Made for Shudder, airing April 16th in the US.
Season 1. Episode 5.
The story: Sometimes things happen on the sets of films that aren't planned.
The movies from the 70s pushed boundaries, but at what cost?
There are lots of great films but lots of great mishaps which occurred during the making of those films.
Film sets are controlled chaos which has so many precautions and safety meetings to go alongside the making of those films.
Although sometimes those safety measures were ignored for the sake of the movie.
'The Twilight Zone' is an anthology film inspired by the popular TV series of the same name.
The segment that is directed by John Landis is the brainchild of Landis and Steven Spielberg.
Veteran actor Vic Morrow took the starring role, unimpressed with Landis but a fan of Spielberg's. He also needed the work.
Landis had much success with 'Animal House' as well as 'The Blues Brothers', both of which were made during an era where directors had much freedom from studios.
With his segment for the movie, Landis wanted realism, coming up with the Vietnam sequence.
Known as talented but erratic, immature, and irresponsible, many were wary about Landis' lack of concern for safety.
Not only were real bullets used in the Vietnam scene, but giant explosions as well.
During tests of the scene, the explosions were so powerful they were a worry for some. But Landis wanted more.
During the actual shooting of the final scene, 5 cameras were used for 5 different shots.
The childrens' parents along with Vic Morrow all had anxiety with the scene, but all were reassured everything would be fine, nothing to worry about.
So while shooting, Vic carrying the two children through the water while amazing explosions went off above them, the three were all killed when the helicopter pilot lost control due to those powerful, concurrent explosions.
Five companies were fined millions of dollars over the terrible tragedy.
First, the explosion experts were blamed, and then Landis but in the end, no one was found at fault for the accident.
An accident that everyone involved with was cursed by just being involved...
Stars Ryan Turek, Stefano Beninati, Stephen Farber, Kane Hodder, Lloyd Kaufman, Max Macdonald, Phil Nobile Jr, Richard Sawyer, April Wolfe
Directed by (& story written) Jay Cheel
Not Rated
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