Sometimes you make a small film and it becomes a huge success. Sometimes a huge movie fails to impress the audience. And then there are movies that are just plain sinister. We’ve collected scary real-life stories that surrounded the production of some well-know movie franchises. In some cases, the tragedies kept on happening even years after the cursed films were released.  

Poltergeist

A number one on all the cursed movies lists of all time, the Poltergeist trilogy has been surrounded by mystery and death for all of its run time. “The Poltergeist curse” originally hit actress Dominique Dunne who was strangled by her boyfriend before the second movie went into production. Young Heather O’Rourke aka Carol Anne died months before the third movie came out after complications from an acute bowel obstruction. The origin of the curse is often associated with the rumors that real human skeletons were used during the production of the original movie. Surprisingly, the producers weren’t scared to reboot the franchise, releasing a remake two years ago.