This looked like something intriguing to me. Clearly vibes of the Twilight Zone. And from the moment the first story started, it felt that way. Black and white filming, yet vibrant.

The video is a total of 6 stories. The first one up is titled Time Train. We see a man boarding a train, his ticket is punched with a date of 1962 clearly displayed. He has some minor interactions with the other two passengers in the car, one of whom is a woman with a newspaper dated 1958. Then he inexplicably heads for the back of the car, opens the door exposing himself to the elements. We see there is no other car. He seems a bit scared, then he jumps… And lands in the aisle next to the woman reading the newspaper. She simply looks at him like a parent whose child did something they had been told not to do. Perplexed, he returns to his seat. A new passenger arrives, clearly from the 80’s based on the way he is dressed… And the episode ends. This felt like it was barely 5 minutes. I liked the overall feel of it, but it felt like it ended before the story happened.

Next up we have Mr. Thompson. A story that starts with a partially off screen car crash. Luckily  he crashed right next to a mechanic shop. He goes in looking for help. Trying to find someone to talk to, but the place is empty. He wanders about, finding relics of recent human presence, but no actual people. At this point, I had great feelings akin to the movie series Reeker. Felt like he died and was trying to figure things out. Then we get a sudden appearance from a pretty young blonde lady who keeps conversation cryptic. Up until the point he runs outside and looks at his car, seeing his dead body inside. I really enjoyed this one as it felt dead on with Twilight Zone style. Again, though, it was about 5 minutes long.

Next up was Reboot. I’m going to simply put my notes as I wrote them while watching: “small gathering of people… everyone gets raises…. Plane crashes…. Reboot gun…” That perfectly explains as much as it explained. Again, it felt like a fragment of a story and ended without going anywhere. This one felt like only 3 minutes long! And I had the thought run through my head that the opening and end credits might have had a longer amount of screen time, much like Bambi vs Godzilla.

The fourth (of 6) is called The Life I Never Had. Which starts with two homeless people on a porch. One finds a book with the cover title of the episode. He flips through the book until he gets about halfway and finds blank pages. Suddenly the blank page begins filling with words and transports the guy back to 1883 where he is instantly in a gunfight with a cowboy and shot in the chest. Popping back to the porch, bleeding and confused. The other guy wakes up, has a heart attack, becomes a zombie, is killed by the dying dude with a bottle… Then our pretty Lady Death and Mr Thompson show up to escort him away. So much potential… And yet it was all left unexplored. He should have wandered in the 1883 period and offended the cowboy that shot him. Give him a reason! 

Then we have First Date. With a mannequin. Ok, we don’t know that at first. Just a couple on a date and when he gets her home and leaves the room, she turns into a mannequin and he panics. Then turns back human and he decides he’s horny and wants to get it on with her. Then she turns back into a mannequin. And that’s all. Well under 5 minutes.

We end with O Shit. Where a man appears to have survived a plane crash. He had a handcuff on that we discover had been attached to a briefcase, that he conveniently finds. Then someone starts shooting at him. The sniper is an alien. 

Ok. First off, I didn’t realize this whole thing had a run time of 42ish minutes. After watching it, I would say that about 10 minutes of it was running credits! So 6 stories in about 30 minutes is just not giving them room to breathe. Which is unfortunate. Because this was pretty interesting. It simply never gets off the ground. Never manages to explore the ideas it starts.

The idea of this and the concepts it explores I give a solid 10 to. It is one of the better attempts at Twilight Zone style storytelling. But it fails to deliver on any of that potential. In the end, I have to give this a very meh rating of 5. I don’t want to go too low, because it tried and managed to deliver… a bit.