@@Purlypurlington Spielberg was involved in the movie but had nothing to do with this Szene People on set on the other hand are the people who are responsible, mostly the director, who ignored everybody telling him and his crew that the explosions are to close (helicopter pilots was a Vietnam veteran after all, and he got scared how close the explosions are)
This is absolutely horrible. I had no clue that this grotesque tragedy was FILMED. How tf did John landis and the other people charged never go to jail? He ignored several measures, he illegally had children act in the film, and he brushes off the while thing like I was no big deal. THis is by far the scariest, most spine chilling footage I’ve seen.
The property that they owned was demolished He left no trace of the child’s whereabouts not even the house they lived in he sold the land condominium was built they said not sure they were all inventing stories to cover it
And what makes this even more surreal is that to his dying day, Vic Morrow was terrified that he was going to die in a helicopter crash. Per IMDB, trivia for "Dirty Mary, Crazy Larry: "Vic Morrow, playing 'Franklin', insisted on a $1 million life insurance policy before he would film any scenes involving the helicopter, and said that if he wouldn't be insured, he would walk off the picture. His wish was granted, and he very reluctantly agreed to fly in the chopper. When asked why he wanted the policy, Morrow replied "I have always had a premonition that I'll be killed in a helicopter crash!"
Steven Spielberg ended his friendship with Landis because of this. Not necessarily because of the accident itself, but because of Landis' attitude before and after the accident. Spielberg realized his friend was a POS.
it's so weird and fucked up seeing real deaths being filmed in such a professional way . That's awful and infuriating. I'm so sorry for them, may they rest in peace
not to be that guy but it's fucked up seeing real deaths in an unprofessional way. There are hundreds of freak accidents and deaths on movie sets over the years but the Twilight Zone is one of the more documented and horrifying on UA-cam. I've seen people being impaled, stabbed and even set on fire for gross negligence on movie sets it's harrowing footage and I do not want people to go out there and watch it, I had literal nightmares after watching them.
If I remember correctly, Landis was warned by the helicopter pilot ahead of time that the explosives were going to make it impossible for him to see, but he went ahead with them anyway. His recklessness clearly caused this, should've been convicted of voluntary manslaughter at the very least.
He also was told by the pilot over the radio about 20 seconds before the crash "the explosions are too close we have to pull up" and landis' reply was "no. Get lower. Get lower"
@@zulhafiqbinmohdazrol4007…he expected a 53 year old man, carrying two children through a body of water surrounded by explosions, bright lights, helicopter sounds and loud screaming, to evade and run away? …Landis TF is wrong with you?!
@@mrcritical6751what a pos, seriously that guy has no shame at all, he's still all smiles, how proud he is of that overrated crap movie american werewolf
OMG! This was terrifying! How absolutely sad and tragic. This whole shot looked messy and complicated. Almost like something was bound to go terribly wrong
the stunt co ord told Landis "You're going to kill somebody here". Too many people get far too intimidated by Directors when they need people to stand up and say "You''re fucking out of your mind bud"
@@num1JaystaI don't know if that was Landis or not but when I watched that part I immediately questioned if that was real or edited in or another scene. Like how is he being so nonchalant after what just happened
maybe, and he was certainly guilty of something, but if he didn't show wouldn't that also open the floodgates for people claiming he was heartless by not giving his respects
Watched this movie loads when I was a kid, didn’t realize until recently that the guy actually died while filming it, and it was supposed to be longer, showing the compassion developing in the character.
The photos of Vic Morrow’s head and torso, along with the boy are in a book called “Fly By Night” that is sold on Amazon. I have it and it’s very gruesome so I can understand the worker’s reaction.
I just realized that they absolutely didn't need to have a helicopter here. The explosions were more than enough to convey the kind of danger they were in. If they really wanted it in, they could've found some editing technique to add it in post production. It doesn't even make sense plot-wise. How did the helicopter keep missing him and the kids? They are an open target. I mean this all plot-wise, not in real life of course. It just could've been so easily avoided, but because of one man's ego, a well liked, respected actor and two children are dead.
I think the bittersweet part is, they never saw their deaths coming. They thought they were still filming the scene and that everything was fine. At least their deaths were quick. RIP.
I hate to tell you this but incidents during the French revolution suggests that a severed head can remain alive for about ten seconds, so in his last moments Morrow would've experienced suddenly flying through the air. He probably had just enough time to realize what had happened.
Dark, That’s not consciousness you’re talking about, those are the reflexes that happened after death. It happens with the human body, you don’t have to have your whole body attached to your head for it to happen
@spiralrose BUT experiments were done with just-executed men. The decapped heads responded to their names & the eyes moved to look at the person saying the name. But that consciousness only lasted a few seconds. Without blood flow the brain loses consciousness fast .
@@salazamdisgusting fucking comment. Parents were lied to and told there would be no explosions, only noise before signing. They were taken advantage of and at least one pair of the parents didnt speak English that well. Its truly vile how you can say that about parents who lost their kids and I really hope you reflect because its not normal to be this callous and depersonalised from death.
It could've been better if the helicopter wasn't used. The explosives were enough to say they were in danger. Then insert the helicopter part in post production. Inspite CG wasn't used back in 1983; surely they could've come to make editing techniques to make it look the helicopter was really there.
@@DeathInEntertainment I mean they did in Tropic Thunder with pyrotechnics and a helicopter fly-by, the chances of something terrible happening is incomprehensible and inevitable., f*ck that! No amount of $$$'s would I set foot on a movie set like that.
@@Ophelia11at the end of the day it's really a matter of whether the general public cares enough to go see it anyway regardless of the tragedy on-set. And it looks like most people just don't care (and in some cases you could say that the tragedy makes people MORE interested in seeing it)
He's been warned so many times how dangerous this is. He's also the one who told the pilot "lower, lower!" Even after the tragedy, no sign of remorse. Such an ahhsole.
@@kathymcmahon6582 Vic was unsure of this stunt. According To Dick Peabody (a former collague of Combat!), he told him that the stunt was crazy and it could've needed a stunt double. Plus he had his reservations on this part, but since he wasn't a big name in Hollywood, compared to Landis, he had to do it against his judgement.
@@maximosalazar9985 YUP. Vic felt so low because no one was giving him.any work and he wanted to prove himself!!! Everyone on this set said they all felt uneasy including fire Marshall!!! Sorry, but I don't need a job that bad!!! This maneuver could have been done in three parts. Vic (using dummies) just walking across with wind machine, computerized helicopter and computerized pyrotechnics than put it all together!!! I cannot for the life of me understand how murderer Landis thought this was a great idea and shame on those who didn't stop him because they were afraid they'd never work again!!!!
NOTHING about this scene looked safe. NOTHING. Those were KIDS, man. A river at 2 o'clock in the morning with explosives and a helicopter with a 6 year old and a 7 year old?????
Steven Spielberg himself was absolutely disgusted by John Landis after this happened and refused to ever work with him again, this incident single handedly killed Landis' career.
