In 2020, horror streaming service Shudder debuted a documentary series entitled Cursed Films, which examined films (primarily horror films such as Poltergeist, The Exorcist and The Omen) that had allegedly suffered in one way or another from some kind of supernatural calamity during production.
This idea of course feels aligned with horror productions, where their invoking of evil and, in some cases, the supernatural, goes hand in hand with the idea of a curse.
Yet while the instance of cursed film sets in real life can often be just as easily dismissed as attempts to reckon with the death or injury of some of those involved in the production, The Exorcism, starring Russell Crowe, takes the concept to the extreme. Crowe’s character, troubled actor Tony Miller, is literally possessed by a demon on the set of his latest film, known as “The Georgetown Project”.
