Do you believe in corruption and curses? If not, this material is definitely for you. In nature, there are things that are worth looking at with an open, sober gaze. In the material I have collected for you the incidents that accompanied the "damn films". During filming, the leading actors, directors and members of the group were in trouble, every now and then there were accidents and all sorts of disruptions to the schedule.
This topic is hotly debated by skeptics and atheists, esotericists and astrologers. Everyone has their own point of view and I would be grateful for your opinion on this article. Agree that evil rock has always walked alongside the art of cinema, smoothly going beyond creativity into real life. If this is not a curse, then can you just call what these films deserve such a sad fate?
Radioactive "Stalker"
For many, the film "Stalker", based on the Strugatsky brothers' story "Roadside Picnic," was something akin to an atomic explosion during the Soviet Union. Director Andrei Tarkovsky was the first to decide to create a "free" parable about reality, probably realizing that it would not be shown to a large audience. Together with the legendary brothers-authors, Tarkovsky created a menacingly mystical script, according to which he began to shoot a bold movie with great enthusiasm. Everyone who was involved in the preparation joked that if they did not destroy this project, the project would destroy them. Are you in trouble?
The fact that "Stalker" was banned from showing on the territory of the USSR is clear to anyone who watched this film. The Cannes jury awarded the picture with a special prize, and only after the director's death could it be seen in cinemas (in 1986, the release started, while the picture was ready in 1979). But the curse of the picture accompanied all participants in the process without exception. Someone calls this the fate of everything anti-Soviet, while someone sees the reason in the very place of filming, which was located on the territory of a chemical plant near a hydroelectric power plant, where all the waste from production was drained along the river.
The first misfortune associated with the picture is the inability to view the tape on which the entire film was recorded. Everything had to be re-filmed, starting with the check-out and ending with the general locations. Further misfortunes touched those involved in the work.
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Andrei Tarkovsky died of lung cancer. After him, the leading actor Anatoly Solonitsyn died from the same type of oncology. Director's assistant and, concurrently, the second legal wife of the master, Larisa Tarkovskaya, soon dies of … lung cancer. Arkady and Boris Strugatsky died at different times, but both from oncology. No one has yet undertaken to film the story again.
Sad "Raven"
Brandon Bruce Lee is the son of the legendary Bruce Lee, a martial artist, a sought-after actor, a talented athlete and just a charismatic handsome man. In his veins flowed English, Swedish, German and Chinese blood. From early childhood, Brandon was brought up within the strict framework and according to the laws of his legendary father. In 1973, his dad, Bruce Lee, died at the age of 32 while working on the painting "The Tower of Death", having taken a headache pill before going out on the set. Lee died virtually in frame from cerebral edema. Brandon was 8 years old. By all means, he promised his mother to continue his father's work with dignity.
By the time he was filmed in The Raven, Brandon was already a professional actor, and this project was supposed to firmly fix him on the pedestal of fame. The picture was filmed in the genre of gothic and mysticism. During the shooting of one of the scenes, another actor had to shoot Brandon in the stomach with a pistol, in the muzzle of which there was a plug and fake cartridges. Due to the strong exhaust, the plug flew out like a bullet and pierced Lee's stomach, stopping in the spine.
The operation did not save the actor from blood loss. Brandon passed away on March 31, 1993 at the age of 28, 17 days before his scheduled marriage. He was buried near his father, where his mother had already erected a monument for herself, having reserved a place next to her husband. The Crow movie was released without this epic scene, the remaining pieces were completed with an understudy. Brandon, like Bruce Lee, met his death on set.
The Cursed Master and His Margarita
No one is afraid that man is mortal. The bad thing is that he is suddenly mortal. Do you remember where this message came from? The entire mystical novel of Bulgakov is thoroughly saturated with diabolism, because one of the main characters in this work is the Unclean Power itself. Someone exaggerates the devilry that accompanies the brainchild of a classic, while others are haunted by facts. The sensational modern film adaptation of director Vladimir Bortko, which is considered the most successful, successful and genuine source, is tightly shrouded in a series of misfortunes. The fact remains: 18 people who were involved in the creation of the series passed away after its release to the wider world.
On December 19, 2005, the official premiere of the mini-series "The Master and Margarita" directed by Vladimir Bortko took place. Even before the premiere, the actor Alexander Chaban first disappeared without a trace, and then mysteriously was found dead in his apartment. He played the role of a police officer who was looking for Woland. On September 28, 2006, Pavel Komarov died, who in the film stole the things of Ivan Bezdomny.
On December 27, Stanislav Landgraf, who played the role of the critic Latunsky, passed away. On April 27 of the following year, actor Kirill Lavrov, who played the significant role of Pontius Pilate, died. On the same day, in another part of the country, actor Yevgeny Merkuriev died, who was an accountant in the mini-series (2 deaths on the same day).
On January 3, 2008, Alexander Abdulov, beloved by millions, left this world, who played Koroviev. On April 7, 2008, actor Andrei Tolubeev died, in whose voice Aloisy Mogarych spoke. On January 25, 2009, actor Yuri Oskin died, playing the role of doorman Kolya. On December 23 of the same year, Galina Barkova left for another world, selling fruits in the series.
