Top 20 Horror Movies Inspired by True Events
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- Опубликовано: 30 июн 2024
- You'll never look at these films the same way again. For this list, we’ll be looking at horror flicks that drew on real-life events or people. Our countdown includes “Primeval”, “A Nightmare on Elm Street”, "Psycho", and more! What horror movie based on true events was too scary for you to finish? Let us know in the comments!
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What horror movie based on true events was too scary for you to finish? Let us know in the comments!
Early
2 days ago.
What the fuck.
@Trami Nguyen fax bro
The Exorcist
The Exorcist and the conjuring franchise
The scariest types of horror films are the ones based on a true story.
Facts
It’s so scary that many trailers use it to bait audiences nowadays. 😎
Poor Sweet Sylvia
Water is wet
Because then yo know it's not just in the creators had
Nothing I've ever read about bothered me as much as the Sylvia Likens case. Pure evil. That poor baby. RIP Sylvia 🙏
Just read a story on it and it just got me heated that on two occasions the next door neighbors were visiting and actually saw the bruises and both eyes were blackened....and they did nothing nor called anyone. 😡
@@Tinyoak2 yeah. It was awful. I felt emotionally devestasted by that 😪 case. That poor child. I guess they "didn't want to get involved ". People who know about child abuse and do nothing should be held accountable imo.
I really agree. I watched both films and read up on the case and was scared and sad for weeks after. Seeing it now just brought back those feelings
I recently watched Bailey Sarian's video on the woman who tortured her , and GOD it's so sickening and made my stomach turn
Absolutely
20. The girl next door
19. Them
18. Primeval
17. The Strangers
16. An American Haunting
15. Compliance
14. The Haunting in Connecticut
13. Ravenous
12. Wolf Creek
11. Exorcism of Emily Rose
10. Henry: Portrait of Serial Killer
9. Scream
8. Poltergeist
7. The Conjuring
6. The Nightmare on Elm Street
5. Texas Chainsaw Massacre
4.The Exorcist
3.The Amityvile Horror
2. Jaws
1. Psycho
we know
The conjuring real life story is prob the worst of all of them... the real story was 10 times worse than the movie they said, they couldn't even put it in the movie because it wouldn't be able to get published then
@@nicklaskristensen5484 to stay in the conjuring house for a bit you need to sign a thing about the home owners not being responsible for like demonic possession, the spirits harming them, you get the point which makes it also more horrific
id like but its at 69
@@Lesbianemunene Yeah Iknow that, ofc There probaly wouldnt happen anything due to the time u r staying… BUT.. something could happen
I haven’t watched “ The Girl Next Door “ but I know the backstory of it & it pisses me off so much . The poor baby went through so much what makes it worst for me it was other children participating in her torture , the biggest kicker all of them basically got off the hook ALL OF THEM !! None of them felt sorry , none of them were bothered , none of them could care less & they all moved on to live full lives ( 60yrs old is the oldest I seen & 21 being the youngest guest who died ) but it irks me so much that they hardly got any jail time & didn’t even deal with any real consequences. I read about how they all moved on to get married , get jobs , have kids but most of all think of their terrible crime as something not even worth mentioning. Gosh I’m pissed now thinking about it this damn list brought it back to my attention again now I’m gittery from being so pissed
imagine if their pasts were revealed to their significant others. if that were my spouse i would be mortified
don't worry bout that shit cause they didn't get to live full lives the way they died was karma enough, ........and karma is one bad bitch.
Yeah. There’s another case where the mom had her sons help in torturing their sisters/her daughters. They got off too. Idc if it’s a kid. They knew what they were doing was wrong that’s why they kept it a secret
❤️🗺🌎🌍🌏 Yeah I Know The 1St Time I Watched This & An American Crime 2006 Which Is The Same Movie Only Slightly Dif Not Ta Mention Dif Cast Director Crew Etc Both Movies My Face Was Red I Was Cryin So Much Almost None Of Those Kids Were Even Remotely Sorry Sshit They Found It All Amusing Putting Her Through All That Torture Then She Couldn’t Take It Anymore The Poor Thing Dies Long After It Happened Gurtude (The Main Bitch Behind It) Said ‘She Was On Drugs @ The Time’ So She Didn’t Really Know What She Was Doing Apparently But Yeah The Other’s Weren’t Sorry & Didn’t Even Have A Motive Not Ta Mention Sylvia’s Poor Younger Sister Jenny That’s A Whole Other Story
Saddest movie ever...
