10 Horror Movie Scenes That Broke The Camera

5. Peter Destroys His Apartment - Vampire's Kiss

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At the end of the Nicolas Cage-starring comedy-horror Vampire's Kiss, deranged protagonist Peter Loew (Nicolas Cage) destroys his apartment in a fit of violent, unhinged rage. And in the film's DVD commentary, director Robert Bierman revealed that all the glass and furniture in the scene was "real" - as in, there was no safety glass and nothing rigged to break apart with minimal force.

Basically, they just left two cameras rolling and let Nic Cage do his thing, with the understanding that due to the sheer number of props involved, the scene could only be filmed once in a single take.

As sod's law would have it, of course one of the cameras decided to break down during this specific, unrepeatable sequence, leaving Bierman with just one camera to capture the footage and no B-camera to cut away to during editing.

Bierman didn't specify what went wrong with the camera, though given that he doesn't lay the blame at the feet of Cage and his cinematic rampage, it was most likely one of those pesky, outta-nowhere mechanical errors.

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