Movie related events which haunt you?

[Trevor]

The disappearance of screenwriter Gary DeVore.

The events onset of TWILIGHT ZONE THE MOVIE and THE LAST LION.

😳😳

[M.10rda]

I had to Google "Gary DeVore". On the right side of the results page, beneath the dates of his birth and death, it says

Cause of Death: Road accident/drowned

That alone seems hauntingly inaccurate...  ...As his Wikipedia page says  his hands were severed and found a significant distance from his body and vehicle. 

...Haunting indeed!!! 

[zombie no.one]

"A body is found in the frozen North Dakota woods. The cops say the dead Japanese woman was looking for the $1m she saw buried in the film Fargo. "

https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2003/jun/06/artsfeatures1

edit - some speculation as to how true this is (ironically)

[M.10rda]

There's a movie based on that story, isn't there?

[Rev. Powell]

There's a movie based on that story, isn't there?

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt3263614/

[zombie no.one]

there's also a kind of semi dramatized documentary with an actress playing the lead and I believe the actual locals / police playing their parts...

[claws]

The "Lady of the Dunes" in Jaws.

For decades, an unidentified murder victim found in Provincetown, MA, in 1974 was known only as the "Lady of the Dunes."
In 2015, author Joe Hill (son of Stephen King) noticed a woman in the background of a scene in Jaws (shot nearby in 1974) who wore a blue bandana and jeans identical to those found with the victim.
While the victim was finally identified in 2022 as Ruth Marie Terry, the theory that her final living moments were captured on film in a summer blockbuster remains one of the most haunting "hidden in plain sight" mysteries in film history.

The "Real-Life Omen (1976)" Incident.

Special effects artist John Richardson (who designed the film's famous decapitation scene) was in a car accident in Holland. His assistant was decapitated in the crash. According to Richardson, he crawled out of the wreckage and saw a road sign that read: Ommen, 66.6km.

Joe Pichler: The Beethoven Child Star (2006)

Joe Pichler was well-known for his roles in the Beethoven movies and Varsity Blues.

In January 2006, the 18-year-old Pichler disappeared from Bremerton, Washington. His car was found four days later.
Inside the car was a note expressing a desire to be "a better brother" and asking for his belongings to be given to his younger brother.
While police ruled it a likely suicide, his body was never found in the water nearby. His family remains adamant that the note was not a "suicide note" but a poem or a reflection, and they believe foul play was involved.

Daniel Lind Lagerlöf: The Vanished Director (2011)

A highly successful Swedish director, Lagerlöf was scouting locations for an upcoming film on the steep cliffs of the Tjurpannan nature reserve.
He was with two crew members, but they separated to view different angles of the cliffs. When the crew returned to the meeting point, Lagerlöf was gone.
Despite a massive search, no trace of him was ever found. The prevailing theory is that a "rogue wave" swept him off the slippery rocks into the freezing sea, but the fact that not a single piece of clothing or equipment ever washed up remains deeply unsettling to the Swedish film community.

[Trevor]

The "Lady of the Dunes" in Jaws.

For decades, an unidentified murder victim found in Provincetown, MA, in 1974 was known only as the "Lady of the Dunes."
In 2015, author Joe Hill (son of Stephen King) noticed a woman in the background of a scene in Jaws (shot nearby in 1974) who wore a blue bandana and jeans identical to those found with the victim.
While the victim was finally identified in 2022 as Ruth Marie Terry, the theory that her final living moments were captured on film in a summer blockbuster remains one of the most haunting "hidden in plain sight" mysteries in film history.

The "Real-Life Omen (1976)" Incident.

Special effects artist John Richardson (who designed the film's famous decapitation scene) was in a car accident in Holland. His assistant was decapitated in the crash. According to Richardson, he crawled out of the wreckage and saw a road sign that read: Ommen, 66.6km.

Those are really both very haunting.

I believe the John Richardson event took place during the filming of A BRIDGE TOO FAR.

[M.10rda]

These are great. What a cool spooky thread.

All I can come up with at the moment are Jacopetti & Prosperi, the two-man crime spree who rampaged across Europe and Africa in the 60s and 70s, committing possibly countless indecent, immoral, and illegal acts. Many of those acts ended up onscreen in their mondo movies but a good number of those crimes were peripheral and offscreen. Animal cruelty is only the tip of the iceberg. I can't stomach watching their movies, but I'm endlessly fascinated reading and hearing about their unspeakable exploits. Ugh, what does that say about me? 

[Trevor]

These are great. What a cool spooky thread.

All I can come up with at the moment are Jacopetti & Prosperi, the two-man crime spree who rampaged across Europe and Africa in the 60s and 70s, committing possibly countless indecent, immoral, and illegal acts. Many of those acts ended up onscreen in their mondo movies but a good number of those crimes were peripheral and offscreen. Animal cruelty is only the tip of the iceberg. I can't stomach watching their movies, but I'm endlessly fascinated reading and hearing about their unspeakable exploits. Ugh, what does that say about me? 

AFRICA ADDIO: what a horrible movie, hard to sit through and even harder to believe that what you're seeing is real and it is. 😳😳😳

[Trevor]

THE LAST LION (1972)

The sound person on the film was killed by a lion.
The star Jack Hawkins died before the film was released.
The trainer of the lion was arrested on a charge of murder.
The films composer died before the film was released.

😔😔

It is on YouTube if you want to see it. A good film if you don't know the backstory.