I remember when ‘Based on a true story’ used to mean something, and not be a marketing ploy. And when ‘Based on’ and ‘Inspired by’ we’re used correctly...
i know! the conjuring 2 was based on a true story but the case turned out to be fake
@@daniaguzman9579 really?that means there wasnt any spirit or paranormal activity
I knew it had to be fake they twisted up in the true events in some kinda way, producers these days remake the actual stories but never seem to tell the actual fuckin story.
It was meant to be a gimmick, kind of like Fargo…. Not sell it as a legitimate ‘true story’. I think people just like to blame producers for the vaguest things without having any idea what they’re saying
Inspirations and being based on dont mean entirely accurate. So that's where you went wrong.
If you haven't seen "Wolf Creek" definitely reccomend, It's real good!
Yes
@IAN RIPP Still better than The stranger movies
@IAN RIPP It’s still much better than most of today’s shitty horror flicks.
I definitely second the recommendation.
I agree, it was a decent horror film, and better than many of the newer slasher films. The show that was made after the movie was actually pretty entertaining.
@@shawndardbarbarbarian5061 I had no idea they had made a show. I’m gonna check it out, how is it called?
That crocodile was an asshole. “Let him go!” Crocodile floats up with half of his body: “I think not”
🤣
😂🤣
That movie was really good like it was crazy scary in my opinion
That made me laugh
I can't seem to find it. Found the one with 5 friends but not 3.
Slenderman...I remember 2 girls actually tried to Kill their friend as an offering to Slenderman...😱
Yeah. That movie was.....👎.
@@snowhunter7536 I thought the movie was pretty good. Admittedly, it was a bit cheesy but still good
@@mapleheart1379 my only favorite scene there was the library scene since it truly felt like Slenderman: Eight Pages.
I thought the movie was terrible.
they did kill her if I remember correctly
The creation of Learherface, Norman Bates and Buffalo Bill were inspired by a real life serial killer Ed Gein.
@@braxtonpierce8768 I would need to do some research if I were you. Because you seem like you have not taken a film class like I have.
@@a.jthomas6132 Yeah I'll check into it
Could've sworn he was only made up for the movie
@@braxtonpierce8768 But what you didn't know that other horror icons were inspired by Ed Gein.
@@braxtonpierce8768 Than please do some research.
@@a.jthomas6132 My mistake bruh, chill out
Fun fact: My mom used to be a legal assistant in the 80s and early 90s and had me talk to Henry Lee Lucas on the phone regularly when he was being paraded around like a celebrity. I didn't think anything of it at the time. He even painted me a picture while he was locked up and I still have it to this day. Thanks mom lol
Why would she have you talk to him on the phone?
@@RH-tv9hk exactly. He was a bit of a celebrity at the time and I think she saw it like that😂😂
@@atodamadre3197 yikes!
Could you IMAGINE what that paintings worth. Contact Zak Bagans and you could get a pretty penny, and him a pretty piece for his museum
Wow just Wow.
What gets me most about Poltergeist is how many contractors really have built homes over old cemeteries where the bodies were left.
So what?
There’s no proof that this was true, but the fact it might have been is terrifying.”
You can say the same for anything.
Wes Craven also named his most famous villian after his school yard bully..Frederick Kruger..
actually freddie krueger really did exist, go look it up ;)
The best revenge lol 😂
The Strangers was actually real. The story is just made up. The Hoyts were a real couple murdered. The case is unsolved.
wasnt it the keddy cabin murders.
