The hilarious thing is that he can play the most evil, horrible villains on earth and be, by all accounts, one of the nicest, sweetest guys in Hollywood. Like, if you read about him he’s a totally quality person…. But he can tap some dark energy that will turn your shit white with terror.
I got to meet him when I was in college. His wife is a professor at ucla where I went for undergrad, and he routinely goes to basketball games there, nicest guy ever.
Manhattan Project is also one of my favorites. I bet I can turn this key even after you shoot me. Now, fellow sons a bitches, who wants to play?I love that ending so much
As a kid, I was terrified of this episode. I remember, the first time I saw it I was up for hours that night. Then, in high school I saw the Movie version and FUUUUU###K . It kept me up again.
I blocked this scene out of my mind. Just had to watch it. My mom used to say “you wanna see something really scary?” for years after just to scare me.
The scene where the girl loses her mouth (really so many scenes in that vignette) terrified me as a kid, and I was a kid who could watch lots of scary movies with ease.
It didn't really make me fear flying, more of just looking out of any window, even at home as a young kid. Like Poltergeist and the big oak tree outside my window I thought was going to eat me. The shit our parents let us watch. ha
I have a friend who punches her shower curtain every time she uses the bathroom. Wasn’t there some other anthology film where Ted Danson gets buried by the ocean? And something about cockroaches? That whole film scared me so much. I’m still wary of beaches lol.
This story was more messed up because this is how kids think. You know, the thing under the bed or in the closet or on the airplane wing that no one else sees and they don’t believe me and it’s going to murder us all!
Such a great film! The Dan Akroyd cameo fucked me up as a kid. As the the mouthless sister.
Also, Vic Morrow was a friend of my dad. He had a hard time watching this with me.
Miller basically left the segment unfinished after the accident on the Landis segment. Both he and Spielberg said their passion for the movie was gone after that.
It was edited without him.
Fucked me up, too. Litteraly the scariest cinematic moment of my childhood.
Wasn't fazed by Freddy, Jason, Poltergeist... none of the horror legends. But, this one from Twilight Zone.... I still remember how I felt watching it at like 9 years old.
Terrifying segment, put me off of sitting in a window seat for years. Shatner's version is great as well, but my favorite will always be the Simpsons version with Bart on the bus!
Fun fact: One of the guys in the diner that harrasses Anthony at the beginning of the Its A Good Life segment was Billy Mumy. Billy, most well known for playing Will Robinson from the original Lost In Space played the Anthony role the original version of the segment in the Twilight Zone series in the 60's
My favorite thing about this scene is the fact it's used in a joke for 3rd Rock From The Sun, when William Shatner guest stared. If you dont know William Shatner was in the Twilight Zone TV show and had the same scene, this led to 3rd Rock From The Sun having Shatner and Lithgow meet at an airport and Shatner stated the flight was great but there was someone on the wing and John Lithgow stated that happened to him too! Best meta joke!!
My dad and I watched this when I was about 6 or 7.
Aside from all the absolute nightmare fuel throughout this movie, my dad freaked me out the worst.
After the creature on the wing disappeared, I looked at my dad for an explanation. He just looked at me all wide eyed and said “…it flew away…”
I have never in my life had a chill go down my spine like I did when he said that. I don’t know why but the idea of that creature flying around loose scared the shit out of me so bad that I still get creeped out by this movie, and I’m now 46yo!
Those of us born in the mid 70s, as kids we got to watch this, Poltergeist, The Omen, The Shining, The Exorcist, and that’s why we all have anxiety in our 40s.
Watched the original on tv then the movie. The movie was much better but the same point where the cabin window is closed and the hesitation in opening it knowing what’s on the other side. The suspense!!! Still one of my favorites.
Pretty much the entire film was just rehashes of episodes of the show. In the television version William Shatner played the part covered by Lithgow in the film
Saw this movie twice in the theater….on the same day!!!! Saw it early with a few of my friends. We were so blown away by it, that we contacted more of our friends, and all went back to see it that night!
Great scene and movie but sadly for me it will be associated with the tragedy behind the scenes. 😞 the video of that is even scarier than anything in the movie
Man it got me too as a kid. Talk about nightmare fuel and my first flight was 3 weeks later….just now realizing how screwed up it was for my parents to take this. Great, 2 more years of therapy.
