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The Resident Evil stuntwoman literally lost her career due to the accident. She shouldn't even HAVE to sue, the company should have given money to her for compensation.
Yeah, I read about that. That's just terrible. I know their job is risky. Mine is too but there's a difference between risk and danger. Proper precautions can keep a risky job from being dangerous.
How? Her first complaint / excuse was she was asked to fill in for a stunt she never practiced or did a run through on. All stuntmen have the right to say no to any job, ESPECIALLY if you have no idea what you're doing. It's sad and she should be taken care of by her /movie companies insurance but to blame them (entirely) is wrong. I would never agree to do any job that puts my life in danger unless I know all of its facets
I disagree. She's a fucking stunt-woman. It was literally her job to risk her life and safety. Also, she could have refused seeing she was experienced.
@@brianwilson9501 01:50 Camera crane lowered too early and she collided with it, that was not a non practiced run, they fucked up and it cost her badly. She was just giving other examples of risky behavior.
I am willing to bet they did offer her a very LARGE sum of money! I don't know the facts but it would be extremely stupid for them not to and they have also have insurance for these types of accidents. So I'm guessing she just wanted more than what they were offering. I'm sure that kind of accident/injury that she was offered over a million dollars.
The fact that she had such a prestigious stunt career appearing in masterpieces such as _Fury Road_ and lost almost everything in a POS schlock flick like Paul Andersen’s Mary Sue Resident Evil series adds insult to her life threatening permanent injuries.
I agree. It's incredibly sad what happened to her and she won't be able continue her career, that is devastating. She should get no less than 10-20 million.
Twilight Zone: The Movie... the most notorious movie lawsuit in history. Lead actor decapitated, child actor decapitated, and another child actor crushed by a helicopter while illegally violating child labor laws
Almost forgot about this one, I saw the video clip of this happening and geez, it'll get burned into your brain. You just kind of sit there and hope you didn't actually see what you just saw.
Christian Westenberger Is it possible you're thinking of another movie? A google search isn't finding anything about a helicopter accident on the set of The Omen.
Christian Westenberger Two of the crew members of the Omen got into a major car accident that decapitated one of them. They were not on the job but driving on their own time. Some people thought the movie was cursed (classic claim for a 70’s and 80’s movie) because it was really similar to a scene in the movie.
I believe the most common de-gloving is when guys jump down off some sort of equipment or platform and their wedding ring gets snagged on something. For the curious, de-gloving looks like the pictures in the anatomy book: Grey's Anatomy.
His likeness? Was he not in the movie?? I could have sworn he showed up at the future Marty's house for dinner but I haven't seen it in a long time so I may just not have realized it was a different actor or something 🤔
yes, because too many people made mistakes and no one could be blamed for the tragic event... and the only reason it happened is because of budget cuts... they really couldnt afford to buy real blanks, what a joke.
@@LastbutNotFirst As far as I know a real cartridge from the previous use (another scene) was at fault - the bullet remained in the barrel and no-one bothered to check if the barrel was clear. So when they shot a blanc it propelled the bullet into his chest. They had blanks, but that's whay you should check the weapon before every take.
That was straight up negligence resulting from a desire to save a few bucks (they let the armorer go before the fateful "pick-up" scene was filmed). I'm sure she didn't want a drawn-out lawsuit, but I hope the settlement was massive.
Okay, the 'baby mask' thing, I'm in the "it's a freakin' baby mask" camp. I mean, sure the resemblance is uncanny, but it's a freakin baby mask. They're all going to look similar.
Regarding Happy Death Day; the movie was filmed at Loyola University in New Orleans, less than 4 miles from the stadium that is home to the King Cake Baby. To claim the similarity was a coincidence is seriously ridiculous when you realize they probably had to drive by that stadium on the way to set everyday.
I assumed that the HDD Killer and the King Cake Baby was both based on Baby Herman from Who Framed Roger Rabbit...that does make things different if it's based off of a school they travel by all the time to shoot
Distinguished AllureProductions it’s not a school, it’s an NBA team, and why the effing Pelicans have a baby for a mascot instead of a... Pelican, is beyond me and I lived in New Orleans for several years. Mrs. Benson needs to drop that suit, it’s absurd.
I would think the killer's mask is something they would have already designed and made long before they went to the filming location. That's the kind of thing that is usually described in the script and not chosen on location.
@@memawknowsbest4978 Making a movie is an arduous process. It involves a lot of things getting done in a relatively short amount of time. And believe it or not, simple things like what mask the killer is going to wear will often get put off until the last second. For example: -Michael Meyer's mask was made out of a clearance-rack Captain Kirk mask that was found while shooting Halloween. -During the production of Scream, they literally sent a P.A. into a Halloween store to buy a bunch of masks, including the one they eventually used on screen. -Apparently, Jason Vorhees wasn't even going to have a mask in the second movie until they started shooting and realized the stunt-man playing him couldn't see out of the facial deformity prosthetics he had on. At which point they said, "Screw it. Just put a sack over his head. We'll think of something cooler for part 3."
I remember renting The Devil's Advocate from Blockbuster and it came with a sticker on it about the sculpture featured in the end. Apparently the big sculpture in Al Pacino's office at the end of the movie is a prominent work of art called "Ex Nihilo" which is on display at the Washington National Cathedral and the producers used it's likeness without permission.
honestly i can think of several images that look almost exactly the same. it's a pretty generic look. they going to sue my grandmother for all her creepy porcelain cherub baby figurines?
