5 Allegedly Cursed Horror Movie Sets

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Horror movies are scary by nature — but horror movies with cursed sets? After being scared out of their wits by demons and ghosts, the last thing most fans want to read is that that movie you just watched had grave repercussions for those involved. But for some horror movies, that is the case.

It's not surprising then, that priests are often called to bless these sets. Nobody wants to invite evil into their lives, but for these cast and crew members, that's exactly what happened. These movies aren't just terrifying to watch; according to those involved in production, they were terrifying to work on as well.

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Based on the hit Ira Levin novel of the same name, Rosemary's Baby is Roman Polanski's Oscar-nominated horror about a young pregnant wife named Rosemary (Mia Farrow), who believes her elderly neighbors are part of a cult that wants to sacrifice her baby. Famous for influencing the satanic subgenre, Rosemary's Baby leaves another legacy as one of the most cursed movie sets in history.

The first to be hit by the curse was the movie's composer Krzysztof Komeda, who was at a party when his friend accidentally pushed him over an escarpment. Komeda suffered brain damage from the fall and fell into a four-month coma from which he never recovered, echoing the death of Rosemary's friend Hutch in the film. Producer William Castle was next to be hit when he was hospitalized with severe kidney stones and hallucinated scenes from the movie, yelling, «Rosemary, for God’s sake, drop the knife.» But the worst affected by the curse was the director himself, whose wife, Sharon Tate, was brutally murdered by the Manson family whilst pregnant with their baby in 1969. Rumor has it that Tate appears as a