The curse of the film Poltergeist, said to exist because of the premature deaths of people connected with it, has struck again.
Zelda Rubinstein, who played the tiny psychic in the 1982 film directed by Tobe Hooper and produced by Steven Spielberg, is dead.
Curse? Actually, it is the entire Poltergeist series that's said to be damned. Four cast members died in the six years between the release of the first film and the release of the third, with one dying during production of the second film. Two of them died at young ages, 12 and 22.
Among the victims:
Dominique Dunne, who played the oldest sibling Dana in the first movie, died in 1982 at age 22 after being strangled by her jealous boyfriend (Monique's father,
Dominick Dunne, died in the summer of 2009).
Julian Beck, 60-year-old actor who played Kane in Poltergeist II: The Other Side, died in 1985 of stomach cancer.
Will Sampson, 53 years old, who played Taylor the Medicine Man in Poltergeist II, died as a result of post-operative kidney failure and pre-operative malnutrition problems in 1987.
Heather O'Rourke, who played Carol Anne in all three Poltergeist movies, died in 1988 at the age of 12 after what doctors initially described as an acute form of influenza but later changed to septic shock after bacterial toxins invaded her bloodstream.
Louis "Lou" Perryman, who played Pugsley in the first movie, was murdered at the age of 67 in his home in Austin, Texas last April.
Screenplay novelization author
James Kahn told People magazine says that that seconds after he wrote the line "Lightning ripped open the sky," the building was struck by lightning and all the arcade games in the lounge began playing themselves.
Any more doubts? The Poltergeist curse has even been the subject of an E! True Hollywood Story.
Zelda Rubinstein had been hospitalized at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles after her lungs and kidney failed. She was reportedly taken off life support at the end of December. She was 76.
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