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Heart Starts Pounding: Horrors, Hauntings and Mysteries

38: Cursed Movies: The Wizard Of Oz and The Exorcist

Heart Starts Pounding: Horrors, Hauntings and Mysteries

Heart Starts Pounding: Horrors, Hauntings and Mysteries

True Crime, Fiction, Drama, History

4.83.7K Ratings

🗓️ 12 October 2023

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Summary

Can movies really be cursed? Today, we're looking at what's fact and what's fiction when it comes to The Wizard of Oz and The Exorcist being cursed

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Heart Starts Pounding is written and produced by Kaelyn Moore.

Show Notes: Cursed Movies: The Wizard of Oz and the Exorcist — Heart Starts Pounding: Horrors, Hauntings and Mysteries

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In 2018, I had the opportunity to work on the movie Annabelle comes home. Not in like any sort of

0:40.9

important capacity, but I did get to go to set quite a bit. If you haven't seen it, the movie

0:47.2

takes place in the Warren's house, on a night that the haunted Annabelle doll escapes from her

0:52.2

glass case. Almost all of the movie takes place in a house that was built on a sound stage on

0:57.8

the Warner Bros. Lot. Side note, if you're ever watching that movie and you get scared, just know

1:03.4

I'm on the other side of the set eating M&M's and taking selfies with the Annabelle doll when she

1:08.2

wasn't being used. On the first day of production, as lights were being set up and actors were just

1:15.2

coming to set, the first AD called everyone over to one of the rooms. We all crowded together,

1:21.3

shoulder to shoulder, amongst the replica artifacts in the Warren's collection, a monkey with symbols,

1:26.8

a music box, a wedding dress on a mannequin, all objects that represented the cursed objects,

1:33.3

the real Warren's kept in their Connecticut home. And as we're in there, a priest walks in.

1:40.8

At first, I assumed he was just an actor in a priest collar, but one of the producers

1:46.0

stepped forward to introduce him. He was a real Jesuit priest and he had come to bless the set.

1:54.1

As you can imagine, I was really confused. We all bowed our heads and the priests

2:01.0

led us through a quick prayer and splashed holy water around the set. Small droplets of water

2:06.0

hit the monkey, the music box, the dress. Afterwards, I asked one of the producers what just happened,

2:13.6

and I was not expecting his response. He told me that we were dealing with subject matter that

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