13 Horror films inspired by real life events Check out this list of 13 horror films inspired by real life events... 1.The Conjuring – Based on a real haunted house in Rhode Island. 2.The Exorcism of Emily Rose - The story of a girl dying from a failed exorcism is based off of a story from Germany: ”[The] story is based on the 1976 case of the German girl Anneliese Michel, who died of dehydration and starvation after months of intensive exorcism activity by two Catholic priests … Anneliese had been undergoing psychiatric treatment for many years, and today we believe she suffered from both schizophrenia and dissociative identity disorder.” 3.Eaten Alive - This story is based off of the tale of a serial killer / hotel owner from the 1900′s named Joe Ball. “ 4.The Mothman Prophecies - Based on actual events that occurred in Point Pleasant, W.Va., between November 1966 and December 1967. 5.Jaws – The story behind Jaws is borrowed from 1916 tourist season on the New Jersey shoreline where there were many shark attacks and vigilantes looking for them. 6.The Amityville Horror – Captures what people experienced when moving into a house where a New York family had been murdered. 7.The Girl Next Door – Based on the story of the real-life murder of 16-year-old Sylvia Marie Likens. 8.The Blob – In 1950 there were reports outside of Philadelphia of a purple gelantinous blob landing in a field. 9.A Nightmare on Elm Street - According to Wes Crave, the idea for Freddy Krueger came from real life: “It was a series of articles in the LA Times … about men from Southeast Asia, who were from immigrant families and who had died in the middle of nightmares … One was the son of a physician. He was about 21 … Everybody in his family said almost exactly these lines: ‘You must sleep.’ He said, ‘No, you don’t understand; I’ve had nightmares before — this is different.’ He was given sleeping pills and told to take them … Everybody went to bed, thinking it was all over. In the middle of the night, they heard screams and crashing. They ran into the room, and by the time they got to him he was dead. They had an autopsy performed, and there was no heart attack; he just had died for unexplained reasons.” 10.The Texas Chainsaw Massacre - Leatherface is based on serial killer Ed Gein. 11.The Haunting in Connecticut - The film was inspired by events Carmen Reed and her family claim happened to them while living in Southington, Conn., in the 1980s. 12.Primeval – The actual croc behind the film’s inspiration was a 20 foot creature that weighed 2,000 pounds and killed 20 people. 13.The Exorcist – No pea soup, thank you. According to Skeptoid’s host, Brian Dunning: “The [movie] was based on the actual case of an anonymous boy in 1949, given the pseudonyms Robbie Mannheim or Roland Doe. The boy survived and went on to have a normal life, largely because his actual case was not nearly [as] dramatic as what was depicted in the movie.”
Posted on: Thu, 31 Oct 2013 19:27:32 +0000
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