Actors Who Never Recovered From Their Most Distressing Roles

Heather Donahue in The Blair Witch Project

The cast of The Blair Witch Project had no idea what they were getting themselves into. The actors were basically dumped in the woods and tormented relentlessly for eight days straight. In order to elicit an authentic reaction, the directors stalked the actors during the day and shook their tents at night. They also fed them less and less food each day so they would become increasingly more delirious.

However, due to the film's unusual marketing strategy, Heather Donahue had to pretend to be dead. "My obituary was published when I was 24," she wrote in The Guardian. "It's a complicated thing to be dead when you're still very much alive and eager to make a name for yourself."