Unpopular opinion: Imagine being a stunt double, having a contract all drawn up to which your manager and lawyers went over with a fine toothed comb before you signed, than trying to win a lawsuit for doing your job.
Iron Man - In the scene where Tony Stark prepares for his final press conference, he reads a newspaper that has a photo of Iron Man. The photographer who took the original picture sued the studio for copyright infringement. As a result, home video releases of the film have a re-shot scene with a different newspaper picture.
@@ryanmurphy1985 and big companies that make millions off these movies should pay people for their art. It's a lot cheaper to pay them a small fee to use in the movie than to shell out thousands, or even tens of thousands of dollars between paying out the artist, lawyers, and court fees.
@@swanqueen: But to what extent? If a particular building happens to be in a scene, will the owners of said building, the engineers who designed it and construction workers that built it need to be cited? As well as give out compensation for having the building in the scene? How about scenes that contain any form of literature or random paintings, will the authors and artists need to be cited and compensated? Must be expensive to shoot a scene inside of a library. I'm obviously exaggerating here but it seems like any inanimate object in a single frame can justify a lawsuit. I do not know the laws on this subject but this sounds ridiculously idiotic.
" pound the glass harder ! " - Director of Ghostland , just before he remembered that the glass wasn't safety glass ....sad....I hope she settles out of court for a hefty sum.
A side note on Hangover 2. When it was released on video, the displays at Best Buy had a tray of temp tattoos to be given free with purchase. My company had instructions to pull em. Always wondered why, now I know. I still have a stack of them.
@@shadowninja6689 didn't they do the same for the blair witch project? i remember there being a huge debate over whether it was real or not upon it first being released and they ended up having the actors do a public appearance to show they were alive.
No just older! I'm in the same mind! 2 child actors along with the actor ,Vic Morrow. The Conqueror starring John Wayne comes to mind too that one was ridiculous
The twilight zone is probably one of the most famous examples of lawsuits and accidental deaths on set. You don’t have to be a certain age to know, but maybe to remember. It’s probably because that one has made so many notes, it would just be redundant.
anyone who sues for any part of the "net" should fire their lawyer. Hollywood-only accounting rules can easily turn the biggest blockbuster into a net LOSS & you won't get dime one. sue for a cut of the GROSS, NOT NET (of course, this is presuming the article highlighted in the video is correct about the suit)
I’m a retired Prosecutor and Judge and my first thought was that there are too many lawyers. However, several of the suits, particularly the ones regarding serious injuries to actors, were definitely appropriate. So my final thought is that too many people, including their lawyers, hope to gain riches to which they are not entitled by filing frivolous lawsuits.
This is at least the second time this month, if not this week, that the Resident Evil case was mentioned on WhatCulture. I think someone at WhatCulture recently found out about it, and was so affected by how horrible an accident it was, they feel duty bound to raise awareness of it.
Just a tip... if a case is ongoing, I'd avoid saying something is "a clear cut case of negligence", unless you've had a lawyer tell you that it's OK to do that.
Harlon Ellison sued the production company for The Terminator for scenes being too similar to Ellison's Outer Limits episodes. James Cameron had to include an acknowledgement to Ellison for story contribution in the credits.
Some lawsuits are really dumb and meaningless, depriving cinema from creative expression of art. But negligence on a film set should never be a thing. Safety first. So I am quite shocked to know producers and or directors didn't take much consideration into safety of their crew, like the stuntdouble in Resident Evil or the main actress in Ghostland. This is unacceptable.
Stunt people are the real heroes of the movie, instead of body double actors. Would love to see their original scenes at least in behind the scene releases. Action movies are nothing without stunt people. How cleverly moviemakers ensure they dont get their due else the audience would worship them and mock the actors for just drama which itself has minute role to play in action movies
You missed the lawsuit over the helicopter accident on set of the Twilight Zone in 1982. 3 fatalities, including one of the stars Vic Morrow. 6 other people were injured as well.
Pretty sure my dad said that 'Black Diamond' sued the hell out of Cliffhanger because its one of their harnesses that breaks in the opening scene which leads to someone dying.
Stunt personel should receive full coverage as part of the production budget. (I think I just realised why in 30 years of trying, I have yet to make a single film!)
Nope. He died while playing around with a prop gun loaded with explosive blanks and he put it on his temple. They don't use real guns or real ammo on movie sets.
@@shadowmatrix0101 You're thinking of John Eric Hexum. Brandon Lee (The Crow) was indeed shot on set. In fact the beginning of the scene is in the movie. The gun was filmed with fake loads that were bullets inserted into powderless cartridges to give the visual effect of a loaded revolver. Then the visual fakes were removed and blanks loaded into the gun. However the bullet in the cartridge under the hammer became dislodged and slid into the barrel. So when the blank was fired it propelled the bullet as if a complete cartridge was loaded. It was lower speed than an actual bullet, but struck Brandon in the stomach and became lodged near his spine, and he died after 6 hours of surgery to try to save his life.
Jonathan Bertuccelli created the mascot in 2009, but it looks very much like Baby Herman from 1988’s Who Framed Roger Rabbit. Maybe Touchstone should be looking into compensation from him?
Shortly after the Hangover lawsuit I was working on a film where an extra had a full sleeve tattoo, she filmed all of her scenes (this was a big blockbuster movie) then decided to then proceed to tell the production company that they had to pay her hundreds of thousands in order to show her tattoo. Instead of paying her out, the company spent more money to have her digitally removed from the film entirely, just on principal, and she got blacklisted. She tried, but she was no Ed Helms.
