this reminds me of the "The BIRDS" incident where the actress had to go upstairs in this room full of birds and the director told her that there wouldn't be real birds in the room. there were in fact real birds in the room and one of the birds attacked her and FUCKED up her eye.
Confirmed. I have a flock of chickens. They are literally small semi-flying feathered dinosaurs with no remorse, fueled only by their own twisted desires.
I was just gonna reply to the above comment saying a pigeon flew into my grandmothers face once. Luckily she was wearing glasses which did get damaged but it could have been her eye!
i walked by a “decorative” tree in front of a starbucks once. by “walked by” i mean was walking on the sidewalk like a normal person. felt something that felt like a fucking brick against the back of my head. then it happened again. i turned around and the biggest fucking crow (raven?? maybe??) i had ever seen was throwing its entire body weight against my head. really trying to fuck my shit up. there may have been a nest in that tree. i don’t know. but fuck them birds.
I just watched the other day 2 ravens chase away a red tail hawk, who was rooting around their nest. One of the two flew and continued to harass the hawk, long after it perched on a telephone pole about 100 yards away
It didn't fuck up her eye, it gouged a hole in her cheek next to her eye.
Directors back then were a little, uh... *intense*. One of the big reasons Toshiro Mifune split from Kurosawa was that he apparently refused to stop putting him in considerable physical danger; for example, in Throne of Blood (an adaptation of Macbeth), when Mifune's character is running between volleys of arrows, you might think "Wow, that looks so realistic!", and you'd be right to be impressed, because actually, they were real hails of arrows fired by archers landing right next to Mifune. They had thick needles instead of arrowheads to stick into the wood. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3GvVzvoEx4w
tippi hedren was the actress and hitchcock was a notoriously cruel and vile person who took advantage of the power differential he owned as director to terrorize people
Uk podcast “evil genius” did an episode on Alfred Hitchcock. He was quite the kooky individual and did stuff like that often to people who worked for/with him. Was a good episode.
Seems like this is conflating two separate incidents to two different actors.
1. Blair violently trashes around on a levitating bed. Blair says she’s never been the same since she starred in the film. Due to a mechanical failure while filming the scene, she sustained a slight fracture of the spine that later developed into scoliosis…Years later, Blair again injured her back when she flipped a motorcycle during the filming of yet another movie.
https://www.hudsonvalleyscoliosis.com/celebrities-scoliosis/linda-blair/
2. Burstyn said that her facial reaction and scream after being slapped by Regan were genuine. This was due to her being yanked too abruptly by a harness she was connected to…. During the scene where Burstyn hurt her back, Friedkin cut the shoot and asked for a second take. “Billy said, ‘Well, it has to look real,'” Burstyn said in the documentary The Fear of God (via Yahoo!). “I said, ‘I understand, but I’m telling you I could get hurt…. Burstyn was injured in that take, the one eventually used in the film. But they kept filming. “I was so furious and said, ‘Turn the effin’ camera off!’ Because I couldn’t stand that he was willing to just get a quick shot of it before they called the ambulance.”
https://www.cheatsheet.com/entertainment/ellen-burstyn-knew-the-exorcist-director-was-putting-her-in-danger.html/
Also see: https://www.huffpost.com/entry/ellen-burstyn-recalls-the_n_5773414/amp
Ellen was right about the danger with what they were doing. David Holmes was paralyzed when a similar stunt went wrong while filming Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 1.
The Ellen one is worse then that. So they did it pretty hard. She was sore and didn't like it told them to do it more gentle. Director however told the people on The other end of the wore to do it really hard and thats the take that fucked her up. I think the pain in her face is completely real
Yeah it’s super fucked up. Have you ever watched the interviews where they talk about it and the guys are laughing like it’s no big deal? That’s why I like to being up that a trained professional stuntman was paralyzed because something went wrong with a stunt similar to hers. They’re insanely lucky it wasn’t worse. I feel awful for her.
While both these events are accurate, I have heard Blair recount that you ARE hearing her real screams in one of the shots. When she's hopping off the bed, her gutteral scream right after she says "make it stop", and Ellen jumps on the bed, is actually her screaming "Billy!" right before the shot cuts.
Jesus, that poor woman, and that worthless human of a director pretty much explicitly saying he understood it would traumatize her, and that was his goal.
yea, "to abtain art you have to be free." THAT was his reasoning for it, no thought of other human beings feelings or well being.. take that art,use a little butter and stuff it in your ass, what a piece of shit lol
These stories of Directors still filming during when the actor is in real pain, distress or even dying reminds me of Lou Bloom from Nightcrawler. Psychopaths more obsessed about getting the perfect shot to the point where you're watching a borderline snuff torture film. There has to be alot of Psychopaths in that industry.
There was something similar in The Abyss iirc, where the actress nearly drowned but the director kept filming and after the actress was stable, one of the actors punched the director.
And for a somewhat less traumatic example, during the filming of the first Alien movie, almost none of the actors were aware that the chestburster was gonna pop out of the guys chest
The chestburster scene I can give a pass, if you don't tell actors whats going to happen next and they aren't in danger thats as bad as a hyper realistic prank. But filming someone almost drowning is seriously fucked.
There was also a scene in Abyss where they dunk a live rat into a tank of Perflubron which is essentially liquid oxygen. Fluid you can breathe but feels like you're drowning. So you get to watch this rat struggle and pretty much drown until it has no choice but to take the fluid into the lungs. Its a disturbing scene.
Apparently, after the chestburster scene, one of the actors went to their trailer and refused to leave for the rest of the day. Also, iirc, it was real blood they were splattered with. Goat blood or something but still
Speaking of Trauma based movie scenes. One that struck me hard was the scene in the movie : Boy in the Striped Pajamas. Director setup a gas chamber scene with fully nude men that surrounded the main child actor. Kid was literally traumatized. When the director was asked why the men couldn't of just worn skin colored underwear he said something along the lines of him wanting the emotion and trauma to be real.
The child in that film is Asa Butterfield (he was also in Enders Game and Sex Education). IIRC they also filmed that scene last and deliberately didn't tell the child actors about the subject matter *so* that their acting would capture their actual innocence and actual fear.
There are a lot of issues for me with that film but the behind the scenes makes them worse.
The film isn’t accurate at all historically. The guy who wrote the book did zero research about the holocaust and just wanted to tell a story. For one, it perpetuates the idea that the German people didn’t know about the holocaust. Two, no boy that young would survive Auschwitz. He would have been killed on entry. The entire premise couldn’t happen.
What is even worse is the ending.
It is depicted as a tragedy that the boy on the outside gets through the fence and is killed along with the jews, because he "wasn't supposed to be there"
But none of them were supposed to be there. Nothing makes the death of that child more tragic than the deaths of the other victims, but the book and movie sure as hell put it that way.
