Poltergeist

[natalie_1982]

I watched Poltergeist at the weekend for the first time.  My friend told me that the little blond girl, Carol-Ann, died around the time of release.  I have since spoken to someone else who also said that other crew/ cast members died on set.  Is it true?

[Toothfairy]

From what I remember she died during filming of the last one (obviously!) which is why the end scenes are of her father carrying her and you never see her face. She died of the flu

[littleoldme]

Dominique Dunne, who played the older sister in the first film, was murdered by her boyfriend shortly after the film's release.

[natalie_1982]

How sad - seems like the set was jinxed!

[Gilli]

From the IMDb ........ which is great for all sorts of film info :

www.imdb.com

* Heather O'Rourke, who played the little girl Carol-Anne, and Dominique Dunne, who played the teenage daughter, are buried in the same cemetery: Westwood Memorial Park in Los Angeles. Dunne was strangled into brain-death by her boyfriend in 1982, the year of the film's release. Six years later, O'Rourke died of intestinal stenosis.*

[chilliwitch]

I seem to remember reading somewhere that the second film was partly shot on an ancient indian burial ground and that the cast and crew members were cursed by going there.

[eupraxia]

I heard that the Indian in the second film died to and the bad guy who kept all the people under ground.

How tru that is I don't know.

Eupraxia

[purification]

Get ready for the trivia faxts, lol..........

yeah, Heather O'Rourke (the young blonde girl) died of cardiac-pulmonary arrest and septic shock, the result of an undetected intestinal blockage thought to be present since birth and was wrongfully diagnosed as Flu!!!!! The Rest of poltergeist 3 had to be filmed with stand-ins.

Dominique Dunne, was 22 when she was killed by her boyfriend. Apparantly she was rehearsing her lines and he picked a fight, strangled her and she died 5 days later. Ironically to drown out the sound he turned up the Poltergiest soundtrack!

The guy who played the indian shaman - Actor Will Sampson, was an actual shaman, and he performed an exorcism on the set of POLTERGEIST II to rid it of "alien spirits." A year after POLTERGEIST II was released, Sampson died of complications from a heart-lung transplant.

A few months after filming wrapped on POLTERGEIST II, actor Julian Beck died after a long battle with stomach cancer.

Apparantly the skeletons used in POLTERGEIST II: THE OTHER SIDE turned out to be actual human skeletons! And there are meant to be a few other spooky happenening on sets and that happened to actors.

[natalie_1982]

Wow, thanks for your indepth answer purification