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When the Set Became a Killing Ground

The Twilight Zone: The Movie (1983)  A night shoot in the canyons above Los Angeles ended with three dead and Hollywood changed forever.

Before the first reel of Twilight Zone: The Movie ever reached a theatre, the production had already claimed three lives. The night of July 23, 1982, began like any other night shoot,  generators humming, walkie-talkies crackling, the smell of smoke machines threading through the Santa Clarita scrubland. It ended in blood, wreckage, and decades of unanswered questions about who was truly responsible for the most catastrophic on-set accident in Hollywood history.

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Curse of the Pharaohs

Mummies have been part of the horror classics since its first discoveries in the early twentieth century. However, curses themselves attributed to the tombs date far long before Europeans discovered them.

Back To The 6th Dynasty!

Ancient rubbers didn’t wait for the tombs to be documented and instead, went for the rich noble treasures. There was no home system back then, so an excellent old curse had to do!

In particular instance, curses engraved on the façades of tombs could be present. From the 6th Dynasty of Khentika Ikhekhi, more precisely Mastaba, situated at Saqqara, the curse itself aimed toward the priest as a warning to protect the tomb to preserve its purity ritual and discarded robbers all-together.

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