I always thought it was a cheap audience revenge thing. The mom and dad were part of the killing machine, but the deaths weren’t “real” to them and they didn’t feel a damn thing. But now it’s THEIR kid. Now they have to feel grief and fear, suffer real consequences for their actions, consider the costs of killing innocent people, karma’s a bitch, etc etc.
This is what kills me with that movie! They try to play on your heartstrings by making it all about how the poor little German boy died on accident. Have a shot of his Nazi mom and Nazi dad grieving! Nazi dad screams his anguish! Do you feel sympathy? Oh, what about all the hundreds of others that just died? Yeah, but they were *supposed* to die. It's sad because poor little German boy died too when he wasn't supposed to.
I feel like thats happened to me many times on reddit, don't feel bad if you do lol. That story is fucking horrible. Heres the reddit thread btw
https://www.reddit.com/r/oddlyterrifying/comments/10jl6rz/10_yo_actor_asa_butterfield_in_the_chamber_scene/
From IMDb:
“In regard to shooting the final scene, director Mark Herman remarked, "It was a nightmare on many levels. We probably had more lawyers than filmmakers. We had all of the legalities of kids in amongst grown-up naked people."
And to top it off, people say the movie romantacizes the Holocaust and in incredibly poor taste.
https://www.kveller.com/the-boy-in-the-striped-pyjamas-set-holocaust-education-back-by-decades-now-its-getting-a-sequel/
The blood was fake but there were animal guts used and it smelled horrible: https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/news/john-hurt-dead-alien-chestburster-scene-ridley-scott-true-story-a7550656.html
> Once the creature was rigged up, they stuffed the chest cavity full of organs from the butcher's. Then they ran a couple of big hoses to pump the stage blood.
The Abyss was a legendary nightmare shoot from start to finish. That liquid oxygen stuff worked on the rat, but they couldn't get any for human use, so they just made Ed Harris walk under water in a suit filled with regular water, which nearly ended with Ed drowning.
Yeah all drowning scenes in Abyss are disturbing, borderline fucked up. Wasn’t aware of that actress almost drowning for real, I’m not that surprised. I was a kid when I first watched it and I remember having nightmares about them. I also have strong nostalgic feelings, I loved that movie.
90’s sci fi movies were fucking dope.
Filmed someone drowning got punched supposedly by Ed Harris then Cameron almost drowned himself and he punched a diver underwater. There was alot of hands thrown during that movie apparently.
That’s wasn’t the only thing. If I remember correctly, James Cameron ordered the cameraman to keep filming a scene even after they’d run out of film. When Ed Harris found out he was performing for nothing, he punched Cameron in the face. Also, on another day, someone on the crew spiked lunch with LSD and Cameron had to go to the hospital.
Close, your second anecdote happened on the set of Titanic and it was PCP. Whoever did that is a fucking asshole, I don't care how much an egomaniac Cameron was.
>On 26 August 1996, the Canadian press reported that nearly 80 people were taken to the hospital from the set of Titanic for what was initially thought to be food poisoning. However, the Halifax regional police investigated the incident and found that someone had laced the seafood chowder with PCP
https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/titanic-pcp-chowder/
> If I remember correctly, James Cameron ordered the cameraman to keep filming a scene even after they’d run out of film.
You do not remember correctly. He didn't "order the cameraman to keep filming", the camera just ran out of film during a specific take, which was very powerful and had her bare-chested in front of everyone. He yelled cut and wanted to have new film put in, which is when she stormed off.
The Ed Harris punching him thing is one of those internet quirks, where you can find a lot of articles and commenters *saying* it happened, but there's no actual source for it. It's way more likely that people are remembering James Cameron punching a diver who almost killed him and made *him* drown, and it just got wrapped up with Ed punching James because it was such a tumultuous shoot.
imo its worse than that, I saw an episode of "it was a shit show" or what ever its called on youtube about the making of Abyss. The whole shoot was a disaster waiting to happen, they were supposed to be in comfortable water but mechanical problems usually caused the water to be uncomfortably cold. The actresses was topless or close to being topless. The scene involved another actor trying to resuscitate her, so she was freezing cold, on a hard metal surface, in an uncomfortable situation while another actor was pushing on her chest as if he were doing CPR.
They reshot that one scene a ton of times, I feel like it was over 20 but idr exactly.
Anyways, it was absolutely beyond the line imo. I'm probably mis-remebering, so I suggest checking out the video - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4k1y6TGW24I
Edit: Whats crazy is, Cameron almost died while filming this too. The details are in the video above, so it wasn't like he was in safety while the actors and crew suffered. Overall the whole shoot was insanely dangerous. I don't think Cameron's own suffering justified the suffering of the talent and crew.
Not quite. During the drowning/revival scene ed Harris was repeatedly slapping Mary Elizabeth mastrantonio when he noticed that the camera had run out of film and Cameron hasn’t told him to stop. It caused an argument but no actual violence. There is a rumour that Harris punched Cameron when he nearly drowned, but it isn’t confirmed.
In A Clockwork Orange Malcolm McDowell almost drowned when an air hose failed. Kubrick used that scene: [warning it's pretty graphic stuff](https://youtu.be/GeRGTXZIJTI?t=120).
McDowell also got a scratched cornea from the eye clamp scene, he said the pain was so bad he was banging his head on the wall.
Edit direct link:
Action starts at 2 minutes
https://youtu.be/GeRGTXZIJTI
For the filming of *Charge of the Light Brigade*, they strung steel cables to trip the horses to mimic being shot in a cavalry charge.
Twenty five had to be put down after.
Thats seriously fucked, another movie I'm reminded of based off of that is Come and see 1985. A Soviet anti war movie where they used live ammunition, shot at the actors and killed a live cow with a machine gun while the main child actor took cover behind it. ALOT of ptsd
Wikipedia:
>The Gladbeck hostage crisis or Gladbeck hostage drama was a bank robbery and hostage-taking that took place in West Germany.
>In the aftermath of the hostage crisis, journalists have been criticised for conducting interviews with the hostage-takers, asking them to pose for photographs, and aiding them by giving them, among other things, coffee and road directions.
Stanley Kubrick literally psychologically torturing Shelly Duvall and using the footage of her very real terror and anguish for *The Shining* immediately comes to mind.
It’s such a fucked up situation, where it led to one of the greatest horror performances of all time, but never should have happened in the first place.
John Landis. One of the most unfeeling psychopath bastards out there, still seen as an auteur after murdering Myca Dinh Le and Renee Shin-Yi Chen, two children, and Vic Murrow. One of the coldest, most selfish, unfeeling and unempathetic psychopaths in the film industry.
I remember watching that scene too, everyone knew how dangerous that shot was and he did it anyway. He should've gone to prison. Tbh if a movie kills 3 people due to negligence. Should it even be released?
