10 Most Shocking And Strange Facts About Famous Horror Movies

And now to the most cursed horror movie of all, one whose own creator, Robert Munger, feared could draw the Devil's wrath if it was actually made. Producers ignored Munger's concerns and pressed ahead with their antichrist project, quickly securing star Gregory Peck in the lead role. Tragic and eerie happenings soon followed.

After Peck agreed to appear the actor's son committed suicide, leaving no note. Although grief-stricken, Peck was undeterred from starring and pressed ahead to begin filming in October of that year. Then on the flight to England Peck's plane was struck by lightning, the engine caught fire and the plane almost crashed.

A few days later producer Mace Neufield's plane was also struck by lightning on its way across the Atlantic. Neufield narrowly escaped death two more times during production. First when the Hilton hotel in London where he was staying blew up, then again when en route to a restaurant which also blew up. Many others involved in the movie's production were set to attend the same dinner, although luckily none were there when the bomb, attributed to the IRA, went off.

Another notable incident occurred during work on the zoo sequence where animals react to the young antichrist Damien. In the movie, Damien and his mother are driving through a safari trail when baboons attack the vehicle as a response to Damien's mere presence. Originally there was meant to be a scene after where tigers terrorise Damien, but the wrangler responsible for the big cats was mauled to death during its preparation.

But most eerie of all was the ominous car crash involving special effects expert John Richardson. Richardson was the man responsible for the Omen's elaborate death scenes, including the show-stopping demise of David Warner's Keith Jennings, where Jennings is decapitated by a flying sheet of glass.

Tragically, Richardson's assistant Liz Moore suffered a similar fate while they were travelling together in Holland and their car had a head on collision. In the impact the other vehicle tore through Richardson's, simultaneously cutting Moore in half. Somehow Richardson survived, but when he came to on that lonely road the first thing he saw was a road sign for the town named Ommen.

Below it the sign's distance marker read 66.6 km, the biblical number of the beast and the same number marking the antichrist's head in the movie.