12 Horror Movie Sets That Were Definitely Cursed

Widely regarded as one of cinema’s scariest horrors, Rosemary’s Baby tells the tale of a young Manhattanite who moves into a creepy apartment building with her struggling actor husband and is unwittingly impregnated with the Devil’s seed with the help of her weird, Satan-worshipping neighbours.

As this list proves, if you mess with the devil you’re going to get burned and Rosemary’s Baby was no different. After the film was released producer William Castle started receiving hate mail and death threats, one of which said “Bastard. Believer of Witchcraft. Worshipper at the Shrine of Satanism. My prediction is you will slowly rot during a long and painful illness.”

Not long after, Castle suffered kidney failure and reportedly deliriously uttered the words "Rosemary, for God's sake drop that knife" while undergoing treatment at hospital. At the very same hospital, the movie’s composer Krzysztof Komeda had been admitted following an accident that resulted in a brain clot. He fell into a coma and died a few months later, strangely echoing the death of a character named Hutch in the film.

The main crux of the Rosemary’s Baby curse, however, centres around the tragic murder of director Roman Polanski’s heavily pregnant wife Sharon Tate and four of their friends at the hands of cult leader Charles Manson’s crew.

Though that may have had something to do with the fact the house they were murdered in formerly belonged to music producer Terry Melcher who had declined the opportunity to record Manson’s music (and also because Manson is batsh*t insane).