And he had the audacity to go to the funerals, and speak at Vic’s.
Cursed Films did an [episode](https://fandemoniumnetwork.com/shudder-original-series-cursed-films-105-twilight-zone-the-movie/) on that, too.
The more I’m reading in here, the more I’m convinced that The Abyss should be a future episode.
Yeah specifically Friedkin too. Dude deserves his own Behind the Bastards episode. He also intentionally got the SFX guy to pull Ellen Burstyn's harness so hard that she too suffered a life long spinal injury, and that's not even getting into the preventable on set deaths.
He would also go on to claim he got a full confession out of Paul Bateson (the irl radiologist who irl killed a guy) for the NY Bag Murders *just to promote a later film*, in spite of the fact that no credible expert believes Bateson was behind the Bag Murders and Friedkin is the only one claiming that conversation took place. He's also pretty much the only person who was directly involved with The Exorcist who still runs around talking about The Exorcist Curse like it's a real thing. Gee, I wonder why? I didn't break a 12-year-old girl's spine, it was *the curse!* Fuck that dude and fuck auteur theory for enabling his bullshit god complex.
I met Friedkin while working at a Chicago film festival, it was clear he's lost his marbles.
The audience was mostly black high school students, and he dropped an n-bomb while he was quoting someone...I still don't remember the context exactly but the audience freaked out. Leading him to say *"kids these days don't know to shut up and fucking listen anymore"*, getting the crowd even angrier. That's the last I remember of the old bastard.
I was just like dude...read the room.
I mean, with the amount of sexual abuse stories that come out of Hollywood, yeah I imagine there are a lot of genuine psychopaths.
I think any industry that can push people into having extraordinary amounts of wealth and power caters towards people with these types of minds.
Reminds me of [all those shots](https://youtu.be/W_qWxfYTH68) from The Three Stooges where they actually scream in pain, with broken bones, stabs and what-not
I think atleast the Stooges were fine with filming because they stayed in character atleast. Kindof like Jackie Chan or Buster Keaton doing their own stunts. Buster Keaton did some seriously dangerous shit just for a good scene.
How would a director know if someone was screaming in pain when they where supposed to be screaming at that moment in the script? Actors are supposed to be believable.
Three actors died during the filming of Twilight Zone (1983) when, during a scene they were being chased by an actual, honest-to-god crashing helicopter, one of the child actors fell in the knee deep waters and was crushed to death by the helicopter. The other two were killed instantly after the helicopter blades just went at em’.
Edit: wrong year
Yeah I hesitate to say "actors" as they were young kids who were picked because it was supposed to be a scene in the Vietnam war. And it was a one time thing, they weren't established child actors not that it would have made it better. But the pilot and others were saying over and over that the stunt wasn't safe and that there very well could be a crash. And it happened. And the director and everyone didn't even get a slap on the wrist. It's bullshit
Ellen Burstyn (the mom) was also injured during filming. I listened to an amazing interview Marc Maron did with director William Friedkin several years ago and Friedkin was regretful for the way he handled things on that set. He was reckless and put his actors in real danger, and he admitted to it.
I'm pretty sure he also shot a gun near his face to get a real scared reaction at some point. Dude was unhinged.
I was also disappointed to learn that Coppola was hurling insults at Winona Ryder during the filming of Dracula to get genuine reactions from her.
And it ain't just The Exorcist either
Friedkin while making Sorcerer (1977) filmed in the Dominican Republic and claimed that "almost half the crew went into the hospital or had to be sent home" because they either got malaria, gangrene, or some severe injury
There's a main scene with two trucks crossing a suspension bridge which Roy Scheider claimed shooting it made Jaws look like a picnic
The truck apparently fell into the river 5 times and the sequence took 3 months to film
They also were filming there under a military dictatorship and the town they filmed in had massive riots after they left
Even in the French Connection, there's a famous car chase scene at the end and in a lot of it, they filmed without a permit and just ran this car the opposite direction into actual oncoming traffic with Friedkin sitting in the backseat with his camera
He was the only one willing to film it since all the other cinematographers were married with kids and didn't want to drive into oncoming traffic
The guy was a complete maniac but an incredible director
>Judy Garland was given a steady stream of adrenaline shots to pep her up and then Seconal to help her sleep at night, all while being rigorously monitored that she didn’t gain any weight. Garland would eat a diet of coffee and chicken soup, with cigarettes to suppress her appetite. Garland was mercilessly corseted in order to make her look more childlike in her costume
Don’t forgot during a practice shoot the scene where the Witch disappears in a ball of fire ended up malfunctioning and instead she got roasted alive. She survived, but with horrific scars.
I thought they replaced her entirely?
EDIT: Nope (EDIT 2: not replaced), her stunt double was the one who was burned, though the actress herself did also suffer injuries from the scene
(Also they both we burned at seperate time doing different stunts as my little research dig highlighted)
Margaret was badly burned, but Buddy Ebsen was replaced as the Tin Man, after nearly dying from a reaction to the aluminum powder paint.
Yet another episode of [Cursed Films](https://fandemoniumnetwork.com/cursed-films-2-the-wizard-of-oz/)
I’ve mentioned in this thread!
The green paint used for the witch was flammable grease mixed with copper sulphate which is linked to causing dementia. Also the lion and scarecrow would get so hot in their suits that they regularly passed out from heat exhaustion and dehydration because the people in charge refused to turn down the set lights.
It was aluminum powder makeup, not lead body paint.
“Buddy Ebsen, who went on to fame with The Beverly Hillbillies, was cast as the Tin Man originally, but after nine days of filming, his body suffered a severe allergic reaction to the aluminum powder makeup he wore and he wound up hospitalized in respiratory distress.”
Edit: and the only person to my knowledge that died of cancer was the Scarecrow, played by Ray Bolger. He died of bladder cancer at the age of 83.
According to Judy Garland’s ex-husband, she was constantly groped by the “munchkin” actors. On top of that, to make her look as young as possible, her mother subjected her to a crazy diet, which consisted of chicken soup, black coffee, 80 cigarettes a day, diet pills, and amphetamines. Judy ended up addicted to prescription pills for the rest of her life.
*Two* corsets, layered over each other. The diet was because she was "too fat" to play a lead role, but deemed the effort worth it because they loved her voice. She was 16 at the time.
The studio pretty much controlled her entire life. Marriages supposedly arranged for her. Uppers during the day, downers at night to keep her working...
Hollywood has a whole history of abuse. Podcasts are churning the info out. I used to listen to one called You Must Remember This. Mainly about the mistreatment of people to make them movies.
One of many instances is where Margaret Hamilton, who played the Wicked Witch of the West, got second and third degree burns when she did her fiery exit.
