The second, hour-long section in “Twilight Zone: Rod Serling’s Misplaced Classics” would not really feel like a “Twilight Zone” episode in any respect. It is obtained a incredible premise, about a health care provider who makes use of a mysterious method to maintain all of the folks in his village alive after they die, however the execution has much more in widespread with a Hammer horror movie than anything. (Then once more, this script was written in 1968 — 4 years after the cancellation of the collection — so although it takes up the majority of this “Twilight Zone” film, it was most likely by no means supposed to be an official a part of the present.)
“The place the Useless Are” stars Patrick Bergin (“Sleeping with the Enemy”) as Dr. Benjamin Ramsey, who investigates a medical thriller shortly after the American Civil Conflict. He has failed to save lots of the lifetime of a person who, as a result of his huge head wound, ought to have died years in the past, and travels to his remoted dwelling city to interview a disgraced doctor, Dr. Jeremy Wheaton (Oscar-winner Jack Palance, “Metropolis Slickers”), who might have the solutions.
Dr. Wheaton tries to cover the reality, however ultimately he confides that he discovered a remedy for loss of life, and has been utilizing it on the townsfolk for a few years. However in return, they lower off his legs and saved him prisoner, as a result of solely he is aware of the key to protecting them alive. Now dying, Wheaton’s final act has been to switch their life-giving drugs with a placebo, and now a horde of rotting zombies has began attacking his home, able to kill Wheaton, his niece, and Dr. Ramsey.
This ultimate section is atmospheric, and Palance chews his many mad scientist monologues with relish, but it surely lacks the irony that comes half and parcel with most “Twilight Zone” episodes. It is a classical horror story, and never a foul one, but it surely simply can not help however really feel misplaced within the franchise.
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