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Shocking discoveries surrounding movies from your youth

Started by armful, May 20, 2017, 11:35:18 AM

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armful

Shocking discoveries surrounding movies from your youth

A morbid thread for a Sunny Saturday

Yesterday I was reading   a feature on a classic 80s movie (The Monster Squad) a movie that  turns 30 this very summer.   I was horrified to discover the actor who played Horace (Brent Chalem) had died of pneumonia in 1997 at the age of 22. I loved this film growing up and have watched it a few times this decade I had no idea he had passed away.  Brent Chalem has the best line in the whole movie "Wolman's Got Nards ". 

This is the second time I have made a shock discovery like this during 2017.  With the remake  of Stephen Kings IT due out this year I was reading some features on the made for TV movie  from back  in the day and was shocked to  discover Jonathan Brandis the Actor who plays young  Bill Denbrough took his own life at the age of 27.

So have any of you guys made any shocking discoveries surrounding movies you have loved from your youth?  The less said about Dean of Students Rooney from  Ferris Bueller's Day Off the better.

Brundle-Fly

Not shocking, but I always find it a bit sad when after watching an old film I Google IMDB to see what happened to the child actors and discover they only went on to make a couple more movies around the same year. More often than not they just don't want to act anymore or university beckons, I suppose?

I recently watched the harrowing Russian war movie Come And See (1985) recently and was blown away by the two leads' performances, particularly Olga Mironova who plays Glasha.



It was the only film she made and appears to have disappeared off the face of the earth internet. Astonishing.

But that doesn't compare to the heartbreak of Heather O'Rourke She died just age 12 after completing Poltergeist 3 (1988)


Phil_A

Quote from: Brundle-Fly on May 20, 2017, 12:04:20 PM
But that doesn't compare to the heartbreak of Heather O'Rourke She died just age 12 after completing Poltergeist 3 (1988)



The actress that played the other daughter, Dominique Dunne, was murdered at a tragically young age(obviously murder is always tragic, but you know what I mean).

http://www.vanityfair.com/magazine/1984/03/dunne198403

This has lead to popular belief in a "Poltergeist curse" killing off members of the cast, but there isn't because it's a load of bollocks.

armful

Quote from: Brundle-Fly on May 20, 2017, 12:04:20 PM
Not shocking, but I always find it a bit sad when after watching an old film I Google IMDB to see what happened to the child actors and discover they only went on to make a couple more movies around the same year. More often than not they just don't want to act anymore or university beckons, I suppose?

I recently watched the harrowing Russian war movie Come And See (1985) recently and was blown away by the two leads' performances, particularly Olga Mironova who plays Glasha.



It was the only film she made and appears to have disappeared off the face of the earth internet. Astonishing.

But that doesn't compare to the heartbreak of Heather O'Rourke She died just age 12 after completing Poltergeist 3 (1988)




I have been meaning to  watch  Come And See  for ages  I must get my finger out on that.


Yeah it's sad what happened with that young  girl from poltergeist, The girl who played her sister in that  film  Dominique Dunne was murdered



( Phil_A   beat me to  this morbid fact )



Phil_A

Here's a really weird one.

http://www.criminalelement.com/blogs/2015/11/the-wasp-woman-murder-the-death-of-susan-cabot-by-james-marrison-true-crime-hollywood

Susan Cabot, a popular actress during the fifties and star of Corman films like The Wasp Woman, disappeared from the public eye for thirty years until she was found bludgeoned to death with a weight-lifting bar by her dwarf son Timothy(who may have been the bastard son of King Hussein of Jordan), who pleaded insanity on the grounds that he had been driven mad by experimental growth hormones(that his mother was also addicted to).


armful

Quote from: Phil_A on May 20, 2017, 02:04:02 PM
Here's a really weird one.

http://www.criminalelement.com/blogs/2015/11/the-wasp-woman-murder-the-death-of-susan-cabot-by-james-marrison-true-crime-hollywood

Susan Cabot, a popular actress during the fifties and star of Corman films like The Wasp Woman, disappeared from the public eye for thirty years until she was found bludgeoned to death with a weight-lifting bar by her dwarf son Timothy(who may have been the bastard son of King Hussein of Jordan), who pleaded insanity on the grounds that he had been driven mad by experimental growth hormones(that his mother was also addicted to).



