Hmm...I've Been Wondering About Something...

[bloodrayne]

Was there EVER a horror movie where no one died?



Did anyone actually die in Audition?...I don't remember anyone dying...

I can't think of anything else right now...But the question is stuck in my head...I'm gonna be thinking about it all night...

[Angra]

April fools day.


:cool:

[Angra]

Maybe "American psycho".

[crazy raplh]

april fools day is the onlyone that comes to mind.

[Zero]

Hmm, not sure if you'd count it as horror but I don't think anyone died in Picnic at Hanging Rock (well, not that we ever know of).

[bloodrayne]

Originally posted by Zero
Hmm, not sure if you'd count it as horror but I don't think anyone died in Picnic at Hanging Rock (well, not that we ever know of). Oh yeah...Blair Witch Project...

[1beastieibe]

Poltergeist

[bloodrayne]

Originally posted by 1beastieibe
Poltergeist Hmmm...Yeah...You're right...But, there were still a lotta corpses....Oh, and a real-life death...Didn't that little girl die while it was being made?...Or was that part 2?

[VampiricClown]

Originally posted by bloodrayne
Hmmm...Yeah...You're right...But, there were still a lotta corpses....Oh, and a real-life death...Didn't that little girl die while it was being made?...Or was that part 2?

I think she was still in part 3 wasn't she?

[SKOOFx]

Originally posted by Angra
April fools day.


:cool:

Ive been looking fwd to seeing it, but i totally know the ending before even watching it...

tell me if im right..


SPOILER:



It was all a joke..ha ha APRIL FOOLS.

[bloodrayne]

Originally posted by VampiricClown
I think she was still in part 3 wasn't she? I don't think that was REALLY her....We need an expert on this one

[VampiricClown]

Originally posted by bloodrayne
I don't think that was REALLY her....We need an expert on this one

How do you mean? I think the credits said it was the same girl, but maybe you are right.

[bloodrayne]

I just remembered that I'M an expert...At least, at looking stuff up:rolleyes:

This is what I found:

A number of deaths have occured among the cast of the Poltergeist trilogy of films.

What is seen as an unusually large number of deaths have occurred among the former cast of the Poltergeist trilogy. This occurrence has given rise to the rumor that the productions were in some way "cursed" due to the nature of the films themselves, as if the evil spirits conjured up in the make-believe world of the cinema have since reached out into the real world to claim what they might see as their rightful victims.

In a popular form of the rumor, one of the child actors is said to have come to an untimely end after the making of each film, one murdered, one in a car accident, and one of a mysterious disease. Though it's true Dominique Dunne and Heather O'Rourke have since died, Oliver Robins (the lad who played the boy) appears to be still with us.

Three horror films comprise the Poltergeist trilogy: Poltergeist (1982), Poltergeist II (1986), and Poltergeist III (1988). Each recounts an episode in the lives of the Freelings, a fictitious family who have the bad luck to take up residence in homes inhabited by spirits intent upon kidnapping their kids or to send their kids to live in such places.

Though coincidence is a much more likely explanation than a curse, there have been four deaths among the cast of this set of films -- Dominique Dunne (Dana Freeling), Heather O'Rourke (Carol Ann Freeling), Will Sampson (Taylor, a good spirit), and Julian Beck (Kane, an evil spirit). Though two of the deaths were foreseeable -- indeed, expected -- two were not. It's the combination of the two unexpected deaths which lies at the heart of every rumor about a curse.

22-year old Dominique Dunne died on 4 November 1982 at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles, four days after her boyfriend choked her into a coma from which she never awoke. Weeks earlier, Dunne had ended her abusive live-in relationship with Los Angeles chef John Sweeney. On the night of 30 October 1982, he dropped by their former shared residence to plead with her to take him back. The conversation did not go as he'd hoped, and the encounter ended with him strangling her for what was later determined to be 4 to 6 minutes, then leaving her for dead in her driveway.

Sweeney was convicted of voluntary manslaughter, sentenced in November, 1983, and released in 1986 after serving only 3 years, 8 months of a 6 1/2 year sentence. His sentence is controversial to this day.

Poltergeist, the film in which Dunne appeared, had been released earlier that year, in June.

12-year-old Heather O'Rourke died of septic shock on 1 February 1988 at the Children's Hospital in San Diego. What had been thought to be a bout of ordinary flu launched her into cardiac arrest during the drive to the local hospital as bacterial toxins set loose by a bowel obstruction made their way into her bloodstream. Her heart was successfully restarted and she was flown by helicopter to the much-larger Children's Hospital where she underwent an operation to remove the obstruction. The toxins rampaging through her system proved too much, and she died on the operating table.

The circumstances surrounding her passing rendered her death even more of a shock than it otherwise would have been, as she went overnight from a little girl who had the flu to a dead little girl who expired during a desperate operation to save her life. It's hard enough to accept that a child can die of an illness, let alone a healthy-looking youngster no one knew anything was wrong with. Of course such an unexpected death would fuel rumors, especially when considered in conjunction with Dominique Dunne's murder only six years earlier.

O'Rourke appeared in all three Poltergeist movies. Poltergeist III had been completed at the time of her death although it had yet to be released, leading to rumors that she had expired during shooting and a double had to be used to complete the picture. (Poltergeist III was in the can by June 1987 but wasn't released until 10 June 1988; however, writer-director Gary Sherman decided to change the ending of the already-finished film after O'Rourke's death, so a double was used to shoot the alternate ending.)

The other two deaths were of seasoned actors well into their careers, both suffering from serious illnesses that would in time take their lives. Because their deaths were not unexpected, only rarely is either one mentioned in connection with the Poltergeist "curse."

60-year-old Julian Beck died of stomach cancer on 14 September 1985 at Mount Sinai Hospital in New York. Like O'Rourke, he expired during the period between filming and release, but in his case the film in question was Poltergeist II, which was released in May 1986. Unlike O'Rourke, his death was not unexpected; he had been battling the cancer for 18 months.

53-year-old Will Sampson died on 3 June 1987 in a Houston hospital after receiving a heart-lung transplant 6 weeks earlier. The cause of his death was ascribed to severe pre-operative malnutrition and post-operative kidney failure and fungal infection. It has been said he knew his chances for survival were small due to his weakened condition prior to surgery.

Like Beck, Sampson appeared in only one film in the series, Poltergeist II, released in May 1986. He was best known for his portrayal of the Indian who feigned being mute in One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest.

[bloodrayne]

Originally posted by bloodrayne
Sampson appeared in only one film in the series, Poltergeist II, released in May 1986. He was best known for his portrayal of the Indian who feigned being mute in One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest. Awww...I didn't know HE died....I LOVED that guy :(

[1beastieibe]

carol anne (Heather O Rourke ) died right before the 3rd film was finished, thats why the ending is so crappy.

[Taom]

Around halloween last year E! ran a special on the poltergeist trilogy and the deaths behind them. Was pretty interesting and covered all of the info listed above.

[Angra]

Originally posted by 1beastieibe
carol anne (Heather O Rourke ) died right before the 3rd film was finished, thats why the ending is so crappy.


Do you know how she died?

[Angra]

Originally posted by SKOOFx
Ive been looking fwd to seeing it, but i totally know the ending before even watching it...

tell me if im right..


SPOILER:



It was all a joke..ha ha APRIL FOOLS.



"I´ll never teeell, i´ll never teeell"....;)