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It truly says something how the famous killer Ed Gein was able to inspire not one, but three of the most terrifying horror stories ever written with Psycho, Texas Chainsaw, & Silence of the Lambs.
Tht the directors and studios did no actual research😂😂😂,Ed Gein wasn't even a serial killer, he killed two people and all the human furniture in his house was from robbing graves, so yeah Tobi, Wes, and whoever else used him as inspiration are dumb asf
Yes! That’s why I found it so disturbing! For a movie to be truly terrifying for me, it has to depict something that I fear could realistically happen to me, like a random home invasion. I don’t find the.paranormal/haunting movies to be scary at all because I don’t really worry about a demonic presence hanging around my apartment.
I still can't believe that the people would just forget those two and leave them out in the ocean. What was the matter with them, were they drunk or something? Was it out of revenge? Or just a bad practical joke?
Yeah, this one got me, too. Such a simple premise, but it’s the stuff of nightmares. And for it to have really happened to those people is horrible. One of many reasons I don’t go in the ocean.
Did you guys know "Annabelle" is based off a raggedy ann doll. That would make sense as Annabelle is part of the Conjuring Universe. Also is it just me, or I have this big fear of dolls for some odd reason? Edit-I know I'm a guy and I should fear nothing but I've always been scared of those darn things. In the movies, just take a look at M3gan, Chucky, Jigsaw, Annabelle, Slappy the dummy or from real life; Robert the doll, porcelean dolls, american girl dolls, Barbie, etc, etc. Just imagine sleeping and having the dolls stare at you in the dark....
Seeing "Jaws" in my prepubescent years made me too terrified to be able to fall asleep on my father's waterbed, which he had set up in the bedroom of his travel trailer, because I convinced myself that shark eggs could travel through the garden hose he used to fill it. Good thing I only lived with him in the trailer for a couple months every summer (He was divorced from my mother before I was born, jsyk).
This cracked me up, the shark eggs traveling thru a garden hose, lol! 😂 We all think weird shit sometimes when we’re kids. After I saw Piranha, I was even afraid of pools & lakes until someone pointed out that those are closed bodies of water, so how would piranhas get in there. I was like, oh yeah, lol 😂 But then I figured they could somehow get dumped in there & I was scared again, lol. Of course, I now know that irl, piranhas don’t attack people like that. But I still don’t like lakes & rivers. Too many other things, like Creature from the Black Lagoon, Jason Voorhees, Lake Placid, etc… too much shit can be in the water & u can’t see.
Audrey Rose is a beautiful, bittersweet film. The Girl Next Door is horrific. The fact that they invented a nice character to care for her/they took OUT parts of the real tragedy for being too Gruesome is just.. poor Sylvia
I saw all these in their original theater releases....except "Psycho" as I was only 3 years old. They all terrify still to this day.....except Child's Play. The Strangers is still one of the hardest for me to watch! Richard
Open Water scared the absolute hell out of me. I guess because it has so many protocols and the "swiss cheese" effect seems to have caused it all, on NO fault of the divers that is
I'm Roman Catholic and my parents forbade my 3 younger brothers and I to see it. I was a Jr in high school and my best friend had a car, I spent the night at her house and went to the drive in and watched it, my parents never found out lol. I had actually lived with her family for a year, we've been as close as sisters can be since 1969 and we still talk and or text every day.
The original "Exorcist" certainly gets your attention but its obviously fake "special effects", possession storyline, and overly publicized audience hysteria were a bit much. The second "Exorcist" movie is awful. The third one, also called "Legion" is a great combination of imaginative story, real horror movie tension, and dark humor, and is actually the best of the lot. Movies like "Audrey Rose" sell mystical nonsense like reincarnation in courtroom settings. Wish that much attention had been paid to kids abused and even killed by pervs dressing up as spooks and monsters, but those were dismissed as "panic". Real horrors aren't supernatural at all. "Mothman" at least features the best dam simulated bridge collapse evah! And there's a whole book on the "Jaws" inspiration: "Close to Shore" by Capuzzo.