Yeah, I was going to mention that pro athletes do this all the time. So that if their images are used for video games then they won't get sued by the tattoo artists for part of the money.
What about the stunt-woman who was killed and 4 others who were injured during the filming of Gone Fishin' back in 1995? That was on the news extensively at the time and is still brought up when talking about movie stunt safety.
While I think using a "stunt double" to do the "stunt" of 'banging on window' is ridiculous.... if you are going to have someone bang on a window, it had better be shatter proof glass.
@@amostake On an indy film? I've seen it done - it's their safety on the line, after all - especially for something as simple as that. On a mainstream set there will be a stunt coordinator who will handle and/or supervise any gag construction.
Stunt doubles usually know to check the stuff they'll be using, a minor actress who doesn't know that and it's told to punch it harder over and over again...
Lawsuits from personal injury cases make complete sense and should really see more exposure so film makers will take more actions to try and keep their actors and stuntpeople safe. Everything else on this list, however, just feels like a bunch of adults crying about being made fun of in a movie no one really cared about, thus drawing unwarranted interest to it.
Depends actually. IF you're complaining how audiences will see you sure. But if your complaint is how it affects your career that's justified. For example if the model who's old picture being masturbated to had gone into acting and no one wants to cast the spank bank girl so job offers dry up she'd have every right to sue. It would be like if your co-workers found a picture of you from high school and mocked it in front of your boss leading directly to your boss passing you over for a promotion because of the actions of others.
keith dubose Hedley Lamar was a fictional character in Blazing Saddles. It was Hedy Lamarr who sued. She was a famous actress in the 30's & 40's. She was also a scientist who co-invented an early technique for spread spectrum communications which is the key to many wireless communications today.
@@cathleencooks748 and don't forget the torpedo.... the running joke in Blazing Saddles was call Harvey Corman's character Hedy, and his reply 'its Hedley' Hedy did file suit, for repeatedly using her name, and Mel Brooks did not contest the suit, and happily paid her ...
Calling those who seek justice using the legal system, DOESN'T make them litigious "cockroaches"! When you lose limb and livelihood because of other's neglect for a stupid movie, a lawsuit is a reasonable course of action!
@@WayStedYou Maybe. I do think those lawyers get way too much of any “winnings”/settlement money awarded to the victims, especially when they usually don’t have to do too much work on their cases. But to play Devil’s advocate, someone has to represent the victims in these cases, and they have to be lawyers.
How about the granddaddy of all on-set eff-ups, i.e., the horrendous "accident" on the set of "Twilight Zone The Movie" which resulted in the horrible deaths of actor Vic Morrow and child actors Myca Dinh Le and Renee Shin-Yi Chen? And the more recent, totally avoidable, fatal death of Sarah Jones on the set of "Midnight Rider," which was never and will never be released.
The Big Boy Restaurant chain needs to get in on the action against Happy Death Day I guess. Big Boy resembles that mask much more than the mascot. Oh wait, include Gerber in that too, and don't forget Warner Brothers cartoons. They had countless baby characters that look more like the Happy Death Day mask than that mascot does.
Re: the one for "Ghostland" (or "Incident in the a Ghostland", to use the full name); the front cover/poster is done how it is due to a key plot point in the film (& it is also the other sister, rather than the injured party), so I don't think any malice was intended by the people behind the film with the poster, however I do see why it isn't ideal given what happened. I do hope that Taylor Hickson is eventually compensated for the injury, too.
That was the film's hook was that it was him a film crew watching him be ridiculous to people then getting people sign off on it after filming, the ones that didn't are blurred in most cases of "jackass" type movies/shows.
The supposed King Cake Baby is not the New Orleans Pelicans (basketball team) mascot it used to be the New Orleans Baby Cakes (Triple A baseball team)mascot. Just thought you should know that.
One scene that probably should have involved a lawsuit was on the set of Back to the Future II, when stuntwoman Cheryl Wheeler almost fell to her death. Even though she had voiced concern over the safety (and the original stuntwoman had quit over the same concerns), she was ignored.
its ironic how often a movie company steals copyrighted stuff and downplays it to get away with it but when others do it to them they go on a crusade. smh
I think you guys booted the ball by mixing frivolous, money-grubbing suits with legit legal action involving negligence: Brandon Lee, Vic Morrow, Myca Dinh Le, Renee Shin-Yi Chen, Sarah Jones, to name just a few who at least made the papers (and none stunt players, who at least accept a certain amount of calculated risk in the pursuit of their craft)….please don't conflate some swimsuit model's vanity suit with legal action taken to hold negligent producers and directors responsible for their actions.
So Taylor Hickson, the last girl in the video. She was in Deadpool and she lives in the same city I am from. When I went to go watch Deadpool, she was there watching it too.
Don't forget the amount of lawyers and time a lawsuit like that demands. So calling it a massive lawsuit despite the payout or lack there of seems to make sense.
Well there was that one time when John Landis decapitated 2 little kids and Jennifer Jason Leigh's dad with a helicopter during filming of the Twilight Zone movie.. there was some lawsuits.
Jon Favreau is incredibly slept on. He directed Elf and created the Mandalorian. I havent even watched the video. I just wanted to put out that Happy Hogan from the Marvel movies is an extremely talented director/writer.
The Resident Evil stuntwoman literally lost her career due to the accident. She shouldn't even HAVE to sue, the company should have given money to her for compensation.
The resident evil stunt woman deserves whatever money she can get. That whole story is so messed up.
Yeah, I read about that. That's just terrible. I know their job is risky. Mine is too but there's a difference between risk and danger. Proper precautions can keep a risky job from being dangerous.