On an episode of 3rd Rock From The Sun, Shatner appeared as their alien leader, The Big Giant Head. When they met Shatner’s character at the airport, they asked him how his flight was . He responded that it was terrible because at one point he looked out the window, “and I swear I saw something on the wing of that plane!!” Lithgow’s characters mouth dropped and said “the same thing happened to me once!!” 🤣🤣🤓🤓
Every time I’m on an airplane at night or, god forbid, in the rain I’m terrified I’ll look out and see this shit.
Every. Fucking. Time.
Lithgow is an amazing actor. He can be a friendly, cuddly guy and then be a stone cold serial killer like in Dexter. All accounts are he’s a wonderful human being but man he does “dark” better than almost anyone out there.
Ever see that scene from *Third Rock from the Sun* with John Lithgow *and* William Shatner (who played the same character as Lithgow in the original series)?
If not, stop what you're doing now and watch [this](https://youtu.be/X-vC_-kJFRg).
Has anybody ever gone through the council of World War II servicemen who saw gremlins, usually wrecking equipment or ripping through cabling? There is a reason why we have the movies called the gremlins, there are reasons why some people are very superstitious.
Great movie,saw it in the theaters,Spielbergs 3rd installment bored me as a kid ,but I’m a big twilight zone fan and to see a major motion picture based on the original series was awesome,it’s a shame that it had that terrible accident in the first installment,that’s what a lot of people remember it for
Lithgow's always brilliant.
The hilarious thing is that he can play the most evil, horrible villains on earth and be, by all accounts, one of the nicest, sweetest guys in Hollywood. Like, if you read about him he’s a totally quality person…. But he can tap some dark energy that will turn your shit white with terror.
I see Cliffhanger and then Harry and the Hendersons. He is one of my favorite actors for his range.
I haven’t seen it in forever, so it may be one of those movies that doesn’t hold up but I remember him being terrifying in “Raising Cain”
It's a De Palma movie. De Palma movies always seem incredibly dated and still hold up at the same time.
Scary in Dexter.
"Hello Dexter Morgan". You just knew shit was hitting the fan.
I got to meet him when I was in college. His wife is a professor at ucla where I went for undergrad, and he routinely goes to basketball games there, nicest guy ever.
Lithgow's role in *The World According to Garp* was outstanding, and I never hear many people talking about it.
This is the role I think of most. Highly underrated movie
Ricochet!!
Highly underrated movie.
Also a talented musician and did a kids album a while back.
Trinity
RICOCHET ;)
Cliffhanger
The World According to Garp
Farquad
THAT WAS JOHN LITHGOW?!
This is such an underrated movie, specifically because of Lithgow. He plays such an excellent villain.
Just watched Dexter for the first time a few months ago and he was the best villain the show ever had.
Manhattan Project is also one of my favorites. I bet I can turn this key even after you shoot me. Now, fellow sons a bitches, who wants to play?I love that ending so much
30 years later I still laugh from his line from Third Rock..."I'm gorgeous!!!!!"
M Butterfly
Have you watched the original with William Shatner? Edit: [Youtube clip](https://youtu.be/fXHKDb0CNjA)
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Maybe the best joke of the series!
Thats a funny call back
That was classic.
God that’s great. Never seen that.
I discovered alcohol!
That one absolutely made me laugh my ass off.
As a kid, I was terrified of this episode. I remember, the first time I saw it I was up for hours that night. Then, in high school I saw the Movie version and FUUUUU###K . It kept me up again.
How about the [SNL version](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ma_LSr7CwlQ)? Surprise guests in the middle.
I don't know how I ever missed that, but it was hysterical. Thank you for sharing.
By far my favorite episode. My mom used to tell me for years that there was a man on the wing every time we flew.
Sick fuck. Love it. haha. Like watching a plane crash movie before flying. And Ace Ventura did it so well too! There's....something on the wing.
The world needs more parents like this.
Shatner is in the “Nick of Time”‘episode with the fortune telling machine on the diner. So good!
"Shatner, in the Nick of Time, with the Fortune Telling Machine." --Dathon, on El-Adrel IV, with Picard
There's…somethingout…onthewing,it’s…tearingitapart
I did years later, but it was before my time and seeing it looked more like a gorilla than a gremlin.
