21 Horror Films Inspired By Real Events
Make sure you lock your doors, you never know whose out there.
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Wolf Creek (2005) - What did your mom say about not talking to strangers? This movie is loosely based on two men, Ivan Milat and Bradley John Murdoch and their crimes. This movie will send shivers down your spine! It was suggested partly by the gruesome details of the backpacker murders committed by Ivan Milat in the 1990s, but these murders were committed in a state forest near Sydney.
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The Dentist (1966) - One thing we know for sure is that after seeing this movie, your next visit to the dentist will be really hard. It is based on a dentist in LA, circa 1958, who turned out to be a serial killer. Corbin Bernsen is brilliant as the deranged dentist-he is completely believable. There is surprisingly little gore but the scenes of dental torture are quite nasty and grotesque.
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Annabelle (2014) - This movie is a sequel to The Conjuring. And the story continues with the most scary possessed doll there has ever been. It is also true that people who taunted the doll in the museum faced near death or fatal accidents. When the cultists try to summon a demon, they smear a bloody rune on the nursery wall and drip blood on Mia's doll, thereby turning the former object of beauty into a conduit for ultimate evil.
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The Strangers (2008) - Based loosely on the book Helter Skelter, this movie has psychopaths and murders. The director of this movie drew inspiration from the murders by serial killer Charles Mansion and a series of events that took place near his childhood home. Some are now, years later, being attributed to Manson and his family.
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The Exorcist (1973) - The Exorcist novel by Mario Puzzo is based on a book which is based on real life of a boy named Roland Doe who was possessed by demons in 1949. The exorcism was so scary that there have been books written on people who witnessed it. This story will give you goosebumps, all for real reasons. Puzzo used many of the original facts to create his Exorcist book in 1972, including the name of the priest.
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Ravenous (1999) - We all enjoy a good meal but what if you had to eat human meat for your next meal? Yes, this is one of the most underrated movies on cannibalism which will spook you like nothing else can. Because you are what you eat, quite literally. It is one of many films loosely based on Hannibal Lectur, and possibly the grossest one.
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The Amityville Horror (2005) - The movie is based on the real events that took place in 1975 at 112, Ocean Avenue, the new house of the Lutz family in Amityville. This has been a very discussed case among paranormal researchers. There have been reports that the story is fake but horror still stays when you hear about Amityville.
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Child’s Play (1988) - The script was based on a nurse who allegedly put a voodoo curse on author Robert Eugene Otto which transformed one of his childhood dolls into a night-time menace. We all have seen scary movies with possessed dolls but knowing that the doll really existed is spooky! The original doll is on exhibit today in a museum where people say it sometimes moves it's head and eyes.
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A Nightmare On Elm Street (2010) - Love blood, gore and knife-fingered ghosts? This is it then. The makers of this movie were inspired by a group of Laotian refugees who had died in throes of a nightmare. The medical reports said there was nothing wrong with them physically, but that they had just died because of heart attacks suffered during extreme nightmares.
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The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (1974) - This movie is loosely based on America’s famous serial killer Ed Gein who had nine human skin masks in his possession at the time of his arrest. And a garage full of over 75 chainsaws. He even had 4 bodies of relatives who were barely alive, sitting in chairs around the house, whom he fed with human flesh. Spooky, isn’t it?
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