40 Hella Dangerous Moments From Your Favorite TV Shows and Movies

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40 Hella Dangerous Moments From Your Favorite TV Shows and Movies

This next list is so wildly expensive and life-threatening that we only have one shot at it. It’s going to eat up about half of our budget, so trying for another run at it would most likely bankrupt the entire project.

Every camera in here better be rolling on this list of incredibly dangerous scenes and stunts from TV and movies. And… action!

Ben-Hur

Historical Firsts in The World of Stunts The first large scale prep 1959 for a large scale stunt Yakima Canutt had over one year to train 78 horses, build chariots, and train actors for Ben- Hur. The now iconic scene had only one injury (Canutt's son, Joe, who doubled for Charlton Heston). The 1925 Ben-Hur film killed one stuntman and five horses, so... Progress! CRACKED

Golden Eye

40 Hella Dangerous Moments From Your Favorite TV Shows and Movies

Deliverance

40 Hella Dangerous Moments From Your Favorite TV Shows and Movies

Rebel Without A Cause

Historical Firsts in The World of Stunts The first car chase stunts 1958 Car stunts had been done (notably 1955's Rebel Without A Cause), but Cary Loftin and his team's work on Thunder Road was ground zero for the modern action movie (although driver safety became a new issue). CRACKED

Safety Last!

Historical Firsts in The World of Stunts The first safety precautions 1923 I ESTIC E IV S I e 1 Hollywood realized their stars' worth and took precautions. Ironically titled Safety Last! the 1923 film's iconic clock scene used stunt doubles, safety nets, harnesses, and camera tricks to pull off Harold Lloyd's dangle from a skyscraper. CRACKED

Catwoman

40 Hella Dangerous Moments From Your Favorite TV Shows and Movies

Steamboat Bill

Historical Firsts in The World of Stunts The first quantum 1920s leap in danger Buster Keaton's hilarious and life-threatening stunts raised the bar. In 1928's Steamboat Bill, Jr. a two- ton house falls as he stands precisely in its open window, and in 1924's Sherlock, Jr. a gush of water breaks his neck! Let's not forget 1926's The General. CRACKED

The Mark of Zorro

Historical Firsts in The World of Stunts The first realistic 1920 sword fighting In 1920's The Mark of Zorro, Douglas Fairbanks brought in a fencing master, creating the first realistic on-screen swordplay. Prior to this, films had primitive whacking, but this opened doors for the countless swashbuckling films to come. CRACKED

The Count of Monte Cristo

Historical Firsts in The World of Stunts The first paid stuntman 1908 Maybe previous stunts were undocumented, but the first recorded payment to a stuntman was in 1908's The Count of Monte Cristo, where an acrobat was paid $5 to jump off a cliff upside down into the sea. CRACKED

The Thing

40 Hella Dangerous Moments From Your Favorite TV Shows and Movies

Terminator 2: Judgment Day (Again)

40 Hella Dangerous Moments From Your Favorite TV Shows and Movies

Rogue Nation

40 Hella Dangerous Moments From Your Favorite TV Shows and Movies

The Dark Knight Rises

40 Hella Dangerous Moments From Your Favorite TV Shows and Movies

Speed

40 Hella Dangerous Moments From Your Favorite TV Shows and Movies

Strangers on a Train

40 Hella Dangerous Moments From Your Favorite TV Shows and Movies

Mad Max 2

40 Hella Dangerous Moments From Your Favorite TV Shows and Movies

Moonlight

ANDREW GARFIELD'S SPIDER-MAN STUNT DOUBLE... ILRAM CHOI. MOST DANGEROUS STUNT: For me the show Moonlight was the most dangerous. I had to get pulled face first into a wall then pulled back through glass. Luckily the people I worked with were professionals and knew what they were doing. OTHER NOTABLE MOVIES: Crank, Avatar, Star Trek, Iron Man 3. CRACKED.COM

The Rock’s Stunt Double

CRACKED.COM DWAYNE THE ROCK JOHNSON'S STUNT DOUBLE... TANOAI REED. NOTABLE MOVIES: Has been Johnson's double in every movie since Scorpion King in 2002. Non-Johnson movies include Smokin' Aces, Gamer, StarTrek Into Darkness. SCARIEST INJURY CHE'S HAD A LOT): I tore my arm open in F7 when it went through a big piece of glass while I was doing a fight with Jason Statham's stunt double. I had to have emergency surgery for that one because there was shrapnel in my arm...I asked what the worst-case scenario was, and he said, 'I have to reattach all the blood vessels, tendons, ligaments. Worst-case scenario

