1. The Passenger List
Community Score
| 6.6 Fair |
Jeremy Bell is a transportation official investigating an airplane crash with no survivors. He begins to fear his daughter was on the plane. During the investigation, he is romantically drawn to a woman who's family died aboard the plane. He begins to question his sanity after an increasing number of vivid feelings of deja vu. In the end he discovers that the entire post-crash experience has been some kind of hallucination in the moments before his death: both he and the woman he's involved with are passengers on the plane and it all starts to happen again...
Director: Yves Simoneau
Guest star: Aidan Quinn (Jeremy Bell), Kelly Rutherford (Marilyn Lanier), Paul Guilfoyle (John), Troy Evans (Coroner), Blu Mankuma (Dooley), Carol Alexander (Reporter), Robin Douglas (Paramedic #3), Patricia Drake (Flight Attendant), Emily Holmes (Amanda Bell), Viv Leacock (Paramedic #4), Robert Luft (Paramedic #1), Dion Luther (Reporter #2), Kristina Matisic (Reporter #3), Ty Olsson (Paramedic #2), Julie Patzwald (Hallie)
2. The Bokor
Community Score
| 7.0 Good |
Two medical school students practice some bad medicine as they get involved with a deadly voodoo curse.
Director: Keith Gordon
Guest star: Jason London (Richard), Samantha Mathis (Diane), Ben Bass (Paul), Kim Hawthorne (Cheryl), Denis Simpson (the Bokor)
3. Dead Air
Community Score
| 8.0 Great |
A radio shock jock discovers the late-shift is a real killer when a caller's scary story turns into a gruesome reality.
Director: Jefery Levy
Guest star: Lou Diamond Phillips (Tom Fallor), Malcolm Scott (Pizza Boy), Meghan Black (Laura (voice)), Marlowe Kaufmann (Nadine), Ryan Taylor (Boy)
4. Renovation
Community Score
| 5.3 Mediocre |
A man moves his wife and infant son into a house that was the scene of a grisly murder/suicide 30 years before. Will history repeat itself?
Director: Brian Dennehy
Guest star: Gil Bellows (Keith), Kirsten Robek (Arriane), Jon Cuthbert (Dad from Past), Merrilyn Gann (Realtor), Katharine Tobin (Mom from Past)
5. A View Through the Window
Community Score
| 9.5 Superb |
A scientist and Army officer, Major Darnell, is called in to investigate the strange appearance of a lush farm in the middle of a desert. An impenetrable forcefield surrounds the farm, and Darnell soon realizes that while they can see in, the occupants can't see out. Darnell soon determines that the force field periodically opens for brief periods of time. Darnell, going through a divorce after the death of his son, soon becomes attracted to a young woman on the farm. After he disobeys his superiors' orders, Darnell believes has nothing to lose jumps through the field during one of its down periods. He realizes there is indeed something more to lose: the farm family are alien carnivores who feed on human flesh. The elder casts a spell that reverses the field, so that they can see out...and then begins timing the field to see when he and his people can escape into "our" world.
Director: Bill Pullman
Guest star: Bill Pullman (Ben Darnell), Carl Lumbly (Danny Holman), Don Wallace (Prairie Grandpa), Emily Holmes (Belinda (Prairie Mother)), Carin Moffat (Elise Darnell), Todd Talbot (Private Rasky), Sean Campbell (Sgt. Gibson), Michael David Simms (General Briggs), Ryan Hale (Ben's Son), Hanna Ballard (Prairie Girl), Calum Worthy (Prairie Boy), Karen Austin (Prairie Grandma)
6. Quiet, Please
Community Score
| 7.4 Good |
Wanting to escape the maddening noises of the city and reports of a serial killer, Gerald retreats to the wilderness for some R&R, only to find himself being stalked by an unruly camper, Ben. Ben and his dog constantly annoy Gerald, following him even when he tries to get away from them. Unfortunately, Ben soon discovers that Gerald is the serial killer from the city, and meets a grisly end.
7. Now He's Coming Up the Stairs
Community Score
| 7.6 Good |
Michael Sears is a psychiatrist blessed and cursed with the unique ability of absorbing patients' illnesses into himself, although the personal cost is staggering: he takes on an anorexic girl's illness and has to deal with her visions of maggot-ridden food while eating. Worse, it takes him longer to purge the effects each time. Going on a vacation, Sears is besieged by a desperate mother with a catatonic boy who can only chant "Now he's coming up the stairs" after seeing his mother hit a pedestrian. The boy emerges from the coma temporarily, but Sears undergoes a series of hallucinatory relapses which eventually leaves him trapped in psychosis.
