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Actors Who Died After Filming Horror Movies by EbukaHades10(m): 11:34pm On Jun 14, 2018
1:The Exorcist
The Exorcist is arguably one of the most terrifying films of all time, but it's not just scary to watch on the big screen.
The movie was associated with a ton of bizarre incidents like a fire that burned down the entire set (except for the possessed girl's bedroom, which is extra-super creepy) and a lightning strike that took out a 400-year-old cross across the street from where the movie was premiering. In fact producers were so weirded out by the things that were happening that after the fire they hired a priest to come bless the cast, crew, and the entire set. Some people even thought that the film itself was cursed — Billy Graham famously said that "an actual demon lived inside the celluloid reels of the film."
According to The Guardian , the film was also associated with the deaths of nine different people, from the night watchman to a special effects professional. Most notably, actor Jack MacGowran, who played Burke Dennings in the movie (the guy who gets thrown out a window by the angry demon) contracted influenza during the 1973 London epidemic and died from complications. Now, people die from complications of influenza all the time, but MacGowran died right around the time of the premiere and eight people followed him, so … we like to think it was a coincidence. Right?
Source:http://www.grunge.com/125898/actors-who-died-after-filming-horror-movies/sl/the-first-victim-of-the-exorcist-curse
Re: Actors Who Died After Filming Horror Movies by EbukaHades10(m): 11:38pm On Jun 14, 2018
2: Poltergeist
Poltergeist is a classic tale of people who live in a house built on a cemetery and who are haunted by toy clowns, partially eaten by trees, and sucked into intra-dimensional closets. In other words, it's a clear metaphor for life in American suburbia.
The original Poltergeist was one of the scariest movies of its time, so scary that some people think it irked the actual forces of evil, who rose in protest and haunted the set and the cast for real. No one really knows why the forces of evil would give a rat's ghost about a Hollywood movie, unless they were annoyed by the assertion that they would ever do anything as lame as hang out inside a television set.
Anyway, the Poltergeist franchise has been linked to so many deaths that most people have lost count, and the first was Dominique Dunne, who played the haunted family's teenage daughter.
According to People , Dunne was murdered by her ex-boyfriend in 1982, the same year
Poltergeist debuted in American theaters. John Sweeney, a talented chef who worked as Wolfgang Puck's chief assistant, strangled her a few weeks after she ended their relationship. Which does seem kind of like just another day in Hollywood, except she wasn't the last
Poltergeist actor to die.
Source:http://www.grunge.com/125898/actors-who-died-after-filming-horror-movies/sl/the-poltergeist-curse-is-just-getting-started
Re: Actors Who Died After Filming Horror Movies by EbukaHades10(m): 11:45pm On Jun 14, 2018
3: Poltergeist II
The scary evil preacher in Poltergeist II wasn't quite as iconic as the terrifying, terrifying, terrifying clown or the little old lady who said, "This house is clean" (it wasn't), but he still registered at least a 9 on the creep-o-meter and for many people is the most memorable element of the film. He also died during post-production, thus proving once and for all that no one should ever be in a Poltergeist movie, ever. Except he was actually dying during filming — the sunken eyes, the yellowish skin, and the skeletal frame that helped make the character so terrifying weren't special effects, they were symptoms of late-stage cancer.
The actor's name was Julian Beck, and he was something of a theater icon — with his wife Judith Malina, he founded The Living Theatre , a repertory company known for experimental drama. Beck was diagnosed with stomach cancer years before Poltergeist II premiered, so it was no great surprise to anyone that he died so soon after completing the film. Therefore his death was not the result of a curse — unless the forces of darkness actually prophesied his participation in the movie and then gave him stomach cancer
two years before they actually started shooting the film. But you know, those forces of darkness are pretty wily, so anything's possible.
Source:http://www.grunge.com/125898/actors-who-died-after-filming-horror-movies/sl/more-poltergeist-cursing
Re: Actors Who Died After Filming Horror Movies by EbukaHades10(m): 11:54pm On Jun 14, 2018
4: Poltergeist III
Honestly, this isn't even the last Poltergeist actor connected to this so-called curse, but it's the last one we're going to talk about because it's starting to get kind of redundant at this point. Will Sampson, who played the Native American shaman Taylor (and incidentally was also the dude who threw a hydrotherapy cart through a window at the end of One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest), died in 1987 after undergoing a risky heart-lung transplant, just about a year after the release of the second
Poltergeist film. But before you say, "Curse!" keep in mind that Sampson had a degenerative condition called
scleroderma , which causes heart, lung, and skin problems. The operation, which had a very low chance of success to begin with, was a last-ditch effort to save his life.
Maybe you're still a little suspicious that there was a curse at work, so let's just sum up the whole Poltergeist discussion with a word from Oliver Robins , who played tree-food Robbie in the franchise: "I don't think anyone that was involved in the movie ever really took the curse seriously. There is no curse — it is just tragic coincidences. … People may try and connect the dots and make something out of it, but they are possibly going to make connections that probably aren't there." And that's all there is to say about that. Until the curse claims someone else. Which it won't. Because there's no curse. Probably.
Source:http://www.grunge.com/125898/actors-who-died-after-filming-horror-movies/sl/yet-more-poltergeist-cursing
Re: Actors Who Died After Filming Horror Movies by Nobody: 12:54am On Jun 15, 2018
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Re: Actors Who Died After Filming Horror Movies by ipobarecriminals: 1:16am On Jun 15, 2018
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Re: Actors Who Died After Filming Horror Movies by kingBolton: 2:53am On Jun 15, 2018
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Re: Actors Who Died After Filming Horror Movies by mosho2good: 7:30am On Jun 15, 2018
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