The Texas Chainsaw Massacre

40 Hella Dangerous Moments From Your Favorite TV Shows and Movies

Terminator 2: Judgment Day

40 Hella Dangerous Moments From Your Favorite TV Shows and Movies

Lost

40 Hella Dangerous Moments From Your Favorite TV Shows and Movies

Mad Max: Fury Road

MAD MAX: FURY ROAD featured an exciting scene where warriors use poles to swing down from one vehicle to another. At first, George Miller wanted to use CGI to do the scene for safety reasons. However, the stunt coordinator convinced him that it could be done without it. It was achieved by crafting specially engineered poles, and with stuntmen that were trained by a Cirque de Soleil performer for 2 months. CRACKED.COM

The Matrix Reloaded

40 Hella Dangerous Moments From Your Favorite TV Shows and Movies

Infinity War

CHRIS EVANS' CAPTAIN AMERICA STUNT DOUBLE... DANIEL HARGRAVE. NOTABLE MOVIES: Infinity War, Endgame, Atomic Blonde, Logan MOST NERVE-WRACKING_ SCENE: When we were filming the big Wakanda charge in Infinity War, I was on a wire holding me up and pulling me by my chest to make it look like I was running really fast. But the hard part was staying on my feet... I miscalculated my steps, stubbed my toe, and pulled my hamstring. I couldn't keep up with the winch, so I fell - and got dragged face-first for about 20 yards, passing by all these superheroes. GRACKED.COM

Charlie’s Angels

KEIRA KNIGHTLEY'S PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN STUNT DOUBLE... LISA HOYLE. MOST DANGEROUS STUNT: I did a 93-foot fall for the Charlie's Angels movie. It ended up on the cutting room floor, but it was the highest high fall I've done. MOTABLE-MOVIES/TV-9 SHOWS: Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, American Horror Story, Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, Emma Stone's stunt double in Zombieland. CRACKED.COM

Quantum of Solace

CHRIS HEMSWORTH'S THOR STUNT DOUBLE... BOBBY HOLLAND HANTON. OTHER NOTABLE MOVIES/TV SHOWS: The Dark Knight Rises, Inception, Skyfall. BADASS STUNTS: My first-ever stunt on a film set was for Quantum of Solace, during a night shoot at 2 a.m. in Colón, Panama. I was jumping from one balcony to another with no safety cables, three stories up...For Game of Thrones, we were filming in Seville and I was torched with a real flamethrower, aka Khaleesi's dragons. It was pretty full-on. CRACKED.COM

Crank

40 Hella Dangerous Moments From Your Favorite TV Shows and Movies

Iron Man 3

ROBERT DOWNEY JR.'S IRON MAN STUNT DOUBLE... GLENN FOSTER. NOTABLE MOVIES/TV SHOWS: Breaking Bad, Casino Royale, Sherlock Holmes, The Dark Knight, every Marvel movie featuring Iron Man since Iron Man 2. E MOST DAREDEVIL STUNT: For Iron Man 3, we were jumping off cranes. Those cranes were 300-, maybe 400-feet high. Launching yourself off the side of those was interesting. Definite leaps of faith, especially since it was all shot at night. You're leaping into darkness and trusting that the various cables you're attached to are going to do what they're supposed to. GRACKED.COM

Fleur Van Eeden

ALICIA VIKANDER'S TOMB RAIDER STUNT DOUBLE... FLEUR VAN EEDEN. SCARIEST STUNT: I was doubling on a Bollywood movie shot on a moving train in Swakopmund (Namibia). Dressed as a ninja, I had to do fight scenes on a train going 60kms/hr and then jump onto a horse. I was emotional afterwards. OTHER NOTABLE MOVIES/TV SHOWS: Mad Max: Fury Road, Black Sails, Claire Danes' stunt double in Homeland. CRACKED.COM

Mission: Impossible 6

Tom Cruise broke his ankle on a take in Mission: Impossible 6 and kept filming. During a stunt, he accidentally hit a wall with his foot and immediately knew he broke it, but he really didn't want to do it again so he carried on. CRACKED.COM

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The French Connection

CRACKED A CAR CRASH. Filming without permits, the epic car chase has stunt driver Bill Hickman dodging and weaving (at high speeds) in actual NYC traffic. Не accidentally smashed into the car of a man on his morning commute. THE FRENCH CONNECTION

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It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia

Danny DeVito nearly drowned on the It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia set. They had to weigh him down in an underwater scene, which meant he had a hard time getting back up (and unsurprisingly, he panicked). CRACKED.COM

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