Cursed Movie Sets
5 Famously Cursed Film Sets, and Their Mysterious Circumstances
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Poltergeist (1982)
- The rumors about the curse of the Poltergeist film began after the crew used real skeletons to film a one of the movie's more disturbing sequences.
- An inordinate amount of deaths connected to the Poltergeist production occurred. Dominique Dunne, the older daughter in the first film, was strangled by her boyfriend at 22; Julian Beck, who played Kane in the sequel, died of stomach cancer at age 60; and Will Sampson, who plays Taylor in the sequel, died from kidney failure at age 53.
- The most famous death is that of Heather O'Rourke, who died at age 12 of septic shock and cardiac arrest, both due in large part to a misdiagnosed intestinal issue.
- That's not all! In 1992, Richard Lawson narrowly survived a brutal plane crash, and in 2009, a small character from the original film, Lou Perryman, was brutally murdered in his home. So, are all the deaths coincidence? Or could they all be traced back to one fateful and cursed film?
