10 Great Movies Everybody HATED Making

The Exorcist is often said to be a "cursed" film due to the sheer amount of misfortune that befell its cast and crew during shooting, and it's safe to say that they all suffered for their art.

It's been well documented that director William Friedkin treated his cast with a cavalier regard, intentionally creating a deeply uncomfortable atmosphere in order to tease out legitimately terrified performances.

In one instance he fired a gun near actor Jason Miller to startle him, and had the crew yank Ellen Burstyn's harness so hard during a stunt that she received a permanent back injury when she collided with a wall - a take that was kept in the film, no less.

Friedkin also had air conditioning units brought in to the MacNeil house set to shoot the film's climax, which for young Linda Blair - who was wearing a threadbare nightgown - was extremely uncomfortable, and gave her a lifelong aversion to the cold.

Despite Friedkin's antagonistic nature on set he didn't exactly have a picnic making the film either: Warner Bros. frequently protested his casting choices, and in part because a fire destroyed much of the set, production took twice as long and cost twice as much as originally planned.

But The Exorcist remains an untouchable masterpiece almost 50 years later, and made history as the first horror film to ever receive a Best Picture Oscar nomination.