@@willhuey4891 yes it was and the manson family
There is a movie cabin 28 that was also based off the keddie murders
The movie was basically what happened to them...fortunately all info about the murders have been scrubbed from the internet
tying them to the chair and stabbbing is exactly what happened in keddie murders
I was in Gainesville Florida, when the murders happened. I knew Sonia Larson. The whole town shut down. School was closed, and stores closed at sunset. People were dyeing their hair brown, because he went after blonds. The news never listed any death notices on tv, or paper, for almost 20yrs after. People left town, and UF University students left. It was a horrible year.
Is there a movie on this case??
@@factworlddreams4976 Scream was inspired by this case. Which explains why he only majority attacked blondes except for Sidney. I think though.
@@shadowdva1243 ohh thank you
I didn't even make it past number 20 before sliding down the strange and depressing rabbit hole that is the life of Sylvia Likens. Hadn't heard of her until today and after reading about her murder... my God!!! What happened to her was pure evil.
The movie "An American Crime" tells you everything. It's hard to believe.
Watch the movie. It’s actually quite good
I just finished. Like wow. How disgusting.
@Chaosiferus different time. You have to keep in mind that people weren’t afraid of strangers and didn’t talk about things like child abuse and molestation back in the 50’s. It wouldn’t have been unusual for your neighbor to go ahead and give your child a smack if they were misbehaving and you weren’t around. In that cultural environment, suspicion of the neighbor’s parenting just wasn’t all that common
That story really bothered me. I wish I had never heard of her.
The Sylvia case still haunts me to this day. Elliot Page's played her and that movie stayed with me for days. Was hoping she would get out of the situation but she didn't sadly. 😥
Actually Elliot Page doesn't play Sylvia in The Girl Next Door. The name was changed to Meg who was played by Blythe Auffarth.
@@Tradeofjane I’m talking about the movie An American Crime and Elliot does play Slyvia Likens. I’m familiar with the girl next door movie.
Although it was not touted as a horror film, let's not forget about the 1996 film by Stephen Hopkins, The Ghost and the Darkness. If anyone remembers, it was based on the incidents of 1898 in Tsavo, Kenya where two lions preyed on Indian workers and even local natives. Documented deaths by both lions was said to be between 28-31 but estimated up to 135 killed and or eaten. I'd call that HORROR.
The Exorcism of Emily Rose was by far the one that gave me goosebumps throughout. The saddest was the case of Sylvia Lykens but I like the way it was portrayed in An American Crime better.
I fully agree. American Crime had a great cast and was more faithful to the source material. TGND was more like torture porn.
@@fleurelise997 I agree
@Fleur Elise girl next door shows a lot more that happened to her, however american crime at least used their actual names.
The Exorcism of Emily Rose is one of my all time favourites, and does possession horror pretty much flawlessly.
@@fleurelise997 Torture porn is scary as f, they not only torture you but use vitamine D
Probably shouldn't have watched this before going to bed...😳
Nighttime is the right time!
Same & I'm watching this with the lights off😬
Thanks for heads up. I'm out.
lol it’s broad daylight and I’m terrified
Like someone I know, "That's why you watch a funny movie afterwards!" 🤣
The fact that strange things happened when filming the conjuring and the exorcist and what happened to some of the cast of poltergeist makes the movies even more terrifying in perspective 👀
Strange things happen all the time.
Strange things happened on the set of the Omen too
@@David_Theisen and poltergiest
Some films aren’t even scary until you find out that there based on a true story😀✨
Yup
Growing up in Wisconsin in the early 60's we never had a vague "boogyman". We kids stayed away from scary placed because Ed Gein might be hiding there. He lived 50 miles north of our town and was in a mental hospital prison ward 20 miles south of us.
The Girl Next Door was scarring. I don't recommend watching it until ur ready for something truly repulsive and horrible. But it's an excellent film and definitely worth watching.
Wasn't the movie An American Crime based on the same story?
@@Jaycheery yeah not the exact same true story but inspired by it. They changed a few details but besides that it's pretty much the same.
