It wasn’t based on a great episode, and he scrapped his intended plan to do The Monsters Are Due on Maple Street after the accident, since the original segment would have had kids in it, been shot at night, and included nightime effects shots, and he thought he’d better stay away from that.

The Joe Dante and George Miller sequences in that movie are great, and they and their production teams had nothing to do with the Landis segment, so you can enjoy them guilt free.

Joe Dante’s episode of the 1980s series is cool too. It feels like a banned episode of Are You Afraid of the Dark?