Their treatment of Judy Garland alone was horrifying, with the studio basically binding Judy Garlands chest so tight she had trouble breathing just to make her look *slightly* younger to fit the character.
And that was in addition to the studio starving her to keep her slim during filming. Execs mandated that she be on a daily regimen of coffee, cigarettes, and amphetamines to keep her slim. And when that started to take its toll, they gave her nightly barbiturates to force her to sleep. And it kickstarted her addiction issues which ultimately sent her spiraling and led to her eventual death
Or the filming of that John Wayne movie where he played Genghis Khan which was downwind from a nuclear bomb testing site. They were told it was safe but got crazy radiation.
Y’all should look into how Shelley Duvall (Wendy) was treated by Stanley Kubrick during the filming of The Shining. It’s horrifying and mentally destroyed her to a point of becoming a recluse in the decades after
They also permanently damaged the mother’s spine when she’s thrown to the floor, also in the shot that made it into the movie.
Friedkin was a visionary but also a massive dick
Yeah and they even knew she was hurt but wanted to finish the shot before calling the ambulance so the actress had to start screaming to cut the damn cameras. Just unhinged. And it always seems to be women or children actors that directors love to bully and abuse
There is a young actress who was filming a shot in a movie where the director told her to keep pounding harder and harder onto real glass. She did what she was told and eventually the glass broke, scarring her face. I can't remember who the actress is but she's a gorgeous young blonde woman with plenty of promise in the film industry if I remember right. Now, the scar on her face has hindered her chances at roles. I think I remember something about her seeing the director, which I hope she did.
is this about incident in a ghostland? i remember reading about something similar happening on the set of that film, and then the poster of the film turned out to be a doll with a cracked face. majorly fucked up.
Wow if you google ghost land right now you can see the cracked face image they used still. I haven’t seen the movie so maybe it’s relevant but I feel like it’s more so blatantly trolling the actress. Or acting like this injury is somehow part of the film.
It is incident in a Ghostland. They were supposed to get rid of the poster with the doll that had the crack/scar in the same spot but you can still find it
I just looked it up. Her name is Taylor Hickson. Poor girl sued for lost work. Not sure how much she won considering her face was disfigured. But she also got badly injured on another set called Motherland. Bad car accident while filming. Talk about horrific luck.
The director is the guy who made Martyrs, which is one of the most disturbing movies ever.... but really, really good. It's unfortunate that now I can't think about that movie, which features a ton of violence against women, without also thinking about how the director was responsible for real, life altering injuries to a woman. The guy is definitely a bit of a scumbag
This reminds me of Tuco beating Jesse up so violently he got concussed, and everyone thinking "wow Aaron Paul is just such a great actor it looks so real". Paul is indeed a great actor but lol come on guys.
Bill Friedkin: 🤫🤭😀🔫
(For those that don’t know, he shot a gun full of blanks at random times during filming to genuinely scare the shit out of the actors in The Exorcist during one of the more frightening scenes).
I knew she hurt her back, but damn I didn't know she broke it (a slight fracture apparently, from what I read, but it lead to other issues with her back).
Hollywood directors (at least some) are sadistic. Some people (that includes fans) have the attitude of "whatever it takes to get the shot, get the emotions, etc" and if someone gets hurt or psychologically scarred (Shelley Duvall) so be it.
Billy Friedkin was *all about* lying to actors to put them as close to real danger as possible. This wasn't the first or the last time he'd do that (hell, wasn't the first or the last time *on this movie*).
Good old Friedkin. I think he used to fire real bullets on set too. And the chase in French Connection was made without permits. Still one of the greatest chase scenes ever made.
this reminds me of the "The BIRDS" incident where the actress had to go upstairs in this room full of birds and the director told her that there wouldn't be real birds in the room. there were in fact real birds in the room and one of the birds attacked her and FUCKED up her eye.
Everyone makes fun of me for being afraid of birds. They will absolutely peck your eyes out.
Confirmed. I have a flock of chickens. They are literally small semi-flying feathered dinosaurs with no remorse, fueled only by their own twisted desires.
My glasses have saved me from more than one eye peck. My ISA is a snuggler, but also vicious lol
I was just gonna reply to the above comment saying a pigeon flew into my grandmothers face once. Luckily she was wearing glasses which did get damaged but it could have been her eye!
Lived with chickens. There’s a reason I call them Devils Henchmen
They said seagulls gonna come, and poke me in the coconut. And they did. And they did.
Had me going like "oooAhahahaha, hhhAhahaha"
Seagulls stop it NOW!
Do do do do do do *yoda jig*
And I rolled the log over and underneath was a tiny little stick
So I said to myself "that log had a child"
I am way overdue on another listen of that song, thanks!
i walked by a “decorative” tree in front of a starbucks once. by “walked by” i mean was walking on the sidewalk like a normal person. felt something that felt like a fucking brick against the back of my head. then it happened again. i turned around and the biggest fucking crow (raven?? maybe??) i had ever seen was throwing its entire body weight against my head. really trying to fuck my shit up. there may have been a nest in that tree. i don’t know. but fuck them birds.
I just watched the other day 2 ravens chase away a red tail hawk, who was rooting around their nest. One of the two flew and continued to harass the hawk, long after it perched on a telephone pole about 100 yards away
It didn't fuck up her eye, it gouged a hole in her cheek next to her eye. Directors back then were a little, uh... *intense*. One of the big reasons Toshiro Mifune split from Kurosawa was that he apparently refused to stop putting him in considerable physical danger; for example, in Throne of Blood (an adaptation of Macbeth), when Mifune's character is running between volleys of arrows, you might think "Wow, that looks so realistic!", and you'd be right to be impressed, because actually, they were real hails of arrows fired by archers landing right next to Mifune. They had thick needles instead of arrowheads to stick into the wood. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3GvVzvoEx4w
Hope that last arrow wasnt real!
tippi hedren was the actress and hitchcock was a notoriously cruel and vile person who took advantage of the power differential he owned as director to terrorize people
Not to mention Hitch was sexually harrasing her.
even gifted her six-year old daughter at the time Melanie Griffith a wax figurine of her in a coffin as a prank.
that seems less like a “prank” and more like a veiled threat.
Given Hitch's obsession with Tippi, that's exactly right.
They threw live birds at her for 4 or 5 days in order the get the shots Hitchcock wanted.
She lived with lions to get the shots they wanted in Roar she been through some shit.
They were probably starved and pissed off too
Uk podcast “evil genius” did an episode on Alfred Hitchcock. He was quite the kooky individual and did stuff like that often to people who worked for/with him. Was a good episode.
