![]() ![]() In the early '70s, he was in consideration to direct The Exorcist, but he ended up not getting the job because he only wanted to direct the film if he could also produce it. Stanley Kubrick is known for his forays into different genres-and horror was a genre that piqued his interest early on in his career. She would stick to baths from that point on.Stanley Kubrick / Evening Standard/Getty Images The famous shower scene that still gives us the chills, was apparently too much for her, and Leigh developed a fear of taking showers. Add to that the trying moment she was served divorce papers from her then-husband Frank Sinatra in front of everyone.Īccording to movie legend, actress Janet Leigh was a changed woman after playing the role of Marion Crane in Psycho. Farrow, a hardcore vegetarian, couldn't come to grips with the countless times she was forced to eat raw chicken liver during repeated takes for one scene. So, there you have it: plenty of emotional and physical hurt.Īctress Mia Farrow paid quite the price for starring in Roman Polanski's American film debut, Rosemary's Baby. And on top of all this, the film's director Alfred Hitchcock even manipulated and harassed the actress both on-screen and of-screen. ![]() It is said that the birds seen attacking actress Tippi Hedren in the film left her bleeding and bruised and even a little mentally stressed given that she wasn't aware that real birds would be used in the film until the very end. That, plus zero human contact, gave this found footage-style film a raw edge over all others, even today. What tipped the scales was the fact that as the days progressed, the cast was given less and less food to get their angst to translate on-screen. At that point we were really just on the verge of mental collapse." One fact that will totally drive the viewer nuts, too, is how director Tobe Hooper didn't reveal the identity of the actor playing Leatherface until filming began.Įxcept for a daily huddle, there was reportedly zero interaction between the cast and crew. I think just because of the misery of it. Gunnar Hansen who played Leatherface in The Texas Chain Saw Massacre reportedly said in an interview: "The whole dinner scene is burned in my memory. ![]() The executive producer of the movie was dealt a similar fate not to leave out the special effects assistant who was beheaded in a car crash next to a sign that read Omen 666. Peck's plane was also struck by lightening. Two months before the film's shooting began, Peck's son Jonathan shot himself. In the case of lead actor Gregory Peck, the curse played out a little before that. The sets were said to be cursed from the very moment filming began. The 1976 film The Omen allegedly paid in blood while it was being made. The child actor even received death threats from critics who thought the film glorified Satan. The press, meanwhile, forced a 13-year-old girl to think about and answer questions on Catholicism and the Devil. Evidence of how the expectations were came in the form of an instant disapproval once the audience learned that it wasn't just Regan in the film, there's was a voice actor who recorded the demonic voice and a stunt dummy that was used for eight seconds. For Blair, who played the role of the 12-year-old possessed child Regan in The Exorcist, there was a lot of pressure from the audience and the press. Actress Veronica Cartwright who played one of the crew members allegedly screamed in pure shock before finally passing out because the actors didn't know till the very end that a creature would come bursting out from their fellow actor's chest.Ī child actor at the time when the movie was shot, Linda Blair probably suffered the worst of the lot. The infamous 'chestbuster' scene from the Alien sure elicited screams from the audience, but the screams in the scene itself were pretty real too. Movie legend has it that she showed Stanley Kubrick the fallen clumps of her hair to prove to him how stressed she was. It's the most difficult role I've ever had to play," she reportedly said in one interview. The ShiningĪctress Shelley Duvall, who played deranged Jack Torrance's wife in The Shining, said that filming for the movie was "almost unbearable." "Stanley pushed me and prodded me further than I'd ever been pushed before. But what of the actors who played these roles? Some of these roles listed below messed them up pretty bad, and this list might just change the way you think of the subject. When you think of horror movies, you think of the scares that land on one side of the camera. ![]()
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