Ol' Spielberg anal raped that one girl.. and she died. He was never held responsible.... whatever movie that girl gets trapped in the TV... can't think of it.
The helicopter that crashed was owned by my Grandpa. The pilot, Dorcey Wingo, had piloted many of my grandfather's helicopters over the years. My grandpa owned the helicopter and the company Western Helicopters, Inc., which rented it out. My Grandpa also founded Rocky Mountain Helicopters with his brother, and Rocky Mountain Helicopters bought Western Helicopters, Inc. in 1979. The early morning of July 23rd, 1982, when the helicopter crashed, my twin brother and I were visiting my grandpa and grandma when around 3:50am MST, the phone rang in the house, and it woke me up. This was when he got the call about the crash. I creeped out of my bedroom, and it was just a horrible moment; my grandpa is old school, born in mid-1920, and grew up in poverty. He was working very tough jobs at age 12 that some people today would refuse to do. Back then, you had to grow up fast. He was a wonderful grandfather but a guy you wouldn't want to mess with. But that early morning in the summer of 1892, I saw him sitting in a living room chair with his hands over his face after the call; I'd never seen him like that before or ever since. It made me really scared as a 6-year-old. It also took years of investigating his crashed helicopter and his companies. I've done many years of research into this subject. So many explosives were going off all around. It was unreal. There was a VERY REAL possibility that his helicopter companies, Western Helicopter Inc. and Rocky Mountain Helicopters, would run out of business and be ruined entirely. Thankfully, after those years of extreme stress and sorrow, the chopper and his pilot were found not at fault. It's a long story; I always felt so much sorry as a kid and as an adult for the families of the victims and those who were there. I saw my grandpa after he hung up the phone around 4:00am MST, July 23rd, 1982. I saw the pain of sorrow for those who were killed. Over the years, he never talked about it. He rarely spoke about his experience as a Bombardier on a B-17 Flying Fortress during WWII. He seldom spoke about his war experiences to the grandkids. Thankfully, our family has done a lot of research-an entire book could be written. But this event hit him even harder emotionally than WWII did because after that night, he never brought it up to us or the family. It was such a tragic event for all of us and all those involved. Hearing that phone call come in ( late calls always mean something terrible to a kid). Our mom was sick at the time, and my twin brother and she had us stay a few weeks with the grandparents. I was 6 years old. I'll never forget the feeling in the room after that call, peaking around the corner and seeing my grandpa sitting in the living room. Some so many people were so close to the accident that they are still dealing with this tragedy today and will every day for the rest of their lives.
Fun Fact: The director of this film made two films later in life titled "Some Guy That Kills People" and "I Hate Kids". Everybody should have been charged here, from the top down.
His daughter is Jennifer Jason Leigh . I can't even begin to imagine the pain she must of felt and the horror of her father dying because of a directors greedy negligence
The only reason this footage exists at all, is because when this footage was shown at trial, someone got a copy of the tape. Then that copy was acquired by the Faces of Death knock off Death Scenes. Then that footage was included in the films series, in a film called Death Scenes 2. That is why the footage still exists to this day. Otherwise, the footage would have been destroyed after the trial.
This is absolutely horrific, you could see their torsos flying up after they were hit by the blades, poor man and poor kids, that director clapping his hands nonchalantly after what they've witnessed disgust me, you would think he would be frantic to call their names, try to check if they're okay, but it's obvious he doesn't care. So disturbing. May their souls rest in peace.
John Landis is absolutely a cunt but clapping nonchalantly? He's calling for slate and a cut. Given the circumstances; most likely trying to do it in a calm manner in order to not induce more chaos. Again, John Landis is excrement masquerading as a person but don't try to tack on incidents you surmised due to ignorance.
I think you’re confused here. Those are not their torsos, their torsos stayed in tact. Two were decapitated, one was crushed. What you’re seeing is the result of the blades hitting water and dirt. It’s impossible to tell where individual body parts are here. You’re seeing what you want to, but what you’re saying is not there.
@@thomaswatkins3686yes you are correct. I saw photos of Vic’s head and torso in the book “Fly by Night”. His body was intact but his head was separated. It was not a clean cut though because Vic’s face was badly mangled below his eye area.
In a different video the poster took it frame by frame and well...let's just say that you can clearly see everything that happens when the helicopter blades hit them. It's horrible that these 3 lives, 2 of them being children, were snuffed out because of negligence and just so they could get the best shot possible. The adult actor that died was Vic Morrow who was Jennifer Jason Leigh's father. I wonder if she still hates John Landis (the director) for this and for avoiding the consequences.
For those wondering some bone remains were not found. More than likely in the lake pond bed. Part of the boys skull was thrown as shown and never found.
I'm here cause of Nick Crowley's video, thanks for uploaded this So pissed of that John Landis didn't looks like pay for this since he having good career after all of this mess Poor Morrow and the kids...... this is so damn uneccesarry
As someone who has encountered 3 fatal accidents and married to a surgeon . As soon as the body recives enough pressure, it can burst, not in an explosion type of way but the whole thing can turn inside out (exposed organs or bones) so as soon as they rotor hits the bodies, you can see how the bodies burst in half of the impact. Im pretty sure they were deformed, like when you squish playdoh from top to bottom, it must be horrifying to see your own child in a massive pulp trying to figure out your whole life has just been made up of the worst moment in your whole existence
Yeah its horrible. In this case the boy and morrow were instantly decapitated by the blades and the girl was crushed under the landing leg of the helicopter
I found two police evidence photos of Vic Morrow's remains on the set. They are horrible! First, there is a photo of Mr. Morrow lying prone on the riverbank with his head and the top of his shoulders missing. The next photo really messes you up because it indeed graphically shows the truth about a legend that his severed head was indeed placed into a green garbage bag. In the photo, the bag has been opened--exposing Vic's severed head facing up. The lower part of his face has been blasted away with absolutely no lower jaw. Just a huge gapping potion of his face sliced through by the rotor tip. Mr. Morrow and the child were struck by both blades as they spun at 600 RPM--allowing the first strike to blast away his entire jaw and face below his nose which is twisted like an "S." Attached to his head below, is a small portion of his neck. Vic Morrow was not just decapitated--he was severed in half at the shoulders. The photo of him lying prone on the mudbank clearly shows this. May they all R.I.P. I was 15 when this horrible incident occurred, but I did not see the footage until a year later. I remember playing the footage on our BETA VCR that I recorded of the released accident footage in slow motion as the blade hits and you can see two heads flying off to the left of the screen. In the long shot footage, you can see one of the heads falling out of the spray caused by the rotor hitting the river. This was a horrible incident. I just cannot imagine what that film crew saw and experienced that July night--especially the one who picked Vic Morrow's severed head out of the water to place into that trash bag and the ones who dragged his body with no head and shoulders out of the river and onto the river bank.
And as a machinist I'd argue the body can burst, violently. Russian Lathe accident if you have the stomach, but you literally see a go guy from standing to pulled into the lathe, wrapped around workpiece and then violently exploding, all in under 4 sec. All that was left looked like some crazy, macabre, wrung out dish towel.
