Any number of famous horror movies are supposed to have had a curse that plagued their cast and crew both during the shoot and subsequently. The Exorcist is one; Poltergeist is another. And the latter is now set to be the subject of a documentary. Producer and director Adam Ripp is putting together **The Curse Of Poltergeist{
What's the supposed curse? A number of deaths, basically. Actress Heather O'Rourke - the trilogy's cute Carol-Anne - died suddenly at the tragically young age of 12, just before the release of Poltergeist 3. Dominique Dunne, who played Dana, was killed by her boyfriend in 1982, not long after the first film. Bit-part player Lou Perryman was the victim of an axe murder in 2009. Will Sampson died two years after appearing in Poltergeist II. And Julian Beck - Poltergeist II's sinister preacher - succumbed to cancer in 1985; although he was ill before he took the Poltergeist job and deliberately used his ravaged appearance to terrifying effect.
Robins, who played third Freeling sibling Robbie, said earlier this year when the remake came out that he believed the "curse" was just a string of "tragic coincidences". Hundreds of people work on a film. The law of averages says that there'll be some deaths.
Now, however, his position has suddenly changed. "It will be a journey into the unknown," he says of the documentary, "as I attempt to understand the meaning behind the tragedies surrounding the movie. It's something that will hopefully bring closure to a dark chapter in my life."
Ripp, recently behind **Gambit **and Everly, starts rolling his cameras in November.