10 Movies That Were Totally Haunted
With these movies, the horror wasn't just in front of the camera - it was behind it.
It's October, and you know what that means: It's time for spooky stuff!
Given the spirit of the season, it's only natural that we're all looking for a good scare. Often we find these scares in movies, but we can take some solace knowing that those are just movies.
Just because the movies had ghosts and demons in them doesn't mean that they were ACTUALLY haunted, right?
Wrong. At least, not in the case of these films.
Sometimes you'll find a movie that has just as much behind-the-scenes, on-set horror as what is presented on screen. Sometimes there are mysterious noises. Sometimes there are creepy lights and weird technical glitches.
Others, there are voices that seem to come from nowhere and no one. And in some cases, alleged curses follow the cast and crew well beyond the boundaries of the film set, sometimes claiming their lives in the process.
Now, are curses and ghosts real? Science says no, so this is in no way an advocation of their existence. This list is just about the creepy goings-on reported by the people associated with these films and their productions.
Let's look at films that - according to those who worked on them - were haunted by some sort of supernatural presence.
10. The Possession
If you haven't seen 2012's The Possession, it stars Jeffrey Dean Morgan as a basketball coach going through a divorce, whose daughter, Emily, stumbles upon an enigmatic wooden box at a yard sale. The box is possessed by a dybbuk, a malicious spirit comparable to the Devil. As malicious spirits are wont to do, the dybbuk begins corrupting Emily. Her behavior gets more and more erratic, as the dybbuk digs its talons deeper and deeper into her soul.
The film - which received mixed reviews - may have not made an impact on audiences, but it DID affect one person: Jeffrey Dean Morgan.
He's said that the strange occurrences on set turned him into less of a skeptic. So what did he experience?
Random cold breezes would sweep through the set when the doors and windows were closed. Light bulbs would inexplicably explode. Perhaps the creepiest incident involved a mysterious fire; all of the film's props - including the dybbuk box - were housed in a storage unit, which somehow caught on fire, destroying everything inside. An investigation concluded that it wasn't arson, nor was it an electrical fire.
That means the fire started from inside.
You know, where the dybbuk box was.