For # 21 when you say Ils in french the s is always muted in the plural form of the pronoun. So you write Ils with the s, but you say it without the s. The only exception is when there’s a verb that start with a vowel right after the pronoun. The s is not muted when you say it. I’m french canadian by the way.
Man your fact checker is slacking!,One of the many reasons i don't give videos from this channel likes anymore. I know y'all are just putting out fluff pieces but y'all can do better Nightmare on Elm Street: it wasn't "a few immigrants even died" - it was just one.
“The Girl Next Door” had me the most unsettled I’ve ever been during a movie. I think a big part of that is I had no idea what the movie was about beforehand. Didn’t even know it was a “horror movie”, I just came across it on cable. Was floored when I later found out it was based on a true story.
Wait, the movie with Elisha Cuthbert? When it came up, I assumed it was a different movie with the same name. So I skipped it. It's been years since I watched the Elisha Cuthbert movie.
The Anneliese Michel story for which was the inspiration of The Exorcism of Emily Rose was to me the most compelling and realistic depiction of Demonic possession. There is a documentary about that girl and like the movie it leaves you completely speechless and up to your own conclusion of what really happened to her. She could have easily been believably psychotic, epileptic or a number of medical conditions. Nobody can really say for certain if she died naturally. Her deterioration and decay of her body was truly horrifying beyond comprehension.
I'm Epileptic myself and have experienced visual and aural hallucinations. At one point I thought I was demon possessed. It got to point that I couldn't tell what was real and what wasn't. scary times. would have been much scary then at less medicine for Epilepsy.
'Compliance' is especially crazy. Who would follow the instructions of a stranger over the phone like that, and who would subject themselves to that kind of treatment by their boss? Wild.
The worker being subjected makes sense. I mean IIIII would tell everyone to eff off, but if you need ur job and are trying to prove you didn’t do ish… okay. Stupid of you, but no judgement. THE MANAGER FOLLOWING THE HORRID INSTRUCTIONS GIVEN BY A STRANGER ON THE GAHDAMN PHONE IS EFFING NUTS. Would have sued AND stabbed her.
Also the true story of the Haunting in Connecticut. The Shedeker Haunting is absolutely crazy that the House that family lived in was in fact a former mortuary where necromancy was performed. I will tell you what I would be suing endlessly for withholding that kind of information from me If I moved in. Anything that has a history of ritual killings, ancient medical practices, inhumane and incomprehensible crimes that were involved. No thank you. Definitely begging to open yourself to the full power of the Dark Side of the Force
I read about the case that inspired _The Exorcist_ in the most recent installment of Bill O’Reilly and Martin Dugard’s _Killing_ series: _Killing the Witches: The Horror of Salem, Massachusetts,_ and I couldn’t believe my eyes at what Ronald Hunkeler, the boy in question, went through.
The ledge where those poor women were hanged is now behind a Walgreen's and a respectful memorial was set up some years ago to the victims of this real-life horror.
#30: Open Water (2003) #29: Verónica (2017) #28: 10 Rillington Place (1971) #27: Audrey Rose (1977) #26: Black Water (2007) #25: The Entity (1982) #24: The Mothman Prophecies (2002) #23: Borderland (2007) #22: The Girl Next Door (2007) #21: Them (a.k.a. Ils) (2006) #20: Child’s Play (1988) #19: Primeval (2007) #18: The Strangers (2008) #17: An American Haunting (2005) #16: Compliance (2012) #15: The Hills Have Eyes (1977) #14: The Haunting in Connecticut (2009) #13: Ravenous (1999) #12: Wolf Creek (2005) #11: The Exorcism of Emily Rose (2005) #10: Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer (1986) #9: Scream (1996) #8: Poltergeist (1982) #7: The Conjuring (2013) #6: A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984) #5: The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (1974) #4: The Exorcist (1973) #3: The Amityville Horror (1979) #2: Jaws (1975) #1: Psycho (1960)
How could you leave out The Town That Dreaded Sundown?! That was such a good movie based on the Texarkana murders. I even wrote my own sequel story for it. That’s just how good it is and how it should have been on this list
@thedevilsrockstxr2309 all three of the movies are somehow based off Ed. He was a loner, like Norman Bates. He made things out of human bodies like Texas Chainsaw and he made clothes as well just like in Silence of the Lambs.
