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Whether it’s fires on sets, cast member deaths, or IRA bombs, some movies just seem to draw catastrophe. Some people would even say they’re cursed. I mean, we wouldn’t, but some people would. Let’s chat about them.
Highlights:
[0:00] Mark tells CoRri about some nightmarish types of cysts
[14:02] Mark wonders about what our listeners are doing while listening to us, and we discuss our upcoming boatcore watch-along. We’re watching Ghost Ship on June 19th at noon PDT/3pm EST/8pm GMT on our Discord: https://discord.com/invite/HuBTacyn5Y
[20:25] Our weekly chat about what we’ve been watching
[43:35] We discuss films commonly described as cursed and how they got those reputations: Poltergeist, The Wizard of Oz, The Exorcist, and The Omen
Stuff we referenced:
- Did You Know Dermoid Cysts Can Have Hair, Skin, and TEETH? – https://www.self.com/story/dermoid-cysts
- Huge teratoma in teenager – https://academic.oup.com/omcr/article/2017/8/omx040/4060476
- Fetus in fetu: A report of two cases – https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2810823/
- Cursed Films [Shudder] – https://www.shudder.com/series/watch/cursed-films/62bd7871627dfc6b?season=1
- The True Story Behind The Omen, One of the Most Haunted Films in History – https://www.popsugar.com/entertainment/Omen-Movie-Curse-42514085
- The Exorcist’s Deadly Curse Explored 45 Years On – https://inews.co.uk/culture/film/exorcist-curse-horror-movie-95516
- The Poltergeist Curse: Here’s the Real Story Behind the Movie Myth – https://www.popsugar.com/entertainment/Poltergeist-Curse-True-Story-37392582
- Six Die As Jet Plane Hits Car – https://www.newspapers.com/clip/29278988/the-guardian/
- Paul Bateson [Murderpedia] – https://murderpedia.org/male.B/b/bateson-paul.htm
- Dominick Dunne on his daughter’s murder – https://www.vanityfair.com/magazine/1984/03/dunne198403
- The Whole Shootin’ Match star found murdered – https://www.avclub.com/the-whole-shootin-match-star-lou-perryman-found-murdere-1798216169
- Doctors: Unusual circumstances surrounded actress’s death – https://apnews.com/article/355ac4e0f2b6bd8109f766de6ec0dfb8
- Were real skeletons used in the making of Poltergeist? – https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/were-real-skeletons-used-in-the-making-of-poltergeist/
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