12 Horror Movie Sets That Were Definitely Cursed

The tragedy – or rather, incidence of gross negligence on the part of director John Landis – that struck the set of 1983’s Twilight Zone: The Movie has gone down as one of the worst on set accidents in cinema history.

Actor Vic Morrow was shooting a scene set during the Vietnam War in which his character saves two young Vietnamese children (played by six-year-old Renee Shin-Yi Chen and seven-year-old Myca Dinh Le) from a village under attack by US troops when an explosion caused a helicopter to spin out of control and crash into the trio, decapitating Morrow and Le and crushing Chen.

Sounds more like a tragic and completely avoidable accident rather than a cinematic curse, right? Well, apparently a few years earlier while shooting a film called Dirty Mary Crazy Larry that also featured a helicopter scene Morrow had insisted on taking out a one-million-dollar life insurance policy before he would shoot any scenes, stating he’d always had a premonition he would die in a helicopter crash as the reason.

Just prior to filming the Twilight Zone scene that would kill him and his young co-stars, Morrow reportedly said to a production assistant “I must be out of my mind doing this. I should’ve asked for a stunt double. What can they do but kill me, right?!” – a statement we all know turned out to be particularly prophetic.