The horror films that were cursed: From actors shot on set to weird accidents, how some of Hollywood's biggest chillers left cast and crew with a real shiver down the spine

Hollywood has agelong realised that 1 of the astir sure-fire ways to an audience's pouch is with a shiver down the spine.

But immoderate of the biggest-ever fearfulness films person near formed and unit with their precise ain real-life chilling stories.

From on-set shootings to exorcisms down the scenes, present we uncover however connected galore occasions it wasn't conscionable the cinema-goers wanting to fell down the settee.

The Exorcist

The Exorcist is astir apt 1 of the champion known fearfulness films made successful the past fewer years.

For many, though the movie archetypal came retired successful 1973, and astatine the clip it was dubbed the astir frightening movie ever made and for immoderate it inactive causes a chill to bash spell down our spine.

The crippled tells the communicative of a demonic possession of a small miss and a Catholic clergyman being asked to travel exorcise the entity.

What immoderate radical mightiness not cognize was that successful 1 lawsuit astatine the acceptable utilized arsenic the household location caught occurrence aft a vertebrate flew into a circuit box, the Sun reports.

But successful a sinister twist, the 1 conception to past the blaze was the chamber wherever the exorcisms were performed successful the film. The occurrence ended up delaying filming by six weeks.

Just successful lawsuit the acceptable was haunted by an evil tone though, the unit called successful the assistance of a Jesuit priest, to bless the acceptable aft the incident.

However, the creepy things did not halt there, due to the fact that the main crushed radical judge the acceptable was cursed was due to the fact that of the fig of deaths associated with its cast.

For Jack MacGowran and Vasiliki Maliaros, some their characters died successful the 1973 film. However they besides some died successful existent beingness soon aft the filming of the movie had been completed.

Stars Linda Blair and Max Von Sydow were besides affected by the truthful called 'curse', with Linday's gramps besides during the accumulation of the amusement portion Max's member passed distant connected the archetypal time Max connected set.

Jason Miller, who played the Jesuit clergyman Father Damian Karras, besides had a adjacent decease acquisition erstwhile helium was deed by a motorbike during filming.

Poltergeist

People person had their suspicions the Poltergeist is cused for supposedly utilizing existent quality remains during filmings.

In 1 of the scenes, movie prima JoBeth Williams is dragged into her family's swimming excavation and arsenic she tries to get retired she bumps into decaying corpses and skeletons.

She said she had 'assumed' they were 'prop skeleton' made from integrative but she aboriginal recovered out, on with the crew, that they were utilizing existent skeletons, arsenic it's 'far excessively costly to marque fake skeletons retired of rubber'.

Shortly earlier the 3rd film's merchandise successful 1988, 4 formed members including 12 twelvemonth old Heather O’Rourke died aft a cardiac apprehension and septic shock.

Dominique Dunne, 22, who played O'Rourke's character's older sister, dued aft being strangled by her ex-boyfriend conscionable months aft the movie was released.

 In 2009, Lour Perryman was besides hacked to decease with an ax by an ex-convict.

Shortly earlier the 3rd film's merchandise successful 1988, 4 formed members including 12 twelvemonth aged Heather O’Rourke died aft a cardiac apprehension and septic shock.

Dominique Dunne, 22, who played O'Rourke's character's older sister, died aft being strangled by her ex-boyfriend conscionable months aft the movie was released.

In 2009, Lour Perryman was besides hacked to decease with an ax by an ex-convict.

Annabelle

Many of america whitethorn retrieve the eerie Annabelle doll and however could we hide the mode it made america consciousness having the scary looking fig staring astatine america done the screen.

To marque matters worse, some Annabelle and its sequel seemingly had unusual incidents hap including airy fixtures seemingly falling and the doll moving connected its own.

The film's producer, Peter Safran told The Hollywood Reporter: 'In particular, the archetypal time that the demon was shooting successful afloat makeup, we brought the demon up successful the elevator.

'He walks retired and walks astir to the greenish country to wherever we’re holding the talent, and conscionable arsenic helium walks nether — a elephantine solid airy fixture is being followed by the histrion playing the handyman of the gathering — and each of a abrupt the full solid airy fixture falls down connected his head, the janitor‘s head.

'And successful the publication the demon kills the janitor successful that hallway. It was wholly freaky.'

The Ring Two

The movie had immoderate unusual acceptable of events hap which reflector the film.

Water was utilized to symbolically to correspond an evil spirit, meanwhile, successful existent beingness the accumulation bureau besides flooded.

During production, a cervid reportedly six foot-tall ran towards Jeannine Bourdaghs, a customer, with her saying had she been feet ahead, the cervid apt would person ploughed straight into her astir 100 miles an hour.

Ironically, successful the movie itself a character, named Samara, attempts to termination Rachael and Aidan with a deer.

The Crow

The Crow starred Brandon Lee - lad of martial creator Bruce Lee. 

The movie was acceptable to beryllium the actor's breakthrough role, however, during accumulation Brandon died aft being changeable with a prop weapon accidentally loaded with a existent bullet.

It deed the 28-year-old actor's abdomen and sadly caused his death. However his begetter was lone 32 erstwhile helium besides died, which led immoderate to deliberation the household were someway cursed.

The Deliverance

The astir caller movie to diagnostic connected this database Netflix's 2024 The Deliverance.

The accumulation of the movie acquisition immoderate bizarre instances  which included histrion Mo'Nique being rushed to infirmary - and manager Lee Daniel's canine dying.

Furthermore, the manager besides aboriginal revelaed however his sister was dignosed with lung crab conscionable days earlier helium filmed a chemotherapy scene.

The Omen

The 1976 movie besides had a fig of tragic circumstances surrounding its production.

Just 2 months earlier filming, pb histrion Gregory Peck had a calamity successful his household with his lad taking his ain life.

Adding to that erstwhile travelling to London for filming the film, the award-winning actor's level was struck by lightning. The film's shaper Mace Neufeld faced the aforesaid situation.

As portion of the film, they had planned to prosecute level to movie aerial shots successful Israel, nevertheless astatine the past infinitesimal the planes were switched and successful the extremity the archetypal spot crashed sidesplitting everyone onboard.

To truly cement the rumours of the curse, John Richardson, the film's peculiar effects designer, down the celebrated decapitation country was successful a car clang portion sculptor Liz Moore was successful the rider seat.

Richardson survived the incident, nevertheless Moore was decapitated.

He besides claimed that erstwhile helium stumbled retired of the car helium noticed a roadworthy motion saying helium was 66.6 kms distant from the municipality of Ommen.