How? Her first complaint / excuse was she was asked to fill in for a stunt she never practiced or did a run through on.
All stuntmen have the right to say no to any job, ESPECIALLY if you have no idea what you're doing.
It's sad and she should be taken care of by her /movie companies insurance but to blame them (entirely) is wrong.
I would never agree to do any job that puts my life in danger unless I know all of its facets
I had no idea about that and i totally agree. Its sad bc the stuntmen/women are what make action movies, ACTION movies
I disagree. She's a fucking stunt-woman. It was literally her job to risk her life and safety. Also, she could have refused seeing she was experienced.
@@brianwilson9501 01:50 Camera crane lowered too early and she collided with it, that was not a non practiced run, they fucked up and it cost her badly. She was just giving other examples of risky behavior.
The stuntwoman from resident evil should never have even needed to file a lawsuit they should have offered her anything as a apology
I am willing to bet they did offer her a very LARGE sum of money! I don't know the facts but it would be extremely stupid for them not to and they have also have insurance for these types of accidents. So I'm guessing she just wanted more than what they were offering. I'm sure that kind of accident/injury that she was offered over a million dollars.
MississippiRebel they didn’t. They actually tried to not cover the medical bills
The fact that she had such a prestigious stunt career appearing in masterpieces such as _Fury Road_ and lost almost everything in a POS schlock flick like Paul Andersen’s Mary Sue Resident Evil series adds insult to her life threatening permanent injuries.
Not even as an apology it's just the fucking decent thing to do.
I agree. It's incredibly sad what happened to her and she won't be able continue her career, that is devastating. She should get no less than 10-20 million.
With both Resident Evil stunt actress case and Ghostland actress case I really hope that they get justice because those are messed up.
What’s sad is that little girl who was just starting out as an actress, has potentially lost her entire future career from the scarring..
that stuntwoman should be compensated fairly. in the millions
I remember thinking watching Happy Death Day, "No college would have a baby as their mascot."
Yet, here we are.
You ever heard of the mardi gras tradition of king cake? You find the toy baby inside the cake. That is where it came from.
There’s another movie, I think it’s called Valentine, where the killer also wears a similar mask. It’s really not original at all.
@@cinema_chic that where I thought the idea of the mask came from
The Resident Evil Stuntwoman. Oh. My. God. I can’t imagine. That’s devastating.
The school's actual mascot is creepier than the Happy Death Day mask!!!
Right? What a horrible, disgusting design for a mascot...and the dude wants credit for that mess?? I would be embarrassed.
Twilight Zone: The Movie... the most notorious movie lawsuit in history. Lead actor decapitated, child actor decapitated, and another child actor crushed by a helicopter while illegally violating child labor laws
Almost forgot about this one, I saw the video clip of this happening and geez, it'll get burned into your brain. You just kind of sit there and hope you didn't actually see what you just saw.
Wasn't the original Omen not sued aswel because of the helicopter crash who killed almost everyone on set?
Christian Westenberger Is it possible you're thinking of another movie? A google search isn't finding anything about a helicopter accident on the set of The Omen.
@@CanItAlready really probably getting old and confuse movies already
Christian Westenberger Two of the crew members of the Omen got into a major car accident that decapitated one of them. They were not on the job but driving on their own time. Some people thought the movie was cursed (classic claim for a 70’s and 80’s movie) because it was really similar to a scene in the movie.
Wayne’s World was sued preventing them from using Stairway to Heaven, which is why they came up with the joke about the song not being allowed.
Well, hopefully Taurus got the money they were owed from that lawsuit. Lol
Cinema_Chic - Thanks for that info. Did not know that.
Why is resident evil not number 1
*that is so much pain*
Riight?!
I was thinking that the moment I heard the entry
Because it's not a top 10 list. Just a list of 10 instances.
Yeah it's not a "top 10" list.
Exactly that sounds so horrific
"De-gloving" is a medical term for the wholesale removal of skin. Now you don't need to see the horrific Google results.
Having seen the real thing, ya don’t wanna look that shit up unless you have a strong stomach!
Thanks
I believe the most common de-gloving is when guys jump down off some sort of equipment or platform and their wedding ring gets snagged on something.
For the curious, de-gloving looks like the pictures in the anatomy book: Grey's Anatomy.
There is no way I'm googling those pictures. I would rather watch tub girl.
Jimmy M lol oh God, I’m not hip to what tub girl is but now I’m Afraid to google it 😂
Save me before I look it up 😂
Crispin Glover's suit on using his likeness in Back to the Future 2. This set precedent that ripples through out the movie industry!!!
In conjunction with Michael Biehn’s case.
His likeness? Was he not in the movie?? I could have sworn he showed up at the future Marty's house for dinner but I haven't seen it in a long time so I may just not have realized it was a different actor or something 🤔
Glover has done a few interviews about that.
Interesting story
yeah, it pretty much removed him from it
The Twilight Zone: The Movie helicopter crash had director John Landis on trial for three counts of manslaughter. (He was acquitted.)
I just saw the video...so sad for those two kids.
I was just about to chime in with that
An actor was decapitated!
That was criminal. This was civil.
@@Torquemadia yep, Vic Morrow, he was a great actor and he will always be missed.
I feel for the resident evil stunt lady. She should have sued for 50% ownership of the franchise.
s staners, half of a piece of crap is still crap.
Ok the bigger problem is the fact that New Orleans has that thing as it’s mascot. Seriously WTF???
Right? That monstrosity is nightmare worthy.