John Landis should have been jailed for that. Those children were working under the table. How in the world does John sleep at night!!?? I would never be the same if I had let something like that happen. Shows you what kind of person he is!! 😱.
The district attorney's office did try their damndest to convict him but after a le lengthy trial he was acquitted. Why would the jury vote that way? Who knows.
@CaptainJZH because the DA was incompetent & tried to go for a murder charge. This wasn’t a deliberate murder. DA should have gone for lesser crime of Negligent homicide & then she’d win .
1:24 That's 2nd assistant director Andy House in the orange wet suit, picking up Vic Morrow's torso (thinking he was just unconscious) and realizing he was decapitated. (Source : page 3 of the book FLY BY NIGHT by Steve Chain)
Seeing this again in this quality is somehow so much worse than what I remembered. At 0:50 you can see the blades decapitating their heads off. I'm loss at words at how John Landis still has a career after this.
Not to mention he never directly apologized for the occured deaths. His whole defence summed up was "Please, I love making movies, don't take that away from me". Alec Baldwin did the same thing when he shot and killed Halyna Hutchins, and it looks like he's getting away with it too.
@@Gyrbae but was the Alec Baldwin case really his own negligence? From what I've heard it was just a technical error, unlike this which was just Landis being beyond stupid.
@@saintniccage2818 Where did you find the information about Vic's family being "fine" with it? Because they settled? I supposed the parents of the dead children were also "fine" with it because they settled too? Please elaborate to me why John Landins deserved to get away scott free for manslaughter, I'd like to hear your reasoning behind it.
To see the actual behind the scenes footage, it shows that this short was going to end in a spectacular and destructively beautiful way. Just for reality to set in as you remember what this is about and what was about to happen to them.
It was so sad what happened to veteran actor like Vic Morrow. He was one of my heroes from Combat back in the 60's. And sad for the two child actors as well.
Imagine just trying to help or check if your working colleagues are okay and instead picking up a body which got its head or even his whole torso violently ripped off by helicopter blades. I don’t think anyone could ever get over that. The fact that this pig of a director wasn’t charged with anything makes me sick. Even if they not suffered, that man accepted the possible consequences of his absolute irresponsible actions and not only is responsible for the deaths of three people, he also scarred the people who worked at the set like the guy in orange for life.
What really annoys me. The close up footage seeing the actors did not need the real chopter present. They could have filmed them seperate. During the explosions. But they have to the scene twice. And they probably didn't want to pay or do the time.
As a child, I was upstairs cleaning with my mother. I asked her “who is Vic Morrow” after seeing a poster for 1990 The Bronx Warriors. She said “he was mr turner in the bad news bears”. It was one of my favorite movies growing up: She said “he’s dead”. I didn’t believe her. I asked how. She said “he got hit by a helicopter”. It sounded so absurd I went to my aunt’s house and asked her. She said, identically, a helicopter hit him. I literally thought my mother had phoned ahead and told her. I didn’t believe he was dead. Bear in mind, this was before the internet and people would just retire, so I believed that’s what happened. As I got older, I kind of figured Mr Turner was so much like my own dad and such a big part of my formative film years, I didn’t want to believe somebody met a fate so terrible. It’s like a surreal dream to that that happened to the same guy. To this day, I still don’t believe something so awful happened.
I read about the accident in a Steven Spielberg biography but it didn’t say much about what happened. Just that there was an accident on set and a man and two kids were killed. I didn’t know the whole story at the time I learned about what happened when I was older and looked it up.
Also, the prosecution messed up. DA Lea D'Agostino was too theatrical. She ended up making Landis seem sympathetic. Re: The Blues Brothers...he blew up an entire gas station and that scene didn't even make the final cut!
You can see them vaporize in the mist. Holy moly. With connections you can get away with shooting a stage hand and a director or just be a madman and blast a lot of pyrotechnics near a helicopter, killing 3 people, two of them children.
Yeah it's tragic. You can see the red blood mist in the two frames after they got eviscerated by the heli blade, before the blades break apart and create the big splash in the water... You even see a head and a piece of one of the children's bodies fly off... Some of the most disturbing footage ever.
So many different ways to be filmed that would have been simple and safe. This isn't one of those situations where with the gift.of hindsight we can say what went wrong, this should have and could have been easily avoided.
Frank Marshall the producer hired the kids illegally and paid them under the table making them work at night. Spielberg was totally aware of it ( also producer and friends with john Landis ) Special effects coordinator and even the pilot warned Landis who wanted the helicopter to fly even lower. He ignored them and yelled at them. Spielberg was there but the studio ( and Landis ) denied it to save his ass. A truck driver for the special effects team testified that he brought him a car so he could leave and call his lawyers. The driver was paid off and then changed his account telling the cops he didn't even know Spielberg ( who ruined Tobe Hooper's career on Poltergeist ). Marshall escaped to Europe the next day to avoid being subpoenaed under the pretense that he was working on other films. Spielberg signed a letter stating he was never near the shooting location where the accident happened and was left alone. Landis was only fined and Spielberg distanced himself from him. The parents of he kids were paid 2 million dollars. The movie was a success.
It’s mind blowing that this happened, having a principal actor doing this scene along with two child actors who weren’t legally supposed to be there is insanity. This accident should’ve ended Jonathan Landis’s career, especially considering that he knew the risks and actively chose to ignore them which caused the decapitation of his principal actor and one of the two children as well as the crushing of the other child. It’s even more fucked up that you can clearly see the two heads go flying on impact, it happens so fast that it’s a blink and you’ll miss it type thing. There should’ve been charges filed especially the director, Landis should’ve been charged with manslaughter and neglect. The fact that no one was held responsible or legally liable is absolutely disgusting and shows a major flaw in the justice system.
This is pretty brutal to show for UA-cam. The split second the chopper blades hit you can see a head go flying high up in the air before instantly shadowed by the water explosion. At least it was quick…
I'm French and i had never heard about this event involving Landis . But .. is he... is he... is that him clapping at the end of the footage?? 😳😳 Is he completely unaware of what just happened before his eyes???! That's insane. If that was me witnessing such a thing on my own fucking movie set, i would be screaming or reacting ... I don't know.. i would certainly not remain calm as if nothing happened.. What a sicko .
This is the reason why I hate UA-cam😡: They can show Vic Morrow getting destroyed, but you CAN'T SHOW videos-or even speak of the truth-of what has happened in the 21st Century😳 (so far)! What kind of world am I living in?🤔
Out of all the damn places the helicopter could've fell it landed right in the position to kill them , such a freak accident.it's heartbreaking and definitely disturbing that it happened to that man and those kids as they lost their lives.😔🙏
When making money and a cool scene is more important than the lives of innocent children... what the actual f***k... how am I just learning about this... and the fact they still pushed this movie out just removing this scene and acting like nothing happened is unforgivable jfc.