Director: Nick Gomez
Guest star: Luke Perry (Dr. Michael Sears), Allison Hossack (Carol Thorpe), Rita Bozi (Maid), Sam MacMillan (Bellman), Donna Yamamoto (Dr. Taverin), Hrothgar Mathews (Dr. Palmquist), Shauna Kain (Melissa Bellinger), Mark Schooley (Eli Bellinger), Nancy Sivak (Margory Bollinger), Bryce Hodgson (Mark)
8. Used Car
Community Score
| 7.1 Good |
Charlotte insists her doctor-husband Jack buy her a used car, but when she takes it out for a spin she comes to believe it is possessed by the vengeful spirit of a young woman, Lucy Sykes, and attempts to uncover the truth about the spectre's untimely demise. It turns out Lucy killed herself in the used car after she found out she was pergnant after having an affair with Jack. She takes off after confronting Jack over the affair and sees visions of Lucy telling her husband to kill his wife. Then she's trapped in the car as fumes pour out of the vent and Lucy attacks. Back at home, the car comes back and Jack opens it to find...Charlotte, her throat cut and a message on the window from Lucy saying they'll be together someday.
Director: Michael W. Watkins
Guest star: Sherilyn Fenn (Charlotte), Hart Bochner (Jack), Steve Makaj (Gordon Sykes), Jenn Bird (Lucy Sykes), Jacqueline Samuda (Melissa)
9. Rest Stop
First aired: 8/2/2001 Production Code: 226518Two young couples pick up a hitchhiker, Andy, who claims his pick-up truck blew out. They stop at a road-side rest stop where some odd types ("craftys") are running a swap meet of souveneirs. When they come out the car, the craftys have disappeared and the couples' cell phones don't work. Slowly everyone starts disappearing, or showing up in comas and then disappearing, until only Sara, the main girl, is left. She finds a passageway beneath the rest stop and follows it to find her comatose friends who are all being kept by...Andy and his friends, who are all outsiders who collect travellers to make relics out of skin and hair.
Director: Yves Simoneau
Guest star: Jerry O'Connell (Andy), Amy Jo Johnson (Sarah), Catherine Barroll (Woman Shopper), David Kopp (Chuck), Jo Ann Mac Donald (Crafty #1), Katharine Isabelle (Vicki), Mark Hildreth (Tim), Joshua Hamlin (Crafty #2), Emmalee Fiddy (Crafty #3)
10. After Life
Community Score
| 6.9 Fair |
At the funeral of family man Michael Doyle, he pops out of his own coffin to the shock of his wife and daughter. The doctor is unable to explain how he came back but he's perfect healthy - but not particularly happy to be back. Doyle is now obsessed with death, seeing it in everyone and everything and tasting nothing but dirt. He soon realizes he was in a glorious brightly-lit Heaven and is now trapped in "life". Then he realizes he has been sent back to bring his daughter with him to Heaven by killing her. The mother intervenes at the last second and Michael kills himself...and we realize the image of Heaven he saw was a stained glass window above his coffin at the funeral parlor.
Director: Jefery Levy
Guest star: Randy Quaid (Michael Doyle), Susan Gibney (Natalie Doyle), Terence Kelly (Pastor James), Alison Matthews (Dr. Martina Tyler), Eric Schneider (Mr. Rupert), Andy Thompson (Frank), Meghan Black (Kaitlin Doyle)
11. If a Tree Falls...
First aired: 8/9/2001 Production Code: 226503After their car crashes off an embankment, killing them, three college students race to bury their bodies, theorizing that since no one saw them die, they are not really dead, as long as no one finds out about the crash or sees their bodies. One of them, a religious believer named Devin, can't accept the miracle of their rebirth. After almost blurting out the secret in confession and endangering their existence, he decides to end it for himself by going back to the lake and freeing his body from the wreck. He only manages to accidentally free the corpses of the other two, which are found by a fisherman. As he looks on in horror his friends disappear as his own body goes down forever in the car, leaving him to carry on by himself.
Director: Po-Chih Leong
Guest star: Natasha Lyonne (Bethany), Art Kitching (Seth), Jonathan Jackson (Devin Murrany), Ed Evanko (Father Mulvaney), Scott Nicholson (Pick-up Truck Driver), Keith Provost (Officer Hutchkiss), Erica Carroll (Student), Frederick Pleasure II (Fisherman)
12. The Occupant
Community Score
| 7.9 Good |
When things in her house are continuously out of place when she returns home from her night job, divorcee Janet becomes alarmed. She suspects someone is living in her house while she's at work. Devising a trap to snag the occupant, Janet stays home from work one night to see if anyone tries to break in. Her nightmare begins when someone does. The police tell her to wait in the closet which she does and when they arrive...they take her into custody. It turns out she is the intruder, and the woman who really lives in the house, which she purchased from Janet's ex-husband. Even as she is taken away, Janet believes that she is the sane one.