@@friendsfan5, nods. But it is just like we are told in the movie *_The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance_* , the legend has become so ingrained.. people still "print the legend" at least on the internet and such. Gein absolutely deserved dying being locked up, that is for certain.. because he most likely would have been as bad as any of those characters he inspired.
@@friendsfan5 u think a society tht didn't even know how mental health worked could rightly say he was a mamas boy? No they can't, he robbed graves and they got cannibalism from tht, its okay bruh tobi was stupid
The Mothman Prophecies is my all time favorite movie and in my opinion is a underrated classic I own 2 VHS tapes and 2 dvds of it And the music is so good
I have a fun story about The Birds. During my grad school days I TAed for a professor from UC Santa Cruz who studied Pseudo nitzschia, a diatom responsible for domaic acid poisoning in birds and mammals, causing them to act erratic.
It was! To this day, it remains the scariest movie I’ve ever seen. I saw it in the theater and when the movie ended, I could barely stand up to walk out because my legs felt like jelly from being so anxious and startled for the last 90 minutes.
Stop telling people ghost stories are real or based in any sort of reality. Also the strangers is such a weak "based on true events" reason. It's based on an idea that could happen. That's how most fiction is written...
Weird update to the story of The Entity: the family now claims they weren't haunted by a ghost or a demon. Instead, they claim one of the family members, likely the teenage son, has telekinetic powers that were manifested by all the fighting and drama going on in the family at the time, and went away once the family managed to regain some peace.
That doesn’t make sense, tho. Supposedly the woman was sexually assaulted by the entity… so what, her son used his powers to assault her?? That’s pretty gnarly 😮
The story about Jaws is that their where actually 2 shark's. A bullshark had made it's way up out of the ocean, and toward a lake or river. Where it attacked and killed a man and young boy. As for the real killer a young great white shark was caught and killed making it the real killer of the Jersey Shore.
Wait what? Why was Estefania Gutierrez Lazaro trying to summon a FRIEND’S boyfriend lol? Why would she want to talk to someone else’s boyfriend?? That’s a little sus 😂
I just watched strangers for the first time don't know how I missed it, that would not be a fun situation to be in! Bunch of psychos in the woods invading your home is kind of terrifying
My parents took me to the drive in when I was very young (1976 maybe?) to see The Exorcist and apparently I thought it was hilarious. I giggled at all the antics. But it was when my mom took me to the movie theater to see Poltergeist that I really freaked out. The scene of the guy’s face melting off was too much for an elementary school kid. I didn’t watch anymore horror films until I saw A Nightmare on Elm Street at a sleepover in middle school. I’ve been a horror movie buff ever since. Can’t say any of it truly scares me, but I’ve never been able to bring myself to see Poltergeist again (though I enjoyed watching the sequels). Maybe it’s time - just celebrated my 50th birthday and I think it’s time to try it again. 🤣
It makes my blood boil that this child was abused like this and I've seen in other voices you can still apparently hear screaming coming from the basement it's awful and sad someone would want to do that to a child she did nothing to no one 😢
Yeah, what they did to Sylvia is appalling. And to think, the whole thing was started simply because one of the attackers was jealous of how pretty Sylvia was. To know that the ones that did that, they didn't get life in prison. They got 20 years, that's all.. They even got released from prison. Knowing about the case, that'll piss you off the most.
There was a killer in Texas who killed missionaries with a bandsaw. That was the basis for "The Texas Chainsaw Massacre". The "Leatherface" character was based on Ed Gein.
Why is it that Hollywood always likes to give sharks a hard time? Sharks actually attack very, very, very few people. More people are killed by falling vending machines than by sharks. Also, some species are harmless, such as nurse sharks. Did you know that the number of sharks that were hunted went up after the release of “Jaws”, due to people seeing and treating them as scary movie monsters rather than sentient animals that did nothing to them? Also, whereas only a very minor number of people are killed by sharks each year, millions of sharks are killed by people, especially for their fins (for shark fin soup). The sharks are caught, have their dorsal fins lopped off and are then thrown back alive! 😢 🦈 If sharks could make horror movies, they would probably star humans as the scary villains!
