Amazing re-mastered HD trailer of the original 1982 Poltergeist, which very much referenced the “Little Girl Lost” episode from the original TZ. (OK well, except for the parts with the giant killer tree, murderous clown doll and zombies rising from underground lol.).
https://youtu.be/sCi3t3vMwrY
Actually (IMHO) this film evoked Serling’s original Zone series far more than any other incarnation/remake/imitator. (Including the TZ anthology film that came out one year later.).
The terror, wonder, and overall visceral EMOTION of Serling’s best eps (so many of them had a cinematic quality, yeah, even the ones shot on video) is so plainly all there. The building psychological horror of the Tree/Clown doll/rancid meat sequences very much echo Serling’s scariest moments. The medium Tangina’s mystical, incredibly moving “Now let’s go get your daughter” monologue is equal to any of Serling’s beautiful/terrifying prose in episodes like, “Eye of the Beholder”, “Walking Distance” and “When the Sky was opened.” (Makes sense since Serling gave Steven Spielberg, who I guess you could say, “ghost directed” this film, no pun intended, his big break at 26, directing the pilot episode of “Night Gallery,” with Joan Crawford.)
Anyway, just how I feel....I’ve seen a few eps of the 80s Zone remake as well as The Outer Limits from the 1990s, and just never took to either of them. Haven’t seen the newest CBS: All Access version, so I can’t comment on it. To me Rod’s show was just kind of a “lightening-in-a-bottle” type thing.
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Oh, kinda random, but the trailer narrator’s “And the games are over” line is about the most 80s-cinema-commercial type phrase you will ever hear in your entire life. Monstrously cliche, but so epic at the same time. Lol.
You can’t just have your characters announce how they feel! That makes me feel angry!
(Well, ok, not ALL, after all it’s only ten minutes lol.) 
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