Some time in the past, we requested members of the BuzzFeed Neighborhood their creepiest behind-the-scenes film and TV details, and boy did they arrive via. Listed here are 26 genuinely unnerving darkish Hollywood details that freaked me out.
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Oliver Robins, who performed Robbie in Poltergeist, was really being strangled within the clown scene.
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The movie Caine modified its title to Shark after a stunt particular person was killed by a shark throughout filming. They then used images of the accident to advertise the movie.
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In one other stunt-gone-wrong, a stuntman named A. J. Bakunas died whereas filming a 323-foot fall within the 1979 movie Metal. He was making an attempt to beat a world document, and had beforehand executed the identical fall from a decrease story. The footage is rumored to nonetheless be within the movie.
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The Lone Gunmen predicted not solely 9/11 but in addition conspiracy theories about its trigger.
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Additionally in relation to 9/11 — the Grasp of Disguise solid and crew have been apparently knowledgeable of the occasions whereas filming the turtle scene. After a second of silence, they continued filming.
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This one’s extra bizarre than creepy, however…Paris Hilton’s intercourse tape comprises a tribute to 9/11. Simply needed to place that on the market. You go into the tape fascinated by the 1000’s that died within the terrorist assault.
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Isla Fisher virtually drowned for actual whereas filming the water tank scene in Now You See Me.
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And that scene in Poltergeist when Diane falls within the muddy pool, solely to search out herself surrounded by skeletons? Properly, seems they have been actual human skeletons — which nobody advised actor JoBeth Williams about.
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Talking of Poltergeist — each daughters from the primary movie died younger. Heather O’Rourke died of intestinal stenosis at age 12, and Dominique Dunne was murdered in a case of home violence.
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Judith Eva Barsi, the kid actor who most famously voiced Ducky in Land Earlier than Time, was murdered by her father on the age of 10.
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Two younger kids and a veteran actor have been killed when a helicopter crashed into them on the set of Twilight Zone: The Film.
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This Pearl Harbor scene from Tora! Tora! Tora! that includes folks working from an exploding aircraft occurred accidentally. This wasn’t alleged to occur, and the stunt folks working from the flames have been actually working for his or her lives.
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A creepy Sesame Avenue phase from the ’70s referred to as “Cracks” was misplaced till a person named Jon Armond started to seek for it after remembering being traumatized by it as a child. After years of looking, he obtained a fax from an unknown, untraceable quantity promising to ship him the phase so long as he agreed by no means to display it in public, put up it on-line, or ship it to anybody else. He agreed and located a duplicate of the phase in his mailbox.
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The ending of the thriller Sliver virtually brought on the demise of three folks once they by chance crashed right into a volcano.
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The set for the house of Regan and her mom in The Exorcist mysteriously burned down earlier than filming one morning. Nevertheless, Regan’s bed room set was apparently untouched.
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One other Exorcist one for ya — in a single scene the place Ellen Burstyn’s character is thrown to the bottom, she really completely injured her again. The take was nonetheless used within the movie.
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And yet one more — Paul Bateson, an additional who performed a radiological technologist in The Exorcist, was later convicted of the homicide of movie critic Addison Verrill.
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A contestant on the favored sport present The Relationship Sport additionally turned out to be a killer — Rodney Alcala, who received his episode (although ended up being rejected for a date). Alcala was a serial killer who would find yourself being convicted for seven murders — and suspected of many extra.
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A contestant on Megan Desires a Millionaire and I Love Cash 3, Ryan Jenkins, additionally later turned out to be a killer — actually, simply after the latter present completed filming, his spouse’s useless physique was discovered. It was quickly found he had a historical past of assault, which apparently his background examine hadn’t uncovered.
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Jim Caviezel was struck by lightning whereas filming The Ardour of the Christ — wherein he performed Jesus. Assistant director Jan Michelini was struck by lightning twice. Neither have been injured.
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Three members of the solid and crew of The Omen have been additionally stricken by unusual lightning whereas filming.
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And particular results artist John Richardson was in a automotive crash that decapitated his assistant a yr after doing the make-up for The Omen‘s decapitation scene.
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Stunt particular person Alf Joint — who had labored on The Omen — was severely injured filming a routine roof-jumping stunt on the movie A Bridge Too Far. Within the hospital, he mentioned it felt as if he’d been pushed.
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Although the movie didn’t embody it, the No Nation for Outdated Males novel featured the road, “Right here some time again in San Antonio they shot and killed a federal choose.” This was possible referring to Charles Harrelson’s 1979 homicide of Decide John Howland Wooden. Charles Harrelson’s son? Woody Harrelson, who was one of many movie’s stars.
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And eventually, The Simpsons has predicted loads over time, which the creators really feel is usually simply educated guessing. Nevertheless, they don’t have any actual clarification for this creepy brochure Lisa holds that appears to be a reference to 9/11…in an episode that aired in 1997.
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