The made for TV movie Duel was allegedly based on an actual event. As the story goes, the person who wrote the screen play for the movie drew inspiration from a somewhat terrifying encounter with a truck driver while driving back to Los Angeles from somewhere up in northern California. He apparently cut a truck driver off on the freeway. The driver of the truck apparently took offense to this and stocked the man in his car for a considerable distance. In an attempt to lose the truck once and for all, the man suddenly pulled off the freeway and into the town of Tulare, at which time the truck followed suite and pulled off with him. He was finally able to shake the driver by turning sharply down a narrow alleyway the truck was too big to access, thus ending the terrifying ordeal. Once he emerged from the other side of the alleyway, he quickly pulled back on to the south bound freeway (Highway 99) and continued on his way to Los Angeles and never encountered the driver or the truck again. This frightening ordeal was allegedly the basis for the very famous TV movie directed by a them unknown Steven Spielberg.
And yet, somehow no one has gotten around to putting Carl Panzram in a film. I get it though: I don’t know how you could depict him any more than you could film “Blood Meridian.”
fun fact about Jaws the writer Peter Benchley regrets his role when it came to the negativity it brought to sharks and actually became an advocate for marine life and worked to change people's view on sharks
You forgot to mention The Possession, the devil inside. I also thought ' I spit on your grave' was a true story same as devil due, village of the damned.
My all time favorite movie is "Jaws." I'm so happy to see it rated so high. Great list to recommend for horror movie fans. Every film is a gem in it's own right.👍
For my mom and dad, it’s The Exorcist. My dad was a kid and my mom was a teenager. They were both scared. Gave them nightmares BIG time. My dad saw the whole thing and he HATED it. My mom couldn’t go through it, when she lifted, she turned off the TV
In the mothman prof the reporter was not sent to investigate the incidents he was redirected there on his way to interview a politician it’s never clearly explained what, why, or whom sent him there
When i was a kid my older sister told me chucky lived in the woods our bus went through on our way to school and i spent a solid year staring out the bus window in fear
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The Exorcist (1973) pretty disturbing & horrifying
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Poltergeist & A Nightmare on Elm Street give me nightmares when I was younger 😱
It truly says something how the famous killer Ed Gein was able to inspire not one, but three of the most terrifying horror stories ever written with Psycho, Texas Chainsaw, & Silence of the Lambs.
Tht the directors and studios did no actual research😂😂😂,Ed Gein wasn't even a serial killer, he killed two people and all the human furniture in his house was from robbing graves, so yeah Tobi, Wes, and whoever else used him as inspiration are dumb asf
@@thedevilsrockstxr2309someone needs to do some research 😂
I’ve always thought that as well. What a way to live in infamy.
I am surprised that Silence of the Lamb wasn't on this list.
That just shows how messed up Ed Gein was.
The Stranger is actually so terrifying, imagine being murdered because you're home
Yes! That’s why I found it so disturbing! For a movie to be truly terrifying for me, it has to depict something that I fear could realistically happen to me, like a random home invasion. I don’t find the.paranormal/haunting movies to be scary at all because I don’t really worry about a demonic presence hanging around my apartment.
Well you can't be murdered if you're not. Lol. To be fair it's terrifying.
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I know right, watched it long ago one of my favourites the sequel was good but this one is the best one 👍
The guy's mask in The Strangers is so simple yet terrifying.
When he suddenly steps out from the shadows in the background...😮 That might be the scariest single moment in cinema i've ever seen.
Open Water always terrified me, especially the ending. One of the many reasons i only swim in a pool and don't go in the ocean.
I still can't believe that the people would just forget those two and leave them out in the ocean. What was the matter with them, were they drunk or something? Was it out of revenge? Or just a bad practical joke?
Yeah, this one got me, too. Such a simple premise, but it’s the stuff of nightmares. And for it to have really happened to those people is horrible. One of many reasons I don’t go in the ocean.
I was amazed by the casting of Richard Attenborough and John Hurt as John Christie and Timothy Evans.
Did you guys know "Annabelle" is based off a raggedy ann doll. That would make sense as Annabelle is part of the Conjuring Universe.
