Sylvester Stallone and other actors who have suffered fatal accidents in movies

Safety on a recording set has sadly improved with every incident that results in tragedy. And while Hollywood’s measures meet very high standards, there’s always the chance that something will go according to plan. This is how Sylvester Stallone and other actors got into fatal accidents while filming some of their films.

It is the case of Sylvester Stallone and the accident in ‘rocky 4’ which nearly resulted in him losing his life. In themselves, the fight scenes have always been a risk factor for the protagonists, but it was the fights between Stallone and Doph Lundgren that went further. The Balboa actor asked the performer of Ivan Drago to hit him as hard as possible, which took the star to the hospital for several days. Available on Amazon Prime Video.

Jackie Chan

Jackie Chan is one of those known for preferring to do his risky scenes instead of a double. But he was in ‘invincible weapons’ where Jackie Chan had a fatal accident which almost ended his life. It was at the moment when the actor had to go down a ramp surrounded by explosions, which resulted in a dislocated pelvis, vertebral injuries and burns on his hands.

Fishermen’s Island

Few scenes are as intensely unnerving as Isla Fisher’s in “Now You See Me,” a film who, were it not for the actress dramatically crying out for help, would have lost her life. Is that, in one of the moments, Fisher had to let loose inside a tub full of water. Her character shouldn’t be able to do that, but she moments later she would and she would come out unscathed, but she the actress couldn’t, and what you see is her desperate attempt to get help before she dies. Available on Netflix.

Jamie Alexander

The actress who brought Lady Sif to life in “Thor: Dark World”, Jaimie Alexander was injured in one of the Marvel movie scenes. Although she was ultimately able to continue filming, rain that had fallen on the recording set prior to filming day caused the actress to slip up some stairs, dislocating her shoulder, herniated disc, and splintered her 11 vertebrae. Luckily for her, her injuries allowed her to reach the hospital, where she was duly treated. Available on Disney+.

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Gunnar Hansen

In times when production companies didn’t allocate so much budget to their productions, directors had to deal with difficult times. But in the case of Tobe Hooper, it almost came to tragic results when Gunnar Hansen, the actor behind the leather-masked killer, once slipped while running around the set, his character’s chainsaw, and fell a few inches from his head.

Bruce Campbell

Like the previous one, Sam Raimi did not have a big budget when making ‘Evil Dead’, a film that had many complications during its shooting. But it was Bruce Campbell, the protagonist of the tape, who was commissioned to record a motorcycle scene, while he held the camera in one hand to record the moment which ended with the actor on the ground.