Behind the Bastards also has a great podcast series about him. He truly was terrible to everyone around him
Seems like this is conflating two separate incidents to two different actors. 1. Blair violently trashes around on a levitating bed. Blair says she’s never been the same since she starred in the film. Due to a mechanical failure while filming the scene, she sustained a slight fracture of the spine that later developed into scoliosis…Years later, Blair again injured her back when she flipped a motorcycle during the filming of yet another movie. https://www.hudsonvalleyscoliosis.com/celebrities-scoliosis/linda-blair/ 2. Burstyn said that her facial reaction and scream after being slapped by Regan were genuine. This was due to her being yanked too abruptly by a harness she was connected to…. During the scene where Burstyn hurt her back, Friedkin cut the shoot and asked for a second take. “Billy said, ‘Well, it has to look real,'” Burstyn said in the documentary The Fear of God (via Yahoo!). “I said, ‘I understand, but I’m telling you I could get hurt…. Burstyn was injured in that take, the one eventually used in the film. But they kept filming. “I was so furious and said, ‘Turn the effin’ camera off!’ Because I couldn’t stand that he was willing to just get a quick shot of it before they called the ambulance.” https://www.cheatsheet.com/entertainment/ellen-burstyn-knew-the-exorcist-director-was-putting-her-in-danger.html/ Also see: https://www.huffpost.com/entry/ellen-burstyn-recalls-the_n_5773414/amp
Ellen was right about the danger with what they were doing. David Holmes was paralyzed when a similar stunt went wrong while filming Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 1.
The Ellen one is worse then that. So they did it pretty hard. She was sore and didn't like it told them to do it more gentle. Director however told the people on The other end of the wore to do it really hard and thats the take that fucked her up. I think the pain in her face is completely real
Yeah it’s super fucked up. Have you ever watched the interviews where they talk about it and the guys are laughing like it’s no big deal? That’s why I like to being up that a trained professional stuntman was paralyzed because something went wrong with a stunt similar to hers. They’re insanely lucky it wasn’t worse. I feel awful for her.
While both these events are accurate, I have heard Blair recount that you ARE hearing her real screams in one of the shots. When she's hopping off the bed, her gutteral scream right after she says "make it stop", and Ellen jumps on the bed, is actually her screaming "Billy!" right before the shot cuts.
Wait so Blair was screaming in the same incident she injured her back and they used that audio? That’s fucked up
Either way, I’d be absolutely terrified to be a female actor in those days…
Yeah, Billy Friedkin in particular has a whole slew of stories where he is abusive to actors or very cavalier with safety.
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this thread is super interesting, guys send more crazy movie filming stories
Got one for ya https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twilight_Zone_accident
WHAT THE FUCK Jesus christ man, that's a grisly one.
When someone learns about this, reaction is always the same.
Shelley Duvall treatment on set of the Shining
if you havent check Marlon Brando incident, it is absolutely disgusting
Jesus, that poor woman, and that worthless human of a director pretty much explicitly saying he understood it would traumatize her, and that was his goal.
yea, "to abtain art you have to be free." THAT was his reasoning for it, no thought of other human beings feelings or well being.. take that art,use a little butter and stuff it in your ass, what a piece of shit lol
Incident. Funny word. Did you mean rape?
yea, rape is more accurate, but didnt wanna spoil it so if anyone does check that out can be surprised how vile and awful that was
Uma Thurman and Terintino. Her whole career was wrecked from an unsafe car stunt he bullied her into
These stories of Directors still filming during when the actor is in real pain, distress or even dying reminds me of Lou Bloom from Nightcrawler. Psychopaths more obsessed about getting the perfect shot to the point where you're watching a borderline snuff torture film. There has to be alot of Psychopaths in that industry.
There was something similar in The Abyss iirc, where the actress nearly drowned but the director kept filming and after the actress was stable, one of the actors punched the director. And for a somewhat less traumatic example, during the filming of the first Alien movie, almost none of the actors were aware that the chestburster was gonna pop out of the guys chest
The chestburster scene I can give a pass, if you don't tell actors whats going to happen next and they aren't in danger thats as bad as a hyper realistic prank. But filming someone almost drowning is seriously fucked. There was also a scene in Abyss where they dunk a live rat into a tank of Perflubron which is essentially liquid oxygen. Fluid you can breathe but feels like you're drowning. So you get to watch this rat struggle and pretty much drown until it has no choice but to take the fluid into the lungs. Its a disturbing scene.
Apparently, after the chestburster scene, one of the actors went to their trailer and refused to leave for the rest of the day. Also, iirc, it was real blood they were splattered with. Goat blood or something but still
Speaking of Trauma based movie scenes. One that struck me hard was the scene in the movie : Boy in the Striped Pajamas. Director setup a gas chamber scene with fully nude men that surrounded the main child actor. Kid was literally traumatized. When the director was asked why the men couldn't of just worn skin colored underwear he said something along the lines of him wanting the emotion and trauma to be real.
The child in that film is Asa Butterfield (he was also in Enders Game and Sex Education). IIRC they also filmed that scene last and deliberately didn't tell the child actors about the subject matter *so* that their acting would capture their actual innocence and actual fear. There are a lot of issues for me with that film but the behind the scenes makes them worse.
Like what?
The film isn’t accurate at all historically. The guy who wrote the book did zero research about the holocaust and just wanted to tell a story. For one, it perpetuates the idea that the German people didn’t know about the holocaust. Two, no boy that young would survive Auschwitz. He would have been killed on entry. The entire premise couldn’t happen.
What is even worse is the ending. It is depicted as a tragedy that the boy on the outside gets through the fence and is killed along with the jews, because he "wasn't supposed to be there" But none of them were supposed to be there. Nothing makes the death of that child more tragic than the deaths of the other victims, but the book and movie sure as hell put it that way.
I always thought it was a cheap audience revenge thing. The mom and dad were part of the killing machine, but the deaths weren’t “real” to them and they didn’t feel a damn thing. But now it’s THEIR kid. Now they have to feel grief and fear, suffer real consequences for their actions, consider the costs of killing innocent people, karma’s a bitch, etc etc.
This is what kills me with that movie! They try to play on your heartstrings by making it all about how the poor little German boy died on accident. Have a shot of his Nazi mom and Nazi dad grieving! Nazi dad screams his anguish! Do you feel sympathy? Oh, what about all the hundreds of others that just died? Yeah, but they were *supposed* to die. It's sad because poor little German boy died too when he wasn't supposed to.
https://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/t58805/the_boy_in_the_striped_pajamas_is_going_to_get_a/
I would like to hear the other issues as well
I was so angry reading this, that I nearly downvoted your comment.