That is a strange and grim end for a movie star

zomgmouse

In the original Fright Night the guy who plays the best friend, the "to what do I owe this dubious pleasure" guy, went on to do a lot of gay porn. Not that there's anything bad about that but it's slightly shocking.

Brundle-Fly

On a less morbid note, I was surprised to learn years later that German character actor Gert Fröbe's voice was dubbed by another actor (Micahel Collins) in Goldfinger (1964). Apparently, Frobe could barely speak any English and he was dubbed in a few other Brit films too.

I have also just learnt this today about him today.

Gert was born in Oberplanitz, today part of Zwickau. He was initially a violinist, but he abandoned it for Kabarett and theatre work.

He joined the Nazi Party in 1929 at the age of 16 and left in 1937. During the Nazi regime, he aided two German Jews by hiding them from the Gestapo. In September 1944, the Nazis closed down theatres in Germany and he was drafted into the German Army, the Wehrmacht, where he served until the end of World War II.


Brundle-Fly

Quote from: armful on May 20, 2017, 01:56:56 PM

I have been meaning to  watch  Come And See  for ages  I must get my finger out on that.


It's quite grueling. File next to City Of Life And Death (2009)

armful

Quote from: Brundle-Fly on May 20, 2017, 05:46:09 PM
It's quite grueling. File next to City Of Life And Death (2009)

I have not even heard of that film, thanks for the tip

Brundle-Fly

Quote from: armful on May 20, 2017, 05:54:44 PM
I have not even heard of that film, thanks for the tip

Another tip: The Blu-Ray version often turns up in Poundland.

armful

Quote from: Phil_A on May 20, 2017, 01:37:56 PM
The actress that played the other daughter, Dominique Dunne, was murdered at a tragically young age(obviously murder is always tragic, but you know what I mean).

http://www.vanityfair.com/magazine/1984/03/dunne198403

This has lead to popular belief in a "Poltergeist curse" killing off members of the cast, but there isn't because it's a load of bollocks.


Regards the curse of poltergeist,  I got this tit bit from a movie website

(During a scene when Robbie Freeling was choked by a clown in his room, something went wrong with the prop and Robins was actually being choked. Spielberg didn't know something was wrong until the young actor started turning purple) the film was cursed dammit, or just unlucky.

One sad fact about a favourite film of my youth is the role of Peter Venkman in Ghostbusters had been originally written for John Belushi  AND Dan Aykroyd was working on the script when he heard John Had died.  Of course Bill Murray did an amazing Job as Venkman but I sometimes wonder what Johns portrayal of the character would have been like.

armful

Quote from: Brundle-Fly on May 20, 2017, 06:06:35 PM
Another tip: The Blu-Ray version often turns up in Poundland.



I love it when a gem turns up in Poundland.   Years ago I found an album in the bargain bucket of our Poundland  called -Hexen-Hexuality-On-Empty-We by a German band called  Die Hexen. I brought it on the strength of its front cover.  I was surprised to find they was  a Sonic Youth rip off band , the album was actually quite  good  and I listened to  it  a lot before it went missing  in a house move.  God knows how that bizarre record found its way into a pound shop just outside of Grimsby mind. 

sillymisslily

The teacher who was after Ferris Bueller being a paedophile. Explains a lot.

NurseNugent

I remember looking up what happened to  Martin Lev after watching Bugsy Malone and was shocked to read he'd committed suicide while suffering from M.E.

Sometimes when you're watching something you get a sense that an actor has met an unfortunate fate and I remember thinking that about Elliott Spiers when watching Paperhouse. He died aged just 20. His imdb message page was one of the bleakest I've read with many fans refusing to believe he'd died until family members had to join the boards to confirm he'd died.