Ok heathens, this week’s episode is a heart-wrencher.
We’re looking at the ‘horror behind the horror’ of the Steven Spielberg and John Landis produced horror/sci-fi anthology film, Twilight Zone: The Movie (1983).
The movie was a revamp of the original 1960s tv series The Twilight Zone – but it’s been burned into the public consciousness not for the movie itself, but due to the horrific on-set deaths of actor Vic Morrow and two child actors - six year old Renee Chen and seven year old Myca Le.
The tragic deaths led to civil lawsuits, a huge court case, and changed the film industry for ever.
Were the deaths the result of an unforeseen accident – or due to extreme risk taking and poor judgement by the film makers? Listen and decide for yourselves.
We’ve used printed court testimony, newspaper articles, news footage and several books for our research. We’re recommending the following two books:
Also check out Cursed Films on Shudder, season 1 episode 6: The Twilight Zone.
This week’s Obscure Film Club features:
The Vault of Horror (1973)
Cat’s Eye (1985)
Trilogy of Terror (1975)
V/H/S trilogy (2012-2014)
See you there, heathens.
