Some movies have a reputation for being "cursed," which would seem ridiculous if there weren't so many credible actors and others describing the creepy things that happen on set, and oh yeah, the actual real-life death.

Bela Lugosi's death

Bela Lugosi was best known for playing Dracula and other horror villains. After a long career, Bela Lugosi died of a heart attack. Just before his death he shot some test scenes for Ed Wood, who you might remember as the Golden Turkey Award-winning "worst filmmaker in history." According to The Dissolve, Ed Wood's The Vampire's Tomb was going to be Bela Lugosi's comeback – the one where he finally rose from the tomb of cinematic has-beenism to full vampiric glory. But then he died, and Wood was left with just a few minutes of footage, which he decided to make into a feature film.

More Poltergeist cursing

The scary evil preacher in Poltergeist II wasn't quite as iconic as the terrifying, terrifying, terrifying clown. He also died during post-production, thus proving once and for all that no one should ever be in a Poltergeist movie, ever. Except he was actually dying during filming because of cancer.

The actor's name was Julian Beck who was diagnosed with stomach cancer years before Poltergeist II premiered, so it was no great surprise to anyone that he died so soon after completing the film.

The Exorcist curse returns

The Exorcist wasn't a one-actor-death production, either – according to Screen Rant, Greek actor Vasiliki Maliaros, who played Father Damien Karras' ailing mother, died just nine days after Jack MacGowran succumbed to the common flu. The Exorcist was Maliaros' only acting credit – director William Friedkin literally discovered her in a Greek restaurant in New York and asked her if she wanted to be in a movie. And then she was cursed, so thanks a lot, William Friedkin.

Maliaros and MacGowran didn't have much in common – MacGowran was a career actor and Maliaros got a fairly late start to her own very short-lived career. But they did both play characters who died in the movie, and then they died in real life, so spooky.