Director: Joe Dante
Guest star: Bridget Fonda (Janet), Anthony Harrison (Officer Thatcher), Dion Luther (Eugene), Russell Roberts (Jeweller), Chris Kelly (Officer Hoarns), Jessica Sloan (Waitress), Johannah Newmarch (Flight Attendant)
13. Reunion
Community Score
| 5.1 Mediocre |
A Persian Gulf veteran, Lt. Stillman, is under medication. On the 10th anniversary of his battle in the Gulf, during a veterans' parade, he begins to have hallucinations and flashbacks to his time during the War, where he was tortured but refused to break and won a medal. Stillman finally has his reunion with the men of his company, only to slowly realize that they died when he abandoned them. He was never tortured, but instead remembered someone else who was tortured in his place. He broke down easily and gave away the location of his men. Confronted with the truth, a shot rings out and Stillman falls down dead...but there's no gun to be found.
Director: Thomas J. Wright
Guest star: M. Emmet Walsh (Gus), Jay Mohr (Lt. Dale Stillman), Ron Canada (Wally), Jane Sowerby (Clair), Chuma Hunter-Gault (Jimmy), Kavan Smith (Dante), Aaron Pearl (Sam), Zoran (Yosef), Bryan Leslie (Mayor)
14. Neighborhood Watch
Community Score
| 7.5 Good |
A happy suburban community begins to panic when they are notified that their new neighbor is a child molester who has served his time and been released back into the world. After his daughter has several near-incidents with the man, Jim Osgood realizes he has to do something. He shoots the child molester and his neighbors readily provide an alibi for him. Unfortunately, the next day they receive a letter telling them that the first one was a mistake, and the man he killed was innocent.
Director: Bryan Spicer
Guest star: David Paymer (Jim Osgoode), Valerie Mahaffey (Sally Osgoode), Peter Kent (Ed Neville), Lauren Diewold (Ashley), Britt McKillip (Kyra Martindelli), Don Thompson (Detective), David Millbern (Alan), Malcolm Stewart (Officer), Ray Galletti (Steve Thorne), Suzin Schiff (Maureen Martindelli), Lurene Music (Olivia Thorne)
15. Bitter Harvest
Community Score
| 6.2 Fair |
On a small Midwestern farm, a young boy, Shane, trespasses on his reclusive neighbor Jenning's farm and accidentally causes an accident where Jennings loses both arms. Jennings, rumored to be the son of a witch, insists that Shane work for him, and soon begins a game of cat-and-mouse with the boy whom he knows was responsible for the accident. In the end, Jennings seemingly lets Shane off scott free, saying that turning him in would have accomplished nothing. However, Shane's newborn foal lacks arms and legs...and as a grinning Jennings looks on, Shane discovers that his mother is expecting.
Director: Philip Sgriccia
Guest star: Jack Palance (Jennings), Brendan Fletcher (Shane Watkins), Mark Houghton (Cal), Jane Perry (Joanie), Chris Lovick (Bucky), Ryan McDonald (Jared)
16. My So Called Life & Death
Community Score
| 8.2 Great |
Julia is on vacation with her family, whom she can't stand. She develops a crush on a local handyman, only to realize that he can't see or hear or touch her. Apparently he's a ghost. Still, he's better then her family. Her efforts to contact him scare the poor guy, and Julia soon realizes that she and her family are the ones who died in a fire caused by her bratty brother. Still, her mother insists that they are not ghosts, and Julia accepts the illusion rather then face the pain of final death.
Director: Ernest Dickerson
Guest star: Marla Sokoloff (Julia), Wanda Cannon (Mother), Steve Bacic (Handyman), William Pavey (Brian), Kurt Max Runte (Father)
17. The Doghouse
Community Score
| 5.9 Mediocre |
Barry is being beat up by a loan shark who wants money Barry loaned to a friend. Badly injured, Barry escapes with the aid of a passing veterinarian nurse, Amanda. Taken into her home, Barry is introduced to Amanda's two dogs, who quickly and efficiently kill the loan shark when he shows up. Realizing something is amiss, Barry is unable to escape and is soon captured and locked up "for training" in the basement, where he discovers he's not the first stray to be taken in by Amanda.
