How 'Midnight Rider' Victim Sarah Jones Lost Her Life: A Train, a Narrow Trestle and 6. Seconds to Escape. The Feb. 2. 0 death of 2. Sarah. Jones on the set of Midnight Rider outside Doctortown, Ga., spread grief and anger through Hollywood. It has led to an industrywide reckoning on safety standards and inspired some Oscars attendees to wear black ribbons on their lapels in her memory. Many of the details of the accident remain murky and unknown.

But now a THR reconstruction, based on an exclusive eyewitness account and interviews with Jones’ parents and others, reveals harrowing new details of what happened when a 2. Read THR's Exclusive Interview With The Parents of Sarah Jones. Joyce. Gilliard, a 4. Midnight Rider, an indie biopic about Gregg.

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Allman featuring William. Hurt as the 1. 97. Altamaha River in Wayne County, a wild, untamed land full of rivers, Spanish moss and gnats. As soon as I got to the location, I started to feel funny,” she said during a series of interviews. It didn’t feel right. I didn’t feel safe there.”The 1. Altamaha River, Wayne County, Ga. Jones, already known in the local production community as an indefatigable worker with a cheery disposition, apparently didn’t reveal any concerns to co- workers.

But her father, Richard. Jones, says that in a phone conversation the night before she died, his daughter told him she was “nervous about a few things.” He says, “She was a little bit surprised about it being low- budget.

She made a comment that some of the people asking her questions should have known more than her, and she thought that was odd.” The day she died, says her father, was her first on the set. For the full, exclusive interview with Jones' parents, click here.)EARLIER: Hundreds Mourn Sarah Jones at Emotional Memorial. As a barefoot Hurt paced, rehearsing his lines, Gilliard watched nervously.

She was responsible for the actor’s hair, and as the wind picked up, she darted in and out of shots before retreating behind the cameras, where she traded small talk with Jones. As the day wore on, director Randall. Miller moved the shoot from the land beside the river onto the narrow gridwork of the trestle itself, which extends over the edge of the Altamaha. The trestle’s wood and metal bottom was covered with pebbles and had gaping holes in some places. The blustery wind rang through the girders, making it hard to stay steady, says Gilliard.

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From shore, several dozen yards away, a voice shouted to the crew that in the event a train appeared, everyone would have 6. Everybody on the crew was tripping over that,” says Gilliard. A minute? Are you serious?” By now, she and two other crewmembers were nervous enough that before shooting, they gathered in an informal prayer circle. Lord, please protect us on these tracks,” murmured Gilliard. Surround us with your angels and help us, Lord.”While Gilliard prayed, Jones helped load film, monitor the cameras and transport gear.

A fresh- faced South Carolinian with a passion for travel and books, Jones wasn’t really the type to fret much. The crew was filming a dream sequence, and they had placed a twin- size metal- framed bed and mattress in the middle of the tracks.

Then, Gilliard looked up and saw a light in the distance, followed by the immense howl of a locomotive. It was a train — and it was hurtling toward them. VIDEO: ‘Midnight Rider’ Victim Sarah Jones Remembered on Oscars Broadcast. Two stories high, screaming with the sound of a blast horn and possibly brakes, the train was nearly as wide as the trestle.

Gilliard says Miller yelled at everyone to run. Jones, several bags slung over each shoulder, shouted something about what to do with the expensive camera equipment. Drop it!” Gilliard and others yelled. Just drop it!”The only viable escape route to the closest shore lay in running toward the approaching train, now traveling, by one estimate, at almost 6.

Gilliard tried to make her way onto the metal gangplank parallel to the tracks. Miller and another crewmember began tugging at the bed, trying to remove it from the train’s path, fearing it might cause a derailment. But as the train approached, Gilliard says, they abandoned their efforts. Hairstylist Joyce Gilliard, injured on the set of "Midnight Rider," at her home.

Photo credit: Terry Manier)Before Gilliard knew it, the train was upon her. She found herself clinging to one of the girders. But the blast of pressure and wind from the train’s passing ripped Gilliard’s left arm away from her body and straight into the train. It snapped like a stick.

With one hand still on the girder, Gilliard looked down and saw bone sticking out of her sweater. And then she saw blood. She grabbed a sheet that had come loose from the mattress and wrapped her bleeding arm inside it. With the train howling past just inches behind her, Gilliard threw herself onto two metal wires that stretched between the girders and along the gangplank, thrust her head out over the river below and shut her eyes. I saw my life, my kids, my family, all of it before me,” she says. I was sure I was going to die.”PHOTOS: Hollywood's Notable Deaths of 2.