On February 25, 2010, Vladislav Galkin, who played in the film of Ivan Homeless, died (the cause of death has not been established, he was found dead in his own apartment). On April 20, Valentina Egorenkova died, who played the role of a nurse in a mental hospital. On August 20, the actor Stanislav Sokolov, who had the role of Pontius Pilate's assistant secretary, left behind her.
On August 11, 2011, the actor Mikhail Surov died after a disaster, who starred in several roles at the same time as minor characters. On May 10, 2012, Stanislav Pryakhin died, who played a pickpocket in the series (he was not even 30 years old). On the same date, only in November, Ilya Oleinikov died, playing Rimsky, the find director of the variety show.
On March 30, 2013, Valery Zolotukhin died, playing Nikanor Bosoy. On April 5, 2013, actor Dmitry Poddubny passed away, who in the series was investigating the disappearance of people from the same “bad apartment”. A year later, Stanislav Fesyunov died, who played the doorman of the shop Torgsin.
Heart attacks, bleeding that opened right on the set, accidents, fainting and accidentally igniting scenery - all the actors of the series are accustomed to this, but no matter what they played out their fatal roles …
Poltergeist doesn't come alone
Steven Spielberg's Oscar-nominated film Poltergeist is better known today for its notoriety. The director decided to shoot horror in 1982, which for the time of release was a genre-discovery. Nobody knew how to shoot good horror films, and did not want to. Many today already call the reason for the tragedies that followed the premiere, human skulls and bones, which the director decided to use during filming, rejecting the proposal to replace them with fake ones.
The first death that shocked everyone involved in the work on the picture was the death of the main actress Heather O'Rourke, who at that time was only 12 years old. The girl fell ill with the usual flu and quickly died from complications. But if at first it seemed to someone an annoying incident that had nothing to do with the picture, then the second subsequent death of the young 22 year old Dominic Dunn turned out to be a true fate of fate for the project team. The girl was strangled by her lover out of jealousy … for the film. Further, actor Julian Beck passed away, followed by Will Sampson, who performed an exorcism in the frame. Coincidence?
"Viy" and its mystical story
“Raise my eyelids” is a quote that became popular among the people after the film based on the mystical story of the same name by Gogol was released on November 26, 1967. Many argue that the mysticism next to this project appeared because of the "unclean" reputation of Gogol himself, about whom it was claimed that he sold his soul to the devil and that he lay down alive in the grave. Whatever it was, but the mystery of this film lies not only in the crazy box office of the film, which was equal to 32.6 million rubles (an unprecedented number for the Soviet way of life), but also in many oddities that accompanied the whole group during the work.
The first to experience Pannochka's curse was actress Alexandra Zavyalova, because it was she who was approved for the main role. Before the first day of shooting, an absolutely healthy and motivated artist fell ill with a "strange illness", there was no diagnosis, but Zavyalova could not get out of bed. The directors were patiently waiting for her, and when Alexandra appeared on the set, they made up her like Pannochka. The camera, the motor, started - and the actress falls with a heart attack. Zavyalova's husband came to pick up his wife in an ambulance and said that she would no longer appear in the project. Rumors about the curse of the role spread around.
The second for the main role of the deceased took Zhanna Bolotova. She agreed with pleasure and … came down with bilateral pneumonia. More actresses did not want to take part in the auditions. Natalya Varley herself came to the site and asked her to look at it herself. They accepted the actress without samples, simply because there was no one else to work with.
By the way, remember the footage showing the old witch? So, she was played by a man, actor Nikolai Kutuzov. And all because all the grandmothers-actresses who agreed to play such an odious role were taken away by an ambulance with a heart attack before entering the site. After the second such "grandmother", the role was played by a man who, by the way, did not go to the site in a sober state. Because he did not find it possible to fight the impure forces in any other way.
Varley was not afraid to lie in a coffin, she was afraid to fly. That is why three coffins were created by her standards at once: in one she lay, in the second she flew (tied with bandages to an invisible pin), and the third with the lid closed was simply moved on cables.
The first to die after the premiere was director Alexander Ptushko. The chief cameraman Fyodor Provorov went after him to another world. In 1975, the actor who played the centurion in the film, Alexey Glazyrin, died. After him, the actor Stepan Shkurat, who played the role of Yavtukh, passed away. After these deaths, the death of the second director Konstantin Ershov came as a shock to the members of the troupe.
Who knows what exactly helped to cope with the mystical fame that Varley received after the success of the picture? The thing is that while working on one of the episodes, the actress fell out of a flying coffin, from a height of 3 meters. She was saved only by the fact that Leonid Kuravlev, who plays the main role in the same picture, put up his hands, and Natalya collapsed on the plank floor with him. After the crash, the whole group saw that the old icon, which was screwed to the wall of the church created on the site, fell and broke together with the actress. Immediately after this incident, Natalya Varley went to church and was baptized. Later, she said that she was very sorry that she had accepted the offer to star in the project, but she didn’t tell anyone why.
In this blog, you will find a lot that the official media will not write about. Favorite films, TV shows, books are fraught with a lot of interesting, unusual, even mystical, just if you can look behind the scenes. Save yourself the address of this blog, share the info with your friends by repost and be sure to write about your thoughts. What do you think, all of the above - what is it? A series of tragic coincidences? Bad rock? Black streak of failures? Or does art carry something more than creative expressions? It's up to you to decide, but when watching these films, always remember that the aforementioned people laid down their lives for the viewer to be able to touch the beauty.