10 More Movies With Creepy On-Set Stories

Normally it would be difficult to top having a genuine skeleton on set when it comes to creepy stories, though just one year after Dawn of the Dead came Francis Ford Coppola's Apocalypse Now, which just about outdid the weirdness of working with a 100-year-old skeleton.

Apocalypse Now was infamous for its troubles off-screen, with Marlon Brando and Dennis Hopper refusing to be on set together, as well as far from acceptable working conditions. But the weirdest and worst aspect of making the picture has to be the real-life corpses that were used.

The story sees Brando's Colonel Kurtz holed up in a small village, worshiped as something of a deity, and surrounded by piles of dead bodies. Though co-producer Gray Frederickson was under the impression that these bodies were props, they were actually real corpses that had apparently been provided to the set by a grave robber; something the prop department justified for the sake of authenticity.

Yes, everyone wants a movie to feel as authentic and as real as possible, but going so far as to bring in actual dead bodies to hang from trees is more than a step too far. After intervention and questioning from the Philippine police, the bodies were taken away and replaced by extras, as should really have been the case from the beginning.