| Vicshere | 12 Jul 2006 6:35 p.m. PST |
This thing was AWESOME!! It was a kid fantasy (sorta) come true! I loved watching the toy soldiers give the hitman his due (avenging the toy maker). |
| Vicshere | 12 Jul 2006 6:40 p.m. PST |
I really hated watching them get taken out one by one. Overall a great short I thought. |
| Vicshere | 12 Jul 2006 6:53 p.m. PST |
Boy, for a little toy, that commando sure had a pair LOL.. |
| jizbrand | 12 Jul 2006 8:00 p.m. PST |
Reminded me a lot of the old Twilight Zone episode where the woman in the shack was being attacked by alien spacemen (and then it turned out, in the end, that they were USAF astronauts). That was mainly because the whole episode, like the Twilight Zone episode, was done entirely without dialog. |
| battlepack2001 | 12 Jul 2006 9:09 p.m. PST |
what are you guys talking about? Have I missed somethig? |
| Vicshere | 12 Jul 2006 10:02 p.m. PST |
Ya, TNT had a Stephen King show/movie tonight called Dreamscapes and Nightmares. One shortn was calledBattlegroundwhich is what this post is about. Really something for the toy soldier enthusiast :) |
| Lord Hypnogogue | 13 Jul 2006 6:04 a.m. PST |
Did anyone notice the "doll" from "Trilogy of Terror" that got smashed near the end of the story? |
| Doctor Bedlam | 13 Jul 2006 9:47 a.m. PST |
I thought the Zuni Fetish Doll was hilarious… and understandable… considering the guy that wrote the N&D "Battleground" screenplay was the SON of the guy who wrote the "Trilogy Of Terror" screenplay where the Zuni doll tried to kill Karen Black… |
| Mad Dog | 13 Jul 2006 11:07 a.m. PST |
For those that missed it, the "Battleground" episode is being replayed tonight on TNT from 11-midnight eastern time. |
 Panzerfaust  | 13 Jul 2006 10:44 p.m. PST |
I also really enjoyed this show. I seem to remember a "new" Twilight Zone episode in the eighties where little green army men attack a guy. Is this the same story redone? |
| Mad Dog | 14 Jul 2006 1:53 p.m. PST |
Battleground was a short story that Stephen King published in the anthology Night Shift in 1978. My guess is the Twilight Zone episode may have been based off of it. This TV show was for certain, since it's Stephen King's Nightmares and Dreamscapes is the full title of the show, with "Battleground" being the episode name. |
| Xintao | 14 Jul 2006 2:33 p.m. PST |
It's available as a bit torrent download. |
| VonTed | 29 Nov 2006 6:56 a.m. PST |
I'd love to have more clips like this :) link |
| June1815 | 29 Nov 2006 8:31 p.m. PST |
I remember something similiar from the "New Twilight Zone" from the 80's too. It was about a struggling Vietnam vet who wants to send his son to military school and buys him two sets of toy soldiers that eventually come alive. |
| The Lost Soul | 30 Nov 2006 1:49 p.m. PST |
Is this based on the story in which a mobster is posthumously sent a set of armymen by a toy maker he had rubbed out, and after fighting the little guys for quite a while wound up being blown up by an atomic bomb included in the set? |
| Michael G | 17 Apr 2007 10:36 a.m. PST |
The episode that you're recalling isn't from the "New Twilight Zone", but rather from a very obscure (and very short-run) anthology series called "The Darkroom". In this series, host James Coburn sat in a photography darkroom, setting up the details of the story that you were about to see. As he spoke, he was busy moving an undeveloped photo from tray to tray of development chemicals. He would always hang the now-developing photo up on a drying line when he finished, and the audience would watch as the photo slowly became visible. This photo was always of the first scene of the story, and once it became fully visible, it would take motion, and the story would begin. |