@@electrictroy2010 Watch it again. Just before you see the rotor hit the water and the splash, another rotor had already taken their heads off. The heads go flying just prior to the water flying.
Absolutely insane that nobody was convicted of negligence here.
Judge should have overruled!!!
I work in the industry. The fact they had the principal actor doing this material was insane. I would not have wanted to be the A.D who finds Vic
it was Vietnamese immigrants trying to get seen in the movie(don’t know if this is 100% true tho,can’t always believe my dad)
@@user-qg9ow3sn3p Breaking every child labor law.
@@roquefortfiles that's WHY ppl should have paid for this!!!!
These children were 6 & 7. Not legally hired. And yet no one is sitting in prison for 3 deaths.
You think they gonna do anything so Spielberg 🙄 tragic doe
@@Purlypurlington Spielberg was involved in the movie but had nothing to do with this Szene
People on set on the other hand are the people who are responsible, mostly the director, who ignored everybody telling him and his crew that the explosions are to close (helicopter pilots was a Vietnam veteran after all, and he got scared how close the explosions are)
it blows my mind that nobody is in prison for this honestly.
It's ✡️ privilege at work here
@@Purlypurlington Spielberg only co-produced the film. After the accident, he cut all ties with Landis and hasn’t spoken to him since.
Man, the whole scene looked out of control
Soooo out of control. Looked real. I couldn’t believe what I was seeing here.
The Judge should have overruled jury. Especially hiring children illegally and having them on a set at that time band in a VERY dangerous scene!!!!
@@mistadopeman yes, unfortunately. I pray that Vic really didn't see it coming because of the bright lights and noise!!!
Did anyone get arrested for this that footage is surreal
CGI back then hit different
This is absolutely horrible. I had no clue that this grotesque tragedy was FILMED. How tf did John landis and the other people charged never go to jail? He ignored several measures, he illegally had children act in the film, and he brushes off the while thing like I was no big deal. THis is by far the scariest, most spine chilling footage I’ve seen.
Who got paid off??? Judge could have overruled jury
The property that they owned was demolished
He left no trace of the child’s whereabouts not even the house they lived in he sold the land condominium was built they said not sure they were all inventing stories to cover it
Lol it was filmed because generally when they make a movie scene they film it 🤣🤣 LMAO. But they didn't actually use it in the movie. They recreated it
@@broke305 how did the director sell the land the condominium was on? Did he own it?
@@kathymcmahon6582,exactly, they bought their innocence.
And what makes this even more surreal is that to his dying day, Vic Morrow was terrified that he was going to die in a helicopter crash. Per IMDB, trivia for "Dirty Mary, Crazy Larry: "Vic Morrow, playing 'Franklin', insisted on a $1 million life insurance policy before he would film any scenes involving the helicopter, and said that if he wouldn't be insured, he would walk off the picture. His wish was granted, and he very reluctantly agreed to fly in the chopper. When asked why he wanted the policy, Morrow replied "I have always had a premonition that I'll be killed in a helicopter crash!"
Well damn, he knew. Which probably made his life worse.
An apocraphyl anectdote
Coincidence or magic is real.
Not intending to be funny but Morrow was right. He died in a helicopter crash, not while he was riding in one but when it crashed on him.
@@dude-fw7xt Thanks captain obvious!
God the shot of the crew member rushing over to the bodies and leaping away in horror is haunting. Insane that Landis never faced justice for this.
For what, moron, it was an accident.
That was the headless body of Vic Morrow. It gets worse. When they eventually found his head they thought it was a prop.
I just saw that. I wonder how much damage that person has suffered psychologically. May they all rest in peace. It should never have happened.
He didn't killed it was a accident i mean a accident not crime he didn't know that helicopter will land on them its a accident
@@mjwbulich One of the poor kids was also decapitated too weren't they?
Steven Spielberg ended his friendship with Landis because of this. Not necessarily because of the accident itself, but because of Landis' attitude before and after the accident. Spielberg realized his friend was a POS.
This statement is not true. Please do not believe everything you read on the internet.
There was a whole slew of directors who jumped to defend Landis. Notably, Spielberg was not one of them.
He's no better, Heather Rourke...
@@Stesiaanna7there is no proof that he did anything to Heather Rourke. She seemed to have the same issues with her bowels that Elvis Presley did
@@Stesiaanna7heather Rourke was misdiagnosed by doctors for health issues 100% unrelated to acting.
it's so weird and fucked up seeing real deaths being filmed in such a professional way . That's awful and infuriating. I'm so sorry for them, may they rest in peace
not to be that guy but it's fucked up seeing real deaths in an unprofessional way. There are hundreds of freak accidents and deaths on movie sets over the years but the Twilight Zone is one of the more documented and horrifying on UA-cam. I've seen people being impaled, stabbed and even set on fire for gross negligence on movie sets it's harrowing footage and I do not want people to go out there and watch it, I had literal nightmares after watching them.
@@paparoach007 Were those low budget horror films?
It's definitely weird, especially with the crappy VHS quality.
Poor kids should have been in bed, not "recreating" a war zone...
"That's awful and infuriating!"
Clicked link and watched anyway.
If I remember correctly, Landis was warned by the helicopter pilot ahead of time that the explosives were going to make it impossible for him to see, but he went ahead with them anyway. His recklessness clearly caused this, should've been convicted of voluntary manslaughter at the very least.
He also was told by the pilot over the radio about 20 seconds before the crash "the explosions are too close we have to pull up" and landis' reply was "no. Get lower. Get lower"
The pilot should have said fuck you john
Then he tried to blame the actor because not to evade or run away from it. Due carrying 2 children while on water. How he can escape?
@@zulhafiqbinmohdazrol4007…he expected a 53 year old man, carrying two children through a body of water surrounded by explosions, bright lights, helicopter sounds and loud screaming, to evade and run away?
…Landis TF is wrong with you?!
@@mrcritical6751what a pos, seriously that guy has no shame at all, he's still all smiles, how proud he is of that overrated crap movie american werewolf
OMG! This was terrifying! How absolutely sad and tragic. This whole shot looked messy and complicated. Almost like something was bound to go terribly wrong
the stunt co ord told Landis "You're going to kill somebody here". Too many people get far too intimidated by Directors when they need people to stand up and say "You''re fucking out of your mind bud"
The explosions alone were terrifying.
Yeah Vic? Just make your way through the water while you hold the kids. The chopper will be right above you about 40 feet
@@DeathInEntertainmentespecially for the young children
They didn’t even need the damn chopper or the explosives. AND the scene with Vic carrying the children was too damn long. Landis was doing too much!
Absolutely brutal. You can see the heads go flying in an instant as the blades hit them. RIP.
Wat u put it on slow mo i aint see it
I can't see it
@@NoNo-li7eg Put it on .25
@@NoNo-li7eg go for 0,25x and 1080p, u can see the head literally flying.
I wish you didn’t point that out because obviously I needed to rewatch it and sure enough you do see it 🤢 think I’m gonna go throw up
Reportedly, after this happened John Landis said "it's a wrap". One of the most disgusting things I've ever heard.
