Movies that are cursed: Some stories are meant to be told. However, some stories are meant to be told with care. Depending on who you ask some stories are just not meant to be repeated at all. Superstition holds that some things should just not be said because energies may shift and become disturbed. Horror fiction and horror films have been key at communicating tales about the supernatural.
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Many fictional tales are based in some fact, dealing with real people, places and scenarios. Horror films have been bringing audiences frightening tales for over a hundred years starting with films likeQuasimodo the Hunchback of Notre Dame and The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari.
The horror film has risen and fallen in popularity based on audience tastes and preferences, but there are always a few ready for a scare. The content of horror films has also shifted, focusing on supernatural beasts for a few years, slashers for a few others, and maybe a sprinkling of zombie films here and there. Horror, like the rest of the world falls into trends. Yet, what can’t be argued about horror films is that they have the ability to not only frighten audiences but to terrorize those working on set as well.
Whether you believe in curses or not there’s no doubting that some films have been marked by strange occurrences and tragedy. There have been films where people have died during filming and others where disaster followed immediately off the set, or did so years later. There are claims that the following films are cursed. Read along and decide for yourself.
10. Poltergeist (1982)
The original Poltergeist film was co-written by Steven Spielberg and directed by Toby Hooper.Poltergeist would go on to make $100 million in ticket sales and traumatize millions of viewers with a creepy toy clown and skeleton-filled swimming pool scene. There would be two additional films in the franchise, and a 2015 remake. The trilogy however has been plagued with rumors of a curse among the actors and the film crew.
Within six years of the original movie, four cast members died, including Dominque Dunne who passed shortly after the film’s release. Dunne played the eldest daughter in the first movie. She was strangled to death by her boyfriend. Then, franchise star Heather O’Rourke who played Carol Anne in each of the three films died during exploratory bowel surgery to determine the cause of flu-like symptoms. Spielberg was so impressed by Hooper’s The Texas Chainsaw Massacre he requested that Hooper direct Poltergeist.
What many people don’t know is that real skeletons were used in scenes of The Texas Chainsaw Massacre and would eventually find their way into the Poltergeist. It has been revealed that real skeletons were used in the swimming pool scene as they were cheaper than plastic skeletons. Some claim this could be the cause of the curse.
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