Cursed cast? A grim pattern has fans revisiting a holiday staple with fresh unease. Four actors from Home Alone 2: Lost in New York—Catherine O'Hara, Brenda Fricker, Tim Curry, and Jaye P. Morgan—have all died in 2026, prompting social media chatter about a so-called "Curse of Home Alone 2," Other cursed casts include Poltergeist Trilogy, where four cast members from the horror franchise died tragically within a short span, including 22-year-old Dominique Dunne (murdered) and 12-year-old child star Heather O'Rourke (medical complications), Rebel Without a Cause, where three iconic young leads—James Dean (car crash), Natalie Wood (drowning), and Sal Mineo (stabbing)—died violently or young after the film's release, and The Conqueror, where out of 220 cast and crew filming on location downwind from a nuclear test site, over 90 developed cancer, including stars like John Wayne. Do you believe a movie can be "cursed"?

Cotard's delusion, also called walking corpse syndrome, is a rare mental disorder where a person believes they are dead, do not exist, or have lost their blood and internal organs. Symptoms include severe depression, self-neglect (refusing to bathe, eat or drink), anxiety, guilt, believing they are immortal. Frequently linked to severe major depressive disorder, psychotic depression, or schizophrenia, and often associated with brain injuries, strokes, tumors, or neurodegenerative diseases like Alzheimer's. It is speculated that Per "Dead" Ohlin, lead vocalist for the black metal bands Mayhem and Morbid, had Cotard's syndrome as a result of an assault by bullies in his youth that left him clinically dead for a short time. Have you ever heard of this syndrome?