10 More Movies Where People Died On Set

10. Vampire In Brooklyn

This 1995 Wes Craven comedy that starred Eddie Murphy in the main role as the blood-sucker who finds himself in modern-day New York was met with a lukewarm reception. Reviews were poor to middling and it barely managed to eke out a small profit at the box office.

While later interpretations have been kinder and it is considered a cult-classic by some, aside from Murphy's performance it was exactly as people expected - trying to play on the "fish out of water" trope and leaning heavily into satirising the vampire genre in general while arguably failing to do either successfully.

Arguments about its success as a motion picture aside, there was an accident on set during filming that cost a stunt performer their life. Sonja Davis was 32 years old when she took the job as Angela Bassett's stunt double for the film. When shooting a scene that involved a backwards fall of over 40 feet, she hit the airbag as intended but bounced out and suffered injuries that ended up killing her.

Her mother and siblings were on set that day and saw the accident happen. They ended up suing the film company over her death.