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Today we’re talking about curses.
No not curse words, like curses that people get after partaking in something bad or creepy.
It’s often said that actors who have worked on horror films become cursed or haunted themselves,
and while some people don’t believe it, there’s some that do.
How about we let some of the actors share their own stories with today’s list of Top
10 Actors Who Were Cursed After A Movie Role.
Let’s jump in.
10.
Starting off our list at number 10 is Josh Brolin.
Right now, most people are stuck with the image of Josh Brolin playing Thanos from the
Marvel Universe.
But believe it or not, he has an acting career outside of playing the big purple villain.
He was actually in one of the most legendary horror film series of all time; The Amityville
Horror.
He took on the lead role in the 1979 adaptation, but was really hesitant at first.
Apparently when going for the role, there was no script to review, so he decided to
read the book to get an idea if this was a project for him or not.
He explained during an interview with The A.V Club, I quote: "I was reading this novel
at night and it's two in the morning.
Well, I would hang my pants on the door of the bedroom, I'd throw them over the top corner
of the main door coming into the bedroom, and all of a sudden the pants fell off the
door and onto the floor.
I was at a scary part of this book so it surprised me.
I started laughing and after I recovered I thought, I've got to do this movie!.
And so he did.
However, he later explained that things were never the same after being a part of the movie.
He said that objects around his house continued to move on their own and he doesn’t feel
that it’s a coincidence but that some of the hauntings have actually stayed with him.
I don’t know if any paycheck is worth that, I would not be okay.
9.
At number 9 we have Vera Farmiga.
The actress plays the paranormal investigator, Lorraine Warren, in the horror movie series,
The Conjuring.
After watching her performance, we would never know that the actress had a difficult time
during filming and suffers from it still.
The Conjuring was released back in 2013 and is based on the real-life haunting of the
Perron Family.
The actress says she felt uneasy about taking the job and filming the movie all together.
But when she did, she refused to bring her script home from set.
She reported that she had this fear that it would cast bad energy into her house.
However, she claims that it didn’t work.
She tells a story during an interview, saying that one night she opened her laptop and noticed
three slashes across the screen, like a claw mark, without any explanation.
If that wasn’t scary enough, she said the first day after she finished shooting she
returned home to New York where she woke up with the same marking on her thigh.
She said: It was these three, very distinct, what looks like claw marks, that long nails
or long fingertips … could make.
There’s clear evidence of some strangeness that occurred.
My husband did not do that to me.
I did not scratch some mosquito bite.
It’s inexplicable”.
We know she’s not lying because during filming, the real Perron family visited the set.
After their day on set, Carolyn Perron reported that she was pushed to the ground once she
returned home; she said she felt like something from set had come home with her.
Actress Vera Farmiga seems to have brought something with her too, some sort of cursed
energy.
8.
Coming in at number 8 is Linda Blair; the 13 year old actress at the time who took on
the role of Regan in one of the most iconic horror films to this day.
There has been controversy since the film’s release back in 1973 regarding if the film
is actually haunted and has an evil curse.
For starters, a film broke out on set and burnt down the entire set of Regans household,
however, her bedroom was the one room that didn’t catch flames.
The cast was so shaken to the core, believing that demons had possessed the house, that
they had a real pastor exorcise the new set before they began filming again.
Things were especially bad for actress Linda Blair who had to film a horrific possession
scene.
While filming the scene, she reported she was thrown out of the bed and onto the floor,
causing her to injure her back.
Once filming was over, religious officials believed the young girl had actually become
possessed and suggested she go through a real exorcism.
The Exorcist curse is nothing to mess around with either, after the release of the film,
a total of 8 deaths occurred, actors and production that were all a part of the movie.
Linda Blair remembers it as a difficult time of her life and doesn’t enjoy speaking about
it.
What do you guys think?
Do you think the Exorcist Curse is a real thing or all just a coincidence?
7.
Taking our number 7 spot is Jennifer Carpenter, also known as Emily Rose from the horror movie
The Exorcism of Emily Rose.
Just hearing the title we know this role would be a hard one to play.
Although the actress did enjoy taking on the role, she told Dread Central that while filming
the religious horror movie, strange things started happening to her after hours.
She says she does believe there was some sort of negative energy or spirit that was attached
to that film.
She said that one particular thing kept happening and it was her radio would turn on by itself
in the middle of the night.
Why it was so scary was because it happened around 3:00am which is the significant time
that’s in the movie; it’s said to be the devil’s hour.
She explained that one time it was so scary because her radio turned on, blasting the
song ALIVE by Pearl Jams, really loud.
Other co-stars admitted that their televisions and radios would also turn on at 3am each
night, so the haunted curse was onto more than just Jennifer Carpenter.
6.
In at number 6 is JoBeth Williams; the actress took on the motherly role in the 1982 horror
classic film The Poltergeist.
A variety of terrifying things were reported happening on the set, but one thing that left
JoBeth Williams in shock was her skeleton scene.
She expresses in interviews that Steven Spielberg, the writer and producer, insisted on using
real human skeletal remains as props for the movie.