And it's a cap... Decapitation that is
Spielberg actually told Landis something along the lines of "you killed the new Hollywood era" after this accident
Jesus…
1:00That him saying it?
@@num1JaystaI don't know if that was Landis or not but when I watched that part I immediately questioned if that was real or edited in or another scene. Like how is he being so nonchalant after what just happened
And Landis turned up at Morrow's funeral - uninvited - to give a eulogy. Verminous individual.
💯💯
Definitely a narcissist
maybe, and he was certainly guilty of something, but if he didn't show wouldn't that also open the floodgates for people claiming he was heartless by not giving his respects
Watched this movie loads when I was a kid, didn’t realize until recently that the guy actually died while filming it, and it was supposed to be longer, showing the compassion developing in the character.
Yeah and they left the scene in and everyone saw it. This would never fly today.
@@Accountdeactivated_1986 bro that’s chilling like scary
@@Accountdeactivated_1986 they didnt leave the scene in
@@heyitgeg cut it a frame short of decapitation.... whoop-dy-dooooo
@@earlyburd78 hey retard, every scene including the children was cut out of the film including this whole last scene.
RIP
Vic Morrow
(1929-1982)
Myca Dinh Le
(1975-1982)
and
Renee Shin-Yi Chen
(1976-1982)
He had years of life and they had pretty much nothing. The number of years is the most saddening part.
1:21 The worker's reaction to the aftermath under the crash is heartbreakingly sad.
Yeah they were not ready to see what they saw. 😣
It looks like he yelled "FUCK" and kicked the blade too. Dude was probably angry as fuck that this was allowed to happen.
@@maddoxio it looks more like he lost his balance but he was surely freaked out and furious, understandably.
@maddoxio yeah it feels like that.
The photos of Vic Morrow’s head and torso, along with the boy are in a book called “Fly By Night” that is sold on Amazon. I have it and it’s very gruesome so I can understand the worker’s reaction.
I just realized that they absolutely didn't need to have a helicopter here. The explosions were more than enough to convey the kind of danger they were in. If they really wanted it in, they could've found some editing technique to add it in post production. It doesn't even make sense plot-wise. How did the helicopter keep missing him and the kids? They are an open target. I mean this all plot-wise, not in real life of course. It just could've been so easily avoided, but because of one man's ego, a well liked, respected actor and two children are dead.
I think the bittersweet part is, they never saw their deaths coming.
They thought they were still filming the scene and that everything was fine.
At least their deaths were quick.
RIP.
I hate to tell you this but incidents during the French revolution suggests that a severed head can remain alive for about ten seconds, so in his last moments Morrow would've experienced suddenly flying through the air. He probably had just enough time to realize what had happened.
@@dark7elementI don’t think your eyes work tho
Dark,
That’s not consciousness you’re talking about, those are the reflexes that happened after death.
It happens with the human body, you don’t have to have your whole body attached to your head for it to happen
@spiralrose BUT experiments were done with just-executed men. The decapped heads responded to their names & the eyes moved to look at the person saying the name.
But that consciousness only lasted a few seconds. Without blood flow the brain loses consciousness fast
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@@dark7elementthis isn't a guillotine
Christ, I can’t even begin to imagine how the parents of those kids felt.
Probably ruined their weekend to say the least.
They witnessed it too
All they saw was dollar signs.
@@salazamdisgusting fucking comment. Parents were lied to and told there would be no explosions, only noise before signing. They were taken advantage of and at least one pair of the parents didnt speak English that well. Its truly vile how you can say that about parents who lost their kids and I really hope you reflect because its not normal to be this callous and depersonalised from death.
@@dropkickirish4449 you make a joke-sick bastard
Wow! Even without the helicopter, this scene looks terrifying! 😨😳
Imagine having to act in those conditions. No green screen. No CGI.
It could've been better if the helicopter wasn't used. The explosives were enough to say they were in danger.
Then insert the helicopter part in post production. Inspite CG wasn't used back in 1983; surely they could've come to make editing techniques to make it look the helicopter was really there.
That was the plan the director was trying to capture
@@DeathInEntertainment I mean they did in Tropic Thunder with pyrotechnics and a helicopter fly-by, the chances of something terrible happening is incomprehensible and inevitable., f*ck that! No amount of $$$'s would I set foot on a movie set like that.
@@truthhurts79 They should’ve left the helicopter out then
If a tragedy like that happened today, the careers of everyone involved would be instantly over. Absurd that John Landis continued to work normally.
Completely agree
Would the film still be released though?
A tragedy like this didn’t stop The Crow from getting released.
Same with Dark Knight and Deadpool 2
@@RYMAN1321 Exactly. And Alec Baldwin's still doing just fine.
@@Ophelia11at the end of the day it's really a matter of whether the general public cares enough to go see it anyway regardless of the tragedy on-set. And it looks like most people just don't care (and in some cases you could say that the tragedy makes people MORE interested in seeing it)
@@RYMAN1321what happens with Deadpool 2
The director just told the man to walk through the water with the kids and left out the part about how big and close the explosions were gonna be
He's been warned so many times how dangerous this is. He's also the one who told the pilot "lower, lower!"
Even after the tragedy, no sign of remorse. Such an ahhsole.
But Vic himself should have said something but I believe Vic was afraid of NOT working if he did!!!!
@@kathymcmahon6582 Vic was unsure of this stunt. According To Dick Peabody (a former collague of Combat!), he told him that the stunt was crazy and it could've needed a stunt double. Plus he had his reservations on this part, but since he wasn't a big name in Hollywood, compared to Landis, he had to do it against his judgement.
@@maximosalazar9985 YUP. Vic felt so low because no one was giving him.any work and he wanted to prove himself!!! Everyone on this set said they all felt uneasy including fire Marshall!!! Sorry, but I don't need a job that bad!!! This maneuver could have been done in three parts. Vic (using dummies) just walking across with wind machine, computerized helicopter and computerized pyrotechnics than put it all together!!! I cannot for the life of me understand how murderer Landis thought this was a great idea and shame on those who didn't stop him because they were afraid they'd never work again!!!!
@@helloworld2784 he'll pay, BELIEVE me.
NOTHING about this scene looked safe. NOTHING. Those were KIDS, man. A river at 2 o'clock in the morning with explosives and a helicopter with a 6 year old and a 7 year old?????
A 6 and 7 year old hired illegally with petty cash so they could break child labor laws to get them there overnight. Horrific
tell that to Alec Baldwin
Steven Spielberg himself was absolutely disgusted by John Landis after this happened and refused to ever work with him again, this incident single handedly killed Landis' career.
Or is it? I Googled and it seems he had many productions after this
@@mitchliao2581 Most of those movies he made after are hardly ever talked about
Ol' Spielberg anal raped that one girl.. and she died. He was never held responsible.... whatever movie that girl gets trapped in the TV... can't think of it.
Poltergeist
@@earlyburd78 Bruh, what the fuck are you talking about?
