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The film remade three classic episodes and included one original story. John Landis directed the prologue and the first segment, Spielberg directed the second, Joe Dante the third, and George Miller directed the final segment. The film's musical score was composed by Jerry Goldsmith . Tagline: You're travelling through another dimension. A dimension, not only of sight and sound, but of mind. A journey into a wondrous land whose boundaries are that of imagination. Next stop, '''The Twilight Zone!''' SYNOPSIS Prologue In what could be considered one of the film's most memorable moments is the film's opening which starts off with a driver ( Albert Brooks ) and a Hitchhiker ( Dan Aykroyd ) driving through the mountains very late at night, singing along to Creedence Clearwater Revival 's Midnight Special on the radio, which goes tragically dead at the time and provides the hitchhiker an opportunity to say to his driver "Do you want to see something really scary?" before unleashing his secret that he was a monster, and proceding to eat the man. First segment The only "original" segment was the first, directed by Landis. A racist businessman (). Second segment Remake of Kick The Can , directed by Spielberg. An old man ( Scatman Crothers ) arrives in a retirement home and makes the residents become magically young. Third segment Remake of It's A Good Life , directed by Dante. A woman ( Kathleen Quinlan ) gives a ride to a boy ( Jeremy Licht ) finds herself the newest member of his "family" ( Kevin McCarthy , Patricia Barry , William Schallert and Nancy Cartwright ) of people, who are really imprisoned by the boy's all too real imagination. It is interesting to note that the ending of the movie version was changed to a happier version than that of the tv version (in the movie, the boy is convinced to stop being mean, while in the show he continues to be bad and kills the person who rises up against him). Fourth segment Remake of Nightmare At 20,000 Feet , directed by Miller. A passenger of an airline ( John Lithgow ) starts seeing a Gremlin spoiling the airplane's engines and panics, but no one believes him. Epilogue The end of the fourth segment connects with the character from the prologue. HELICOPTER ACCIDENT The making of the movie had consequences that overshadowed the film itself. During the filming of a segment Directed by John Landis on July 23 , 1982 , actor Vic Morrow and child actors Myca Dinh Le (aged 7) and Renee Shin-Yi Chen (aged 6) died in an accident involving a Helicopter being used on the set. Without warning, it spun out of control and crashed, decapitating him and one of the children with its blades. The remaining child was crushed to death as the helicopter crashed. Everyone inside the helicopter was unharmed. The accident led to legal action against the filmmakers that lasted nearly a decade, and changed the regulations involving children working on movie sets at night and during Special Effects -heavy scenes. As a result of the accident, one second assistant director had his name removed from the credits and replaced with the pseudonymous Alan Smithee . Another result was the end of the friendship between director Landis and producer Spielberg. EXTERNAL LINKS
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