With the year's most terrifying curse-frightfest Drag Me To Hell hitting DVD on October 13, we've compiled list of the nine most Famous Curses In Entertainment. Plane crashes and deadly plagues haven't struck the offices yet, so we're guessing you'll be safe reading this. But that's just a guess... 

Poltergeist

Poltergeist, the 1982 film which spawned two sequels and a television series, is perhaps the most cursed film of all time. An alarmingly high death rate among the cast members of the films has caused many to believe that the Devil has a taste for Hollywood revenge. 

Most famously, little 12 year-old star Heather O'Rourke (Carol Anne Freeling) died of septic shock in 1988 at the Children's Hospital in San Diego. Bacterial toxins set loose by a bowel obstruction made their way into her bloodstream, sending her into cardiac arrest. She was revived, but died on the operating table when she underwent an operation to remove the obstruction. Julian Beck, Dominique Dunne and Will Sampson are just a few others in a long line of untimely deaths related to Poltergeist.

The Madden Curse

Sports teams are known for their superstition, but it seems the NFL is the only league to involve video games in their supernatural considerations. Superstitious football fans have blamed the poor performance or the injuries of their favorite players to the fact that each of them were featured on the cover of one of Electronic Arts’ Madden football video games.

In the first game of the 2009 season, Pittsburgh Steelers star safety Troy Polamalu, a cover athlete for Madden NFL 10, has already injured his knee and may be on the bench for up to six weeks. Other Madden Curse victims include cover athletes from the past few games, including Michael Vick (2004), Donovan McNabb (2006), Shaun Alexander (2007), Vince Young (2008) and Brett Favre (2009).

In 2007, fans of San Diego Chargers running back LaDainian Tomlinson were so worried about his possible cover inclusion that they started a website called SaveLTfromMadden.com. Tomlinson declined the offer from EA, citing contractual reasons. Good thing for him - look what happened to Shaun Alexander.

Curse of the Billy Goat

Back in 1945, Billy Sianis, a Greek immigrant, had two $7.20 box seat tickets to Game 4 of the World Series between the Chicago Cubs and the Detroit Tigers. Like any sensible man would, he decided to take along his pet goat, Murphy (or Sinovia). The goat wore a blanket with a sign pinned to it which read “We got Detroit’s goat”. Sianis and the goat were paraded around Wrigley Field before the game before taking their seats, but were soon ejected from the stadium at the command of Cubs owner, Philip Knight Wrigley, who complained about the animal’s smell (goats aren't very hygienic). 

Sianis was outraged at the Cubs snub and allegedly placed a curse upon the team, promising that they would never win another pennant or play in a World Series at Wrigley Field. Sure enough, the Cubs lost Game 4 and eventually the 1945 World Series, after which Sianis wrote to Wrigley from Greece, saying, “Who stinks now?” Following a third-place finish in the National League in 1946, the Cubs would finish in the league’s second division for the next 20 years straight. This streak finally ended in 1967, the year after Leo Durocher became the club’s manager.