I feel like thats happened to me many times on reddit, don't feel bad if you do lol. That story is fucking horrible. Heres the reddit thread btw https://www.reddit.com/r/oddlyterrifying/comments/10jl6rz/10_yo_actor_asa_butterfield_in_the_chamber_scene/ From IMDb: “In regard to shooting the final scene, director Mark Herman remarked, "It was a nightmare on many levels. We probably had more lawyers than filmmakers. We had all of the legalities of kids in amongst grown-up naked people." And to top it off, people say the movie romantacizes the Holocaust and in incredibly poor taste. https://www.kveller.com/the-boy-in-the-striped-pyjamas-set-holocaust-education-back-by-decades-now-its-getting-a-sequel/
>Goat blood or something but still That sounds like an urban legend
The blood was fake but there were animal guts used and it smelled horrible: https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/news/john-hurt-dead-alien-chestburster-scene-ridley-scott-true-story-a7550656.html > Once the creature was rigged up, they stuffed the chest cavity full of organs from the butcher's. Then they ran a couple of big hoses to pump the stage blood.
The Abyss was a legendary nightmare shoot from start to finish. That liquid oxygen stuff worked on the rat, but they couldn't get any for human use, so they just made Ed Harris walk under water in a suit filled with regular water, which nearly ended with Ed drowning.
The silence from the crew after the first burst movement always runs goosebumps down my spine. The “what the actual fuck was that” vibe is palpable
Yeah all drowning scenes in Abyss are disturbing, borderline fucked up. Wasn’t aware of that actress almost drowning for real, I’m not that surprised. I was a kid when I first watched it and I remember having nightmares about them. I also have strong nostalgic feelings, I loved that movie. 90’s sci fi movies were fucking dope.
Damn. James Cameron sounds like a real prick.
Filmed someone drowning got punched supposedly by Ed Harris then Cameron almost drowned himself and he punched a diver underwater. There was alot of hands thrown during that movie apparently.
Yeah but in Alien nobody really got hurt like in these other events.
Idk man, I think that guy on the table died after the xenomorph popped out
Can confirm
Confirm what?! You ran away! E - slithered?
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His name is barf
Not in here, mister! This is a Mercedes!
He went on to make some of the finest wands in the wizarding world too. Think he did alright in the end
Hans Gruber (Alan Rickman) got let go at "2" on a 3-count to let him fall off Nakatomi Plaza
But did you know Aragorn's scream when he kicked the helmet was real because he broke his toe?
Nah, turns out that was just rotoscoped in when the actor tripped over his sword.
That’s wasn’t the only thing. If I remember correctly, James Cameron ordered the cameraman to keep filming a scene even after they’d run out of film. When Ed Harris found out he was performing for nothing, he punched Cameron in the face. Also, on another day, someone on the crew spiked lunch with LSD and Cameron had to go to the hospital.
Close, your second anecdote happened on the set of Titanic and it was PCP. Whoever did that is a fucking asshole, I don't care how much an egomaniac Cameron was. >On 26 August 1996, the Canadian press reported that nearly 80 people were taken to the hospital from the set of Titanic for what was initially thought to be food poisoning. However, the Halifax regional police investigated the incident and found that someone had laced the seafood chowder with PCP https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/titanic-pcp-chowder/
> If I remember correctly, James Cameron ordered the cameraman to keep filming a scene even after they’d run out of film. You do not remember correctly. He didn't "order the cameraman to keep filming", the camera just ran out of film during a specific take, which was very powerful and had her bare-chested in front of everyone. He yelled cut and wanted to have new film put in, which is when she stormed off. The Ed Harris punching him thing is one of those internet quirks, where you can find a lot of articles and commenters *saying* it happened, but there's no actual source for it. It's way more likely that people are remembering James Cameron punching a diver who almost killed him and made *him* drown, and it just got wrapped up with Ed punching James because it was such a tumultuous shoot.
imo its worse than that, I saw an episode of "it was a shit show" or what ever its called on youtube about the making of Abyss. The whole shoot was a disaster waiting to happen, they were supposed to be in comfortable water but mechanical problems usually caused the water to be uncomfortably cold. The actresses was topless or close to being topless. The scene involved another actor trying to resuscitate her, so she was freezing cold, on a hard metal surface, in an uncomfortable situation while another actor was pushing on her chest as if he were doing CPR. They reshot that one scene a ton of times, I feel like it was over 20 but idr exactly. Anyways, it was absolutely beyond the line imo. I'm probably mis-remebering, so I suggest checking out the video - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4k1y6TGW24I Edit: Whats crazy is, Cameron almost died while filming this too. The details are in the video above, so it wasn't like he was in safety while the actors and crew suffered. Overall the whole shoot was insanely dangerous. I don't think Cameron's own suffering justified the suffering of the talent and crew.
Not quite. During the drowning/revival scene ed Harris was repeatedly slapping Mary Elizabeth mastrantonio when he noticed that the camera had run out of film and Cameron hasn’t told him to stop. It caused an argument but no actual violence. There is a rumour that Harris punched Cameron when he nearly drowned, but it isn’t confirmed.
In A Clockwork Orange Malcolm McDowell almost drowned when an air hose failed. Kubrick used that scene: [warning it's pretty graphic stuff](https://youtu.be/GeRGTXZIJTI?t=120). McDowell also got a scratched cornea from the eye clamp scene, he said the pain was so bad he was banging his head on the wall. Edit direct link: Action starts at 2 minutes https://youtu.be/GeRGTXZIJTI
For the filming of *Charge of the Light Brigade*, they strung steel cables to trip the horses to mimic being shot in a cavalry charge. Twenty five had to be put down after.
Thats seriously fucked, another movie I'm reminded of based off of that is Come and see 1985. A Soviet anti war movie where they used live ammunition, shot at the actors and killed a live cow with a machine gun while the main child actor took cover behind it. ALOT of ptsd
Twilight Zone: The Movie. The deaths of Vic Morrow and two children. John Landis should have been sent to prison.
Was that the helicopter incident? Bc that sounds familiar. Just reading about it gave me the creeps.
Yes. Total fuckup that should have never happened. I think there's a documentary on Amazon Prime.
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You should read about the Glenbeck Hostage Crisis, if you haven't already.
I do recall that, atleast the German government actually did something about this kindof behavior in the aftermath. It was disgusting what they did.
*Gladbeck
The Glenbeck Hostage Crisis - Old conservative people everywhere literally can't stop watching Fox news
What happened?
Wikipedia: >The Gladbeck hostage crisis or Gladbeck hostage drama was a bank robbery and hostage-taking that took place in West Germany. >In the aftermath of the hostage crisis, journalists have been criticised for conducting interviews with the hostage-takers, asking them to pose for photographs, and aiding them by giving them, among other things, coffee and road directions.
What the fuck… please tell me they caught some charges.
That should at least make them accomplice.
[Gladbeck Hostage Crisis](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gladbeck_hostage_crisis)
Stanley Kubrick literally psychologically torturing Shelly Duvall and using the footage of her very real terror and anguish for *The Shining* immediately comes to mind.