Director: JoBeth Williams
Guest star: Bill Croft (Christopher), Lucan (Max), Tazes (Vlad), Stephen Baldwin (Barry), Jane Adams (Amanda)
18. Still Life
Community Score
| 7.8 Good |
A wife and mother with an idyllic home life, Kate Morris' day begins on a horrific note when she is attacked by a purse snatcher. The incident is followed by a series of stranger ones, as two other random strangers attack and try to kill her. As they close in on her, she wakes up to realize that she is a woman convicted of murder for shooting an abusive husband who has been in a coma. The prison staff around her are the people in her coma-dream, and her husband is in real-life the warden. Desperate to "escape", she manages to give herself an overdose and return to her coma, and back into the happy fantasy life she created for herself.
Director: Ernest Dickerson
Guest star: Mare Winningham (Kate Morris), Peter Wingfield (David Morris), Kirsten Prout (Wendy Morris), Taras Kostyuk (Man in Blue), Brian Jensen (Man in White), Anaya Farrell (Lady in Green), Deryl Hayes (Officer Barnes), Michelle Hart (Jenny)
19. Hate Puppet
First aired: 9/6/2001 Production Code: 226516A young man, Andy Harris, spills coffee on a angry bearded man who seems to curse him. Soon everyone around Harris inexplicably bursts out into hatred against him. Harris then discovers that his recent life parallels that of a character in a book written by a famed horror writer. Harris confronts the writer but kills himself when he realizes there's no escape. The writer then finds himself trapped in someone else's story.
Director: Thomas J. Wright
Guest star: Chad Lowe (Andrew 'Andy' Harris), William Atherton (William Price), Helene Joy (Linda), Torquil Campbell (Greg Harris), Monica Hamburg (Waitress), Michael Kopsa (Bob Jenkins), Kim Kondrashoff (Foreman), Kwesi Ameyaw (Uniform Cop), Norma Wick (Interviewer), Ty Olsson (Bartender), Vitaly Kravchenko (Bearded Man)
20. Darkness
Community Score
| 5.8 Mediocre |
A working class stiff, Harlow Winton, discovers he had a family and fortune he never knew when he inherits a manor from a rich dead uncle, Lucius. He soon discovers that his uncle built the family fortune on the backs of the local town, many who died in the coal mines. Harlow soon discovers that the manor is haunted by shadows that killed his uncle, and anything else they find in the house. His uncle lit every room in the house to avoid them, but they eventually caught him. Harlow doesn't want to give up his newfound wealth, and soon discovers that the shadows can be destroyed by a burst of light and manages to wipe them all out. Unfortunately, he blinds himself in the process, condemning himself to eternal darkness.
Director: Ian Toynton
Guest star: Michael Rapaport (Harlow Winton), Ken Pogue (Henry Matson), Marilyn Norry (Mrs. Bennett), Lindsay Clague (Maid), Arthur Corber (Exterminator), Anthony Ulc (Electrician), David Mackay (Mailroom Clerk), Francis Boyle (Workman #2)
21. The Maze
Community Score
| 7.2 Good |
A young college student and loner named Susan rejects a date offer from a boy, Wes, then ducks into a campus garden maze to avoid him later. She wanders out of the maze and finds everyone has disappeared. She wanders through the campus and finds a music teacher giving classes to dead students, and a cook who has killed himself. She wanders into the library and finds Wes, who claims it's two years later, the world is about to be hit by a meteoroid, and that most people went into hiding. The few that are left are nuts. He gets stabbed by the crazed professor and Susan realizes that she must go back through the maze to get back to her own time. The injured Wes can't make it but she does, and decides to get together with "her" Wes before time runs out.
Director: Tobe Hooper
Guest star: Amanda Plummer (Music Professor), Luke Edwards (Wes), Thora Birch (Susan Thornhill), Chiara Zanni (Gail)
22. Harmony
Community Score
| 5.3 Mediocre |
A mother kills her son when he puts on a Discman. Later, a young man named Eli arrives in the same small town of Harmony when his car breaks down. Everyone is friendly enough, including a young woman named Lucinda and her brother. However, music is strictly banned. Eli soon realizes that the townsfolk believe in a "Beast" that they think is awakened by music. He protects Lucinda's brother Tim when he's caught with a CD and insists the townspeople are misguided. He sings and nothing happens, inspiring the others. Unfortunately, then the "Beast" really does come.
