The Best Scooby-Doo Movie Learned A Crucial Lesson From The Twilight Zone [Exclusive] – /Film

Lance Falk, as is the case with most genre creatives, was a big fan of the original “Twilight Zone” series, and infinitely prefers the half-hour version of the series. “That’s the only version that really works because the stories are structured like jokes,” he says. Horror and comedy are often viewed as two sides of the same coin, with setting up a scare reveal structured similarly to that of a hilarious joke. Falk seems to agree as he said:

“When you get to that punchline, you don’t want to have an hour to think about what the punchline means. You want to just be engaged in the story, and when it hits you, it hits you. Some people will get there first, but mainly you won’t. But when they started doing hour ‘Twilight Zones,’ which they even did in the original run, they’re dragged out.”

Falk then pitched the idea of marrying both the old-school Scooby style with something completely new, by incorporating the human-in-a-mask reveal with that of real monsters. “That way, you can actually do things, like you think something is about one part of the story, but it’s really about the other,” he said. “If you play fair with the audience, you don’t give them false clues, but you do kind of lead them down false assumptions.” He viewed this as a way of being able to “have our cake and eat it too,” because not only would the fans be happy, but those working on the film would be allowed to tell a better story.