One of the first things she saw when she opened her eyes again was a lifeless Jones, her body and face mangled. Like Gilliard, Jones had tried to find shelter on the gangplank. But when the train hit the bed and mattress, it sent debris flying. Something may have hit Jones, possibly propelling her into the train’s path. In the melee, Miller also fell on the tracks. A still photographer nearby managed to pull him away just in time.

He was sobbing, Gilliard says, trying to cope with the disaster. Hurt also survived unscathed. The traumatized crew helped collect Jones’ body. A team of paramedics arrived within 2. Within an hour after the incident, Gilliard was airlifted to a Savannah hospital to be treated for a compound fracture in her arm and other injuries. Five other crewmembers also required medical care.

A police investigation was opened, and federal officials soon were swarming the marshy countryside asking about permissions, permits, easements and the complex language of film contracts. Click above to enlarge image. The multiple investigations since have widened to include the federal Occupational Safety and Health Administration and the Georgia Bureau of Investigation.

Georgia law enforcement authorities are treating the investigation into Jones’ death as a negligent homicide, setting the stage for the biggest safety- related scandal to rock Hollywood in at least a decade. The exact details of what precautions were — or were not — taken on the set that day and whether the production even had permission to film on the tracks are being sorted out.

But in the days following the disaster, recriminations of shockingly lax safety protocols began to emerge.“This was no accident,” says Ray. Brown, president of the Motion Picture Studio Mechanics union local 4. Atlanta and a Jones colleague, suggesting the incident was avoidable. When I have done train work or around trains for smaller productions up to major blockbusters, there are always several railroad personnel there with their hard hats, glasses and radios, and I can’t imagine a more structured safety protocol even beyond airlines than the rail system.”STORY: 'Vampire Diaries' Pays Tribute to 'Midnight Rider' Camera Assistant Sarah Jones Jones’ parents are reluctant to cast blame until investigations are complete.

A shaken Miller called them after the incident to express his condolences. I don’t know myself really what part Randy Miller played in all of this, but he was very upset that day,” says Richard Jones.

He was saying he was so sorry.” Since then, the Joneses have heard nothing from top execs associated with the film. Their daughter’s death prompted a tidal outpouring of grief and anger from around the world.

Years After Pink Flamingos, John Waters Says the Midnight Movie Is “Dead”“Why stay home at midnight? What are you going to see there?” —The trailer for Pink Flamingos. Forty- five years ago, John Waters’ Pink Flamingos premiered at the Baltimore Film Festival. Eventually, it would become the midnight movie in residence at the legendary Elgin Theater in Manhattan, succeeding Alejandro Jodorowsky’s El Topo—the first movie to make its bones by being exhibited exclusively at midnight, according to J. Hoberman and Jonathan Rosenbaum’s seminal 1. Midnight Movies. Because even at the height of the director- driven, boundary- pushing New Hollywood era, only at midnight could you screen a film about a competition to be “the filthiest person alive”—one that (spoiler alert) climaxed with its star eating dog excrement.“It still works, I know that,” Waters tells Vanity Fair.

It didn’t get nicer; it might have even gotten more hideous. Even people who think they’ve seen everything are sort of stunned by it.

They may hate it, but they can’t not talk about it. That was the point. It was a terrorist act against the tyranny of good taste.”Today, Pink Flamingos can be streamed, downloaded, and rewatched on home video (in a Criterion Collection set, no less). It still plays the occasional midnight, but Waters notes that his films do much better now at the box office when they are not shown at the stroke of 1.

And indeed, the old maxim that “They don’t make ’em like they used to” applies to midnight movies as well. According to Waters, films of singular vision and outré sensibility—such as David Lynch’s. Eraserhead,The Rocky Horror Picture Show, and George Romero’s original Night of the Living Dead—have been coopted by platforms like the Sundance Film Festival and savvy studio marketers. I don’t think there is such a thing as a midnight movie [anymore],” the director proclaims. That era] is over. It’s a dead genre.”That’s sad, laments his nostalgic interviewer, who fondly recalls mid- 1.

Chicago’s funky 3 Penny Cinema to see the French anti- war film The King of Hearts, coupled with the animated shorts “Bambi Meets Godzilla” and Lenny Bruce’s “Thank You, Masked Man.”“It’s not sad,” Waters insists. Time marches on. That’s like saying it’s sad there’s talkies.”To be sure, showing movies at midnight is still a going concern at venues nationwide, from the IFC Center in Manhattan and the Coolidge Corner Theatre in Brookline, Massachusetts, to the Music Box Theatre in Chicago, and the Nuart Theatre in Los Angeles. To quote the Coolidge’s “After Midnite” online guide, programming is given over to “horrifying, weird, camp, avant garde, tripped- out, and cult films.” That covers a lot of ground, from the adrenaline rush of the original Point Break to The Void (think Assault on Precinct 1. It’s just that in most cases, according to the man who pioneered the programming tag, the films being showed are not, strictly speaking, midnight movies.”Midnight movies were all about trying to figure out how to reach a strong but very narrow audience economically,” said Ben Barenholtz, the former owner of the Elgin, which closed in 1. Joyce Theater. More specifically, the trick was launching a film at midnight that had not already enjoyed a conventional theatrical run. The successful ones are very few, actually,” he continued.

