10 Movie Stunts That Went COMPLETELY Wrong

Some of the stunts which went wrong in this list left actors largely untouched, whilst others only involved their stunt doubles and saw the thespians wisely avoid performing risky manoeuvres altogether.

Not so in the case of controversial director Mel Gibson’s acclaimed Christ biopic/ ultraviolet endurance horror The Passion of the Christ. The actor playing Jesus himself, relative unknown Jim Caviziel, not only suffered two real gashes as a result of actual, unintentional whipping during the film’s torture sequences, but he was also later struck by lightning during the film's shoot.

The poor bloke suffered the fourteen inch cuts when a prop flogger accidentally sliced open his back for real, an occurrence that actually happened twice due to the unerringly realistic length of the film’s public whipping scene.

Meanwhile, the lightning incident occurred when the actor was hauling a wooden cross uphill, in what was hopefully just a very obvious health and safety hazard and not a sign of disapproval from the heavens.