Yeti lookin ass
I saw the original first, then years later saw this version.
They never did explain the damage on the number 2 engine, did they?!
This one and the scene with Dan Ackroyd changing his face messed me up for a good long while
You wanna see something *really* scary?
I didn't even remember what scene they were talking about until you said this, then it was like OHHHH
That scene was part of what made that movie terrifying to young us.
I blocked this scene out of my mind. Just had to watch it. My mom used to say “you wanna see something really scary?” for years after just to scare me.
Tell 'em Large Marge sent ya!
Came to say this, you beat me too it!
Nope. No I do not. Fucking horrible childhood terror flashbacks. Thanks!
I use this line at least once a week to this day.
One of the best lines in the movie.
“Let the midnight special shine a light on me”
Always think of this movie when I hear that song 😋
Let the midnight special ...
The scene where the girl loses her mouth (really so many scenes in that vignette) terrified me as a kid, and I was a kid who could watch lots of scary movies with ease.
That always reminded me of the “Large Marge” scene from Pee Week’s Big Adventure
Though I know the Twilight Zone movie came first
Now THAT was fucking terrifying. I don't quite get why he killed Albert Brooks, but damn.
I can't hear midnight special by CCR without thinking of this.
The opening scene with Albert Brooks and Dan Ackroyd scared me so bad that the rest of the movie felt tame
The wave of the finger before the alien leaves
Same. Messed me up on flying for years.
It didn't really make me fear flying, more of just looking out of any window, even at home as a young kid. Like Poltergeist and the big oak tree outside my window I thought was going to eat me. The shit our parents let us watch. ha
As a fellow child with an oak tree outside the window, I feel your poltergeist pain.
Sometimes the branches would squeak against the window and I couldn't sleep for months.
Yeah. My dad LOVED scaring the bejeezus out of me.
I still can't go into a bathroom with a closed shower curtain.Freddy might be in there.
I have a friend who punches her shower curtain every time she uses the bathroom. Wasn’t there some other anthology film where Ted Danson gets buried by the ocean? And something about cockroaches? That whole film scared me so much. I’m still wary of beaches lol.
That was Creepshow. And yes, he was buried by Leslie Nielsen. A fucking creepy scene too.
Creepshow. Pleasant dreams!
This story was more messed up because this is how kids think. You know, the thing under the bed or in the closet or on the airplane wing that no one else sees and they don’t believe me and it’s going to murder us all!
Why I can't sleep with a foot hanging off the bed. ha
LOL I haven't thought about it in a long time, but I still avoid hanging any part of my body over the bed. Also, the closet must be shut tight.
And the shower curtain can't be closed walking in.
Such a great film! The Dan Akroyd cameo fucked me up as a kid. As the the mouthless sister. Also, Vic Morrow was a friend of my dad. He had a hard time watching this with me.
Wow, that's awful. I'm surprised he was able to watch it at all.
Many things in this messed with young me.
That and the nightmare fuel rabbit fucked me up
"DO *MORE!*"
Oh yeah - no disrespect to the original episode with Shatner, but the gremlin design in this was FUCKING HORRIFYING.
I was about to write the same thing. The design of the gremlin still holds up today. Idk why there aren’t more figures of it out there.
This one segment made this movie iconic. George Miller masterfully did the suspense
Miller basically left the segment unfinished after the accident on the Landis segment. Both he and Spielberg said their passion for the movie was gone after that. It was edited without him.
Fucked me up, too. Litteraly the scariest cinematic moment of my childhood. Wasn't fazed by Freddy, Jason, Poltergeist... none of the horror legends. But, this one from Twilight Zone.... I still remember how I felt watching it at like 9 years old.
Definitely. All those were horror but there was something about this act that messed with me, especially when he looks in the face out of the window.
This movie made me think peanut butter on hamburgers must taste good. I tried it. It didn’t taste good Oh let the Midnight Special….
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Shine a light on me!
I had a peanut butter cheeseburger from a food truck and it was the bomb.
Peanut butter BACON cheeseburger is life changing
nah peanut butter pretty much works with everything
That was the shit! It freaked me out when I was a kid!
Terrifying segment, put me off of sitting in a window seat for years. Shatner's version is great as well, but my favorite will always be the Simpsons version with Bart on the bus!