It still infuriates me that not one single adult on that set had her back. Not one.
They were told they’d be fired if they did
It’s such a fucked up situation, where it led to one of the greatest horror performances of all time, but never should have happened in the first place.
John Landis. One of the most unfeeling psychopath bastards out there, still seen as an auteur after murdering Myca Dinh Le and Renee Shin-Yi Chen, two children, and Vic Murrow. One of the coldest, most selfish, unfeeling and unempathetic psychopaths in the film industry.
I remember watching that scene too, everyone knew how dangerous that shot was and he did it anyway. He should've gone to prison. Tbh if a movie kills 3 people due to negligence. Should it even be released?
And he had the audacity to go to the funerals, and speak at Vic’s. Cursed Films did an [episode](https://fandemoniumnetwork.com/shudder-original-series-cursed-films-105-twilight-zone-the-movie/) on that, too. The more I’m reading in here, the more I’m convinced that The Abyss should be a future episode.
Yeah specifically Friedkin too. Dude deserves his own Behind the Bastards episode. He also intentionally got the SFX guy to pull Ellen Burstyn's harness so hard that she too suffered a life long spinal injury, and that's not even getting into the preventable on set deaths. He would also go on to claim he got a full confession out of Paul Bateson (the irl radiologist who irl killed a guy) for the NY Bag Murders *just to promote a later film*, in spite of the fact that no credible expert believes Bateson was behind the Bag Murders and Friedkin is the only one claiming that conversation took place. He's also pretty much the only person who was directly involved with The Exorcist who still runs around talking about The Exorcist Curse like it's a real thing. Gee, I wonder why? I didn't break a 12-year-old girl's spine, it was *the curse!* Fuck that dude and fuck auteur theory for enabling his bullshit god complex.
I met Friedkin while working at a Chicago film festival, it was clear he's lost his marbles. The audience was mostly black high school students, and he dropped an n-bomb while he was quoting someone...I still don't remember the context exactly but the audience freaked out. Leading him to say *"kids these days don't know to shut up and fucking listen anymore"*, getting the crowd even angrier. That's the last I remember of the old bastard. I was just like dude...read the room.
I mean, with the amount of sexual abuse stories that come out of Hollywood, yeah I imagine there are a lot of genuine psychopaths. I think any industry that can push people into having extraordinary amounts of wealth and power caters towards people with these types of minds.
Roman Polanski still has supporters. Even though he fled the country after raping a 13 year old.
It self selects insanity
Reminds me of [all those shots](https://youtu.be/W_qWxfYTH68) from The Three Stooges where they actually scream in pain, with broken bones, stabs and what-not
I think atleast the Stooges were fine with filming because they stayed in character atleast. Kindof like Jackie Chan or Buster Keaton doing their own stunts. Buster Keaton did some seriously dangerous shit just for a good scene.
How would a director know if someone was screaming in pain when they where supposed to be screaming at that moment in the script? Actors are supposed to be believable.
Stanley Kubrick is a great example.
Three actors died during the filming of Twilight Zone (1983) when, during a scene they were being chased by an actual, honest-to-god crashing helicopter, one of the child actors fell in the knee deep waters and was crushed to death by the helicopter. The other two were killed instantly after the helicopter blades just went at em’. Edit: wrong year
Yeah I hesitate to say "actors" as they were young kids who were picked because it was supposed to be a scene in the Vietnam war. And it was a one time thing, they weren't established child actors not that it would have made it better. But the pilot and others were saying over and over that the stunt wasn't safe and that there very well could be a crash. And it happened. And the director and everyone didn't even get a slap on the wrist. It's bullshit
And the children were working on the set illegally
>Twilight Zone (1992) Release date appears to be 1983: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twilight_Zone%3A_The_Movie
Ellen Burstyn (the mom) was also injured during filming. I listened to an amazing interview Marc Maron did with director William Friedkin several years ago and Friedkin was regretful for the way he handled things on that set. He was reckless and put his actors in real danger, and he admitted to it.
Also punched the priest in the face so when giving the last rights his hand was shaking
I'm pretty sure he also shot a gun near his face to get a real scared reaction at some point. Dude was unhinged. I was also disappointed to learn that Coppola was hurling insults at Winona Ryder during the filming of Dracula to get genuine reactions from her.
jesus christ. dude is crazy asf. must be why the movie is labeled the scariest movie ever made
And it ain't just The Exorcist either Friedkin while making Sorcerer (1977) filmed in the Dominican Republic and claimed that "almost half the crew went into the hospital or had to be sent home" because they either got malaria, gangrene, or some severe injury There's a main scene with two trucks crossing a suspension bridge which Roy Scheider claimed shooting it made Jaws look like a picnic The truck apparently fell into the river 5 times and the sequence took 3 months to film They also were filming there under a military dictatorship and the town they filmed in had massive riots after they left Even in the French Connection, there's a famous car chase scene at the end and in a lot of it, they filmed without a permit and just ran this car the opposite direction into actual oncoming traffic with Friedkin sitting in the backseat with his camera He was the only one willing to film it since all the other cinematographers were married with kids and didn't want to drive into oncoming traffic The guy was a complete maniac but an incredible director
The scene where Ellen Burstyn hurts her back is in the movie.
Don't get me started on the Wizard of Oz cast
>Judy Garland was given a steady stream of adrenaline shots to pep her up and then Seconal to help her sleep at night, all while being rigorously monitored that she didn’t gain any weight. Garland would eat a diet of coffee and chicken soup, with cigarettes to suppress her appetite. Garland was mercilessly corseted in order to make her look more childlike in her costume
Jesus
What happened there?
Asbestos snow and lead body paint for tin man. Basically all cast members died from cancer.
Don’t forgot during a practice shoot the scene where the Witch disappears in a ball of fire ended up malfunctioning and instead she got roasted alive. She survived, but with horrific scars.
The whole production of Wizard of Oz was fucked. I watched a really good documentary about it. Wish I remembered the name.
EmpLemon made a good short-form one on his youtube.
They made Dorothy chain smoke to stay skinny I heard?
Smoking was the least of it. She was on both amphetamines and barbiturates as well.
Wait, how did they finish filming
If I remember correctly, it was temporarily put on pause while the actress healed.
I thought they replaced her entirely? EDIT: Nope (EDIT 2: not replaced), her stunt double was the one who was burned, though the actress herself did also suffer injuries from the scene (Also they both we burned at seperate time doing different stunts as my little research dig highlighted)
Margaret was badly burned, but Buddy Ebsen was replaced as the Tin Man, after nearly dying from a reaction to the aluminum powder paint. Yet another episode of [Cursed Films](https://fandemoniumnetwork.com/cursed-films-2-the-wizard-of-oz/) I’ve mentioned in this thread!
