10 Most Cursed Horror Films To Watch This Halloween 2020

10. The Exorcist

The Exorcist was released in 1973, and became well known around the world for its controversial plot surrounding a girl who becomes possessed by demons, in turn causing an extreme exorcism to take place that doesn't exactly go according to plan. For many, it is a film of nightmares, but for the cast and crew, the film cannot be forgotten for all the wrong reasons.

Director William Friedkin was known to put the actors to their extreme before yelling cut and action, including painful rigs and long takes that saw the two main actresses suffer life changing circumstances.

In one moment of the movie, actress Ellen Burnstyn playing the mother Chris is flung across the bedroom, hitting the wall and screaming in pain. In fact, this was not acting, as it was soon realised that her screams meant Ellen had in fact hit her spine and suffered an extreme injury.

Many of the production crew swore the set was cursed, after a faulty fire saw most of it in flames, apart from the bedroom in which the exorcism took place. Nine people connected to the film died before completion, and serial killer Paul Bateson actually appears in the movie as a radio tech, only two years before his first murder.