Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. Thrice is enemy action.
I keep returning to the idea that these people are foxes, not lions.
And sneaky manipulation is more their style, rather than overt murder.
But who knows, at this point.
There ARE NO COINCIDENCES!!!!
Well, it’s twice now, so the next time, we’ll know for sure, that it’s enemy action. 😀
The filming of The Exorcist had nine related deaths. Also....
“The production manager called me at 4 a.m. and said, ‘Don’t bother to come to work today,’” Friedkin remembered at the talk. “I said, ‘Why? Am I fired?’”
The production manager told him, “No, but the set has just burned to the ground.”
Not the whole set, though. The majority of the home was built separate from Regan’s bedroom where the exorcism takes place. Chillingly, the house was no more — but the site of the horrifying religious ritual survived. A pigeon flew into a light box overnight and caused the fire.
NY Post
While no accidents during filming of “The Exorcist” were fatal, people involved or associated with the production died during it.
Actor Jack MacGowan died shortly after appearing in the movie as film director Burke Dennings, one of the characters killed by a demon-possessed Regan. Only 54 years old, MacGowan died of complications from the flu.
The assistant cameraman’s wife had a baby during the shoot — the baby died. The man who refrigerated the set died. The young night watchman died.
Vasiliki Maliaros, who played the mother of Father Karras passed away during production at age 89.
The final total of deaths was nine.
Joe Hyams, the film’s publicist said he was unnerved. “These weren’t casualties from stunts or things like that. These were men standing behind the camera and all of a sudden dropping dead,” he said.
Others on the set suffered lifelong injuries. A crew member lost his toe, while a carpenter chopped off his thumb. Ellen Byrstyn sustained a lifelong spine injury from one of the times she was pulled by wires to be hurled across the bedroom.
Linda Blair shared that she fractured her lower back while convulsing in a harness, leading to a lifelong struggle with scoliosis. She was screaming, “Please, make it stop. It hurts. It burns!” but the director liked the emotions and kept filming for the scene. “That’s the footage they used in the movie, where I’m crying my eyes out because they are brutally damaging my back,” Blair said.
Once is an accident.
Twice is a coincidence.
Three times is a trend.
Four times is a pattern.
Five times is a conspiracy.
-PJ
No. Once was suspicious