The Button Button Box

The other night I was watching TV and found myself intrigued by the preview for the new movie The Box

I sat there for a minute with this weird case of deja vu.  The idea looks cool but reaked of a 1980s Stephen King movie to me.  My first thought was, I wrote a short story that had a similar premise.  But that thought quickly left me…I was a kid in the 80’s.  I read a lot of Stephen King in the 80’s.  I knew I was on the right track.

That’s when it hit me.

The new Twilight Zone series which was shortly lived in the 80’s had an episode called “Button, Button”

Blatant ripoff?  Or did they decide to resurrect this idea and make it a movie?

-Update-

Upon further research, I found info on Wikipedia that suggests the movie is based on the short story that The Twilight Zone episode was based on.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Button,_Button_(The_Twilight_Zone)

So I guess….it’s not a blatant ripoff….

~ by Aaron on October 14, 2009.