The helicopter that crashed was owned by my Grandpa. The pilot, Dorcey Wingo, had piloted many of my grandfather's helicopters over the years. My grandpa owned the helicopter and the company Western Helicopters, Inc., which rented it out. My Grandpa also founded Rocky Mountain Helicopters with his brother, and Rocky Mountain Helicopters bought Western Helicopters, Inc. in 1979.
The early morning of July 23rd, 1982, when the helicopter crashed, my twin brother and I were visiting my grandpa and grandma when around 3:50am MST, the phone rang in the house, and it woke me up. This was when he got the call about the crash. I creeped out of my bedroom, and it was just a horrible moment; my grandpa is old school, born in mid-1920, and grew up in poverty. He was working very tough jobs at age 12 that some people today would refuse to do. Back then, you had to grow up fast. He was a wonderful grandfather but a guy you wouldn't want to mess with.
But that early morning in the summer of 1892, I saw him sitting in a living room chair with his hands over his face after the call; I'd never seen him like that before or ever since. It made me really scared as a 6-year-old. It also took years of investigating his crashed helicopter and his companies. I've done many years of research into this subject. So many explosives were going off all around. It was unreal.
There was a VERY REAL possibility that his helicopter companies, Western Helicopter Inc. and Rocky Mountain Helicopters, would run out of business and be ruined entirely. Thankfully, after those years of extreme stress and sorrow, the chopper and his pilot were found not at fault. It's a long story;
I always felt so much sorry as a kid and as an adult for the families of the victims and those who were there. I saw my grandpa after he hung up the phone around 4:00am MST, July 23rd, 1982. I saw the pain of sorrow for those who were killed. Over the years, he never talked about it. He rarely spoke about his experience as a Bombardier on a B-17 Flying Fortress during WWII. He seldom spoke about his war experiences to the grandkids.
Thankfully, our family has done a lot of research-an entire book could be written. But this event hit him even harder emotionally than WWII did because after that night, he never brought it up to us or the family. It was such a tragic event for all of us and all those involved.
Hearing that phone call come in ( late calls always mean something terrible to a kid). Our mom was sick at the time, and my twin brother and she had us stay a few weeks with the grandparents. I was 6 years old. I'll never forget the feeling in the room after that call, peaking around the corner and seeing my grandpa sitting in the living room. Some so many people were so close to the accident that they are still dealing with this tragedy today and will every day for the rest of their lives.
Thank you for sharing this.
Thank god the pilot was cleared. Did he continue to go on flying?
Fun Fact: The director of this film made two films later in life titled "Some Guy That Kills People" and "I Hate Kids".
Everybody should have been charged here, from the top down.
For once, I’m grateful that modern movies use so much CGI.
His daughter is Jennifer Jason Leigh . I can't even begin to imagine the pain she must of felt and the horror of her father dying because of a directors greedy negligence
I didn't know that about Jennifer. Was this after Fast times?
@@wolfpack9958 not 100% sure sorry
@@wolfpack9958 yes. My God she looks exactly like him!!!
It was right before Fast Times was released. They didn't have the best relationship but she and her sister sued the studio and got just under $1M.
@@DeathInEntertainment no money is worth the death of a family member. Landis and company got off easy to say the least.
I am surprised that this footage managed to make it to the public.
The only reason this footage exists at all, is because when this footage was shown at trial, someone got a copy of the tape. Then that copy was acquired by the Faces of Death knock off Death Scenes. Then that footage was included in the films series, in a film called Death Scenes 2. That is why the footage still exists to this day. Otherwise, the footage would have been destroyed after the trial.
This is absolutely horrific, you could see their torsos flying up after they were hit by the blades, poor man and poor kids, that director clapping his hands nonchalantly after what they've witnessed disgust me, you would think he would be frantic to call their names, try to check if they're okay, but it's obvious he doesn't care. So disturbing. May their souls rest in peace.
John Landis is the worst
John Landis is absolutely a cunt but clapping nonchalantly? He's calling for slate and a cut. Given the circumstances; most likely trying to do it in a calm manner in order to not induce more chaos.
Again, John Landis is excrement masquerading as a person but don't try to tack on incidents you surmised due to ignorance.
I think you’re confused here. Those are not their torsos, their torsos stayed in tact. Two were decapitated, one was crushed. What you’re seeing is the result of the blades hitting water and dirt.
It’s impossible to tell where individual body parts are here. You’re seeing what you want to, but what you’re saying is not there.
@@thomaswatkins3686yes you are correct. I saw photos of Vic’s head and torso in the book “Fly by Night”. His body was intact but his head was separated. It was not a clean cut though because Vic’s face was badly mangled below his eye area.
Wholly shit this footage is horrifying!
We just saw the death of 3 people. Very sad
In a different video the poster took it frame by frame and well...let's just say that you can clearly see everything that happens when the helicopter blades hit them. It's horrible that these 3 lives, 2 of them being children, were snuffed out because of negligence and just so they could get the best shot possible. The adult actor that died was Vic Morrow who was Jennifer Jason Leigh's father. I wonder if she still hates John Landis (the director) for this and for avoiding the consequences.
@@dangerdan2592 Swept under the rug...greed at its worst
YUP
I agree!
For those wondering some bone remains were not found. More than likely in the lake pond bed. Part of the boys skull was thrown as shown and never found.
Where did you heard that info?
TRAGIC 😥🙏🕊️
Crew members wading through the water found body parts. One guy lifted up Vic's torso. A true nightmare.
@@DeathInEntertainment I heard the guy who picked Vic's Torso was the Alan Smithee of the movie.
@@maximosalazar9985 💀 right tf, internet clowns man
The fact that this movie was still released is just mind blowing absurd.
I'm here cause of Nick Crowley's video, thanks for uploaded this
So pissed of that John Landis didn't looks like pay for this since he having good career after all of this mess
Poor Morrow and the kids...... this is so damn uneccesarry
This gave me anxiety just watching. Can't imagine how the kids/actor must have felt. Those poor parents...
