"Curse"
Many people connected with the film met unfortunate fates after the film wrapped, giving rise to an urban legend that Incubus was a cursed production:
- Actor Milos Milos, the Serbian actor who played the Incubus, killed his girlfriend, Barbara Ann Thomason Rooney – the estranged fifth wife of Mickey Rooney – and himself in 1966, nine months before the film's premiere.
- Actress Ann Atmar committed suicide twelve days before the film's premiere.
- The daughter of actress Eloise Hardt was kidnapped and murdered.
- William Shatner's third wife drowned in a pool.
- Director Leslie Stevens and actress Allyson Ames divorced, and Stevens' production company, Daystar Productions, went bankrupt.
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