12 Horror Movie Sets That Were Definitely Cursed

Based on a book that’s supposedly based on a true story, The Amityville Horror tells the tale of the real-life Lutz family who moved into a house where the gruesome murder of a family at the hands of their son had taken place a year earlier. Soon after the Lutzes were supposedly experiencing spooky, inexplicable stuff but we guess that’s what you get for buying a cut-price murder house.

We say ‘supposedly’ because much doubt has been cast over whether the Lutzes were really haunted or if they concocted their story for publicity and $$$. Not much weird stuff happened during filming apart from when star James Brolin was reading the book in preparation and had some clothes randomly fall off a hanger upon reaching a particularly scary chapter.

Brolin and co-star Margot Kidder later admitted the studio behind the film had instructed them to embellish any seemingly spooky stuff to promote it. The 2005 ‘reimagining’ starring Ryan Reynolds however, despite being filmed a thousand miles away from the original haunted house’s location in Long Island, experienced much stranger goings-on.

Cast and crew members would find themselves randomly awoken at 3:15 am, the time that the original murders took place, and the body of a dead fisherman washed up on shore next to where filming was taking place.

Even weirder the real-life Kathy Lutz, the matriarch of the haunted Lutz family, died shortly before filming commenced, while her husband George died a few weeks after the 2005 remake premiered after trying to sue its makers.