7 Seriously Unlucky Movie Sets

Many successful films are able to breeze through production and effortlessly become a blockbuster success.

But others aren’t as lucky.

In fact, some films are downright unlucky.

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During the filming of these seven movies, cast and crew members were plagued with injuries, delays, budget issues, and sometimes even death.

Here’s a look at some of Hollywood’s unluckiest movie sets.

Jim Caviezel was struck by lightning while filming "The Passion Of The Christ."

Directed by Mel Gibson, "The Passion of the Christ" starred Jim Caviezel as Jesus and detailed the final hours and crucifixion of Jesus Christ. Throughout shooting the film, Caviezel experienced a string of bad luck, including being struck by lightning.

“We were preparing to shoot the Sermon on the Mount and three seconds before, I was hit by lightning. I knew it was going to happen,” Fox News reports Caviezel saying.

If that wasn’t bad enough, the poor actor also suffered through a case of near-hypothermia, a dislocated shoulder, a lung infection and pneumonia, writes Movie Fone. Caviezel also underwent an eight-hour makeup routine that left him with headaches and skin infections, and his bad luck continued when he was accidentally whipped on a few occasions, causing a chunk of his flesh to be ripped out. Maybe it wasn’t so much "The Passion of the Christ" set that was cursed so much as it was Caviezel.

Several people died during the filming of "The Matrix."

Tragedy plagued the poor members of "The Matrix" throughout filming, beginning when Keanu Reeves’s girlfriend, Jennifer Syme, gave birth to a stillborn. The couple then broke up, and shortly after, Syme died in a car accident.

Aaliyah, 22, was in the middle of filming her role as Zee when she died in a plane crash, which postponed filming for a few months. Shortly after Aaliyah’s death, tragedy struck again. Another cast member, Gloria Foster, who played the role of The Oracle, also died. Meanwhile, Reeves ended up in the hospital after a motorbike accident and returned shortly after when he hurt his foot during filming. Reeves’ sister also suffered a leukemia relapse, causing a delay in filming when he left to be with her.

The cost of making the film was spiraling out of control, so Reeves agreed to give up $24 million of his paycheck to keep production afloat, writes List Verse. Despite the bad luck during production, the movie ended up being a box office success.

"Apocalypse Now" was plagued by health problems from the start.

The filming was riddled with terrible luck. Production began in early 1976 with Harvey Keitel as the lead. A massive production delay occurred when director Francis Ford Coppola fired Keitel and replaced him with Martin Sheen, who later suffered a heart attack while on set, per MSN Entertainment.

The bad luck trickled onto Marlon Brando, who arrived on set much heavier than anyone had anticipated. Coppola was then forced to film Brando’s face in tight close-ups and use a body double for all of his other scenes. The filming wrapped up in 1977 but needed so much editing that it didn’t hit movie screens until 1979.