The Crow

The making of the 1994 cult thriller was messy (to say the least) from day one. On the first day, a crew member ended up burning over 90% of his body after a crane ran into a power cable. But the most outrageous thing happened when the film’s lead star, Brandon Lee, was fatally shot while filming a scene.

The prop crew didn’t inspect the props properly and left it in charge of an inexperienced crew member, who didn’t even check the guns before the filming started. Lee got a bullet in the abdomen and died after six hours of surgery. The whole story was echoing the death of Brandon Lee’s legendary father, Bruce Lee, who got killed on set of a movie 20 years prior to The Crow’s tragedy.

Superman

While in comic books and movie adaptations, Superman was almost invincible, in real world a connection to the Superman world prove to be fatal for the people involved.

George Reeves, who played the alien superhero in TV series Adventures of Superman, was found dead in 1959 and people still speculate on whether it was a suicide or not. Christopher Reeves, who starred in four Superman feature films, fell from a horse in 1995 and was left paralyzed from the waist down. Add the career misfortunes of other actors who played Superman (Dean Cain anyone? How about Tom Welling?) and you get a proper “Superman Curse” Too bad no one can identify the big villain behind all of these mysterious events.