1. Brandon Lee's Crow Is Impervious To Bullets, Gets Shot On Set
The Crow was supposed to be Brandon Lee's star-making role. The son of legendary martial arts master Bruce Lee, Brandon played Eric Draven, an undead guitarist seeking vengeance for his fiancee's brutal rape and murder. Obviously, if he'd gone back as his regular self, he'd probably have been killed again. But to this obvious conundrum, the movie had a solution Draven could heal himself almost instantly after suffering all manner of physical punishment. Atop this, he could communicate telepathically with crows hence the title and felt no pain at all, utilising his new-found abilities to takes revenge on the gang who murdered his fiancee. The Crow opened to good reviews, and would've gone down as a better effort in pulpy vengeance flicks, ripe for a cult following later down the line. Yet tragically, it didn't, and instead the film is now notorious for causing the death of Brandon Lee in a terrible accident involving a prop gun loaded with an un-discharged, unchecked dummy round instead of the regulation blanks. Lee was shot from just over 10 feet away, and despite being rushed to hospital and six hours of surgery, he was unable to be saved. However, despite Paramount pulling their funding out of the film and the withdrawal of Lee's co-star and accident witness Sofia Shinas, The Crow now funded by Miramax made it into cinemas courtesy of script re-writes and reshoots. It's still a good film and worthy of your time, but the scenes where Lee gets repeatedly shot in a showcase of his supernatural powers obviously don't provide the visceral thrills that were originally intended. Instead, it's a distinctly uneasy and upsetting experience, with some reviewers even going so far as to say Lee's presence 'haunts' the picture. Indeed, it's impossible to watch it without feeling a sense of sadness.
