Movies are a great source of entertainment for many of us. It is because movies take us to another world and make us forget about the one we live in for a moment – and make us forget all the troubles we have in our lives for some time. Naturally, a lot of money is used to make sure that movies remain appealing to the public. Whether there are spending funds on costly CGI or re-shooting scenes, the filmmakers spend a big chunk of money to make sure everything goes flawlessly. However, there remain some of the flaws. Here are the top 10 dangerously made movies ever that cost humans’ lives too.
Dangerously Made Movies
This list of dangerously made movies also includes those films that had to pay a massive amount of money to amend the serious mistakes made in them.
Roar
It won’t be wrong to say that the concept of Roar film was just plain dumb. The movie which was made in 1981 is about a family who is attacked by wild animals during their visit to the home of an animal researcher. Believe it or not, the filmmakers went on to bring in real lions, tigers, leopards, and other wild animals. It took 11 years to finish the movie and over 70 members of the cast and crew were wounded by the wild animals.
Jumper
There might be some people who know that this film put several people’s lives in danger in the shooting, even leading to one person’s death. Four workers were sorting lumber debris when frozen sand and gravel adhering to a wall broke away and fell on top of two workers. It immediately killed 56-year-old David Richie and another worker got really critical injuries to the head and shoulder.
Twilight Zone
During the filming of 1983’s Twilight Zone: The Movie, the poorly timed special effects and the thoughtless use of a helicopter on the set resulted in the unimaginable tragedy. It caused the death of two child stars (Myca Dinh Le and Renee Shin-Yi Chen) and actor Vic Morrow. The disaster occurred when the helicopter which was flying dangerously low above the scene fell on top of three actors due to a badly timed explosion.
Incident in a Ghost Land
In this film, actress Taylor Hickson’s character was thought to be thrown through a glass door, with of course bringing any harm to her. Though her bad luck was waiting and the unexpected happened as the stunt resulted in the actress getting drastic injuries on her face. It left her with a permanent scar on her cheek. It all happened because a wrong sort of glass was used in the stunt. She ended up suing the film production for their blunder in ignoring safety standards.
Resident Evil: The Final Chapter
In Resident Evil: The Final Chapter, stuntwoman Olivia Jackson almost lost her life in a motorbike crash when camera equipment failed to get out of the way. The accident brought the stuntwoman severe damages. She was in a medically-induced coma as her body broke from various places and her face almost tore apart. Later, her left arm had to be amputated. Fortunately, she sustained her injuries. Though, the same couldn’t be said about another crew member Ricardo Cornelius who was crumpled to death after a Humvee pinned him to the wall.
The Crow
Brandon Lee, son of the legendry Bruce Lee, appeared in the 1994 flick The Crow. While shooting one scene in which Lee’s character is shot, an unforeseen accident happened that killed the actor. There was a piece of debris in the gun which wasn’t cleaned well and it was fired into Lee’s chest. Although he was rushed to the hospital immediately, he couldn’t sustain injury and bled to death.
Transformers: Dark of the Moon
During the shooting of Transformers: Dark of the Moon, a steel cable holding a car snapped and the car flew into the windshield where Gabriela Cedillo was sitting. As a consequence of the misfortune, Cedillo suffered critical injuries on her face and also suffered from lasting brain damage. It headed to prosecution and Paramount Pictures had to grant the family $18 million.
The Conqueror
John Wayne was cast as Genghis Khan in the 1956 film The Conqueror. This film killed almost the whole of the cast and crew. It is because the film was shot in the Utah desert. It was not the heat that almost killed the entire cast, it was something more ominous. It is the same desert where the US government had exploded 100 nuclear bombs from 1951 to 1962. Since the movie was shot in 1953, there was no such knowledge of its consequences. In the later years, almost 90 crew members of the film died from cancer that many experts think caused by their continuous radiation exposure during the time they spent on the set.
