John Landis (Creepy Director) & NON-Creep George Miller
What a Creep
Margo Donohue
4.6 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 17 May 2024
⏱️ 62 minutes
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Summary
Season 25, Episode 2
John Landis
John Landis, a well-known director and father of past Creep Max Landis, has directed some of the most successful comedies, including Animal House, Trading Places, and Coming to America. While directing his segment for 1983’s The Twilight Zone: The Movie, a helicopter accident tragically resulted in the deaths of actor Vic Morrow and child actors Myca Dinh Le and Renee Shin-Yi Chen. In 1987, Landis was charged with involuntary manslaughter but was ultimately acquitted. In this episode, we discuss why he is a Creep.
Max Landis episode: https://www.spreaker.com/episode/comedy-creep-chris-d-elia-non-creeps-jen-kirkman-alice-hamilton-plus-max-landis-replay--49509814
Sources for this episode
- Fly By Night by Steve Chain
- Twilight Zone Accident: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twilight_Zone_accident
- The New York Times: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/06/25/movies/the-twilight-zone-the-movie-accident.html
- Movie Web: https://movieweb.com/vic-morrow-twilight-zone-accident/
- Reddit Thread: https://www.reddit.com/r/popculturechat/comments/14v9hfg/director_john_landis_felt_personally_betrayed_by/#lightbox
- LAD Bible: https://www.ladbible.com/entertainment/film/vic-morrow-death-twilight-zone-helicopter-crash-832067-20230913
- Slate: https://slate.com/culture/2012/07/the-twilight-zone-tragedy-how-vic-morrows-death-changed-the-way-films-are-made.html
- Far Out Magazine: https://faroutmagazine.co.uk/full-story-twilight-zone-the-movie-tragedy/
- Buzz Feed: https://www.buzzfeed.com/crystalro/actors-who-died-while-making-a-movie?fbclid=IwAR0titX2fEpMGUBfgNeOsNOPyBVWJZcNga0ihOfonAODrkNmAraJaVAw1JM
- Showbiz Cheat Sheet: https://www.cheatsheet.com/entertainment/gruesome-helicopter-accident-set-twilight-zone-the-movie-left-vic-morrow-two-child-actors-dead.html/
- Los Angeles Times (1988) https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1988-08-28-tm-1446-story.html
- Shudder “Cursed Films” https://meaww.com/cursed-films-twilight-zone-the-movie-set-vic-morrow-death-john-landis-steven-spielberg-helicopter
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to What a Creep. The show with Margotaniu and Sonia Mansfield talking about |
| 0:06.0 | creeps from the past to the present. |
| 0:08.8 | This is your quick guide to the biggest Creeps, jerks, ass, and losers, the best of the worst. |
| 0:15.0 | From two nice ladies who want the world to be a Creep, this is Margot, you and my cohort in Crepe as always is the |
| 0:32.1 | amazing Sonia Mansfield. |
| 0:33.6 | Hey Sonia. |
| 0:34.7 | Hello my friend! |
| 0:35.8 | Hello my friend, we are the podcast that talks about Creeps from the past to the present. |
| 0:41.0 | This is a funny episode because we talked about this creep's son for being a creep not too long ago. |
| 0:48.0 | We have a link in the show notes if you want to check that out for yourself. |
| 0:51.0 | So this creepiness runs in the family. It's in their DNA. Or were |
| 0:56.8 | they raised that way? I don't know. But we are talking about Director John Landis and just in |
| 1:02.0 | case it's your first time listening to the show, |
| 1:04.0 | we always end it with somebody who's not a creep. |
| 1:06.2 | So that'll think you. |
| 1:07.2 | You'll feel a little bit more uplifted by the time you're done. |
| 1:10.4 | This is one of those tougher episodes because we're talking about kids are involved in this story. |
| 1:15.0 | So think about that before you move forward. |
| 1:18.0 | Also I should warn you, we use salty language in this program. |
| 1:22.0 | That's just what we do. That's just how we speak. We're adults. We're |
| 1:25.1 | too old to change, so deal with it. |
| 1:28.0 | Shit, damn! We have a basic Facebook page if you're looking to send the suggestions for creeps and for non-crapes. |
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