History Film / TwilightZoneTheMovie

* ShoutOut: The various television series mentioned during the Driver and the Passenger's game of TV theme tunes are ''Series/TheLoneRanger'', ''Series/PerryMason'', ''The Real [=McCoys=]'', ''Sea Hunt'', ''Series/{{Bonanza}}'', ''Series/Car54WhereAreYou'', ''Series/TheBeverlyHillbillies'', ''Series/GilligansIsland'', ''Magazine/NationalGeographic'' and ''Series/HawaiiFiveO''.

* AndThenWhat: After the elderly people become young they wonder who will take care of them now and what they'll do now that they're kids, so all but Mr. Agee decide to just go back to being old again. The original episode left it more open-ended but we were left to assume the magic only works one-way.

* RealityEnsues: After the elderly people become young they wonder who will take care of them now and what they'll do now that they're kids, so all but Mr. Agee decide to just go back to being old again. The original episode left it more open-ended but we were left to assume the magic only works one-way.

* FingerWag: After John manages to hit the gremlin with a shot, he gives him a FacePalmOfDoom, then wags his finger while [[SlasherSmile grinning malevolently]], before leaping off the plane.

* GracefulLoser: Realizing that its window of opportunity to drop the plane is closed, the gremlin just grins and [[FingerWag wags its finger]] at Valentine before flying away.

* ImmuneToBullets: The Gremlin shrugs off Valentine shooting it with the aforementioned gun.

* StockFootage: ''Bimbo's Initiation'', ''Case of the Missing Hare'', ''Behind the Meat-Ball'', ''The Great Piggy Bank Robbery'', ''Mouse Wreckers'', ''The Power of Thought'', ''It's Hummer Time'', ''Feed the Kitty'' and ''Feline Frame-Up'' are played on the various televisions in Anthony's house. With the exception of ''Bimbo's Initation'', all of them are WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes cartoons.

This film became infamous for a ghastly accident that took the life of Creator/VicMorrow and two child actors named My-Ca Dinh Le and Renee Shin-Yi Chen. The script for "Time Out" called for a scene in which Morrow's character is supposed to be carrying two Vietnamese children across a river to safety during an American bombing raid in Vietnam. Director John Landis was shooting late at night, violating child labor laws, and ignoring the helicopter pilot's concerns about flying so close to the ground and so close to explosive detonations. The cameras rolled anyway, and the explosive charges meant to simulate bombs caused the helicopter to crash, crushing one child under its landing skid and decapitating Morrow and the other child. Landis was later tried and acquitted on charges of involuntary manslaughter. The 2020 documentary series ''Cursed Films'' shows the actual, uncensored footage of the incident and its direct aftermath.

* LightmareFuel / SchmuckBait: "You wanna see something ''really'' scary?"

* AbortedArc: [[FatalMethodActing Vic Morrow's death]] changed the segment's ending from "protagonist goes back to his time learning his lesson" into [[DownerEnding "protagonist goes back to the 1940s and is sent to a concentration camp"]].

* ClosedCircle: Anthony's house, while the town only know that something strange goes on there.

* OneCharacterMultipleLives: Connor is shuttled back and forth in time to live lives as a Jew, black man, and Vietnamese person, during the worst times to be part of their minorities respectively.

* LieToTheBeholder: Bill appears as a Jew in [[UsefulNotes/WorldWarII Nazi-occupied France]], a black man to the UsefulNotes/KuKluxKlan in the [[TheFifties 1950s]] DeepSouth and as a member of the Viet Cong Army to American soldiers during UsefulNotes/TheVietnamWar. He protests that he's not Jewish, white and an American respectively but to no avail.

* SpecialEffectsEvolution: The opening features updated visual effect versions of the fourth and fifth season TitleSequence. For example, the windows doesn't collapse -- instead it explodes outwardly.

* ForTheEvulz: Strongly implied to be the "reason" for the gremlin's attack. When it sees it has a single witness, it starts ''showing off'', just for ''him''.
* GracefulLoser: Realizing that its window of opportunity to drop the plane is closed, the gremlin grins and [[FingerWag wags its finger]] at Valentine before flying away.

