The fourth season ending of "Stranger Things" recalled a few classic scenes. A crack split the ground as Max, the final sacrifice of Big Bad Vecna, died for a few minutes (don't worry — it was only a few minutes), giving the monstrous Upside Down the opening it needed. Pulsing with red fire, most of the town mistook the widening doorway of another dimension for a more natural disaster.
That instantly brought me back to a beloved film, one of those relics from childhood that was so difficult to find as an adult, and as no one else seemed to remember it, I was almost convinced it never happened: "Timescape," a 1992 film starring Jeff Daniels. (It was renamed for the video release: "Grand Tour: Adventure in Time," which might be part of the issue.) In the film, a town deals with tragedy while a widowed innkeeper and his daughter realize some of their guests are from the future and have come to "observe" the disaster. Spoiler: it's not going to be just one disaster.