Why u anyone want to watch this?
@@ashleighfallon7897 Because horror movies are the best types of movies
That movie is so fucked up. I don't know how anyone could watch it again after watching it once.
All of this real life cases but especially the torture and murder of Silvia Likens makes me so sad. It's traumatizing what people can do to other people just to entertain themselves...
Yrs ago I went to the house of the dinner party
The real story that u can hear is so disturbing and scary
I can't finish "The Girl Next Door" God that's horrifying to watch
Gave me nightmares
Try American crime the movie next.
@@jessicapazo7718 the true story is even more horrifying than those movies
@@valmacclinchy I was gonna say that.
For anyone who hasn’t heard the actual story of that girl Sylvia Lykens I encourage u to check it out. Any movie could never portray just how brutal those people were to that girl.
The Girl Next Door is heartbreaking as this is what Sylvia Likens has went through when she was a child :(
I've never not been able to finish a movie because I thought it was too scary, but there are several I would never watch again. The Girl Next Door is at the very top of that list.
With the Texas Chainsaw Massacre, my father was less than 50 miles away from the time of the incident riding on a bus along with other troops on their way home from a training session at a base in Texas. When he heard about the incident, he was rather surprised about that. He also heard that the vile family were handled the Texas way. He didn't explain as to the extent of what that meant, but implied vigilantism.
And Poltergeist used real human cadavers in the movie without the casts knowledge..... Fun fact boys and girls
Without their knowledge? Pretty much any skeleton is authentic. Even the ones in the high school bio class and certainly the ones in movies. The bottom line is, it’s much cheaper to buy the skeletons from people who have donated their bodies to science than it is to make a fake one
@@monkeyballs512 Actually, there are a lot of fake skeletons out there.
@@monkeyballs512 No, there are plenty of plastic or other ones
Cadavers are corpses, not skeletons. They used real skeletons.
'Psycho.'
'The Exorcist.'
'Jaws.'
1996's 'Scream.'
1984's 'A Nightmare on Elm Street.'
'The Conjuring.'
Decent horror pictures inspired by true events indeed.
The Girl Next Door
they also missed jeepers creeper the begging part where they drive along and find a body behined a house and a unmarked car that tried to run them over and later simply the husband killed his wife
You forgot Texas chainsaw massacre:) furniture made out of people anyone?
@@Dimplez271 My goodness, you're right...
Hills have Eyes
A horror movie based on a true story...those words alone can be really scary.
The Town That Dreaded Sundown, The Entity, Annabelle, The Possession, The Hills Have Eyes, Fire In The Sky and The Rite are other horror films inspired by real events and/or real people.
In my opinion: the scream franchise is one of the scariest to imagine. It's like a psycho killer running around stalking you, playing with you and than eventually end you. Just imagine how that would be if it would happen to you. Scream changed the horor franchise for ever. Love to Wes Craven.
Imagine if the demons who appears in the Conjuring franchise they exist in real life with his same appearance
If that’s the case, I don’t wanna see Valak or Bathsheba
It’s very chilling. I’m from CT so I’m a big fan of the series.
@@viperdmk1483 me too! What parts? I live like only 20 mins from Monroe where the Warrens lived too! They’re both buried in the cemetery near their home,, it’s crazy how close we r to them
Something left out of all written documentaries about the Amityville house is the fact that I, myself, saw a talk show in which George Lutz confessed that he made up the circumstances in order to make money. That seems to be omitted everywhere!
The son said the same thing from prison
Thats FUCKING sad.
Idk how do we explain that picture with the ghost kid on the stairs?
But it draws inspiration from the Axe Murder house in Villisca, Iowa in 1912 8 people bludgeoned to death by the butt end of an axe!! And six of them were kids
@@David_Theisen Ronald defao and killing his entire family was the only real part
The Likens case is truly horrific.
I don't believe in heaven or hell, but there is a special place in hell for Gertrude Banishevski
The Strangers was about 2% inspired by true events. However this list I has some of the best horror movies ever. Emily Rose and Wolf Creek were two of the best and The Strangers 1 was scary as hell.
the second one was bad,strangers 2 was just awful........