My thoughts exactly 😳😱
Born, raised, and still live here. Yes, we are weird lol
Has you ever heard of king cake? it is suppossed to be the baby inside it.
have you ever watched the pelicans play basketball? The creepy baby cake mascot is the least troubling thing about them.
Just want to say I met Josh from what culture at Leeds fest this year and he is an absolutely lovely person
The King Cake Baby is so much scarier than the masked murderer, and it's the one that's real 😭
Brandon Lee's death. His mother sued and settled out of court.
yes, because too many people made mistakes and no one could be blamed for the tragic event... and the only reason it happened is because of budget cuts... they really couldnt afford to buy real blanks, what a joke.
@@LastbutNotFirst As far as I know a real cartridge from the previous use (another scene) was at fault - the bullet remained in the barrel and no-one bothered to check if the barrel was clear. So when they shot a blanc it propelled the bullet into his chest. They had blanks, but that's whay you should check the weapon before every take.
@Steve1963 D all in all. i think he was killed on purpose.
Ed Straker it’s either to the OP, if he changed his screen name. Or someone else who deleted their comment or had it removed.
That was straight up negligence resulting from a desire to save a few bucks (they let the armorer go before the fateful "pick-up" scene was filmed). I'm sure she didn't want a drawn-out lawsuit, but I hope the settlement was massive.
Okay, the 'baby mask' thing, I'm in the "it's a freakin' baby mask" camp. I mean, sure the resemblance is uncanny, but it's a freakin baby mask. They're all going to look similar.
Regarding Happy Death Day; the movie was filmed at Loyola University in New Orleans, less than 4 miles from the stadium that is home to the King Cake Baby. To claim the similarity was a coincidence is seriously ridiculous when you realize they probably had to drive by that stadium on the way to set everyday.
I didn't know that. That kinda seals it for me. I was on the fence.
I assumed that the HDD Killer and the King Cake Baby was both based on Baby Herman from Who Framed Roger Rabbit...that does make things different if it's based off of a school they travel by all the time to shoot
Distinguished AllureProductions it’s not a school, it’s an NBA team, and why the effing Pelicans have a baby for a mascot instead of a... Pelican, is beyond me and I lived in New Orleans for several years. Mrs. Benson needs to drop that suit, it’s absurd.
I would think the killer's mask is something they would have already designed and made long before they went to the filming location. That's the kind of thing that is usually described in the script and not chosen on location.
@@memawknowsbest4978 Making a movie is an arduous process. It involves a lot of things getting done in a relatively short amount of time. And believe it or not, simple things like what mask the killer is going to wear will often get put off until the last second. For example:
-Michael Meyer's mask was made out of a clearance-rack Captain Kirk mask that was found while shooting Halloween.
-During the production of Scream, they literally sent a P.A. into a Halloween store to buy a bunch of masks, including the one they eventually used on screen.
-Apparently, Jason Vorhees wasn't even going to have a mask in the second movie until they started shooting and realized the stunt-man playing him couldn't see out of the facial deformity prosthetics he had on. At which point they said, "Screw it. Just put a sack over his head. We'll think of something cooler for part 3."
It's so fucking sad injured actors have to FIGHT for damages when they were injured on set.
I remember renting The Devil's Advocate from Blockbuster and it came with a sticker on it about the sculpture featured in the end. Apparently the big sculpture in Al Pacino's office at the end of the movie is a prominent work of art called "Ex Nihilo" which is on display at the Washington National Cathedral and the producers used it's likeness without permission.
4:36 That drill is now a vintage relic of cordless drills. From the 'Pro' range, I still have mine and it should be on display in a museum somewhere.
that baby mask looks like the baby from who framed roger rabbit.
@Greg Moonen also looks very similar to the baby mask from the movie (BRAZIL)
That's what I was thinking
Thank you! I was thinking it looked like baby herman too!
Happy Death day mask looks more like “Herman” the baby from Roger Rabbit.
honestly i can think of several images that look almost exactly the same. it's a pretty generic look. they going to sue my grandmother for all her creepy porcelain cherub baby figurines?
@@slavesforging5361 Indeed, hope it gets thrown out and laughed at.
@@slavesforging5361 It is so generic looking that I feel like just about anyone would say they have seen it before.
It reminded me of the Doctor's mask in Brazil.
@@jennylee9278 - Me too but that didn't have eyes. The baby from who framed Roger Rabbit has blue eyes and one tooth like the Death Day movie.
Anytime, I hear about the poor stunt girl getting so horrifically disfigured/crippled my heart & prayers go out to her & her family.
Well there's that. You did your good deep for the month...
@@KrisCreider who
Unpopular opinion: Imagine being a stunt double, having a contract all drawn up to which your manager and lawyers went over with a fine toothed comb before you signed, than trying to win a lawsuit for doing your job.
Iron Man - In the scene where Tony Stark prepares for his final press conference, he reads a newspaper that has a photo of Iron Man. The photographer who took the original picture sued the studio for copyright infringement. As a result, home video releases of the film have a re-shot scene with a different newspaper picture.
areasevenpro these sue happy people over silly stuff like this should be embarrassed & ashamed of themselves.
@@ryanmurphy1985 and big companies that make millions off these movies should pay people for their art. It's a lot cheaper to pay them a small fee to use in the movie than to shell out thousands, or even tens of thousands of dollars between paying out the artist, lawyers, and court fees.
@@swanqueen: Absolutely not since that will open the doors for endless, nonsensical lawsuits.
@@herrschaftg35 well, it's the law. So they kinda have to. NOT paying licencing fees will lead to lawsuits.
