

Safety protocols and stunt procedures were revamped following the horrific accident.
THE TWILIGHT ZONE MOVIE MOVIE
The loss of life on the movie of the canceled Twilight Zone show was terrible, made worse by the fact that child labor laws had been violated.

While shooting a scene involving a helicopter, actor Vic Morrow and child actors Renee Shin-Yi Chen and Myca Dinh Le were killed when it crashed. Three years before Stand By Me's release, the project based on Rod Serling's paranormal, sci-fi-infused TV series had three accidental deaths during filming. Stand By Me, like many other movies, was impacted by the changes to safety precautions that had been spurred by the tragic deaths on the set of The Twilight Zone movie. Related: Why One Of Stephen King's Favorite Stories Has No Full-Length Adaptation Scenes like Gordie's touching encounter with a deer in the wilderness and the famous sequence where the pack of youths desperately outrun a train have become pieces of the film that people easily recall when thinking of it. Stand By Me's depiction of childhood has plenty of great writing, acting, and directing to boot-which allows for some memorable and highly effective moments. Not only is the confusing and formative span of time between early childhood and main teenage years touched upon in great detail, but the individual challenges of each boy's personal life are also portrayed. The powerful dramedy, which is based on the Stephen King novella The Body, fleshes out quite a bit within its 89 minutes. Featuring big names like Wil Wheaton, River Phoenix, Corey Feldman, and Kiefer Sutherland, it follows a group of tween boys as they traverse the Oregon countryside while searching for the dead body of another missing boy.

The tragic events on the set of 1983's Twilight Zone: The Movie changed safety precautions and protocols on film sets, and they even impacted Rob Reiner's classic boys' coming-of-age film from 1986, Stand By Me.