@@davidjohnson7555 yes definitely.
Emily Rose does possession horror like no other. The Strangers, the second was meh, but the first is the best home invasion horror out there.
“Hostel” is also based on true events. According to Eli Roth, he saw a website about a promotion in Thailand to earn $10,000 for people who want to shoot a stranger’s head off for sport. He eventually led that idea for his next project set in Europe, right after his first film, “Cabin Fever”.
As someone who has seen many horror movies, "Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer" was truly one of the few horror films that has made me uncomfortable & feeling uneasy while watching it the whole time. If you like horror you should definitely give it a watch, but it will definitely make you uncomfortable & feel some things a while even after the film is over.
The girl next door was extremely sad. The real scary part was the true story it was based on. It’s a sad case of brutality and murder to a child. What made me mad was after this child was beaten starved and died in a basement. They gave the monster woman only 8 years.
20 years. She was released and died of lung cancer
The movie “Compliance” is proof of human gullibility. The man calls pretending to be police and everybody believes him.
thankz for the spoiler
@@vegyess The whole video is full with spoilers. How do you expect no spoilers in the comments ? 😅
@@vegyess that's not a spoiler, that's the plot. Plus, the true story made a significant amount of news.
Painfully true
SVU Did An Episode On It But I Had NO Idea It Was Real. 😭😭
I've heard so many legends about Gustave I can't remember them all. How he's possessed by a serial killer who he ate, how he's a creature from hell, there are just so many.
The girl next door was sooooo disturbing....
Yeah, I remember accidentally watching some of this movie when I was too young to watch it. It caused me to have nightmares.
An American crime is more accurate to the story of Sylvia. The girl next door is based off a book
@@RinaRanThatWay same here, I tried watching it with my mom and we got to the first basement scene and she was like okaaaay that's enough
I remember watching compliance and feeling so bad for Becky, knowing it really happened and that girl was forced to endure that
As soon as I read ur comment it came on for me 😂
I never knew it was turned into a movie
My dear Pete, I love the descriptions and your comments about the different movies of your video. Good job, very entertaining. I will surely rewatch certain of those films with another eye. Oh yeah, by the way, happy Valentine’s Day to you and to all.
ED GEIN set as the inspiration for some of Classic Horror Movies: _Psycho, Texas Chainsaw Massacre, The Silence of the Lambs, American Horror Movie: Asylum_ I consider him as one of the Most mentally Insane Serial Killer 💀
He's not a serial killer.
He wasn't a serial killer. He was a nut job that robbed graves and made things out of body parts. He was a murderer but only killed 2 people.
I guess one could say he's a serial killer. If he wasn't caught I believe he could've killed more women who reminded him of his mother...
Hello ONCE 🍭❤️
There have been some really good true accounts books written about Ed Gein.
*top 20 inspired by true events*
number 19: “we have no true event but shit it could happen”
Lmfaooo
A lot of these are unknown if real. So how are these based on real stories. Why is the one we know really happened and is the most horrible not higher
"Inspired by True Events"
"Number 20: So ThErEs A gHoSt"
Every fucking time, I STG.
Have to say I think The Exorcism of Emily Rose should be up much much higher, like in the top five, movie still scares the crap out of me. Still freaks me out, and the actress playing Emily Rose was amazing how she could do all that and did such an awesome job acting that she should have gotten some type of award.
Agreed!! When she falls to floor and cricks up and her arms do that fucked up shit, freakiest non cgi thing i think ive ever seen
I'm not entirely surprised to see that "Psycho"was in the #1 spot on this list
Especially considering that it was based partly on the case of Ed Gein
The only part of it even remotely related to gein was his odd obsession with his mother and a dead skin mask he made. He wasn't a serial killer.
