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Creepy secrets from movie sets you wouldn’t expect

Creepy secrets from movie sets you wouldn’t expect

You constantly hear stories about scary events on the set of horror films: everyone who starred in them poltergeist died, Regan’s bedroom was spared from a fire that burned down the rest The Exorcistis set, I know who killed me murdered Lindsay Lohan’s career, etc. But unexplained mysteries that one would never have expected have also appeared on the sets of films.

Dumb and dumber

Did you get a spooky vibe from the luxury hotel where Jim Carrey and Jeff Daniels end up? Dumb and dumber? Maybe you did – it was the Stanley Hotel where Stephen King was staying when he wrote The shining one. As a joke, Carrey asked to stay in King’s infamous room, number 217, but he left in a panic after three hours. It would be a pretty funny prank if he claimed to have seen Blowjob Bear or something, but he has refused to talk about it for 30 years. This is a man who is rightly afraid of the blowjob bear.

The Conqueror

The conqueror, a 1956 epic about Genghis Khan starring John Wayne is just as terrible as it sounds. Imagine dying for this piece of shit. But that’s it Almost a quarter of the cast and crew did so after about half of them developed cancer within 25 years of being wrapped in the foil. Much of the blame is attributed to the nuclear testing site outside the film’s location, but it’s just as likely that it was karmic retribution for the casting of John Wayne as Genghis Khan.

The Passion of Christ

As the poet said, lightning strikes, maybe once, maybe twice, but on the set of The Passion of Christit struck three times. A bolt hit star Jim Caviezel when he gave Jesus’ Sermon on the Mountand then five minutes later the assistant director Jan Michelini was hit. Another time both were hit at Caviezel was under Michelini’s roofwhich in this case wasn’t as desirable as the song makes it sound. At a certain point it’s difficult not interpreting that as God saying, “Fuck this movie, especially.”

Jaw

Stephen King’s son Joe Hill has been writing since 2015 about his belief that this was a then-unidentified murder victim known as the “Lady of the Dunes.” appeared as an extra in Jaw shortly before she was killed. The woman discovered by Hill bears a striking resemblance to the victim’s sketches and wears clothing very similar to the one she was found wearing. The movie Jaws was filmed just a few miles from where they were found on Cape Cod. “What if the young murder victim that no one could ever identify was seen by hundreds of millions of people in a popular summer classic and they didn’t even know they were watching her?” he wrote.

She is has since been identified as Ruth Marie Terryand no one has come forward to say it not work on it Jawor “Hey, that was me, I’m not dead.”

Return to Babylon

The idea for Return to BabylonAn all-star slapstick retelling of Old Hollywood scandals, filmed in the style of an Old Hollywood silent film, came about for director Alex Monty Canawati after he found 19 reels of film abandoned on Hollywood Boulevard, almost as if by fate. However, as he played back frame by frame what he had filmed, he noticed that the actors’ faces were often visible briefly transformed into monstrous masks. According to Canawati, experts who examined the film could not find a reason for the ghostly impressions. Whether it’s old Hollywood stars reaching out from beyond the grave or just shaky camera work, this definitely wouldn’t have happened if Canawati had decided to make a superhero movie.