@@swanqueen: But to what extent? If a particular building happens to be in a scene, will the owners of said building, the engineers who designed it and construction workers that built it need to be cited? As well as give out compensation for having the building in the scene? How about scenes that contain any form of literature or random paintings, will the authors and artists need to be cited and compensated? Must be expensive to shoot a scene inside of a library. I'm obviously exaggerating here but it seems like any inanimate object in a single frame can justify a lawsuit. I do not know the laws on this subject but this sounds ridiculously idiotic.
" pound the glass harder ! " - Director of Ghostland , just before he remembered that the glass wasn't safety glass ....sad....I hope she settles out of court for a hefty sum.
The Director didn't care whether the Glass was safety glass or not!!!
A side note on Hangover 2. When it was released on video, the displays at Best Buy had a tray of temp tattoos to be given free with purchase. My company had instructions to pull em.
Always wondered why, now I know. I still have a stack of them.
Cannibal Holocaust
The director got sued because people believe he actually killed the cast members but were very much alive.
Also obscenity charges
He also had the actors and crew kill animals, the douchebag.
He had the actors all lay low for so many months after the film to give that appearance as a PR stunt.
@@shadowninja6689 didn't they do the same for the blair witch project? i remember there being a huge debate over whether it was real or not upon it first being released and they ended up having the actors do a public appearance to show they were alive.
@@RaptorNX01 Blair witch was such a piece of shit, one of the worst excuses for a film, pure trash
I thought it was gonna say Roger Rabbit's baby character sued the movie.
Lionel Hutz suit against the Never Ending Story
When you’re so British you said severed wrong. Lol
Save?
@@djandylees *said
Um...Twilight Zone? The Dragon Lady?
Nobody?
Christ, I'm old.
No just older! I'm in the same mind! 2 child actors along with the actor ,Vic Morrow. The Conqueror starring John Wayne comes to mind too that one was ridiculous
last tango in paris
The twilight zone is probably one of the most famous examples of lawsuits and accidental deaths on set.
You don’t have to be a certain age to know, but maybe to remember.
It’s probably because that one has made so many notes, it would just be redundant.
What is the Dragon Lady?
@@MrShmooblee The girl with the Dragon tattoo i think. Im not sure.
Josh: I have student loans
Raid Shadow Legends: Word?
I can kinda see the point with the baby mask, but 50%? Really? I'd throw the case out just for the overwhelming greed.
Especially considering they don't look very similar & neither design is unique.
anyone who sues for any part of the "net" should fire their lawyer. Hollywood-only accounting rules can easily turn the biggest blockbuster into a net LOSS & you won't get dime one. sue for a cut of the GROSS, NOT NET (of course, this is presuming the article highlighted in the video is correct about the suit)
I’m a retired Prosecutor and Judge and my first thought was that there are too many lawyers. However, several of the suits, particularly the ones regarding serious injuries to actors, were definitely appropriate. So my final thought is that too many people, including their lawyers, hope to gain riches to which they are not entitled by filing frivolous lawsuits.
This is at least the second time this month, if not this week, that the Resident Evil case was mentioned on WhatCulture. I think someone at WhatCulture recently found out about it, and was so affected by how horrible an accident it was, they feel duty bound to raise awareness of it.
Just a tip... if a case is ongoing, I'd avoid saying something is "a clear cut case of negligence", unless you've had a lawyer tell you that it's OK to do that.
Anyone not involved in a suit can comment publicly on it.
That is his personal opinion and protected under the first amendment
He was inaccurate, but in no legal danger as he is not involved in the case. The first amendment gives people the right to be wrong.
Harlon Ellison sued the production company for The Terminator for scenes being too similar to Ellison's Outer Limits episodes. James Cameron had to include an acknowledgement to Ellison for story contribution in the credits.
Harlon sues everybody for anything. He's a bitter man indeed.
Well produced video. Great work!
Some lawsuits are really dumb and meaningless, depriving cinema from creative expression of art. But negligence on a film set should never be a thing. Safety first. So I am quite shocked to know producers and or directors didn't take much consideration into safety of their crew, like the stuntdouble in Resident Evil or the main actress in Ghostland. This is unacceptable.
Stunt people are the real heroes of the movie, instead of body double actors. Would love to see their original scenes at least in behind the scene releases. Action movies are nothing without stunt people. How cleverly moviemakers ensure they dont get their due else the audience would worship them and mock the actors for just drama which itself has minute role to play in action movies
Couple's Retreat is easily in my top 10 guilty pleasure movies. There. I said it.
Same
Mine too.
That movie sucks not even good for a guilty pleasure
@@jd5726 why do you have to be so negative?
You should be ashamed of yourself, just awful
Great video you rock, we are now fans, thank you for an amazing video
How did the Hangover lawyers not argue parody law over the tattoo?
Poor Paul Giamatti, he only plays "sleazy managers who take advantage" these days, like he finally succumbed to his character actor stereotype.
King cake babies were invented in the late 1800’s and the mascot design is a just ripped off kewpie doll.
You missed the lawsuit over the helicopter accident on set of the Twilight Zone in 1982. 3 fatalities, including one of the stars Vic Morrow. 6 other people were injured as well.
You forgot the extra that was seriously injured (suffering permanent brain damage) filming the third Transformers movie. She was awarded $18.5 MIL.
“I can’t see a judge ruling in the production company’s favor”
That depends on how much they donate to the judge’s reelection campaign..,
Ouch for that resi evil lawsuit, am i the only one who thought the way severed was pronounced sounded weird?