@@memyself898 yeah, I know
He'd only killed 2 people, in order to have been categorized as a serial killer, he'd have had to killed 3 people
Leather face was also based on Ed Gein, btw
@@karlsmith2570 "based" is a bit of a stretch. Maybe inspired? The only thing Gein and leatherface had in common was the dead skin mask. And maybe their home décor. LOL
Top 10 Physically Strongest Horror Movie Villains.
Jason vorhees
Victor Crowley
Leatherface
Michael Myers
@@oldmusicfan8584 jason and victor could ripp leather face apart both have done that to people
Henry: Portrait Of a Serial Killer feels more like a documentary-that haunts you for life😶
The Town that dreaded Sundown was based on true events in Texarkana . It's a older movie, but it is good. Not the remake of it, the original one.
A BBC mini series called The Enfield Haunting was about two girls, one in particular, who were terrorized by a poltergeist in England back in the 1970's. Another excellent film based on true events in England is called When The Lights Go Out. Both are excellent viewing. One of my favourites of all time though is The Entity.
Always the famous horror movies are in based in real life with dark,horrifying and disturbing stories
Yet most of them are only loosely based on a real story
@@jakealter5504 so Alien was based off a true story and so was Night of the living dead
@@jsmith3946 I doubt it, they’re good movies though
@@jakealter5504 i know i was making a joke a stating a poin on what they are saying aint true
@Sonal Mohrir ya Its a science fiction horror film
The Conjuring franchise is one of the coolest and awesome horrifying franchises in all the time and is based in real life of the paranormal case of the Warrens family
The warrens were religious hacks
🖤🖤Conjuring for the win for sureeee
There is nothing real life about the Warren's tales, they took advantage of troubled families and disturbed individuals. People contracted to write books about there cases including the one the haunting of Connecticut was based on said he was told to make stuff up and said it was a deeply troubled family not a haunted one. He refused to keep up the ruse like a lot of people have been these days, more and more individuals over the years connected to these cases have come out and talked about there exploitation and lies and it's about time to.
@@JellyBabie1984 crazy you say that cause even in The Conjuring pt.2
They think it’s a hoax and think the little girl could be lying
Either way great story’s even if there made up
But the devil always deceives
@@bobgunter9608 I’m religious!!! How dare you call religious people hacks!!! Respect the dead!!! RIP to Ed and Lorraine
What's also truly frightening is what happened to the cast and crew of " Poltergeist ".
The Visitors messed me up. I was freaked out bad by it. The night I watched it. About 1am so fool knocked on my front door. I immediately grabbed my couch and pushed it in front of the door. Lol
I've seen most of these and was born in 1967. So I was quite young when the 1st slasher movies came out: Friday the 13th, Texas Chainsaw, Last House on the Left (with it's x rating) and they all gave me nightmares at that time. Psycho stopped people from taking showers or at least looking out of the curtain repeatedly, but the movie Jaws was the one that kept people out of even a bathtub. Most would seem like camp with the gore available on the internet now.
I think it's up to your personal experience, beliefs, and age to incite fear. A resident of the beach will fear Jaws, Austrailians may fear the crocs, and those that take showers will fear Norman Bates. Senseless random violence has the ability to affect everyone.
"Psycho" has topped thrice already in these videos. Its such a masterpiece
Great list and I enjoyed it and have a blessed day
Glad for your #1 pick because I was wondering why you didn't mention that it was also inspired by the same crime when you talked about your #5 pick.
Watchmojo idea: Top 10 Horror Movie Characters that betrayed their partners.
Steve from DotD
Billy from scream because he killed almosy killed stew
Love it
Speaking of 'Scream', the possible sequel/reboot to the original 1996 movie will come out in January 2022.
Maybe there are gonna reboot it
Make it more about Danny Rollins
Danny Rollings
Mystery Rider
You miss one The Town That Dreaded Sundown 1976 base on the texarkana moonlight murders in 1946
Baby Blues/Cradle Will Fall (2008) should’ve been on here imo. Its a really disturbing movie about postpartum depression based of the true case of Andrea Yates
Yo that girl on the left of the thumbnail scare the shite out of me.
