Director John Hughes, creator of iconic 80s and 90s films such as Home Alone, The Breakfast Club, Planes, Trains and Automobiles, Uncle Buck, Weird Science, National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation, Sixteen Candles and Ferris Bueller's Day Off died of a heart attack in Manhattan yesterday, according to the Washington Examiner. Hughes joins a growing number of iconic figures from Michael Jackson to that Oxiclean guy to pass away in what has been dubbed the 'summer of death'.
Hughes was also the first to pioneer the fourth movie in a series, an increasingly used movie tactic by aged directors aiming to rekindle their youth and turn a profit off a worn plot. Hughes first experimented with this technique in Beethoven's 4th and later perfected it with Home Alone 4 which was filmed in South Africa and followed Kevin McCalister through his parent's divorce.
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