Gincairn The Gamecat Geordie, we all talk funny
It was pretty severe.
The Slasher movie Valentine uses almost the same mask
Thanks . There are definitely a couple in there that I hope they get their money.👍good show!!
“Degloving” is when the skin is peeled off like taking a latex glove off of your hand.
😱 Dear God!!!!!
Thanks!
I'd actually worked that out but I REALLY WANTED you to be explicit - NOT!
for those that dont know "degloved" means your skin was pulled off like a glove
yikes 😐
Pretty sure my dad said that 'Black Diamond' sued the hell out of Cliffhanger because its one of their harnesses that breaks in the opening scene which leads to someone dying.
I remember that. It was a big story when it happened cause Cliffhanger was a big movie
Stunt personel should receive full coverage as part of the production budget.
(I think I just realised why in 30 years of trying, I have yet to make a single film!)
The crow? He got shot during recording by real Gun.
Nope. He died while playing around with a prop gun loaded with explosive blanks and he put it on his temple. They don't use real guns or real ammo on movie sets.
@@shadowmatrix0101 You're thinking of John Eric Hexum. Brandon Lee (The Crow) was indeed shot on set. In fact the beginning of the scene is in the movie. The gun was filmed with fake loads that were bullets inserted into powderless cartridges to give the visual effect of a loaded revolver. Then the visual fakes were removed and blanks loaded into the gun. However the bullet in the cartridge under the hammer became dislodged and slid into the barrel. So when the blank was fired it propelled the bullet as if a complete cartridge was loaded. It was lower speed than an actual bullet, but struck Brandon in the stomach and became lodged near his spine, and he died after 6 hours of surgery to try to save his life.
Wasnt a real gun. It was a prop gun, it was blanks- but it malfunctioned.
had the same complaint about Drive. It wasn't the movie the trailers sold.
Twilight Zone probably had the worst accident, killing a Veteran Actor...
and 2 children
Jonathan Bertuccelli created the mascot in 2009, but it looks very much like Baby Herman from 1988’s Who Framed Roger Rabbit. Maybe Touchstone should be looking into compensation from him?
No mention of the motorcycle lady who died taking practice runs on a bike too big and powerful for her during Deadpool 2?
Pronunciation: past tense of sever(rhyming with ever) is severed... Not severe (adjective and has no past tense)
Shortly after the Hangover lawsuit I was working on a film where an extra had a full sleeve tattoo, she filmed all of her scenes (this was a big blockbuster movie) then decided to then proceed to tell the production company that they had to pay her hundreds of thousands in order to show her tattoo. Instead of paying her out, the company spent more money to have her digitally removed from the film entirely, just on principal, and she got blacklisted. She tried, but she was no Ed Helms.
Who was it? She won't be seeing these comments and can't tell shit from your name even if she did so, what was her name?
@@robbieracer3294 she was just an background extra, she wasn't anyone famous, I don't even remember her name, sorry!
No John Landis ?? The mother of all lawsuits
"Seh-veered neck artery." Has no one ever said the word "severed" in front of this man before?
It wouldn't be a Whatculture video without at least one egregious mispronunciation. Kirsten is the worst 'un.
Fun fact, whenever I get a tattoo I need to sign away all my creative rights to it lmao
Yeah, I was going to mention that pro athletes do this all the time. So that if their images are used for video games then they won't get sued by the tattoo artists for part of the money.
Ditto, it’s how my aces and eights has a penis
What about the stunt-woman who was killed and 4 others who were injured during the filming of Gone Fishin' back in 1995? That was on the news extensively at the time and is still brought up when talking about movie stunt safety.
Thank goodness for CC.
While I think using a "stunt double" to do the "stunt" of 'banging on window' is ridiculous.... if you are going to have someone bang on a window, it had better be shatter proof glass.
An actual stunt double would have not only insisted on it, but would have built the prop window themselves if necessary.
@@MrJest2 Really? So a stunt double, will build their own props? I had no idea.
@@amostake On an indy film? I've seen it done - it's their safety on the line, after all - especially for something as simple as that. On a mainstream set there will be a stunt coordinator who will handle and/or supervise any gag construction.
Stunt doubles usually know to check the stuff they'll be using, a minor actress who doesn't know that and it's told to punch it harder over and over again...
I just knew Borat was going to be on this list
i didnt like borat until i realized its brilliance in getting people to bring out their prejudice on camera something they would have normally hid
the way this fella says severed is hilarious
Lawsuits from personal injury cases make complete sense and should really see more exposure so film makers will take more actions to try and keep their actors and stuntpeople safe. Everything else on this list, however, just feels like a bunch of adults crying about being made fun of in a movie no one really cared about, thus drawing unwarranted interest to it.
Depends actually. IF you're complaining how audiences will see you sure. But if your complaint is how it affects your career that's justified. For example if the model who's old picture being masturbated to had gone into acting and no one wants to cast the spank bank girl so job offers dry up she'd have every right to sue.
It would be like if your co-workers found a picture of you from high school and mocked it in front of your boss leading directly to your boss passing you over for a promotion because of the actions of others.
Sure hope I don’t get a severe-d neck artery. Pronunciation Wut?
@@slamblamboozled1245 it might be more common, but it is still the wrong way to pronounce it.
@@slamblamboozled1245 Bio (biographical) + Pic (picture) = Bio Pic.
Opic has no meaning, bi means twice or two, so bi opic makes no sense.
Severed not severed
Thank you for coming to my Ted talk.
They do that in every video to get idiots like you to feed the comment section. Use your tiny brain.
