To cut it short: until 1981, 91 out of the 220 members of the cast and the crew had a cancer, and 46 of them died. The curse of that movie took place after the release: the director Dick Powell died of cancer in 1963 in the same year Pedro Armendariz committed suicide after entering the terminal phase for the same illness John Wayne, Agnes Moorehead and Susan Hayward died of cancer in the 70s.
The Conqueror, released in 1956, was one of the biggest commercial failures of Hollywood, despite having John Wayne at the peak of his career. In addition to the horrible show he saw once he woke up, Richardson read on a sign: “Je bent weg van Ommen 66.6 km” (you are 66.6 km far from Ommen 66.6 km): we don’t need to focus on the 666 (the number of the Devil) and that particular assonance with the Dutch town Ommen… When they finally started, strange things were happenings: the plane on which Gregory Peck was travelling was struck by lightning, and the same happened few days later to the author of the book, David Seltzer The Green Park subway station in London blew up just as the crew was going there the director Richard Donner was hit by a car while he was going for lunch the plane rented for the scenes crashed just shortly after take off, killing the pilot and even his wife and his children, hit by the same plane while driving.Īmong the various incidents, the most shocking was the one happened to John Richardson, the director of special effects and the author of the decapitation scene on photographer Keith Jennings: while he was in a trip to Belgium with his girlfriend he had a frontal accident, in which the woman died decapitated.
The first death related to The Omen (1976) took place even before the first take: the son of Gregory Peck (protagonist of the film) committed suicide two months before the beginning of filming.
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