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For today’s video we are doing a part 2 of a list you guys really enjoyed; we are
talking all about curses.
Now, a curse is something that some people believe in and some people don’t.
Some things people will see as a weird coincidence while others will believe it’s no coincidence
at all.
You guys decide your own feelings about today’s list; I’m not here to judge.
To each their own!
Let’s jump into today’s list of Top 10 Actors Who Were Cursed After A Movie Role
- Part 2.
10.
Starting off the list at number 10 is Jim Caviezel; the incredibly talented actor took
on the difficult role as Jesus in The Passion of The Christ.
It’s just common sense to know that it takes a certain amount of strength, talent, and
skill to commit to a character like this and bring it to life.
In 2004, Mel Gibson’s retelling of the story caused a lot of controversy upon the movie’s
release.
Some were based on religious views and beliefs, while others were more concerned about the
strange occurrences that happened during production.
Gibson was always reporting that different cast and crew members were experiencing different
forms of miracles, but it didn’t sit well with some when members were struck by lightning.
Lighting struck the assistant director Jan Michelini, twice, and also the actor who played
Jesus himself, Jim Caviezel.
Neither of them faced serious injuries but you can’t help but feel like they got cursed
in some way from this movie.
The odds of being struck by lightning are one in a million.
Caviezel also sustained other injuries while filming, and one of them left him with permanent
scarring on his back, the same way Jesus would’ve had slash scars on his.
The movie itself will be interpreted differently depending on the viewer’s religious beliefs,
but generally speaking, some people believe there’s some sort of curse going on here.
9.
At number 9 is James Dean who died shortly before the release of his movie: Rebel Without
a Cause.
The production of the movie ran smoothly, and the stars James Dean, Natalie Wood, and
Sal Mineo all became close friends while making the movie.
It was AFTER the movie came out did people start to believe the movie had some sort of
curse.
The iconic actor James Dean had his career cut short when he tragically died in 1955.
The actor began to have a passion for cars and while filming the movie he began to race
in professional events.
However, on September 30th, he was driving down a California highway and slammed his
car into the side of a turning vehicle.
He suffered from severe injuries and was pronounced dead on the scene.
People started to believe it was because of the movie that his car crashed since it was
the thing that brought him his passion for cars.
It was also hard for people to believe a professional racer would somehow crash his car at 85mph
into another vehicle.
Why the curse rumour kept spreading was because his two costars, Natalie Wood and Sal Mineo
also died after the movie by tragic incidents.
A pizza delivery man staved Sal to death in an alley, and Natalie Wood died in a horrific
drowning accident.
Some people say it’s all just a tragic coincidence while others believe it’s a sadistic curse.
What do you guys think?
8.
Swiping the number 8 spot is George Reeves; the actor who played Superman in the 1950’s
and died under mysterious circumstances.
Believe it or not, there is a theory going around called the Superman curse that apparently
took place many years ago.
It started with George Reeves who died tragically after taking on the role of the hero.
Police ruled his death as a suicide by gunshot, but his fingerprints were never actually discovered
on the weapon.
It was on June 16th 1959 that he died between 1:30-2:00am.
A number of questionable findings were reported by investigators; not only were no fingerprints
recovered from the gun, but no gunpowder residue was even found on George’s hands.
The curse was said to continue when the role was later taken on by Christopher Reeve in
the 1979 Superman movie and continued for years after that.
But in 1985, the actor suffered from a severe injury while horse riding and it left him
paralyzed from the neck down.
He continued to suffer for years but didn’t give up on his recovery or acting career.
On October 10th 2004, the actor ended up passing away after he fell into a coma from a horrible
infected ulcer.
People believe this Superman curse was no coincidence, but luckily future Superman actors
are still going strong.
7.
Taking our number 7 spot is John Wayne who played Genghis Khan in The Conqueror.
The actor spent a long time being tormented after the movie release because of the questionable
casting that people were calling racist.
After filming the movie, the actor later was diagnosed with lung cancer in 1964, and by
the year 1980, almost half of the combined cast and crew had developed cancer and died
from the disease.
Research began to surface and people believed the movie had a curse which is how a large
amount of people linked to 1 movie, died.
In the 1950’s nuclear testing was a common thing and it was well known to be radioactive
and potentially lethal.
Which is why it’s hard to believe that the producers of the movie would decide to shoot
the movie near a nuclear testing site.
The movie was filmed near the remote town of St.George in the Utah desert, which was
only a hundred miles away from the infamous Nevada Test Site.
Over the years, people involved in the movie came forward with being diagnosed with cancer.
Out of 200 people who worked on the production, 92 died of cancer, including John Wayne.
At the time the movie was being filmed, the filming site was determined to be safe, which
is why believe there’s something more to this tragic story.
6.
In at number 6 is Ellen Burstyn who took on the role as Chris McNeil in the iconic horror
movie: The Exorcist.
She has starred in many iconic movies throughout her long career, but none of them haunted
her the way this one did.
The Exorcist curse has been talked about on many occasions, linking the movie to people’s
deaths and other paranormal incidents.
Ellen actually suffered from a horrible spine injury while filming one of the scenes and
people believe the curse has something to do with it.
In the movie she plays the mother of a child who becomes possessed, and at one point, the
possessed daughter pushes her to the floor.
During one take she was knocked to the floor so hard they she injured her back and smashed
her head on the floor; the scream you hear in the movie was actually her genuine reaction.