* ColorMeBlack: Bill finds himself placed in the fates of various oppressed minorities, first a Jew being chased by the SS in occupied France, then a black man hunted by the UsefukNotes/KuKluxKlan in the 1950s, next a North Vietnamese man facing American troops and ultimately as a German Jew sent off to a concentration camp.

* ActorAllusion: Vic Morrow encountering Nazis in WWII France, [[Series/Combat1962 where did we hear that before]]?
* ColorMeBlack: Bill finds himself placed in the fates of various oppressed minorities, first a Jew being chased by the SS in occupied France, then a black man hunted by the KKK in the 1950s, next a North Vietnamese man facing American troops and ultimately as a German Jew sent off to a concentration camp.

* ActorAllusion: Vic Morrow encountering Nazis in WWII France, [[Series/{{Combat}} where did we hear that before]]?

* StockFootage: The WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes cartoons ''Bimbo's Initiation'', ''Case of the Missing Hare'', ''Behind the Meat-Ball'', ''The Great Piggy Bank Robbery'', ''Mouse Wreckers'', ''The Power of Thought'', ''It's Hummer Time'', ''Feed the Kitty'' and ''Feline Frame-Up'' are played on the various televisions in Anthony's house.

* BittersweetEnding: John saves the plane from being destroyed, but he's hauled away as a crazy person in an ambulance. And unlike the TV episode, in which the protagonist killed the gremlin, ''this'' one is at best mildly inconvenienced and is still flying around up there somewhere. Also, we actually get to see the passengers on the plane discover the damage done to the wing.

This film became infamous for a ghastly accident that took the life of Creator/VicMorrow and two child actors named My-Ca Dinh Le and Renee Shin-Yi Chen. The script for "Time Out" called for a scene in which Morrow's character is supposed to be carrying two Vietnamese children across a river to safety during an American bombing raid in Vietnam. Director John Landis was shooting late at night, violating child labor laws, and ignoring the helicopter pilot's concerns about flying so close to the ground and so close to explosive detonations. The cameras rolled anyway, and the explosive charges meant to simulate bombs caused the helicopter to crash, crushing one child under its landing skid and decapitating Morrow and the other child. Landis was later tried and acquitted on charges of involuntary manslaughter.

* JumpScare: [[spoiler:The segment ends with hitchhiker revealing his NightmareFace to the driver]].

* SpecialEffectsEvolution: The opening features updated visual effect versions of the original title sequence. For example, the windows doesn't collapse -- instead it explodes outwardly.

* AdaptationDeviation: In the [[Recap/TheTwilightZoneS3E86KickTheCan original episode]], it is Charles Whitley, a long-time resident of the Sunnyvale Rest Home, who suggests playing the game of Kick the Can that makes him and the other residents (bar Ben Conroy) young again. All of the formerly elderly people choose to remain young. In the film, the newly arrived resident Mr. Bloom takes the place of Charles. After being children for only a short time, all of the residents except for Mr. Agee ask to become old again. Mrs. Dempsey is upset that she will live out her life without ever meeting her beloved husband Jack. Mrs. Weinstein does not want to go through the pain of losing loved ones all over again. Mr. Mute does not want to have to go through school all over again.

* TheScrooge: Mr. Agee. Like the trope namer, he takes out his loneliness and frustration on his fellow retirees.

* ColorMeBlack: Bill finds himself placed in the fates of various oppressed minorities, first a Jew being chased by the SS in occupied France, then a black man hunted by the KKK in the 1940s, next a North Vietnamese man facing American troops and ultimately as a German Jew sent off to a concentration camp.

* ShoutOut: The various television series mentioned during the Driver and the Passenger's game of TV theme tunes are ''Series/TheLoneRanger'', ''Series/PerryMason'', ''Series/TheRealMcCoys'', ''Series/SeaHunt'', ''Series/{{Bonanza}}'', ''Series/Car54WhereAreYou'', ''Series/TheBeverlyHillbillies'', ''Series/GilligansIsland'', ''Magazine/NationalGeographic'' and ''Series/HawaiiFiveO''.

* RealityEnsues: After the elderly people become young they wonder who will take care of them now and what they'll do now that they're kids, so all but one decide to just go back to being old again. The original episode left it more open-ended but we were left to assume the magic only works one-way.