Will Twilight

A character from the TV series The Twilight Zone (1984), called "Elevator"

The segment was written by Ray Bradbury, making it one of just two segments of the series (the other one being "Button, Button") to be written by a writer for the original The Twilight Zone. Bradbury wrote the original series episode "I Sing the Body Electric".

Late at night, brothers Will and Roger arrive at a closed factory in search of their missing father, who is undertaking secret experiments to solve world hunger. Though Roger is skeptical of his father, Will defends his experiments.

Upon entering the building, they use flashlights to follow a set of footprints in the dust to a room that Will was warned never to enter. Going inside, they find a trail of gigantic dead rats. These are followed by the bodies of a domestic cat and a dog, both also of enormous size. Roger believes that whatever food their father created must have increased the size of the animals. Will sees a mass of strands in one corner that apparently are pure protein.

Concluding that something even larger killed the cat and the dog, Will and Roger follow the footsteps to an old elevator. Roger thinks that the elevator is broken, but Will pushes the button again and they hear it moving. When it reaches the ground, they realize it is not the elevator but a huge spider, explaining the strands, which are actually webbing. The spider snatches the brothers and consumes them.

At the moment, Will wakes up alone in an abandoned building, without his brother and seemingly alone with a giant spider (who likes to ride an elevator...). Will knows that there is something scary here, but at the same time he can't just leave here, because his brother is here somewhere. Roger is nowhere to be found, so Will searches for him, all the while catching panic attacks when he remembers their first journey through the laboratory shown in the series