Some time in the past, we requested members of the BuzzFeed Community their creepiest behind-the-scenes film and TV info, and boy did they arrive by. Here are 26 genuinely unnerving darkish Hollywood info that freaked me out.
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Oliver Robins, who performed Robbie in Poltergeist, was truly being strangled within the clown scene.
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The movie Caine modified its identify to Shark after a stunt particular person was killed by a shark throughout filming. They then used pictures 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 Steel. He was making an attempt to beat a world document, and had beforehand accomplished 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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Also in relation to 9/11 — the Master of Disguise solid and crew had 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. Just wished to place that on the market. You go into the tape desirous about the 1000’s that died within the terrorist assault.
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Isla Fisher nearly 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 seek out herself surrounded by skeletons? Well, seems they had been actual human skeletons — which nobody advised actor JoBeth Williams about.
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Judith Eva Barsi, the kid actor who most famously voiced Ducky in Land Before Time, was murdered by her father on the age of 10.
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Two younger youngsters and a veteran actor had been killed when a helicopter crashed into them on the set of Twilight Zone: The Movie.
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This Pearl Harbor scene from Tora! Tora! Tora! that includes folks working from an exploding airplane occurred by chance. This wasn’t supposed to occur, and the stunt folks working from the flames had been actually working for his or her lives.
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A creepy Sesame Street section from the ’70s known 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 section 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 section in his mailbox.
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The ending of the thriller Sliver nearly precipitated the dying of three folks once they unintentionally 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. However, Regan’s bed room set was apparently untouched.
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Another Exorcist one for ya — in a single scene the place Ellen Burstyn’s character is thrown to the bottom, she truly completely injured her again. The take was nonetheless used within the movie.
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And another — 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 recreation present The Dating Game 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 Wants a Millionaire and I Love Money 3, Ryan Jenkins, additionally later turned out to be a killer — in actual fact, simply after the latter present completed filming, his spouse’s lifeless physique was discovered. It was quickly found he had a historical past of assault, which apparently his background test hadn’t uncovered.
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Jim Caviezel was struck by lightning whereas filming The Passion of the Christ — during which he performed Jesus. Assistant director Jan Michelini was struck by lightning twice. Neither had been injured.
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Three members of the solid and crew of The Omen had 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 12 months 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 significantly injured filming a routine roof-jumping stunt on the movie A Bridge Too Far. In the hospital, he mentioned it felt as if he’d been pushed.
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Though the movie didn’t embrace it, the No Country for Old Men novel featured the road, “Here a while back in San Antonio they shot and killed a federal judge.” This was doubtless referring to Charles Harrelson’s 1979 homicide of Judge John Howland Wood. Charles Harrelson’s son? Woody Harrelson, who was one of many movie’s stars.
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And lastly, The Simpsons has predicted lots through the years, which the creators really feel is generally simply educated guessing. However, they haven’t 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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