A creaky double bill of previously unproduced fantasy films dug out of the closet of the late Rod Serling, creator of TV's classic sci-fi anthology series that ran from 1959 to 1987. The first, The Theater, is by far the better: funny things happen when Amy Irving goes to the movies after rejecting doctor Gary Cole's offer of marriage. Three stars for this gripping, neatly acted half-hour segment. But only one star for the clichéd and silly hour-long horror outing, Where the Dead Are, set on a creepy island where surgeon Patrick Bergin visits sinister pharmacist Jack Palance. It should have remained in Serling's bottom drawer.


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