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Lloyd Kaufman is notorious for his dedication to safety (and financial frugality) in his approach to low-budget genre filmmaking. Before you have time to catch your breath, though, Jay Cheel and company transition to Lloyd Kaufman, head of Troma Studios in NYC. There are very few stuntmen more respected than Kane Hodder. He talks at some length about being a stuntman and the way that things can sometimes just “go wrong” for no definable reason.
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Things get deeper when the episode transitions to genre legend and stunt god Kane Hodder ( Friday the 13th VI - Jason X). Mistakes were made, as they say…BIG mistakes. He doesn’t shirk responsibility or sugarcoat it where either he or John Landis are concerned. Richard Sawyer was the man responsible for the layout of the scene, and his recalling of the night of the shoot is legitimately painful. Author Stephen Farber and production designer Richard Sawyer both tell the story in achingly human terms, but they don’t really have to elicit the whole thing that well their faces and the hitch in their words speak volumes without words.
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While some tales do indeed tell themselves, the job done on Twilight Zone: The Movie is nonetheless first-rate, especially when you consider the scant running time of 28 minutes. No one person was to blame, and Cursed Films does a frankly amazing (and respectful) job of highlighting this fact. There’s a litany of safety issues that led to this. As good as this episode is, it’s still hard to do the proper justice to just how screwed up this whole scenario is. That’s not an arguable statement it simply is. It’s the ultimate tale of Hollywood gone wrong. Vic Morrow and the two children (both underage and working well past allowed times) were cut in half by the crashing helicopter’s blades. During the stunt, which involved a Huey helicopter and multiple close explosions, things went wrong, and the chopper went down ON CAMERA. I’ll lay bare the facts for the five people reading this that don’t know the story so we can continue on equal footing: The final redemptive scene of Twilight Zone: The Movie ends with a racist bastard (played wonderfully by Vic Morrow) saving two young Vietnamese children from a village that’s under attack.
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I’ve been looking forward to this while simultaneously dreading it in equal measure. If you know the story of Twilight Zone: The Movie, then you know it’s some seriously awful stuff. Is that putting it too heavily? I don’t think it is. It’s only fitting that the debut season of a much-anticipated show about “cursed films” on the premiere streaming horror service finishes off with the single most horrific tragedy in film history.