The Twilight Zone: The Movie (1983)  A night shoot in the canyons above Los Angeles ended with three dead and Hollywood changed forever.

Before the first reel of Twilight Zone: The Movie ever reached a theatre, the production had already claimed three lives. The night of July 23, 1982, began like any other night shoot,  generators humming, walkie-talkies crackling, the smell of smoke machines threading through the Santa Clarita scrubland. It ended in blood, wreckage, and decades of unanswered questions about who was truly responsible for the most catastrophic on-set accident in Hollywood history.

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