filmmaking is not for the faint of heart
welcome to watchmojo.com and today we’re
counting down our picks for the top 10
creepy but true behind-the-scenes
stories from movies before we begin we
publish new videos every day
so be sure to subscribe for more great
content for this list we’re looking at
the most bizarre chilling and downright
weird occurrences and stories from the
sets of famous movies for onset
accidents and near deaths you can check
out our list of the top 10 actors who
almost died on set
[Music]
[Applause]
number ten ghostly goings-on the
conjuring god rise together for a reason
this is it at this point it’s almost
expected to have some supernatural story
come out of the making of a scary movie
even more so for the conjuring due to
its basis on the true paranormal
investigations of demonologists Edie and
Lorraine Warren but we prefer to be
known simply as ed and Lorraine Warren
the entire production process was marred
with strange occurrences early on with
weird noises being heard when the
screenwriters were communicating over
the phone with Lorraine Warren and Vera
Farmiga finding qua marks on her laptop
the strangeness continued on the set of
the conjuring 2 when curtains were
caught moving on camera without a draft
in the room number 9 beak and switch the
birds Alfred Hitchcock has become
infamous for his behind-the-scenes
antics and for how he’s treated some
actresses over the years actress Tippi
Hedren who made her big picture debut in
the Byrds has often gone on record to
describe her time with Hitchcock as
abusive this is evident by the shocking
climactic attack of hadrons character by
a swarm of birds
while she was promised that they would
use mechanical ones instead tons of live
birds were thrown at her in what she
called a quote brutal and ugly and
relentless experience number eight a
haunted house and then some The
Amityville Horror
well houses don’t kill people people
kill people another famous horror film
based on a well documented real-life
haunting you can bet that some bizarre
stuff happened on the set of The
Amityville Horror remake not only did a
dead body turn up in the lake at the
outdoor set but also the real Kathy Lutz
passed away during production it wasn’t
just a set we felt like there was a
force
Melissa George who played Cathy in the
remake has claimed that many
supernatural things happen during
filming for example just like the real
George Lutz Ryan Reynolds kept waking up
at 3:15 a.m. the estimated time the
DeFeo murders occurred in the Amityville
house number 7 celebrity stalker Noah
Fame is often a double edged sword and
Emma Watson was reminded of this while
working on Darren Aronofsky’s epic
retelling of the story of Noah’s Ark
while walking in the woods on Long
Island one day Watson was approached by
a strange man who had managed to dodge
security and sneak on set Watson had
previously seen the man skulking around
her home and screamed this managed to
scare the stalker off and he was later
apprehended and removed from the set by
security still thinking about how easy
it was for the stalker to get close to
Watson is enough to send chills down
anyone’s spine the end of everything
number 6 dealing with the devil the omen
God’s name you’re talking about the omen
may deal with demons and the Antichrist
but the production team is considered
one of the most cursed film crews of all
time head-on collisions Rottweilers
attacking trainers multiple planes being
struck by lightning and even director
Richard Donner’s hotel being bombed by
the IRA were all challenges the crew had
to deal with as if all that wasn’t
enough their special-effects artist John
Richardson was seriously injured in a
car accident less than a year later
while his assistant who was sitting next
to him was brutally cut in half similar
to a scene in The Omen
number five it’s only a movie The Last
House on the Left screaming a brutal
film about rape and revenge The Last
House on the Left famously used the
tagline to avoid fainting keep repeating
it’s only a movie
however the onset reality was quite
brutal itself actress Sandra Peabody was
allegedly so genuinely scared she even
walked off set actors David Hesse and
Mark Schaeffler were reportedly very
abusive towards their female co-stars
threatening to hurt or even kill them
off-camera in order to get a strong
reaction Hess also experienced some real
terror since he was chased by a real
chainsaw in the film’s climax
number four mystery baby Eraserhead
[Music]
indie productions as opposed to
Hollywood pictures normally have much
less coverage and reports from behind
the scenes and if David Lynch is the
director then even more of the film’s
details will be shrouded in mystery
Eraserhead may be a big question mark to
any moviegoers who discover it but the
biggest mystery will always be how Lynch