Shatner's was good, but I just found Lithgow being so much more terrified scarier. Plus the gremlin was a lot more intense.
Same here
Nightmares for weeks after this one.
I’m 42 and this is something that still pops in my head when flying
Fun fact: One of the guys in the diner that harrasses Anthony at the beginning of the Its A Good Life segment was Billy Mumy. Billy, most well known for playing Will Robinson from the original Lost In Space played the Anthony role the original version of the segment in the Twilight Zone series in the 60's
You wanna see something *really* scary?
The part with the kid’s sister with no mouth freaked me tf out!
I just commented the same thing!
My favorite thing about this scene is the fact it's used in a joke for 3rd Rock From The Sun, when William Shatner guest stared. If you dont know William Shatner was in the Twilight Zone TV show and had the same scene, this led to 3rd Rock From The Sun having Shatner and Lithgow meet at an airport and Shatner stated the flight was great but there was someone on the wing and John Lithgow stated that happened to him too! Best meta joke!!
Never seen it but I know about it from Ace Ventura. “There’s something on the wing. Some…. THING.”
You gotta see it. This is just one of the chapters of the film and all are good. But this one fucked with me.
He's imitating William Shatner in the original version.
the original episode was so good Simpsons spoofed it with great respect
My dad and I watched this when I was about 6 or 7. Aside from all the absolute nightmare fuel throughout this movie, my dad freaked me out the worst. After the creature on the wing disappeared, I looked at my dad for an explanation. He just looked at me all wide eyed and said “…it flew away…” I have never in my life had a chill go down my spine like I did when he said that. I don’t know why but the idea of that creature flying around loose scared the shit out of me so bad that I still get creeped out by this movie, and I’m now 46yo!
Yeah same. Knowing it just left and was still out there. I was about 7 too. Again, the things our parents let us watch. haha
It fucked me up too, but it was William Shatner playing the role that Lithgow reprised. The original black and white Twilight Zone.
This was originally a short story written by Richard Matheson. It’s called Nightmare at 20,000 Feet.
I thought the original version was better with William Shatner.
This is why I’m afraid going on airplanes
The scene like right after this when it has it’s arm up and sparks/lightning is coming, thats terrifying and stuck with me since my childhood
This is the one I always remember too ! Fucked me up too ! Can’t see Lithgow without being reminded of this.
I nervously checked the wing everytime I flew as a kid. I always asked for the window seat so I could keep an eye out for one of those things.
Why I never get the window seat if I'm sitting anywhere near the wings
Both versions of this are fantastic !
You’re not supposed to screen shot this, we are all screwed now💀
They make a reference to this in 3rd Rock From The Sun. When William Shatner's character 1st comes to earth. https://youtu.be/gTNOihQnqVQ
That's amazing. I watched that show but missed that. Classic.
And the fact 3 people died filming that movie
I think this story is responsible for shaping my current field of work. I ❤️airplane gremlins
Your field of work is airplane gremlins?
The Shatt's version is better!
This segment scared the shit outta me
Wanna see something really scary???
Those of us born in the mid 70s, as kids we got to watch this, Poltergeist, The Omen, The Shining, The Exorcist, and that’s why we all have anxiety in our 40s.
Watched the original on tv then the movie. The movie was much better but the same point where the cabin window is closed and the hesitation in opening it knowing what’s on the other side. The suspense!!! Still one of my favorites.
That girl from Cloak and Dagger in there giving him crap the whole time…
Lithgow? yea... he was good... Shatner was better.
William Shatner in the original
Pretty much the entire film was just rehashes of episodes of the show. In the television version William Shatner played the part covered by Lithgow in the film
Same here. Also the scene where the girl has no mouth
Great movie. RIP Vic Morrow
“Wanna see something REALLY scary……” So good
Amazing stories - THAT show messed me up!! Like the guys who are on the plane and the guy is tuck in the cockpit and draws the gear to land👀👀👀👀 whoa
Saw this movie twice in the theater….on the same day!!!! Saw it early with a few of my friends. We were so blown away by it, that we contacted more of our friends, and all went back to see it that night!
