6 Movies That Predicted Horrific Disasters With Creepy Accuracy

3. Jack Nicholson's Family Secret - Chinatown

1974's Chinatown is a Hollywood classic, largely down to a great plot and an even better performance by Jack Nicholson. In the film, he spends most of his time working as a private detective in LA, occasionally slipping between the sheets with Faye Dunaway for some neo-noir playtime.

Dunaway's character, Evelyn Mulwray, transpires to have been raped by her father, going on to have a child and raise the girl as her sister. It's a complicated family tree, but one that was later discovered to bear significant resemblance to that of Jack Nicholson himself. While researching Nicholson's family prior to a Time magazine cover story, a reporter uncovered that the two people the actor had spent his whole life calling "mom and dad" were not actually his parents at all, but his grandparents, while the woman he believed to be his sister was in fact his biological mother. She had allegedly become pregnant by somebody who didn't hang around for long, leading the family to keep the secret for their whole lives.

But what is really odd about these parallels between the characters in the film and Nicholson's own family is that he actually had no idea about this bizarre truth until after he had taken on the role in Chinatown. The information came out much later, making the foreshadowing all the more intriguing.