Real Horror: Young Actress Accidentally Disfigured On the Set of Pascal Laugier’s New Film Ghostland
Mike Sprague
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“The crafts services lady held my face together with napkins in her hands,” Taylor Hickson says. “She went through so many napkins, there was so much blood.”
Well, this is just f*cking sad and wrong. Turns out that Martyrs writer-director Pascal Laugier’s new movie Ghostland will be opening soon, and accompanying the release is a lawsuit by one of the film’s young female leads.
Deadline reports that actress Taylor Hickson is suing the film’s production company, Incident Productions, due to an on-set “accident” that left her face disfigured.
The story goes that Hickson, who’d turned 19 days before the accident, was performing “an emotionally charged scene” in which she was asked her to pound harder and harder on a door, with her face right next to the glass.
The lawsuit states: “In the course of shooting the scene, the director [Pascal Laugier], consistently told [Hickson] to pound harder on the glass with her fists. At one point during the filming of the scene, and after being asked to increase the strength with which [she] pounded on the glass, [she] asked one of the producers and the director if it was safe to do so. That producer and the director both replied in the affirmative. The glass shattered, causing [her] head and upper body to fall through the door and shards of glass. As a result of the incident, [she] badly cut the left side of her face and was rushed to the hospital, where she received about 70 stitches.”
The lawsuit continues: “She has since undergone treatment including laser treatment and silicone treatment, but over one year post-incident, has been left with permanent scarring on the left side of her face It is unknown at this time if any further treatment, including plastic surgery, would reduce the visual appearance of the injury.”
You can see pics of the injury HERE. But BE WARNED… it’s pretty bad.
While writer-director Pascal Laugier is not named as a defendant in the suit, Deadline reached out to the producers but haven’t heard anything back. Go figure.
You can check out the film’s fittingly tasteless poster (featuring a young girl with a shattered face) up in the top right of this article and the film’s trailer below.
The film is set to premiere March 14th, but Hickson will not be showing up, stating: “I never worked so hard on a production in my life, and now it’s a bittersweet way to end this piece of art that we worked so hard on.”
Personally, I’m still looking forward to this film as I adore Laugier’s Martyrs, but this story is surely leaving a bad taste in my mouth. And now I’m just sad.
Synopsis:
The story follows a mother of two who inherits a home from her aunt. During her first night in the new home, she is confronted with murderous intruders and fights for her daughters’ lives. Sixteen years later the daughters reunite at the house, and that is when things get strange.
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