created that mutant baby effect many
claim that he used and wired up a real
preserved lamb fetus decades later Lynch
refuses to reveal his secret instead
making comments that raise more
questions than answers as a baby at the
hospital and you’re the father
number three welcome to the jungle
Cannibal Holocaust unbelievable it’s one
of the most famous post production
scandals in all of film history Cannibal
Holocaust took the documentary style
found footage angle a little too far so
much so the director Rouge ro-day-o dato
was brought in front of a court on
murder accusations and had to get his
actors to come out of hiding to prove
that he did not kill them but the
creepiness doesn’t end there as many
still refuse to watch the film because
of the very real animal deaths caught on
camera including a detailed butchering
of a river turtle number two harrowing
hallucinations the end of evangelion I
don’t know where to find happiness so
you only find happiness in your dreams
as one of the trickiest and most surreal
anime series ever made the cinematic
conclusion to neon genesis evangelion
clearly does not shy away from nudity
violence or general controversy in fact
during one of the many hallucinations in
the film it’s been rumored that the
children’s drawings shown are in fact
real drawings made by victims of abuse
whether this is true or not the sequence
also includes real death threats the
director received for the ending of the
original series as well as pictures of
his vandalized animation studio it’s a
chilling bit of trivia that adds to an
already traumatic viewing experience I
thought if I came here
I would find what I was looking for
number one no special effects no problem
men behind the Sun a movie about the
real-life torture and human
experimentation that occurred in a
Japanese World War two camp was always
bound to cause some controversy however
it’s disturbing nature not only stemmed
from its subject matter but also from
how far the production went for the sake
of realism some of its highlights are
when they set real rats on fire and more
famously used a real child’s dead body
for the autopsy scene real animals and
dead bodies were utilized for many of
the effects since there was no
mainstream special-effects industry in
China at the time do you agree with our
picks check out these other great clips
from WatchMojo and subscribe for new
videos every day
welcome to watchmojo.com and today we’re
counting down our picks for the top 10
creepy but true behind-the-scenes
stories from movies before we begin we
publish new videos every day
so be sure to subscribe for more great
content for this list we’re looking at
the most bizarre chilling and downright
weird occurrences and stories from the
sets of famous movies for onset
accidents and near deaths you can check
out our list of the top 10 actors who
almost died on set
[Music]
[Applause]
number ten ghostly goings-on the
conjuring god rise together for a reason
this is it at this point it’s almost
expected to have some supernatural story
come out of the making of a scary movie
even more so for the conjuring due to
its basis on the true paranormal
investigations of demonologists Edie and
Lorraine Warren but we prefer to be
known simply as ed and Lorraine Warren
the entire production process was marred
with strange occurrences early on with
weird noises being heard when the
screenwriters were communicating over
the phone with Lorraine Warren and Vera
Farmiga finding qua marks on her laptop
the strangeness continued on the set of
the conjuring 2 when curtains were
caught moving on camera without a draft
in the room number 9 beak and switch the
birds Alfred Hitchcock has become
infamous for his behind-the-scenes
antics and for how he’s treated some
actresses over the years actress Tippi
Hedren who made her big picture debut in
the Byrds has often gone on record to
describe her time with Hitchcock as
abusive this is evident by the shocking
climactic attack of hadrons character by
a swarm of birds
while she was promised that they would
use mechanical ones instead tons of live
birds were thrown at her in what she
called a quote brutal and ugly and
relentless experience number eight a
haunted house and then some The
Amityville Horror
well houses don’t kill people people
kill people another famous horror film
based on a well documented real-life
haunting you can bet that some bizarre
stuff happened on the set of The
Amityville Horror remake not only did a
dead body turn up in the lake at the
outdoor set but also the real Kathy Lutz
passed away during production it wasn’t
just a set we felt like there was a
force
Melissa George who played Cathy in the
remake has claimed that many
supernatural things happen during
filming for example just like the real
George Lutz Ryan Reynolds kept waking up
