6 Actors Who Suffered From Traumatic Experiences While Making Horror Films

Have you ever watched a horror film and wondered how the performers get through such terrifying, scary roles? Some performers are quite good at protecting their physical and mental health while taking on haunting characters, but others are less fortunate. Even when the cameras stop rolling, they can't stop thinking about strange things happening on set, or they feel as though horror films "cursed" them.
Horror Movies are not real. However, it is a fact that some actors could get physically hurt or suffer some serious trauma while filming, and in certain cases, they even risk losing their careers altogether. So, it's worth exploring the messed-up world of classic horror films and seeing how they push the performers to their limits. Here are 6 actors who spoke candidly about their experiences in the world of spooky movies. Scroll down to see!

#1 Bill Skarsgård

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In the movie "It," Skarsgård played the spookiest clown in the world, Pennywise. The actor said playing this is like being in a destructive relationship because he continued to have "weird and intense Pennywise dreams" every night long after the movie's filming had over.
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#2 Jack Reynor

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Reynor had a difficult time as the lead in the 2019 film "Midsommar". Reynor said that the nudity and s**ual scene at the end of the film was difficult for him to absorb. He said, “There are not many examples in the contemporary cinema or in the history of cinema where it’s a male character who is exposed in such a humiliating way, and certainly in a s**ual context, too, and suffers this kind of fate.” He continues "It was nerve-wracking, and it did feel very expositional. It made me feel more vulnerable than I anticipated I would feel.” The actor also said of the bear-dressing scene, “It’s dark and it’s unsettling to watch all these people around you basically making it look like they’re going to kill you in a horrific way. There’s nothing you can do and you’re paralyzed, you know? It was heavy,”

#3 Alex Wolff

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Ari Aster's 2018 "Hereditary" is a breath of fresh air in the horror genre. But it left actor Alex Wolff with PTSD. In an interview, the actor said, “When I started talking about it, all these flashes with all this disturbing shit I went through a sort of came back in a flood. It kept me up at night, to where I got into a habit of emotional masochism to the point of just trying to take in every negative feeling I could draw from. I forced it upon myself rather than the opposite of what you’d usually do in life,” He continued “It’s a reverse emotional thing. It’s hard to describe eloquently; it’s just a feeling. I don’t think you can go through something like this and not have some sort of PTSD afterward.”

#4 Kyle Richards

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Even though Kyle Richards is well-known from "The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills", it was her performance in "Halloween" when she was just 8 years old that had the biggest impact on her.“I had no idea what I was in for," Richards said. "Seeing it for the first time all pieced together was a very, very different movie. It was just really scary, and I really did sleep with my mom until I was 15 years old after that. I was terrified.” She continued " After recognizing myself in it, I began to constantly believe that someone was hidden behind the curtains, outside my windows, or even under my bed."
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#5 Janet Leigh

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In Alfred Hitchcock’s 1960 classic, "Psycho", Janet Leigh met her end at the hands of Norman Bates. It not only scared audiences but also haunted the actress for a long time. She stopped taking showers completely and took baths instead. Leigh said, “I make sure the doors and windows of the house are locked. I also leave the bathroom door open and the shower curtain open. I’m always facing the door, watching, no matter where the showerhead is.”

#6 Shelley Duvall

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Duvall said working with a crazed Jack Nicholson in 1980’s "The Shining" was “almost unbearable.” She was “really in and out of ill health because the stress of the role was so great.” She said that director Stanley Kubrick "pushed and shoved me further than I've ever been pushed." In fact, Kubrick made her perform the scene with the baseball bat in which she confronts Nicholson’s character 127 times. She was so stressed that she even began to lose her hair.
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