Also is it just me, or I have this big fear of dolls for some odd reason?
Edit-I know I'm a guy and I should fear nothing but I've always been scared of those darn things. In the movies, just take a look at M3gan, Chucky, Jigsaw, Annabelle, Slappy the dummy or from real life; Robert the doll, porcelean dolls, american girl dolls, Barbie, etc, etc. Just imagine sleeping and having the dolls stare at you in the dark....
It’s common to be afraid of dolls. I’m with you on this
I knew the Warrens and yes Annabelle is a raggedy Ann. It’s in a glass box and never opened. Their museum has some very interesting objects.
Seeing "Jaws" in my prepubescent years made me too terrified to be able to fall asleep on my father's waterbed, which he had set up in the bedroom of his travel trailer, because I convinced myself that shark eggs could travel through the garden hose he used to fill it. Good thing I only lived with him in the trailer for a couple months every summer (He was divorced from my mother before I was born, jsyk).
This cracked me up, the shark eggs traveling thru a garden hose, lol! 😂
We all think weird shit sometimes when we’re kids. After I saw Piranha, I was even afraid of pools & lakes until someone pointed out that those are closed bodies of water, so how would piranhas get in there. I was like, oh yeah, lol 😂 But then I figured they could somehow get dumped in there & I was scared again, lol. Of course, I now know that irl, piranhas don’t attack people like that. But I still don’t like lakes & rivers. Too many other things, like Creature from the Black Lagoon, Jason Voorhees, Lake Placid, etc… too much shit can be in the water & u can’t see.
Audrey Rose is a beautiful, bittersweet film. The Girl Next Door is horrific. The fact that they invented a nice character to care for her/they took OUT parts of the real tragedy for being too Gruesome is just.. poor Sylvia
Ed Gein also inspired Buffalo Bill in The Silence of the Lambs.
I saw all these in their original theater releases....except "Psycho" as I was only 3 years old. They all terrify still to this day.....except Child's Play. The Strangers is still one of the hardest for me to watch!
Richard
I know about The Nightmare syndrome that inspired A Nightmares on Elm Street. 😀👍
I’d say 2 out of 20 for me. Scream and Jaws. Didn’t give me nightmares
Awesome list love a horror list 👌🖤
If you read the real facts of the Entity haunting case and look at the photographic "proof" you realize how obviously fake it all was.
Open Water scared the absolute hell out of me. I guess because it has so many protocols and the "swiss cheese" effect seems to have caused it all, on NO fault of the divers that is
The Entity was a poltergeist.
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I'm Roman Catholic and my parents forbade my 3 younger brothers and I to see it. I was a Jr in high school and my best friend had a car, I spent the night at her house and went to the drive in and watched it, my parents never found out lol. I had actually lived with her family for a year, we've been as close as sisters can be since 1969 and we still talk and or text every day.
Them had that film on dvd long time ago think I still got it 👍
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The original "Exorcist" certainly gets your attention but its obviously fake "special effects", possession storyline, and overly publicized audience hysteria were a bit much. The second "Exorcist" movie is awful. The third one, also called "Legion" is a great combination of imaginative story, real horror movie tension, and dark humor, and is actually the best of the lot.
Movies like "Audrey Rose" sell mystical nonsense like reincarnation in courtroom settings. Wish that much attention had been paid to kids abused and even killed by pervs dressing up as spooks and monsters, but those were dismissed as "panic". Real horrors aren't supernatural at all.
"Mothman" at least features the best dam simulated bridge collapse evah! And there's a whole book on the "Jaws" inspiration: "Close to Shore" by Capuzzo.
I can’t bring myself to watch Compliance fully. It pisses me off that the manager was that gahdamn stupid!
I always thought chucky was stupid movie. For two hours nobody can kill a doll
Question for the comment section, in your opinion, what movie would be even more terrifying if it was based on a true story
I love your videos and this one was good but it would have been better without the background music
Being honest, I would never watch any of these movies
Surprised some of the Stephen King films aren't included. Some of his movies are based on some facts.
