15 March 2002 | tfrizzell STARmeter. Steven Spielberg (story by) The most gruesome death of all, however, was the 2009 freak death of Lou Perryman, who portrayed construction worker Pugsley in the first flick. Lou Perryman was killed with an ax by an ex-convict in his own Austin, Texas home Spielberg's fear of clowns and scary looking trees inspired …

Lou Perryman and Will Sampson were two. O’Rourke was 12 at the time of her death and Poltergeist III was four months away from release. "I assumed that they were prop skeletons made out of plastic or rubber," Williams said. Truly spooky and disturbing horror film from the early-1980s that will make you jump from your seat.

The near-miss.

There are pictures of him at these sites, but I can't quite place him in "Poltergeist":

View rank on IMDbPro Filmography. The special effects are also impressive and "Poltergeist" ends up being one of those films that just sticks with you for a long time after you first see it. "She shockingly died in 1988 aged 12 after suffering cardiac arrest and septic shock.And 22-year-old Dominique Dunne, who played O'Rourke's character's older sister, was strangled to death by her ex-boyfriend just four months after the film was released.Many years later, in 2009, Poltergeist actor Lou Perryman was hacked to death with an axe by an ex-convict who stole his car.The Crow (1994) was supposed to be the film that would be the big break for Bruce Lee's son, Brandon.But Brandon was infamously killed in one of Hollywood's most notorious on-set freak accidents.The 28-year-old plays a murdered rock musician who returns from the dead to avenge the rape and killing of his fiancée as well as his own slaying.Just over a week before the film was finished, Brandon was involved in a scene where another actor had to fire blanks at him from a .44 Magnum.A dummy bullet from a previous scene was lodged in the barrel of the prop gun without anyone realising.When the blank round was fired at Brandon, it shot the dummy bullet at him with virtually the same speed as a live round.Brandon was hit in the abdomen and, despite six hours of emergency surgery, Brandon died on the operating table.But Brandon's death wasn't the only terrifying accident on set.On the first day of shooting, an electrician on a cherry-picker hit power lines and caught on fire.He survived, but suffered third degree burns and his ears had to be removed.Shortly after, a hurricane destroyed The Crow's backlot.With Brandon's family's permission, the film was ultimately finished with a rewritten script and CGI — but it's considered one of the most cursed movies of all time to this day.Inspired by the mind-bending TV series of the same name, John Landis and Steven Spielberg's 1983 film adaptation of The Twilight Zone suffered a horrific catastrophe during filming.The film follows the story of Bill Connor (played by Vic Morrow), a man who travels through time and experiences different kinds of prejudice in different eras.In one scene, Morrow was supposed to rescue two children from a burning village during the Vietnam War as a helicopter flew overhead.In an action-packed shot, a fireball from an explosion engulfed the chopper and the pilot lost control.The spiralling helicopter dropped from the air and, in front of 100 people on set, crashed down right on top of Morrow and two illegally hired child actors, Myca Dinh Le, 7, and Shin-Yi Chen, 6.Morrow and Le were decapitated by the helicopter's rotor blades while Chen was crushed to death.The horrific incident led to legal battles which ran for nearly a decade.But ultimately, the members of the production team accused, including director Landis, were acquitted of manslaughter. This service is provided on News Group Newspapers' Limited's Our journalists strive for accuracy but on occasion we make mistakes. He is a successful real estate agent and she is a loving housewife. The credits begin roughly 15 seconds earlier, over the tracking shot of the Holiday Inn, and the sequence in which they appear is different entirely, including some re-arranging on the cast list, and Martin Casella's name being changed to "Marty Casella." "I found out — as did the whole crew — that they were using real skeletons, because it’s far too expensive to make fake skeletons out of rubber.