Night Visions S01E03 A View Through The Window, Quiet Please
Why Science Fiction & Fantasy Stack Exchange recommends it
Science Fiction & Fantasy Stack Exchange answerers link it as the filmed adaptation when identifying a story about a portal to an idyllic, Victorian-looking farm that is based on Bob Leman's short story "Window."
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What it is
A full episode of the 2001 anthology series Night Visions (S01E03) containing two roughly 20-minute stories. "A View Through the Window," directed by and starring Bill Pullman, follows a military scientist investigating a lush farm that appears in a desert, and "Quiet Please," directed by Joe Dante, has a man fleeing a serial killer's city only to be harassed in the woods.
What people said
Cites starpilotsix · 2017-06 · Science Fiction & Fantasy Stack Exchange · on “Story ID, 30+ years old, (Cannibal?) aliens viewed through portal having a picnic”
Pretty sure this is the short story "Window" by Bob Leman. It was adapted into an episode of the short-lived anthology series "Night Visions" as "A View Through The Window." Description courtesy of this review [LINK] : I just re-read the short story “Window” by Bob Leman. It first appeared in The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction in the May 1980 issue. The big problem in the story is caused by an army researcher who is looking into ESP and the effect that specific words have on the environment and on the minds of others… put another way? Magic spells. We don’t see any of the details of this research in the story, just the aftermath of what I’m calling an accident. In Leman’s story, the
Cites LogicDictates · 2022-04 · Science Fiction & Fantasy Stack Exchange · on “Live-action sci-fi show or movie where soldiers discover a portal to an ideal universe that looks Victorian”
This is " A View Through the Window/Quiet Please [LINK] " (2001), S01E03 of the anthology series, Night Visions [LINK] (2001–2002). The episode contains two roughly 20-minute-long stories. The first one, "A View Through the Window" — based on Bob Leman's 1980 short story, " Window [LINK] " — is the one you're looking for. A lonely scientist is called in by the military to analyze the barrier that surrounds a mysterious idyllic family farm in the middle of a desert. The US Army has discovered a mysterious patch of countryside with a farmhouse on it in the middle of a desert. The house is home to an elderly couple, a younger woman and two children, who resemble 19th century American homesteade
Cites Alith · 2023-11 · Science Fiction & Fantasy Stack Exchange · on “Looking for a short story about a parallel world with apparently ordinary humans but savage and carnivorous”
You're probably remembering Window [LINK] written by Bob Leman. The story is pretty much as you state, the protagonist finds a window/portal that shows what appears to be an idyllic family farm from Victorian times. He falls in love with a girl on the farm and eventually makes his way through to meet her... and is promptly eaten. The story was dramatised in the 1990's as an episode of the anthology show Night Visions. Have found the Night Visions dramatisation on Youtube