7 Horror Movies With Creepy Urban Legends

7. Rosemary's Baby Was Cursed By Witches

Back in the day, making a big movie about religion and the devil would stir up all sorts of controversy - and if you ask producer William Castle, he'd tell you that controversy wasn't just levelled from our plane of existence. He was certain that supernatural effects had taken hold of the film production, with a series of dark events playing out that suggested the film's evil was being reflected in reality.

First, the composer of the film was knocked into a coma at a party, falling from an escarpment and dying four months later in a strange parallel to Rosemary's friend Hutch. Then Castle - as the man who sourced the story and functioned as one of the founding pillars of its creation - suffered terribly with gallstones to the point that he had to get them surgically removed, and has never had a hit movie since.

By far the most infamous and scary event to unfold from filming is of course the death of heavily pregnant Sharon Tate however, wife to director Roman Polanski that was murdered in their home by Charles Manson and his followers. She had appeared in the film as an extra, and was quoted as calling the devil 'beautiful' by a friend after her passing.

The links between all the supernatural elements of the movie and their real-life tragedies are terrifying to tie together. "The story of Rosemary's Baby was happening in real life. Witches, all of them, were casting their spell,” Castle has said of the project.