Vic Morrow was one of my favorite actors. I was shocked and heart broken when that happened. I still think about him from time to time
As someone who has encountered 3 fatal accidents and married to a surgeon . As soon as the body recives enough pressure, it can burst, not in an explosion type of way but the whole thing can turn inside out (exposed organs or bones) so as soon as they rotor hits the bodies, you can see how the bodies burst in half of the impact. Im pretty sure they were deformed, like when you squish playdoh from top to bottom, it must be horrifying to see your own child in a massive pulp trying to figure out your whole life has just been made up of the worst moment in your whole existence
Oof. That’s so brutal. The poor parents having to see it happen. Cannot imagine
Yeah its horrible. In this case the boy and morrow were instantly decapitated by the blades and the girl was crushed under the landing leg of the helicopter
I found two police evidence photos of Vic Morrow's remains on the set. They are horrible! First, there is a photo of Mr. Morrow lying prone on the riverbank with his head and the top of his shoulders missing. The next photo really messes you up because it indeed graphically shows the truth about a legend that his severed head was indeed placed into a green garbage bag. In the photo, the bag has been opened--exposing Vic's severed head facing up. The lower part of his face has been blasted away with absolutely no lower jaw. Just a huge gapping potion of his face sliced through by the rotor tip. Mr. Morrow and the child were struck by both blades as they spun at 600 RPM--allowing the first strike to blast away his entire jaw and face below his nose which is twisted like an "S." Attached to his head below, is a small portion of his neck. Vic Morrow was not just decapitated--he was severed in half at the shoulders. The photo of him lying prone on the mudbank clearly shows this. May they all R.I.P. I was 15 when this horrible incident occurred, but I did not see the footage until a year later. I remember playing the footage on our BETA VCR that I recorded of the released accident footage in slow motion as the blade hits and you can see two heads flying off to the left of the screen. In the long shot footage, you can see one of the heads falling out of the spray caused by the rotor hitting the river. This was a horrible incident. I just cannot imagine what that film crew saw and experienced that July night--especially the one who picked Vic Morrow's severed head out of the water to place into that trash bag and the ones who dragged his body with no head and shoulders out of the river and onto the river bank.
And as a machinist I'd argue the body can burst, violently.
Russian Lathe accident if you have the stomach, but you literally see a go guy from standing to pulled into the lathe, wrapped around workpiece and then violently exploding, all in under 4 sec. All that was left looked like some crazy, macabre, wrung out dish towel.
You people are disgusting. Getting off on this gore. Absolutely sick.
John Landis should have been jailed for that. Those children were working under the table. How in the world does John sleep at night!!?? I would never be the same if I had let something like that happen. Shows you what kind of person he is!! 😱.
The district attorney's office did try their damndest to convict him but after a le lengthy trial he was acquitted. Why would the jury vote that way? Who knows.
@CaptainJZH because the DA was incompetent & tried to go for a murder charge. This wasn’t a deliberate murder. DA should have gone for lesser crime of Negligent homicide & then she’d win
.
What's more devastating about this is that you can see the chopper blade hitting them!!! Damn R.I.P Vic Morrow and the kids that were involved
1:24 That's 2nd assistant director Andy House in the orange wet suit, picking up Vic Morrow's torso (thinking he was just unconscious) and realizing he was decapitated. (Source : page 3 of the book FLY BY NIGHT by Steve Chain)
I can't imagine how mortified the film crew is after witnessing this horrific accident.
If he was alive today, he would’ve been 94.
Seeing this again in this quality is somehow so much worse than what I remembered. At 0:50 you can see the blades decapitating their heads off. I'm loss at words at how John Landis still has a career after this.
It must have been absolutely terrifying to record and see that happen on camera. I wonder what the man and kids last thoughts were.
@@jipuon6711 They may have not have known anything went wrong cause that looked extremely fast.
Morrow and one child were not simply decapitated but sliced in half. The other child was crushed.
@@GoldenScarab45 you can kind see it pretty messed up
Is that his head flying off? Oh my goodness 😥
Wow that is brutal.
what's even more infuriating than what the director did is that the movie and this scene were still released into the world for everyone to see
Not to mention he never directly apologized for the occured deaths. His whole defence summed up was "Please, I love making movies, don't take that away from me". Alec Baldwin did the same thing when he shot and killed Halyna Hutchins, and it looks like he's getting away with it too.
@@Gyrbae but was the Alec Baldwin case really his own negligence? From what I've heard it was just a technical error, unlike this which was just Landis being beyond stupid.
Cause Vic marrows family said it was fine.....alot of people ranting about this accident without checking the court side of it
@@Gyrbae if you ever get picked for jury duty.....please say no
@@saintniccage2818 Where did you find the information about Vic's family being "fine" with it? Because they settled? I supposed the parents of the dead children were also "fine" with it because they settled too? Please elaborate to me why John Landins deserved to get away scott free for manslaughter, I'd like to hear your reasoning behind it.
To see the actual behind the scenes footage, it shows that this short was going to end in a spectacular and destructively beautiful way. Just for reality to set in as you remember what this is about and what was about to happen to them.
There are a class of people.... who are above the law. And there's absolutely nothing you can do about it.
@@TrueNativeScot You are disgusting.
Cool it with your anti-semitic remarks.
@@EpEDlxD0lmfao
@@EpEDlxD0he never once said anything anti-Semitic so how about you cool it?
@@EpEDlxD0Bateman
It was so sad what happened to veteran actor like Vic Morrow. He was one of my heroes from Combat back in the 60's. And sad for the two child actors as well.
To anyone that is wondering what Spielberg thought about this, he never spoke to Landis again.
This is why human rights and labor laws are important.
1:21 pay attention to the guy in orange. he picks up a decapitated body and freaks out..
😮 omg! You are so right
Imagine just trying to help or check if your working colleagues are okay and instead picking up a body which got its head or even his whole torso violently ripped off by helicopter blades. I don’t think anyone could ever get over that. The fact that this pig of a director wasn’t charged with anything makes me sick. Even if they not suffered, that man accepted the possible consequences of his absolute irresponsible actions and not only is responsible for the deaths of three people, he also scarred the people who worked at the set like the guy in orange for life.
I miss Vic Morrow, sorry to all the children and family and friends.
I use to play on this set every weekend as a kid. This was one I was not there this particular time.
They knew this was highly illegal, and could cause serious irreversible damage, they have 0 excuses
The fact that the producer wasn't arrested and sentenced for endangering children is bs
That was the most intense movie set I think I have ever seen.
If you watch it in slow mo at 00:50 you can actually see how a rotary wing literally cut them in half.
Damn
they were decapitated
Man and boy was beheaded.
Girl was crushed by the helicopter 🚁
One time where the UA-cam warning warranted. This is horrific.
Imagine that they didn't even tell the parents that their child will act in situation where explosive happen. Truly bastard filmmaker.
prove it
What really annoys me. The close up footage seeing the actors did not need the real chopter present. They could have filmed them seperate. During the explosions. But they have to the scene twice. And they probably didn't want to pay or do the time.
Poor children
As a child, I was upstairs cleaning with my mother. I asked her “who is Vic Morrow” after seeing a poster for 1990 The Bronx Warriors. She said “he was mr turner in the bad news bears”. It was one of my favorite movies growing up: She said “he’s dead”. I didn’t believe her. I asked how. She said “he got hit by a helicopter”. It sounded so absurd I went to my aunt’s house and asked her. She said, identically, a helicopter hit him.
I literally thought my mother had phoned ahead and told her. I didn’t believe he was dead. Bear in mind, this was before the internet and people would just retire, so I believed that’s what happened.
As I got older, I kind of figured Mr Turner was so much like my own dad and such a big part of my formative film years, I didn’t want to believe somebody met a fate so terrible.
It’s like a surreal dream to that that happened to the same guy. To this day, I still don’t believe something so awful happened.
