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TIL 41 years ago, today, 3 people died on the set of Twilight Zone: The Movie (1983); under the negligent direction of John Landis, after he ordered a helicopter's tail-rotor directly over staged FX explosives. Bringing down the copter, decapitating two and crushing the other to death.

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