However, how many movies have been made by this crew? If it’s just the Crow and Dark Knight, then that’s really bad, but if it’s a dozen or more movies, then they’re just unlucky.

Maybe it’s The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus that’s cursed – that’s the film Heath Ledger was working on when he died. That’s a Terry Gilliam movie and EVERYTHING he’s done has had problems somewhere along the line. Perhaps it’s him.

Max von Sydow summed it up talking about The Exorcist and all the spooky events surrounding that. Back then an average principle shoot was about 5 or 6 weeks, but The Excorcist was over 14 weeks. Do something long enough and significant events are bound to happen to someone involved.

These days a long shoot is not uncommon, but so many movies are made that it’s inevitable that eventually there will be a run of unfortunate events happening to one of them. Dark knight was a huge film with a massive cast and crew and a long shoot/post production process. Roll the dice long enough and they’ll come up Snake Eyes.

Also, with the exception of Wickliffe, these unfortunate events happened after the movie was completed. This means that events spanning over two years are being attributed to it. Take the number of people involved in the movie, multiply it by 24 months and tell me it would be unusual for something bad to happen in the resulting timeframe. What’s statistically odd is that it doesn’t happen more often.

Dark Knight is only in such high profile because Heath Ledger was well known. If he was still alive, no one would have even known about Wickliffe except for a note in the credits. No one would have attributed Freeman’s crash to it and certainly no one would have seen Bale’s family feud as part of a movie curse. Get one significant event and all other misfortunes take on a spooky relevance.

Gotta go, I walked under a ladder this morning and now I’ve got to get my cat to walk in front of me to negate the bad luck.

Cursed film, or cursed crew?
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