Horror movies are made to be terrifying. However, sometimes the true horror happens behind the scenes.
Here are 10 of the scariest paranormal encounters that cast and crew members said they experienced on horror movie sets:
1. The first time the cast of Annabelle Comes Home were all on set together, the lights went out, and they didn't come back on until the actors asked, "Annabelle, are you there?"
When the lights came back on, 12-year-old Mckenna Grace had a heavy nosebleed.
2. The Twilight Zone was already believed to place a curse on its stars leading to mysterious deaths, and it culminated when a helicopter crash on the set of the movie adaptation killed actor Vic Morrow and two child actors. After the accident, Warner Bros. vice president John Silvia created a committee to craft safety regulations for every single aspect of the film industry.
3. While filming The Conjuring, actor Vera Farmiga began seeing a mysterious trio of claw marks everywhere, from her computer screen to her own thigh.The demon in the movie has three fingers and three talons.
4. According to urban legend, the spirit of Heather O’Rourke, the child actor who starred in Poltergeist, haunted the set of Ghost.Ghost was filmed on the very soundstage Heather once filmed on.
5. Filming for The Exorcist was shut down for six weeks after the entire set for the MacNeil family home burned down — except for Regan's demon-possessed bedroom. Production brought in a Jesuit priest to bless the set.
6. An accidental fire in the processing lab destroyed 13,500 feet of The Omen remake's film, including the scene that reveals the identity of the antichrist. The infamous birthmark scene had to be reshot in its entirety.
7. While filming The House of the Devil, the cast and crew stayed at the allegedly haunted Yankee Pedlar Inn, and they "would go and shoot this satanic horror movie nearby, but the weirder stuff would happen back at the hotel." The experience inspired director Ti West to return to the hotel and make The Innkeepers, a movie about the story behind it.
8. On the set of Annabelle Comes Home, a piano bench moved around the replica of the Warrens' artifact room on its own. It moved overnight on several occasions, despite the fact that the set was locked.
9. While filming The Conjuring, Vera Farmiga repeatedly woke up between 3 and 4 a.m. — the witching hour — which is also the time frame when the witch in the movie dies. Her sleep troubles persisted even after the movie wrapped.
10. While shooting a scene for The Nun in a Romanian castle, director Corin Hardy stepped into a room to get out of the camera's way, and he saw two mysterious figures.
After the take, he turned to speak to the men he assumed were crew members, but they were gone.
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