As with cult movies, “you can’t make a midnight movie; the audiences make a midnight movie.”The Joyce Theater in New York City, where the Elgin Theater once stood, before closing in 1. A scene from El Topo, 1. Large photograph, by Richard Levine/Alamy; Inset, from Prods Panic/Rex/Shutterstock. Audiences made El Topo, an inscrutably allegorical and violent revisionist western that Barenholtz first saw at the Museum of Modern Art. While some walked out of the screening, he sat fascinated.

When he was offered the film for the Elgin, he decided to buck conventional exhibition wisdom. I was told by the experts that no one would come out to see a film at midnight,” Barenholtz said. One thing I’ve learned is never to listen to experts.” (Indeed, the 8. Alina.)El Topo premiered at the Elgin in December of 1. Barenholtz screened it daily at midnight except on weekends, when late showings of other films might push start times to one a. He did not solicit reviews from the mainstream press, nor did he widely advertise. Instead, he let simple signage and word of mouth create a sensation.

John Lennon was one of the film’s acolytes.) “It started out pretty big,” Barenholtz said. After a week or two, we were selling out a 6. Everybody was talking about it. A friend of mine was telling me what a bad film it was, and I asked him how many times he had seen it, and he said five. It became the thing to do.”Today, few midnight movies meet the standard as defined by Barenholtz. The one most commonly cited by exhibitors is The Room, written and directed by and starring Tommy Wiseau. The Room—which even inspired a recent SXSW hit about its origins, directed by and starring James Franco has attained Golden Turkey status as a film that is so bad, it’s good.

And as with Rocky Horror, the audience is part of the show, heckling the movie or perhaps throwing plastic spoons at the screen (don’t ask).“In certain cities, it’s still a staple,” said Mark Valen, West Coast buyer for Landmark Theatres; he also programs the Nuart Theatre. Whenever we get Tommy Wiseau to come to one of our theaters, it’s a madhouse; we sell out. But that’s a separate animal, like The Rocky Horror Picture Show.

You have to see it with an audience. If you watch it alone at home, you’re like, ‘What?’ ”Really, though, there may be no one- size- fits- all definition for the term. Barenholtz also says that the challenge of programming movies at midnight is resisting the urge to categorize and pigeonhole: “Every midnight film has a different audience. Watch Season 6 Of One Tree Hill Online. The audience for El Topo is not the same as the audience for The Harder They Come or Eraserhead.”These days, the first generation of midnight- movie staples have lost some of their drawing power, as have vintage Hollywood oddities such as Plan 9 from Outer Space and Reefer Madness—movies unearthed in the 1. But films that fall in these categories can still surprise: Coolidge program manager Mark Anastasio reports that the big hit of last fall’s “Midnight Movies 1. The Holy Mountain, Jodorowsky’s 1.

El Topo. “That’s a film we screen about every other year, and each time the demand for it is greater and greater,” he said in an email.)Now, the game is all about cultivating a new audience, Valen says. A lot of the people who used to go to midnights 2.

I don’t want to just rely on the old standbys. I want to try new things.”He regrets, for example, that the Andy Samberg comedy Hot Rod has not yet caught on at midnight. I would have thought the fans would want to see it with a bunch of people laughing. But I haven’t given up on it yet.”The Music Box Theatre in Chicago has been programming movies to screen at midnight for about 3.

General manager Ryan Oesterich, too, will book midnight movie staples, but is also always on the lookout for new or overlooked films perhaps plucked from the festival circuit, or bizarre cult curiosities that may appeal to the hardcore filmgoer. Recently played at midnight were the post- apocalyptic zombie thriller Train to Busan, the polarizing Neon Demon, and 1. Boardinghouse, which stakes its claim to infamy as being the first horror film shot on video.“There’s no movie like it,” exclaimed Cameron Worden, a programmer for the Chicago Film Society, which co- presented the Music Box screening with Odd Obsessions Movies, a local video store. You have to show this thing, this bizarre object that exists in the world.”But Oestreich has also found success catering to 1. Along with films such as The Goonies and The Lost Boys, “a film like Jurassic Park works at midnight,” he observed.

It’s one millennials saw in theaters when they were young or they had it on V. Watch War Machine IMDB. H. S. They remember that it scared them and they loved it.