Sometimes you make a small film and it becomes a huge success. Sometimes a huge movie fails to impress the audience. And then there are movies that are just plain sinister. We’ve collected scary real-life stories that surrounded the production of some well-know movie franchises. In some cases, the tragedies kept on happening even years after the cursed films were released.
Poltergeist
A number one on all the cursed movies lists of all time, the Poltergeist trilogy has been surrounded by mystery and death for all of its run time. “The Poltergeist curse” originally hit actress Dominique Dunne who was strangled by her boyfriend before the second movie went into production. Young Heather O’Rourke aka Carol Anne died months before the third movie came out after complications from an acute bowel obstruction. The origin of the curse is often associated with the rumors that real human skeletons were used during the production of the original movie. Surprisingly, the producers weren’t scared to reboot the franchise, releasing a remake two years ago.
Halloween
What does a movie need to become a successful franchise? A good writer and a loyal producer, for starters. The Michael Myers saga had both and bloomed into an eight-movie-long blood-splattered series.
Who knows which direction the series would have taken if the mighty producer Moustapha Akkad wasn’t killed with his daughter during bombings in Amman, Jordan, while waiting in the hotel lobby in 2005? It was just a year after Debra Hill, co-writer of the original Halloween died from cancer. Akkad’s son Malek took over as the man who calls the shots on Michael Myers’ action and greenlit two remakes dedicated to his father.
Resident Evil
Resident Evil movie series had its share of gloriously gory demises and the upcoming sixth installment Final Chapter promises to be the most violent one. Sadly, the production of the finale was just as chaotic and bloody.
First, British stuntwoman Olivia Jackson got into a freak accident, when she crashed into a metal camera arm while filming an intense motorbike scene. The injuries were so heavy that her left arm had to be amputated while her face ended up covered in scars. And several days later crew member Ricardo Cornelious was killed by a Hummer, which fell onto him from the rotating platform.
The Crow
The making of the 1994 cult thriller was messy (to say the least) from day one. On the first day, a crew member ended up burning over 90% of his body after a crane ran into a power cable. But the most outrageous thing happened when the film’s lead star, Brandon Lee, was fatally shot while filming a scene.
The prop crew didn’t inspect the props properly and left it in charge of an inexperienced crew member, who didn’t even check the guns before the filming started. Lee got a bullet in the abdomen and died after six hours of surgery. The whole story was echoing the death of Brandon Lee’s legendary father, Bruce Lee, who got killed on set of a movie 20 years prior to The Crow’s tragedy.
Superman
While in comic books and movie adaptations, Superman was almost invincible, in real world a connection to the Superman world prove to be fatal for the people involved.
George Reeves, who played the alien superhero in TV series Adventures of Superman, was found dead in 1959 and people still speculate on whether it was a suicide or not. Christopher Reeves, who starred in four Superman feature films, fell from a horse in 1995 and was left paralyzed from the waist down. Add the career misfortunes of other actors who played Superman (Dean Cain anyone? How about Tom Welling?) and you get a proper “Superman Curse” Too bad no one can identify the big villain behind all of these mysterious events.
The Omen
Don’t mess with the dark forces. Also, don’t play with tigers. The Omen’s animal handler learned the latter the hard way, when he was killed but a tiger right after the production was wrapped. Then the special effects expert’s girlfriend was beheaded in a freak car accident, the tragedy that mirrored events of the film.
The planes of the cast and crew members were hit by lighting on multiple occasions. And all of the actors who played Damien in the following films (and there are 5 The Omen movies to date) felt the presence of some mystical power and on most occasions quit acting. The latest episode in the ongoing “The Omen curse” saga occurred just last year, when Harvey Spencer Stephens (who played Damien in the original film) attacked two cyclist and punched them in the face. The actor will face 12 months of jail time.
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