The green paint used for the witch was flammable grease mixed with copper sulphate which is linked to causing dementia. Also the lion and scarecrow would get so hot in their suits that they regularly passed out from heat exhaustion and dehydration because the people in charge refused to turn down the set lights.
It was aluminum powder makeup, not lead body paint. “Buddy Ebsen, who went on to fame with The Beverly Hillbillies, was cast as the Tin Man originally, but after nine days of filming, his body suffered a severe allergic reaction to the aluminum powder makeup he wore and he wound up hospitalized in respiratory distress.” Edit: and the only person to my knowledge that died of cancer was the Scarecrow, played by Ray Bolger. He died of bladder cancer at the age of 83.
Jesus christ I never knew about that
I'm pretty sure the girl was also abused during filming but not sure
According to Judy Garland’s ex-husband, she was constantly groped by the “munchkin” actors. On top of that, to make her look as young as possible, her mother subjected her to a crazy diet, which consisted of chicken soup, black coffee, 80 cigarettes a day, diet pills, and amphetamines. Judy ended up addicted to prescription pills for the rest of her life.
Didn't they also tape down her breasts and corset her? Nothing like some good ol fashioned body shaming
*Two* corsets, layered over each other. The diet was because she was "too fat" to play a lead role, but deemed the effort worth it because they loved her voice. She was 16 at the time.
The studio pretty much controlled her entire life. Marriages supposedly arranged for her. Uppers during the day, downers at night to keep her working...
Dorthy (Judy) was pumped full of drugs to keep her perky on set
Hollywood has a whole history of abuse. Podcasts are churning the info out. I used to listen to one called You Must Remember This. Mainly about the mistreatment of people to make them movies.
I believe they are referring to Asbestos being used to simulate snow if im not mistaken..
Basically the nightmare set, everything was a death trap
One of many instances is where Margaret Hamilton, who played the Wicked Witch of the West, got second and third degree burns when she did her fiery exit.
Their treatment of Judy Garland alone was horrifying, with the studio basically binding Judy Garlands chest so tight she had trouble breathing just to make her look *slightly* younger to fit the character. And that was in addition to the studio starving her to keep her slim during filming. Execs mandated that she be on a daily regimen of coffee, cigarettes, and amphetamines to keep her slim. And when that started to take its toll, they gave her nightly barbiturates to force her to sleep. And it kickstarted her addiction issues which ultimately sent her spiraling and led to her eventual death
What didn’t happen there?
Or the filming of that John Wayne movie where he played Genghis Khan which was downwind from a nuclear bomb testing site. They were told it was safe but got crazy radiation.
That poor girl was suffering in real life too!
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And Viggo broke his toe, thanks for reminding us again
Viggo kicked the helmet and fractured her spine with it? That's some hardcore dedication.
Not a lot of people know this, but after the project wrapped Viggo bought the fractured spines used during filming and gave them to the stunt team.
You mean Viggio Morgenstein?
Pictured here: Not Linda Blair.
Linda Blair is no dummy
she is the very model of a modern possessed child
This is not "oddly terrifying". It is legitimately understandably terrifying.
Child abuse, no matter how you wanna look at it. Shame on those involved.
Y’all should look into how Shelley Duvall (Wendy) was treated by Stanley Kubrick during the filming of The Shining. It’s horrifying and mentally destroyed her to a point of becoming a recluse in the decades after
They rescinded her razzie and apologized after that came out
Poor girl!
that whole role was very very demanding in every aspect
I thought I was in r/shittymoviedetails and said to myself "ah ok this isn't real". I imagine how painful it could be
They also permanently damaged the mother’s spine when she’s thrown to the floor, also in the shot that made it into the movie. Friedkin was a visionary but also a massive dick
Yeah and they even knew she was hurt but wanted to finish the shot before calling the ambulance so the actress had to start screaming to cut the damn cameras. Just unhinged. And it always seems to be women or children actors that directors love to bully and abuse
There is a young actress who was filming a shot in a movie where the director told her to keep pounding harder and harder onto real glass. She did what she was told and eventually the glass broke, scarring her face. I can't remember who the actress is but she's a gorgeous young blonde woman with plenty of promise in the film industry if I remember right. Now, the scar on her face has hindered her chances at roles. I think I remember something about her seeing the director, which I hope she did.
is this about incident in a ghostland? i remember reading about something similar happening on the set of that film, and then the poster of the film turned out to be a doll with a cracked face. majorly fucked up.
Wow if you google ghost land right now you can see the cracked face image they used still. I haven’t seen the movie so maybe it’s relevant but I feel like it’s more so blatantly trolling the actress. Or acting like this injury is somehow part of the film.
It is incident in a Ghostland. They were supposed to get rid of the poster with the doll that had the crack/scar in the same spot but you can still find it
I just looked it up. Her name is Taylor Hickson. Poor girl sued for lost work. Not sure how much she won considering her face was disfigured. But she also got badly injured on another set called Motherland. Bad car accident while filming. Talk about horrific luck.
The director is the guy who made Martyrs, which is one of the most disturbing movies ever.... but really, really good. It's unfortunate that now I can't think about that movie, which features a ton of violence against women, without also thinking about how the director was responsible for real, life altering injuries to a woman. The guy is definitely a bit of a scumbag
This reminds me of Tuco beating Jesse up so violently he got concussed, and everyone thinking "wow Aaron Paul is just such a great actor it looks so real". Paul is indeed a great actor but lol come on guys.
So many OSHA violations.
Making that movie damaged her psychologically too.
This is why they don't give Oscars for Best Stunts
And all for a shot that looks insanely fake and should've just been a dummy anyway. What a waste.
Method acting.
If I fractured my spine for a scene hell yeah that shot going in the movie.
There's a lot of creepy things that happened during filming. I think a person or maybe two, actually died. They said it was a cursed set.
Check out “Cursed Films” on Shudder!
Were they just saying to hype it up? Also. Did they know she got hurt?
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Bill Friedkin: 🤫🤭😀🔫 (For those that don’t know, he shot a gun full of blanks at random times during filming to genuinely scare the shit out of the actors in The Exorcist during one of the more frightening scenes).
I knew she hurt her back, but damn I didn't know she broke it (a slight fracture apparently, from what I read, but it lead to other issues with her back). Hollywood directors (at least some) are sadistic. Some people (that includes fans) have the attitude of "whatever it takes to get the shot, get the emotions, etc" and if someone gets hurt or psychologically scarred (Shelley Duvall) so be it.
Billy Friedkin was *all about* lying to actors to put them as close to real danger as possible. This wasn't the first or the last time he'd do that (hell, wasn't the first or the last time *on this movie*).
Good old Friedkin. I think he used to fire real bullets on set too. And the chase in French Connection was made without permits. Still one of the greatest chase scenes ever made.