She was being pulled to the floor by a wire that was controlled by one of the crew members.
The actress spoke about it on HuffPost Live and said when the director told her to do
the take again she told him she got hurt and that she can’t be pulled down that hard.
He told her that it has to look real but that he told the crew member to not pull so hard.
She said: But then I’m not sure that he didn’t cancel that behind my back because
the guy smashed me to the floor”.
She ended up permanently injuring her spine from the scene and other members of the crew
say that she wasn’t pulled down hard by the crew member.
They believe that a demon force is actually what threw her to the ground with that much
force since they were experiencing other paranormal things on set.
She had to continue living with her injury and still suffers from it to this day.
5.
Half way through at number 5 is Richard Lawson who played Ryan in the original movie Poltergeist.
He is believed to be just another victim of the Poltergeist curse.
The actor is still alive and well, unlike some of his other cast members who weren’t
so lucky.
He was affected by the suspected curse in 1992 when he boarded flight 405 that was headed
to Cleveland.
It was reported that many passengers on the flight were feeling uneasy beforehand, almost
like they knew something bad was going to happen.
The actor himself was one of those people and he was bumped up to first class after
a flight attendant recognized him.
Shortly after takeoff, the plane crashed into a bay due to a failed takeoff.
The plane had a total of 51 people who were trapped in their seats, and 27 of those people
died, including someone who was assigned in his original seat.
The actor survived and if he hadn’t been bumped up to first class last minute, he wouldn’t
be.
People believe that the curse got a hold of his flight, but it must have been something
more powerful that got him that seat change am I right?
That’s crazy.
4.
Okay guys, we are coming into number 4 with John Belushi.
This one is a weird situation if you ask me.
This actor was just the first person to be killed after only ACCEPTING a role; it is
believed that everyone who read this script for this specific role was hit with the deadly
curse.
The unreleased movie was called Atuk and it was a comedy screenplay written about an Eskimo
who goes to New York City.
It was never filmed and apparently it’s because of this so-called curse that was linked
to it.
It all started with the actor John Belushi who read the script and accepted the role
but died shortly after due to a drug overdose in 1982.
Some people would say, so what?
But after his death, the lead role then went to a comedian named Sam Kinison.
Production had been delayed because he kept demanding that parts of the movie be re-written,
he wasn’t totally thrilled about the script.
The production ended up coming to a complete halt because of disagreements he had with
the studio, United Artists.
Just a few years later he died in a car crash.
In 1994, the role was once again passed to John Candy.
He accepted the role not knowing that this script had some sort of weird curse and died
of a heart attack not long after.
After that, the screenplay was put the rest and buried somewhere in Hollywood.
I think this story in itself could be a movie; a haunted script that kills every actor who
reads it?
That could actually be a movie; someone write me the script!
3.
Alright guys, at number 3 is Jack MacGowran; one of the actors who is believed to have
died because of the famous Exorcist curse.
The actor played Burke Dennings in the movie and when the movie was in post-production,
he died from a heart attack related to a case of the flu.
People believe that everyone who died or was affected by this movie was because of some
sadistic curse.
What was so strange about Jacks death was that his co-star Vasiliki Maliaros also died
while the film was in post-production, and BOTH of their characters died in the film
as well.
Neither of them made it to see the final product of the movie which made people feel that these
deaths were eerie.
They acted in the movie in which their characters were killed by a sadistic curse, but then
died shortly after filming from the same curse.
It’s like the movie represented what was about to happen, like a final destination
theory or something.
2.
At number 2 is Brandon Lee; the actor’s death was a freak accident and caused a lot
of controversy because people believe the actor was cursed while filming the movie The
Crow.
The movie is about a musician named Eric, who Brandon Lee played, and his fiancée who
are brutally murdered the night before their wedding by members of a violent gang.
The actor had almost completed filming and only had 3 days left to shoot.
He was shooting a scene in which several thugs shoot at his character, but instead, the actor
was really shot and killed.
Apparently what happened was, because production had time constraints, the prop crew members
used real bullets with the powder charges removed, rather than dummy bullets.
On one gun, the live primer (which is the charge that ignites the powder of the bullet),
fired off one bullet which lodged it in the barrel of the gun.
Then, during another take, an actor fired blank rounds in the gun which sent the bullet
flying into Lee’s abdomen.
6 hours later, the actor had died because of the wound.
The rumours of the actor being cursed began to circulate because the accident was almost
too spooky to be true.
His character in the movie dies at gunpoint by a gang, and that’s exactly what happened
to him while filming that scene.
How wild is that?
1.
Taking our number 1 spot is Heather O’Rourke; another actor who was alleged to be taken
by The Poltergeist curse.
She was only 12 years old when she passed away and it was while filming the series that
she suffered from a mysterious illness.
Sadly, the third movie was the last one that she made.
Months before filming began; doctors misdiagnosed her with Crohn’s disease.
She was prescribed a steroid to treat the disease during the time she was filming Poltergeist
3.
But On January 31, 1988, Heather collapsed and was rushed to the hospital, where they
found a bowel obstruction.
During the attempt to surgically remove the blockage, she went into septic shock and suffered
cardiac arrest.
Her death was only months before the release of the 3rd movie which was the final chapter
in the original series.
A few of her costars also passed away after filming which is what had people believing
there’s no way her mysterious death wasn’t because of the so-called curse.
Okay guys, that’s enough curse and death for me.
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