at 3:15 a.m. the estimated time the
DeFeo murders occurred in the Amityville
house number 7 celebrity stalker Noah
Fame is often a double edged sword and
Emma Watson was reminded of this while
working on Darren Aronofsky’s epic
retelling of the story of Noah’s Ark
while walking in the woods on Long
Island one day Watson was approached by
a strange man who had managed to dodge
security and sneak on set Watson had
previously seen the man skulking around
her home and screamed this managed to
scare the stalker off and he was later
apprehended and removed from the set by
security still thinking about how easy
it was for the stalker to get close to
Watson is enough to send chills down
anyone’s spine the end of everything
number 6 dealing with the devil the omen
God’s name you’re talking about the omen
may deal with demons and the Antichrist
but the production team is considered
one of the most cursed film crews of all
time head-on collisions Rottweilers
attacking trainers multiple planes being
struck by lightning and even director
Richard Donner’s hotel being bombed by
the IRA were all challenges the crew had
to deal with as if all that wasn’t
enough their special-effects artist John
Richardson was seriously injured in a
car accident less than a year later
while his assistant who was sitting next
to him was brutally cut in half similar
to a scene in The Omen
number five it’s only a movie The Last
House on the Left screaming a brutal
film about rape and revenge The Last
House on the Left famously used the
tagline to avoid fainting keep repeating
it’s only a movie
however the onset reality was quite
brutal itself actress Sandra Peabody was
allegedly so genuinely scared she even
walked off set actors David Hesse and
Mark Schaeffler were reportedly very
abusive towards their female co-stars
threatening to hurt or even kill them
off-camera in order to get a strong
reaction Hess also experienced some real
terror since he was chased by a real
chainsaw in the film’s climax
number four mystery baby Eraserhead
[Music]
indie productions as opposed to
Hollywood pictures normally have much
less coverage and reports from behind
the scenes and if David Lynch is the
director then even more of the film’s
details will be shrouded in mystery
Eraserhead may be a big question mark to
any moviegoers who discover it but the
biggest mystery will always be how Lynch
created that mutant baby effect many
claim that he used and wired up a real
preserved lamb fetus decades later Lynch
refuses to reveal his secret instead
making comments that raise more
questions than answers as a baby at the
hospital and you’re the father
number three welcome to the jungle
Cannibal Holocaust unbelievable it’s one
of the most famous post production
scandals in all of film history Cannibal
Holocaust took the documentary style
found footage angle a little too far so
much so the director Rouge ro-day-o dato
was brought in front of a court on
murder accusations and had to get his
actors to come out of hiding to prove
that he did not kill them but the
creepiness doesn’t end there as many
still refuse to watch the film because
of the very real animal deaths caught on
camera including a detailed butchering
of a river turtle number two harrowing
hallucinations the end of evangelion I
don’t know where to find happiness so
you only find happiness in your dreams
as one of the trickiest and most surreal
anime series ever made the cinematic
conclusion to neon genesis evangelion
clearly does not shy away from nudity
violence or general controversy in fact
during one of the many hallucinations in
the film it’s been rumored that the
children’s drawings shown are in fact
real drawings made by victims of abuse
whether this is true or not the sequence
also includes real death threats the
director received for the ending of the
original series as well as pictures of
his vandalized animation studio it’s a
chilling bit of trivia that adds to an
already traumatic viewing experience I
thought if I came here
I would find what I was looking for
number one no special effects no problem
men behind the Sun a movie about the
real-life torture and human
experimentation that occurred in a
Japanese World War two camp was always
bound to cause some controversy however
it’s disturbing nature not only stemmed
from its subject matter but also from
how far the production went for the sake
of realism some of its highlights are
when they set real rats on fire and more
famously used a real child’s dead body
for the autopsy scene real animals and
dead bodies were utilized for many of
the effects since there was no
mainstream special-effects industry in
China at the time do you agree with our
picks check out these other great clips
from WatchMojo and subscribe for new
videos every day
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