Exactly 💀
Welcome to the comment section. You're safe here
Brilliant chilling list! Where was Showgirls?
Thanks a great selection!!!.
Don't forget about films like "The Silence of the Lambs", "Hostel" (which has some kernels of truth in it and began life as a documentary), "As Above, So Below", "The Town That Dreaded Sundown", and "Zodiac"
None of those are true stories.
All of the films mentioned were INSPIRED by true events (especially "Hostel"). Didn't say that they're 100% accurate all the way through.
Movie/TV actor Michael Rooker did a great playing Henry, the infamous serial killer.
20 -That is so disturbing
19 -Huh? Oh. Creepy
18 -No f****** way!!!!
17 -I had no idea.
16 -Sorry, don’t get- oh, that’s bad.
15 -Never heard of it. Not good.
14 -Oh God!
13 -That’s awful
12 -Oh boy. Oh my!
11 -I’ve seen the movie trailer since I was a kid but still scared! (Shudder)
10 -Son of a beep!!!!!!!!
9 -Oh, didn’t know. Awkward cause this is one of my favorite horror movie.
8 -GASP
7 -Yeah, I know that. Doesn’t surprise me but still scary. So glad I’m not in that house!
6 -Are you kidding me?!
5 -Talk about horrifyingly disgusting!
4 -No kidding but this is straight up awful!
3 -Oh Dear God! I’m gonna pee my pants!
2 -Great mother of Scott!
1 -What the what?
Have all together and you faint.
There's a documentary about the children (now adults) from The Amityville Horror, called the Real Amityville Horror. Those kids were so profoundly abused and manipulated; it was one of the saddest docs I've ever seen.
What's even sadder is that years later, Weber confessed that he and George Lutz conspired on all of this so that Ron DeFeo could get a new trial for insanity. I believe even Kathy Lutz was in on it and they wanted to cash in on the "horror". Major legal battle ensued between Anson, the Lutzes, and the movie studio.
Those are two different stories. Both are real but two different stories. I think you are referring to “the house of horrors”
No, I'm not. The intro includes The Amityville Horror, which is what I was referencing. I don't know what you thought I was talking about--The Conjuring? Also fake, but I wasn't talking about that.@@DontTakeItLiteral
The Scream is also based on the case of a young woman who was housesitting and she was home alone. The lights turned off and she was murdered in her own house. It’s the same for When A Stranger Calls. It’s based on a real case too.
The movie The Entity was allegedly based on events that occurred to a family who continued to move away from the haunting only to be followed wherever they went. The invisible creature apparently had a fixation with the mother and would brutally rape her repeatedly and harm the children if they tried to intervene.
The beginning part of Jeepers Creepers is VERY similar to the case of Dennis DePue
I loved the “Texas Chainsaw Massacre.” It was so gross and creepy, yet so amazing. I may have almost threw up, but it was still cool.
Same, it's a fantastic film!
A true Treat For singles in The Valentine's day 😂😂
12:
that's not a KNOIFE.
THIS is a KNOIFE.
Stolen from Crocodile Dundee!
Sweet, thanks for the list.
“Wolf Creek” makes me not wanna travel anywhere else but my state
SVU did an episode about the event that inspired Compliance. It has Robin Williams in it.
Movies like the strangers is a key reason to why my house will have hidden guns all over
You can say that again. I don't because of personal reasons with other residents in the home I share, but I plan to in the future when finally on my own. I do keep a tazer, knife, and pepperspray on myself when I work night shifts, though. As well as pepperspray and a metal baseball bat behind my bedroom door and the front door.
This is great list thanks watchmojo
The Exorcist was also heavily based on an exorcism that happened in Prince George's County, MD. Anyway, didn't know that Poltergeist, Scream and The Birds were all based on real events, knowing that and also having the knowledge of the Mothman story makes me glad I'm currently in quarantine!
Mostly all made up. Especially since demons aren't real, lol!
Wait, The Birds was based on real events?! Fuck, that just makes me more scared of them now...
