Making the Twilight Zone Movie Was a Horror in Itself

Unfortunately, in many cases, it takes a tragedy to make change. In the case of the 1983 film The Twilight Zone, it took three accidental deaths to change the way films are made. The original TV series, The Twilight Zone, was so popular in the early 1960s that it still remains a part of pop culture today (the latest revival is as recent as 2019).

Newspaper clipping / Steven Spielberg / The helicopter crash / Kevin McCarthy

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While The Twilight Zone is something that both audiences and producers keep coming back to, it also has a very dark shadow looming over it. For some people, when they hear those three words, they automatically think of the catchy theme music. For others, The Twilight Zone instantly makes them think of the three actors, a man and two children, who lost their lives because of it.

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