23. SURVIVORS?: If anything walks away from a plane crash, the chances of it being healthy are pretty slim.

Directed and written by Tom Holland and based on the novella by Stephen King, this first aired on May 14 and 15, 1995 on ABC. Richard P. Rubinstein produced through his company Laurel Entertainment and King mainly stayed hands-off.

The effects for The Langoliers were provided by Image Design and you know, when King wrote beach balls with teeth, he may not have been thinking of a movie being made of his story.

On a red-eye flight from Los Angeles to Boston,pilot Brian Engle (David Morse), MI6 agent Nick Hopewell (Mark Lindsay Chapman). schoolteacher Laurel Stevenson (Patricia Wettig), tool and die worker Don Gaffney (Frankie Faison), violinist Albert Kaussner (Christopher Collet), Bethany Sims (Kimber Riddle), mystery author Bob Jenkins (Dean Stockwell), blind Dinah Bellman (Kate Maberly), businessman Rudy Warwick, (Baxter Harris) and bond trader Craig Toomy (Bronson Pinchot) wake up alone no pilots, no crew. Craig has a mental breakdown and Dinah — a telepath because she’s blind, you know how it works, enters his mond.

They land in Bangor and no one is there either. That’s when Craig tells them that the Langoliers are monsters that eat lazy children. Yes, beach balls that snack on kids, how do you do it U of M grad Steve King?

According to IMDB: “The Langoliers themselves were originally going to be portrayed by puppets, but were replaced with CGI instead. Unfortunately, the poorly rendered and animated monsters ended up looking laughably hokey, and are regarded as some of the worst CGI effects ever.”

Oh man are they ever.

Anyways, this was always considered a mess — at least by me — until I saw the remix of the film, Timekeepers of Eternity. Made with cut paper, it really works, remixing this film into something that is exciting and different.