Attached Link: Roger Ebert "The Box" movie review

> Quote - > > ...which reminds me - "V" the movie rips off the original TV series. "The Box" directly rips off an old Twilight Zone ('80s, not '60's) episode. When the frig are writers and producers going to come up with something, you know, ORIGINAL!? 

"The Box" movie and the Twilight Zone (80s) TV episode were based on a Richard Matheson short story originally published by Playboy in 1970.  He was the writer responsible for some of the better episodes of the original Twilight Zone that Rod Serling hadn't written.