Director: Paul Shapiro
Guest star: Timothy Olyphant (Eli West), Tracy Middendorf (Lucinda), Shirley Knight (Mrs. Finch), Chilton Crane (Mrs. Hartford), Michael Hogan (Larry), James Kirk (Tim), Mitchell Kosterman (Sheriff), Justin Chatwin (Pete)
23. Cargo
Community Score
| 7.4 Good |
Ailing Eastern European/Russian immigrants being smuggled on a cargo ship see one of their comrades slaughtered in a bloody fashion while other old and weak ones are missing. Cargo officer Mark Stevens (who isn't in on the smuggling) overhears them and investigates. The immigrants contact him and ask for his help in getting them out but the captain obliquely warns him off, while the killer takes the remaining immigrants. Stevens cuts open the cargo container and the officer in charge of the smuggling attacks him before the captain intervenes. They reveal that the immigrants are supernatural killer-beasts (blokosatch sic) that prey among themselves if the trip runs too long, and feed Stevens to the creatures.
Guest star: Jamie Kennedy (Mark Stevens), Philip Baker Hall (Capt. Dennis Brascom), John Cuthbert (Taforner), Micah Gardener (Nikolai), Asja Pavlovic (Miriam), Vladimir Moskovshenko (Lookout), Joanna Pacula (Head Immigrant)
24. Switch
Community Score
| 6.3 Fair |
Sydney, a woman with multiple personality disorder, seeks help from a psychiatrist to uncover the shocking childhood event that led to her psychosis. We find that via hypnosis Sydney is slowly confronting various aspects of her personality, including some driving her to suicide. But after her next session one of her violent personalities takes control to attack a local gang of tormentors. The "real" Sydney wanders through the rooms within her head and eventually faces herself as a child where we find out Sydney is just another personality, and the "real" Sydney killed her parents and let her father took the blame...or something like that.
Director: Jefery Levy
Guest star: Pam Grier (Dr. Lewis), James Hutson (Tim), Cameron Gilley (Charles), Allie Mickelson (Sharon), Shylo Sharity (Little Girl), Brent Glenen (Teenager #1), Kyle Labine (Teenager #2), Justin Stillwell (Teenager #3), Natasha Gregson Wagner (Sydney)
25. Patterns
Community Score
| 8.3 Great |
Martin is brought into a mental hospital because of attacking a pedestrian where he is examined by Dr. Chritchley. Martin is an obsessive-compulsive who sees patterns and acts them out. He claims his patterns hold everything together: keeping ties the same color and planes in the air. In short, he has a contract with God. Chritchley doesn't believe him and drugs him, and strange things start to happen. People kill themselves, fish drop out of the sky, and firemen start fires. Chritchley insists Martin teach him the patterns which he does, telling the doctor that now he has the contract.
Director: Keith Gordon
Guest star: Malcolm McDowell (Martin), Miguel Ferrer (Dr. Dan Chritchley), John B. Lowe (Mr. Brand), Anna Hagan (Ann), John Dadey (Officer Danforth), Matthew Munn (Young Martin), Giacomo Baessato (Billy), Terry Howson (Charlie)
26. Voices
Community Score
| 4.4 Poor |
Sandra, a court sketch artist deaf from birth, undergoes an experimental surgery designed to restore her hearing. Nothing apparently happens, but when in court she begins to hear a man's voice in her head. She soon realizes the voice is coming from a crooked police detective, Malone, who framed the person on trial and stole the drug money. No one believes her but he soon realizes she knows of his crime and when she goes to find the money he hid in a bus as evidence, he finds her. He captures Sandra but she can see it all stems from his blaming himself for his brother's death as a child and he spares her and turns himself in when she reminds him of what he lost.
Director: Ian Toynton
Guest star: Lombardo Boyar (Perez), Terrylene (Sandra McClinnon), John Finn (Bruce Malone), Gillian Barber (Dr. Bonnie Talbott), Lorena Gale (D.A. Clarkson), Cory Dagg (Public Defender), Jerry Walliser (Baliff), Sam Boniface (Young Bruce Malone), Don House (Cop), John Moore (Judge), Cameron Bright (Young Tim Malone)
TV Movie. Shadow Realm
Community Score
| 5.4 Mediocre |
SciFi Channel movie-compilation of Night Vision episodes: Patterns, The Maze, Harmony, and Voices (appearing in that order). For complete synopses, see the listings for those individual episodes.
Director: Keith Gordon, Paul Shapiro, Ian Toynton
Guest star: Malcolm McDowell (Martin), Miguel Ferrer (Dr. Dan Critchley), Amanda Plummer (Musical Professor), Timothy Olyphant (Eli), Luke Edwards (Wes), John B. Lowe (Mr. Brand), John Finn (Malone), Terrylene (Sarah McClinnon), Shirley Knight (Miss Finch), Mitchell Kosterman (Sheriff)
