Disturbing Truth Behind The Superman Movie Curse

2. The Superman Toll

Lee Quigley was the youngest star affected by the Curse. He played Kal-El as a baby in 1978's Superman and died at the age of just 14 thanks to solvent abuse. While another Superman actor - Richard Pryor - had his own struggles with substance abuse, he was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis just three years after his appearance in Superman III. He died of a heart attack brought about by smoking at the age of 65.

Somewhat more infamously, Superman from the same series of movies - Christopher Reeve - was left paralyzed from the neck down when he was thrown from his horse on May 27th, 1995. He died 9 years later from heart failure as a result of his injuries.

And while Marlon Brando's appearance in the first Richard Donner film is often held up as a symptom of the project's cursed nature (because he was such a source of issues), he also seems to have struck down by the Curse. His son was charged and imprisoned for the fatal shooting of his half-sister's partner and died young at 49 after serving time in prison. His half-sister Cheyenne, who had lost her child after the death of her lover, killed herself at the age of just 25.

Later, the crew responsible for putting together the Superman Returns DVD were said to have absorbed the Curse's influence when one was injured falling down some stairs, one was mugged and assaulted and one smashed into a glass window. In isolation, those events mean very little, but amplified by the dark romanticism of the Curse, they seem indicative of something more sinister. And that's far from the limit of the story...

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