A panicked Morrow dropped Renee Chen into the water, and he was reaching out for her when the aircraft landed on top of the three actors. As the horrified crew looked on, the copter began to spin and descend uncontrollably despite his best efforts to rein it in, there was only so much Wingo could do with no rear rotor.
#The twilight zone movie series
There are conflicting accounts of what went wrong and how, but what is known is this: a series of special effects explosions were set off in the vicinity of the copter's tail end, which damaged both of its main rotors, and caused the rear rotor assembly to become completely disconnected. The filming of the scene took place around 2:30 in the morning, and it utilized a real helicopter, piloted by Vietnam veteran and ace stunt pilot Dorcey Wingo. Three of its four segments were remakes of classic Twilight Zone episodes, and two of those can safely be singled out as among the scariest, most bizarre stories to ever appear in a PG-rated movie: you had Joe Dante, right smack in between The Howling and Gremlins, offering up his take on the all-powerful, malevolent little boy from "It's a Wonderful Life," and Mad Max director George Miller putting John Lithgow through the terrors originally experienced by William Shatner in "Nightmare at 20,000 Feet." Oddly, the only segment that failed to land was the one directed by one of the film's producers, the great Steven Spielberg - a retelling of the little-remembered episode "Kick the Can." The flick is still regarded warmly for its many delights, not the least of which was its killer prologue, featuring Dan Aykroyd and Albert Brooks as motorists on a stretch of lonely road late at night. In 1983, fans of Rod Serling's classic TV series The Twilight Zone got an unexpected treat: a big-budget feature film revival, made up of four segments directed by the absolute hottest directors of the day (or any day, really).
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