The actress felt that these skulls may have spirits that remained with her even outside
of the set.
She admitted during an interview that she thinks she was haunted afterwards by a spirit,
and that she noticed things moving on their own throughout her house.
While filming, the actress rented an apartment in LA since she wasn’t from there, and said
the pictures on her wall would be slanted and crooked when she got home from set.
She said she would fix them and make them straight, but every day they would still move.
She’s not the only one who experienced a curse from that movie, so I can’t imagine
she’s making anything up.
5.
Half way through our list at number 5 is Isabelle Adjani.
The actress won a Cesar Award for her performance in the movie Possession, but the actress says
the intense physical and emotional demands of the role were difficult to come back from.
The movie came out in 1981 and is known to be one of the most horrifying and shocking
films.
The actress told a French magazine that it took her years of therapy to get her possessed
character Anna, out of her system.
She said she suffered from a variety of mental illness elements after shooting the movie
and says she would never attempt another role like it.
Sources around her were convinced that she was in fact possessed even after filming stopped.
You know there’s something wrong when you have to go through years of therapy after
shooting a movie.
Maybe I don’t want to be an actress…
4.
In the number 4 spot is Patrick Wilson; the actor who played Ed Warren in The Conjuring
alongside Verma Farmiga who played his wife.
We already heard her side of the story, but turns out Patrick Wilson also felt cursed
after being involved in the movie.
He opened up during an interview and explained that he began to realize weird things happening
while filming the second film in 2016.
One particular incident that happened on set was so disturbing that they brought a priest
to bless the set before they continued to film.
He told Metro: It was a huge curtain that went from the floor to the ceiling, which
was sort of waving violently and there was no door open or fan on, no nothing.
That was a very, very odd occurrence because nothing else was moving around it and nothing
was blowing.
You didn't even hear any air, but you watched these curtains sort of violently going.
The actor admitted he has always been a skeptic when it comes to supernatural elements, but
after the second film he said he believes his own house was haunted.
During the interview with The Independent he said: I’ve heard people on 2 different
occasions say they’ve heard kid’s laughter in the middle of the night in my house.
OH HELL NO.
Haunted little kids are like my biggest fear.
Every scary movie is 10x more terrifying when a haunted child is involved, just saying.
3.
Alright guys, our list continues with number 3, with Dominique Dunne.
She was another actress who had the Poltergeist curse but one that is far more serious than
one could imagine.
One story from the film set is famously known and it’s the story of Oliver Robbins, who
nearly died on set when he was choked by the arms of an evil puppet.
Like no exaggeration, Steven Spielberg admitted he had to actually save the actor from the
doll.
This is why it was an even bigger shock when actress Dominique Dunne was murdered not long
after the release of the film.
The most disturbing part was that she was strangled to death by her ex-boyfriend.
People believe that this was no coincidence and that the film was actually cursed.
Her role in the movie was the haunted family’s teenage daughter, which led people to believe
she was actually cursed and didn’t know it.
Not only her, but a few years after the release, her co-star Heather O’Rourke also died,
at the young age of 13 years old.
I don’t know about you guys, but this whole Poltergeist Curse thing seems pretty legit
to me.
2.
Taking over the number 2 spot is Vic Morrow.
The actor tragically died while filming a scene for the movie and some believe it was
because the movie was cursed.
His death was caught on tape since they were filming and because of how it happened, people
think it was too much of a coincidence to just be a freak accident.
The actor died because a helicopter that was flying above him in the scene came crashing
down due to an explosion and landed directly on top of him.
The worst part about it was that he was carrying two child actors in his arms, a 6 year old
and a 7 year old.
The death was so horrific that it broke news and caused a lot of controversy.
One child was crushed to death while the other one was decapitated, and the co-director,
special-effects coordinator, and the pilot, were all charged with manslaughter.
The court on the child labour laws that was broken.
The laws don’t allow kids to work at night or near explosives.
According to the New York Times, the father of one of the child actors testified that
he wasn’t told there would be pyrotechnics or a low-flying helicopter.
Some people believed it was a mix of negligence and a freak accident, while others thought
the movie which focused on scary subjects, is what cursed the scene.
1.
In our number 1 spot is Gregory Peck; the star actor of the horror film: The Omen.
Everyone who worked on the film reported that the set was 100% haunted by demons, because
the subject of the film being all about the antichrist.
The actor explains that he felt like he was cursed because when he was on a plane with
the screenwriter, they were struck by lightning.
Which is a 1 in a million chance right?
WRONG.
Not too long after, Harvey Bernhard, the producer, was nearly struck by lightning while visiting
Rome.
They all admitted their feelings that people involved in the film were cursed by the evil
spirits it involved.
The most tragic event that convinced the actor this curse was in fact true, was the car accident
that killed the special effects director John Richardson and his assistant Liz Moore.
Liz was decapitated in the crash, which was the eeriest part because the accident occurred
on Friday the 13th and is almost identical to the movie’s most violent scene, where
a man gets decapitated by a vehicle.
Coincidence?
I think not.
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