@@mcggibson4870 That's a portmanteau.
Hedley Lamar sued Mel Brooks over Blazing Saddles.. and Mel happily paid
Huh?
“it’s Hedley”
keith dubose Hedley Lamar was a fictional character in Blazing Saddles. It was Hedy Lamarr who sued. She was a famous actress in the 30's & 40's. She was also a scientist who co-invented an early technique for spread spectrum communications which is the key to many wireless communications today.
@@cathleencooks748 and don't forget the torpedo.... the running joke in Blazing Saddles was call Harvey Corman's character Hedy, and his reply 'its Hedley' Hedy did file suit, for repeatedly using her name, and Mel Brooks did not contest the suit, and happily paid her ...
since watching American Hustle, we still call ours the Science Oven.
Death day baby looks like baby version of the “Big Boy” resturant mascot
Calling those who seek justice using the legal system, DOESN'T make them litigious "cockroaches"! When you lose limb and livelihood because of other's neglect for a stupid movie, a lawsuit is a reasonable course of action!
I think they were talking about all the lawywers who stand to make a large sum of the money over it.
@@WayStedYou Maybe. I do think those lawyers get way too much of any “winnings”/settlement money awarded to the victims, especially when they usually don’t have to do too much work on their cases. But to play Devil’s advocate, someone has to represent the victims in these cases, and they have to be lawyers.
How about the granddaddy of all on-set eff-ups, i.e., the horrendous "accident" on the set of "Twilight Zone The Movie" which resulted in the horrible deaths of actor Vic Morrow and child actors Myca Dinh Le and Renee Shin-Yi Chen? And the more recent, totally avoidable, fatal death of Sarah Jones on the set of "Midnight Rider," which was never and will never be released.
First thing I thought of was Twilight Zone - Vic Morrow and the two kids. Truly sad
The Big Boy Restaurant chain needs to get in on the action against Happy Death Day I guess. Big Boy resembles that mask much more than the mascot. Oh wait, include Gerber in that too, and don't forget Warner Brothers cartoons. They had countless baby characters that look more like the Happy Death Day mask than that mascot does.
By that logic the people who creAtors of Who Framed Roger Rabbit should sue the restaurant because their mascot looks like Baby Hermann
Re: the one for "Ghostland" (or "Incident in the a Ghostland", to use the full name); the front cover/poster is done how it is due to a key plot point in the film (& it is also the other sister, rather than the injured party), so I don't think any malice was intended by the people behind the film with the poster, however I do see why it isn't ideal given what happened. I do hope that Taylor Hickson is eventually compensated for the injury, too.
Wait, Borat wasn’t all a staged fictional movie?! Those WERENT actors?! 😱🤯
Most were real people
That was the film's hook was that it was him a film crew watching him be ridiculous to people then getting people sign off on it after filming, the ones that didn't are blurred in most cases of "jackass" type movies/shows.
Look into Midnight Rider ( Story of Greg Allman )
1 Death and 7 injured while filming on train tracks without permission.
Why do I like every what culture what culture gaming and all offshoot channel videos why
Cause they are freaking great
Ty much love to all of you
Cliffhanger. Opening scene a character dies due to failed equipment. Manufacturer sues for misrepresentation
Seveered neck artery? SEV-erred neck artery. Servered. Sever, like never.
Argh Jay Em dork
The supposed King Cake Baby is not the New Orleans Pelicans (basketball team) mascot it used to be the New Orleans Baby Cakes (Triple A baseball team)mascot. Just thought you should know that.
One scene that probably should have involved a lawsuit was on the set of Back to the Future II, when stuntwoman Cheryl Wheeler almost fell to her death. Even though she had voiced concern over the safety (and the original stuntwoman had quit over the same concerns), she was ignored.
its ironic how often a movie company steals copyrighted stuff and downplays it to get away with it but when others do it to them they go on a crusade. smh
I think you guys booted the ball by mixing frivolous, money-grubbing suits with legit legal action involving negligence: Brandon Lee, Vic Morrow, Myca Dinh Le, Renee Shin-Yi Chen, Sarah Jones, to name just a few who at least made the papers (and none stunt players, who at least accept a certain amount of calculated risk in the pursuit of their craft)….please don't conflate some swimsuit model's vanity suit with legal action taken to hold negligent producers and directors responsible for their actions.
Did Vic Morrow's family sue after his death on the first Twilight Zone movie?
I hope they did.
@@ingriddubbel8468 Not his famous daughter she hated her father!
Why isn’t there an Oscar for stuntmen and stuntwoman? It’s obvious that they are an integral part of every movie.
So Taylor Hickson, the last girl in the video. She was in Deadpool and she lives in the same city I am from. When I went to go watch Deadpool, she was there watching it too.
IMO for something to be called a “Massive Lawsuit” someone should have to win some money. A lawsuit that is dismissed as baseless is not massive.
Don't forget the amount of lawyers and time a lawsuit like that demands. So calling it a massive lawsuit despite the payout or lack there of seems to make sense.
size depends on who wins DEEEERRRRPPPP
Well there was that one time when John Landis decapitated 2 little kids and Jennifer Jason Leigh's dad with a helicopter during filming of the Twilight Zone movie.. there was some lawsuits.
You missed ‘Reality Bites’ using MY NAME AND LIKENESS... Troy Dyer.
Jon Favreau is incredibly slept on. He directed Elf and created the Mandalorian.
I havent even watched the video. I just wanted to put out that Happy Hogan from the Marvel movies is an extremely talented director/writer.