14 Horror Movie Scenes That Scared Actors In Real Life

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Psycho‘s Janet Leigh was so disturbed by the famous shower scene where her on-screen partner is stabbed that she stopped showering altogether for a while. (She took baths instead.)

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JoBeth Williams was scared while filming the notorious pool scene in Poltergeist – but not because the skeletons on set were real.

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The cast of Alien genuinely had no idea about the special-effects monster that burst out of John Hurt’s chest.

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Three-year-old Carey Guffey was genuinely scared when meeting the aliens in Close Encounters of the Third Kind.

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Jack Reynor said that filming Midsommar‘s near-final scene in his bear suit was (understandably) terrifying.

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Will Poulter, who also starred in Midsommar, was similarly disturbed by watching the film.

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Shelley Duvall’s baseball scene in The Shining was reshot 127 times, and was part of what she calls a “cruel” on-set culture.

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The lawnmower in Maximum Overdrive was real – and so was the terror of the child actor who had to run from it. Oh, and a cinematographer got blinded, too.

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Alex Wolff said that filming, well, all of Herditary gave him PTSD.

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Noomi Rapace hated shooting a scene where she had to give herself abdominal surgery in Prometheus.

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The actors in Scream were genuinely freaked out by Roger Jackson’s calls.

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The tent shaking in The Blair Witch Project seemed real to the actors. In fact, most of that movie freaked the cast out, TBH.

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Ashley Banks was really terrified when she first met Dracula in The Monster Squad.