10 Unbelievable Horror Movie Facts That Are Somehow True
1. The Curse Continued During The Making Of The First Omen
Perhaps the most well-known example of a film reportedly experiencing a "cursed" production was Richard Donner's The Omen. In the lead-up to and during the making of that horror picture, the cast and crew were affected by everything from lightning strikes on planes to tragic deaths.
Luckily, when the time came for Arkasha Stevenson to shoot the prequel to that movie which focuses on a kid who just so happens to be the Antichrist, that "Omen curse" was nowhere to be seen... if only.
According to Stevenson, a ton of rather unbelievable events that sound too barmy to be true very much occurred whilst filming this year's The First Omen, too.
The director told Dexerto that not only was Father Brennan actor Ralph Ineson - the "the friendliest person in the world" - bitten by a dog and taken to hospital during production, but he also experienced a particularly weird Uber drive.
After falling asleep in the taxi and the driver got lost, Ineson woke up as the car passed the church where the original Father Brennan was killed in that 1976 Omen movie.
Elsewhere, the team struggled to get a scene they were filming at a round Italian piazza right. But after shaking it off and moving onto the next thing they needed to shoot, Stevenson was informed that the diameter of that piazza was actually 666 feet.
If those strange incidents weren't freaky enough, Ineson's daughter was also ambushed by a flock of crows as she went to shoot a scene in the movie, and Nell Tiger Free (playing Margaret in the film) remembered randomly staring at Ineson's crucifix necklace one day when the crucifix part suddenly broke in two and dropped off his neck.
Freaky.