10 Movies With Creepy On-Set Stories

The truth is stranger than fiction.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MUjJMM2vsq4 Making a creepy movie is one thing, but what about when there's a more sinister explanation for why a movie scares us to our wits' end so successfully? Perhaps there's something taking place on-set that helps convey the actors' genuine terror, or as some love to suggest, perhaps it's possible for a movie production to be "cursed". Whatever you believe, we've got genuine accounts of some of the more...unconventional...tactics employed by directors to make their movie as authentically scary as possible, along with peculiar "coincidences" that have caused fans to believe in curses and doomed movies. Indeed, all but one of these examples come from bonafide horror flicks, but even the exception has one thing in common with the rest: each creepy, disturbing on-set story helped build up the legacy of the movie and cement it in the minds of viewers the world over. Sure, we're going to confront the coincidental reality of many of these happenings, though it doesn't make them much less unsettling to most viewers. And of course, with the existence of the PR machine, the productions themselves will often exaggerate and emphasise these occurrences as much as humanly possible, because it does nothing but help the movie, right? What's your take on these spooky creative decisions and unnerving coincidences on movie sets? Let us know in the comments!

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