I read about the accident in a Steven Spielberg biography but it didn’t say much about what happened. Just that there was an accident on set and a man and two kids were killed. I didn’t know the whole story at the time I learned about what happened when I was older and looked it up.
Didn't know but there are actually photos of his mangled corpse after this, sick shit, the director should be behind bars
R.I.P. Vic Morrow
(1929-1982)
What was disgust was the cavalier attitude Landis had towards their deaths.
The people wondering how Landis got away with it: A really good lawyer. He crippled people during Blues Brothers and American WW In Paris
Also, the prosecution messed up. DA Lea D'Agostino was too theatrical. She ended up making Landis seem sympathetic. Re: The Blues Brothers...he blew up an entire gas station and that scene didn't even make the final cut!
You can see them vaporize in the mist. Holy moly. With connections you can get away with shooting a stage hand and a director or just be a madman and blast a lot of pyrotechnics near a helicopter, killing 3 people, two of them children.
They didn’t vaporize, their bodies hit the water after the chopper blade slashed through them.
Yeah it's tragic. You can see the red blood mist in the two frames after they got eviscerated by the heli blade, before the blades break apart and create the big splash in the water... You even see a head and a piece of one of the children's bodies fly off... Some of the most disturbing footage ever.
Best footage of this by far
You could see his head chop & pop up” Oh God🥺
I saw that! I replayed it slowed down because I didn’t want to believe what I saw. What a horrific tragedy. That’s a hell of a way to go.
This sounds like it was even more reckless than Rust or The Crow.
After discovering about this it made me realize how important the creation of Sag-Aftra was
Well... I never knew that. Unreal. Could of used dolls instead of real kids.
Gotta make it look REAL!
If filmed today, they could have actually used Unreal CGI :P
@@dpostuk Yeah, its tragic tbh.
@Tomyou're just a grammar nazi, aint ya?
@Tom Or could've is fine
So many different ways to be filmed that would have been simple and safe. This isn't one of those situations where with the gift.of hindsight we can say what went wrong, this should have and could have been easily avoided.
the scary part when i saw thier head of thier bodies
Also, the scene was added to the screenplay after the first draft. It was based on studio notes to make Vic's character more sympathetic.
Frank Marshall the producer hired the kids illegally and paid them under the table making them work at night. Spielberg was totally aware of it ( also producer and friends with john Landis )
Special effects coordinator and even the pilot warned Landis who wanted the helicopter to fly even lower. He ignored them and yelled at them. Spielberg was there but the studio ( and Landis ) denied it to save his ass. A truck driver for the special effects team testified that he brought him a car so he could leave and call his lawyers. The driver was paid off and then changed his account telling the cops he didn't even know Spielberg ( who ruined Tobe Hooper's career on Poltergeist ). Marshall escaped to Europe the next day to avoid being subpoenaed under the pretense that he was working on other films. Spielberg signed a letter stating he was never near the shooting location where the accident happened and was left alone. Landis was only fined and Spielberg distanced himself from him. The parents of he kids were paid 2 million dollars. The movie was a success.
I heard about this on the podcast “Let’s go to court”, but seeing what actually happened… it’s just so much worse than I imagined 😔
Yet somehow, Landis was NOT found guilty.
This was not an accident this was a murder
so dramatic
@@andrewjlowe1031not at all if you know the situation
It’s mind blowing that this happened, having a principal actor doing this scene along with two child actors who weren’t legally supposed to be there is insanity. This accident should’ve ended Jonathan Landis’s career, especially considering that he knew the risks and actively chose to ignore them which caused the decapitation of his principal actor and one of the two children as well as the crushing of the other child. It’s even more fucked up that you can clearly see the two heads go flying on impact, it happens so fast that it’s a blink and you’ll miss it type thing. There should’ve been charges filed especially the director, Landis should’ve been charged with manslaughter and neglect. The fact that no one was held responsible or legally liable is absolutely disgusting and shows a major flaw in the justice system.
Damn...I ain't got no pun for this tragedy. Rest in Peace Vic.
🤭 😅
I heard it was murder to shoot
RIP two children as well
@@The--Ghostspider66 God...I tried not to think about that but well...
@@ChocolatecatGP friend i know its sad but it has to be knowledged
Otherwise people who were involved well get away every time
Poor Kids😭
Wow truly horrible, there is a place much, much worser than Hell waiting for Landis.
This is pretty brutal to show for UA-cam. The split second the chopper blades hit you can see a head go flying high up in the air before instantly shadowed by the water explosion. At least it was quick…
I'm French and i had never heard about this event involving Landis .
But .. is he... is he... is that him clapping at the end of the footage?? 😳😳 Is he completely unaware of what just happened before his eyes???! That's insane. If that was me witnessing such a thing on my own fucking movie set, i would be screaming or reacting ... I don't know.. i would certainly not remain calm as if nothing happened..
What a sicko .
It looks like they're in a real war, there is no reason for the special effects to be that intense
💯💯 especially with children who were there with the production knowingly breaking child labor laws
Oh, God, you can actually, briefly see a cloud of blood pop up for a split second.
I know🙏🙏🙏
If you pause at the right time you can see a red cloud of blood when the rotor hits the actors
Whoa! This is the first time I've ever seen actual footage of the accident and it is truly horrific. Much worse than I ever imagined.
The actor Morrow said that just a year ago morrow took a life insurance policy because he dreamt that he would die in his next film. 🤯
This is the reason why I hate UA-cam😡: They can show Vic Morrow getting destroyed, but you CAN'T SHOW videos-or even speak of the truth-of what has happened in the 21st Century😳 (so far)! What kind of world am I living in?🤔
0:51 the last second of Vic morrow’s life
I didn’t expect that, this is gotta be the most shocking movie set death I’ve seen
Thanks Count Dankula, I had no idea.
That helicopter was right on top of them, too close.
Out of all the damn places the helicopter could've fell it landed right in the position to kill them , such a freak accident.it's heartbreaking and definitely disturbing that it happened to that man and those kids as they lost their lives.😔🙏
When making money and a cool scene is more important than the lives of innocent children... what the actual f***k... how am I just learning about this... and the fact they still pushed this movie out just removing this scene and acting like nothing happened is unforgivable jfc.
I actually can’t believe they continued the movie after that. But, I guess it’s what they gotta do ig
Yeah, in my opinion, the movie should've just been scrapped altogether.
The other segments hadn't even begun filming yet. Spielberg phoned it in. This was all happening while ET was dominating at the Box Office.
Absolutely disgusting! This is negligence of actors safety!
The fact you can see their heads getting decapitated...
Holy shit, you can see their heads fly up when the helicopter crashed
Yeah it’s brutal
Really? I watched slow motion but even at 0.5 speed, the action is too fast
@@electrictroy2010 Watch it again. Just before you see the rotor hit the water and the splash, another rotor had already taken their heads off. The heads go flying just prior to the water flying.
I will NEVER watch a film the director is in or involved in because of this movie- it’s straight up murder
It's been a week since I've seen this footage. Can't get it out of my head. :((
They got decapitaded and it just sends real horror down my spine