They literally say there’s no evidence to support that the movie “them” happened but it could. So it’s not based on a true story.
A few of these movies are also based on debunked hauntings and exorcisms so clearly they don't actually know what the based on true stories means.
I am from the Czech Republic and I am 100% sure it did not happen here, filmmakers are unable to provide any information on when or where in Czechia it happened, .. some claim it happened in Romania but I highly doubt it...
Although not "based on a true story," Stephen King was inspired to write It after reading about the real life serial killer, John Wayne Gacy.
If talking about IT actually he was on late show said no bs. He was on a plane and trying to think of what scares kids. And who sits Ronald McDonald going to a charity event in his costume. So that gave him ideal that kids are scared of clowns.
Interesting fact: Carrie Underwood is a fan of Stephen King and was inspired by his 1983 novel "Christine" (and its subsequent film adaptation) for the music video for her song "Two Black Cadillacs."
the strangers freaked me out because movie or not sick people do play gimmicks and take time terrorizing people and the haunting in Connecticut is a classic to me and when i was little i used to cry, deeply understanding that many are tested ang going through things like that, and they all battle it differently.
The Conjuring is One of my Fav series in Horror genres. Mainly Cuz I live in CT where most of the events happened. At my college I went to this presentation called the Warren Files where I saw Annabelle comes home(it was good) then Judy Warren as well as Tony Spera(The son-in-law and daughter to Ed and Lorraine Warren)showed photos from the Amityville House as well as the family photo that the Conjuring 2 was based off of. One of them even brought out the Annabelle doll you see in the Annabelle Films. I met them after the presentation and talked about the next Conjuring film in which it was about “The devil made me do it” case To which I actually know a lot about. Those 2 were really nice as well.
Definitely scary when you know it’s based on true events and just knowing people went through these events...
The Exorcist is the coolest and incredible movies of Horror in all the time in Hollywood and this movie is based a real life very horrifying case in the history of paranormal
Yes it is it happened in my state of Missouri in st Louis
No it wasn't lol, that case was debunked years ago. There is little evidence to support most of the claims, in fact the majority of the commonly accepted information was simply hearsay with no documents to back it up and was never fact checked in the first place. In actuality they have found ample evidence to dispute many of the claims. Most experts today accept the fact that this was just a deeply disturbed boy exploited by those around him.
Yes it was documented they lived on 8435 Roanoke Drive in a Colonial style house in St. Louis in 1949. The house is still there. The family had moved from Washington D.C. To St. Louis Jesuit Priest from Saint Louis University performed a grueling exorcism for a month on the boy. At the University. The family kept there last name under alias. The boys first name was actually Ronald, not Roland they changed that as well. They kept this under the public eye. Exorcisms are extremely kept private so documents are limited but this enough from the address of the family to his stay with the priest and the priest wouldn't deny this happened was their way of acknowledgement it did.
Lol, no it isn't! It's bullshit. P.S. demons aren't real. 😂
@@kennysikes1140 exorcisms are bullshit and should be illegal. These people are either physically or mentally is. That they're still doing this nonsense in 2021 is fucking ridiculous and disgusting!
On # 16, the Bell Witch story, I actully grew up around there, so it’s cool seeing this getting some attention
I can believe movies based on stories about man eating animals (like big crocodiles) or serial killers could be true, but I'm more skeptical with the ones that are claimed to be supernatural.
You see what you're experiencing is a rare phenomenon called "Rational Thought"
Wolf Creek is really gruesome but it's a pretty good movie. underrated IMO. there's also a sequel
I heard of the Lichens case on a true crime podcast, and it broke me.
A friend’s brother was a cop of the Amityville Police Department at that time and said
they never received a call from the Lutz family or sent anyone to that house.
After watching the movie Bully with Brad Renfro and Nick Stahl I woke up the next morning thinking I had been a part of someone’s murder and I’d just repressed it...took at least 5 mins to convince myself I hadn’t done any such thing. The fact it was based on a true story affected me a lot. Another movie like this is Alphadog.