10 Films You Didn’t Know Were Secretly Cursed

10. The Passion Of The Christ

Mel Gibson’s violent and bloody re-telling of the final days of Jesus Christ was an incredibly polarizing film once finished. Some people loved it, some people hated it, some people were just plain scared of it, and if the production stories are to be believed, there were powers beyond our fathoming that weren’t happy to see it finished either.

In multiple interviews after the film’s release, Jim Caviezel, who played the role of Jesus himself, gave eye-opening accounts of how the production was rife with problems. Some of it can be put down to the punishing way the film was made as Jim was accidentally whipped properly twice during the infamous torture scenes - leaving a 14-inch scar down his back - he dislocated his shoulder from the weight of the cross, and he contracted pneumonia from being strung up on said cross in the middle of an Italian winter.

It sounds brutal already, but that’s all explainable, but what is harder to explain is that, during the scene of the sermon on the mount, Caviezel was struck by lightning from the heavens, to which his hair caught fire because of it. He wasn’t seriously harmed, but maybe there was a certain heavenly body that also hated the fact this was being made, and decided to make itself known?