget Fonda alone in that house. I always had a crush on her. IIRC Joe Dante directed it as well, a pretty cool little twist ending job.
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post #15 of 20
9/9/02 at 9:19pm
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Okay, just for those of you who looked for it at 8 PM, I'm sorry. I got the time wrong. It's Mon - Thurs at 7 PM. Please spare me the thumbscrews...

The Bridget Fonda episode actually kept me awake for a few nights. The idea that someone else is living in my house, and that I might accidentally bump into them in the dark... well, I'd better not think about it.

Luke Perry's "someone's coming up the stairs" really freaked out a friend of mine.

The Randy Quaid one - great ending.

There have been some that were mediocre, but probably two thirds of the eps I've seen were top notch.
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post #16 of 20
9/9/02 at 10:18pm
Plot of the Bridget Fonda episode is actually suspiciously similar to The Others when you think about it. Wonder which was written first?

Sorry, just like to keep mentioning the Briget Fonda episode. Even her name is nice. Bridget Fonda. Daughter of Peter. Niece of Jane. Granddaughter of Henry. Fonda, Bridget.

mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm.
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post #17 of 20
9/10/02 at 9:44am
I kinda dug the Jack Palance episode. Palance eating beans with no arms is creepy as hell.
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post #18 of 20
9/10/02 at 10:31am
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I kinda dug the Jack Palance episode. Palance eating beans with no arms is creepy as hell.
Jack Palance doing his fucking TAXES is creepy as hell. If there's a more menacing man ever to grace the screen, I haven't seen him.

Maybe that one guy my friends and I affectionately nickname "The Meanest-Looking Mexican Alive" -- you all know him, he was in the Dusk til Dawn series as a bartender (post cheech) and was the knife-throwing heavy in "Desperado." But he's creepy b/c he looks like a mexican Palance.

Oh, and the meanest looking Asian guy alive--that catfish-looking muscle-bound dude from all the Van Damme movies. I know in one of them he had a filmed-over eye a la tell-tale heart. He scares me.
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post #19 of 20
9/10/02 at 1:46pm
I've only seen 4 or 5 of these and they have all been pretty bad except for the one with Randy Quaid. He was very good at playing the demented dad and the ending was a suprise. I'm going to watch some more and see if there are any other gems.
Having that weird looking dude with the mini doughnut for a chin bookend each episode was a bad mistake. He bothers me.
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post #20 of 20
9/11/02 at 12:07am
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After missing it last night, and watching one I'd already seen tonight, I finally figured out a good site that will give me episode capsules in advance. <a href="http://tv.yahoo.com" target="_blank">http://tv.yahoo.com</a>

So here's what's up for Night Visions for the next few days:

Wednesday Sept 11
"A View Through the Window; Quiet Please", Episode #104.
An Army officer (Bill Pullman) investigates an oasis in the middle of a desert; a man (Cary Elwes) finds himself stalked in the woods by an unruly camper (Brian Dennehy).

Thursday Sept 12
"Bitter Harvest; My So-Called Life and Death", Episode #108.
A farm boy plays a deadly game with a reclusive neighbor (Jack Palance); a girl (Marla Sokoloff) becomes obsessed with a ghostly handyman while on vacation with her family.

Monday Sept 16
"Dead Air; Renovation", Episode #102.
A radio jockey (Lou Diamond Phillips) receives phoned threats; a man (Gil Bellows) and his family move into a house where a gruesome murder occurred.

Tuesday Sept 17
"Reunion; Neighborhood Watch", Episode #107.
War experiences haunt a Persian Gulf veteran (Jay Mohr) during a homecoming parade; a father (David Paymer) takes action when he suspects a child abuser is moving into the neighborhood.
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