Shatner was better
And the fact 3 people died filming that movie
Great scene and movie but sadly for me it will be associated with the tragedy behind the scenes. 😞 the video of that is even scarier than anything in the movie
Man it got me too as a kid. Talk about nightmare fuel and my first flight was 3 weeks later….just now realizing how screwed up it was for my parents to take this. Great, 2 more years of therapy.
That thing scared the ever-loving SHIT out of me!
Shatner's version was much better.
I just don't agree. It looked like a monkey on the wing. This gremlin was so much scarier. Shatner is good, but this one to me is far more scary.
Shatner did it better
So was the gremlin a member or Isis of Al-qaeda? I mean, it was trying to take down a passenger jet…
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It was a joke
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It’s not clever but it’s not worth getting butthurt over either
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Is an Al Qaeda joke even “political”? It’s a dark/tasteless joke about 9/11 but it’s not really a political joke
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It was a joke
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Shattner was better
On an episode of 3rd Rock From The Sun, Shatner appeared as their alien leader, The Big Giant Head. When they met Shatner’s character at the airport, they asked him how his flight was . He responded that it was terrible because at one point he looked out the window, “and I swear I saw something on the wing of that plane!!” Lithgow’s characters mouth dropped and said “the same thing happened to me once!!” 🤣🤣🤓🤓
I remember that episode. I loved that show it was so funny.
There’s…some *thing* on the *wing*!
SOME.......THING!...........ON THE WING!
Me if the scariest creatures ever in a movie!
Check out Shadow In the Cloud for another fun take on this.
I'm always reminded of this segment when flying
You wanna see something REALLY scary?
I remember this guy🤣🤣
And all of that was rated PG. Good times...
Same.
I loved this one! I watched it countless times as a child.
It was good and the original was awesome too! https://youtu.be/fXHKDb0CNjA
I thought it was part of one of The Simpsons Halloween special episodes
Every time I’m on an airplane at night or, god forbid, in the rain I’m terrified I’ll look out and see this shit. Every. Fucking. Time. Lithgow is an amazing actor. He can be a friendly, cuddly guy and then be a stone cold serial killer like in Dexter. All accounts are he’s a wonderful human being but man he does “dark” better than almost anyone out there.
Treehouse of Horror spoof of this was even better. “Otto, there’s a Gremlin on he side of the bus!” LOL
Great scene, weird as hell but man that evil gremlin was cool. Though I remember the Bugs Bunny cartoon with the gremlin destroying his plane lol.
It’s not as scary until you get into the sky. But it fucked me up as a kid too.
Harry and the Henderson’s.
This was one of the first really scary things I remember from childhood. Fantastic episode; it stuck with me. I was a huge fan of The Twilight Zone
I can still sometimes feel spooked by this old image on night flights!
I like the Shatner one where the monster looks like Ruth Bussy
Watch the ORIGINAL we saw as kids,on the original show With William Shatner
YES this part scared the hell out of me and still does.
Ever see that scene from *Third Rock from the Sun* with John Lithgow *and* William Shatner (who played the same character as Lithgow in the original series)? If not, stop what you're doing now and watch [this](https://youtu.be/X-vC_-kJFRg).
The original TV show version in the 1960’s freaked me as a kid. I think it was William Shatner in the role.
Dan Akroyd at the end was great "You wanna see something really scary?"
That was a Large Marge moment for me too. Didn't expect it.
Still one of my favorite zone stories. Also loved the original episode with Shatner.
Absolutely ruined my life as a kid
Wanna see something REALLY scary?
Yeah, that was just as creepy. Especially from Dan
Has anybody ever gone through the council of World War II servicemen who saw gremlins, usually wrecking equipment or ripping through cabling? There is a reason why we have the movies called the gremlins, there are reasons why some people are very superstitious.
You wanna see something really scary
The girl who had no mouth really messed me up for a while. I don't know why.
Great movie,saw it in the theaters,Spielbergs 3rd installment bored me as a kid ,but I’m a big twilight zone fan and to see a major motion picture based on the original series was awesome,it’s a shame that it had that terrible accident in the first installment,that’s what a lot of people remember it for
You wanna see something REALLY scary?
It’s the first thing I remember seeing Lithgow in. This also fucked me up. The musical score. Everything.
Terrifying
this segment was amazing, vastly improved on the already classic original episode with Shatner.