For # 21 when you say Ils in french the s is always muted in the plural form of the pronoun. So you write Ils with the s, but you say it without the s. The only exception is when there’s a verb that start with a vowel right after the pronoun. The s is not muted when you say it. I’m french canadian by the way.
Wrong choice of music for this one...
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U forgot Salem’s lot
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Man your fact checker is slacking!,One of the many reasons i don't give videos from this channel likes anymore. I know y'all are just putting out fluff pieces but y'all can do better
Nightmare on Elm Street: it wasn't "a few immigrants even died" - it was just one.
There were supposedly more than one affected.
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“The Girl Next Door” had me the most unsettled I’ve ever been during a movie. I think a big part of that is I had no idea what the movie was about beforehand. Didn’t even know it was a “horror movie”, I just came across it on cable. Was floored when I later found out it was based on a true story.
It was on cable?!
The girl next door traumatized me and the true story behind it makes me very very sad 😱😨😰😰😭😭😭😭😭😭😭
@@Iheartbreakdowns - yes, late 2000’s . A premium channel, not basic cable.
Makes more sense that way. I feel like I watched it on HBO or Cinemax back in the day.
Wait, the movie with Elisha Cuthbert? When it came up, I assumed it was a different movie with the same name. So I skipped it.
It's been years since I watched the Elisha Cuthbert movie.
The Anneliese Michel story for which was the inspiration of The Exorcism of Emily Rose was to me the most compelling and realistic depiction of Demonic possession. There is a documentary about that girl and like the movie it leaves you completely speechless and up to your own conclusion of what really happened to her. She could have easily been believably psychotic, epileptic or a number of medical conditions. Nobody can really say for certain if she died naturally. Her deterioration and decay of her body was truly horrifying beyond comprehension.
I'm Epileptic myself and have experienced visual and aural hallucinations. At one point I thought I was demon possessed.
It got to point that I couldn't tell what was real and what wasn't.
scary times.
would have been much scary then at less medicine for Epilepsy.
'Compliance' is especially crazy. Who would follow the instructions of a stranger over the phone like that, and who would subject themselves to that kind of treatment by their boss? Wild.
The worker being subjected makes sense. I mean IIIII would tell everyone to eff off, but if you need ur job and are trying to prove you didn’t do ish… okay. Stupid of you, but no judgement.
THE MANAGER FOLLOWING THE HORRID INSTRUCTIONS GIVEN BY A STRANGER ON THE GAHDAMN PHONE IS EFFING NUTS. Would have sued AND stabbed her.
For real there is a line although invisible it is plain 2 c...if that makes sense???
Also the true story of the Haunting in Connecticut. The Shedeker Haunting is absolutely crazy that the House that family lived in was in fact a former mortuary where necromancy was performed. I will tell you what I would be suing endlessly for withholding that kind of information from me If I moved in. Anything that has a history of ritual killings, ancient medical practices, inhumane and incomprehensible crimes that were involved. No thank you. Definitely begging to open yourself to the full power of the Dark Side of the Force
Yes indeed that can open alot of flood gates of sh** we do not need lol especially with your family having experience it as well
I read about the case that inspired _The Exorcist_ in the most recent installment of Bill O’Reilly and Martin Dugard’s _Killing_ series: _Killing the Witches: The Horror of Salem, Massachusetts,_ and I couldn’t believe my eyes at what Ronald Hunkeler, the boy in question, went through.
The ledge where those poor women were hanged is now behind a Walgreen's and a respectful memorial was set up some years ago to the victims of this real-life horror.
#30: Open Water (2003)
#29: Verónica (2017)
#28: 10 Rillington Place (1971)
#27: Audrey Rose (1977)
#26: Black Water (2007)
#25: The Entity (1982)
#24: The Mothman Prophecies (2002)
#23: Borderland (2007)
#22: The Girl Next Door (2007)
#21: Them (a.k.a. Ils) (2006)
#20: Child’s Play (1988)
#19: Primeval (2007)
#18: The Strangers (2008)
#17: An American Haunting (2005)
#16: Compliance (2012)
#15: The Hills Have Eyes (1977)
#14: The Haunting in Connecticut (2009)
#13: Ravenous (1999)
#12: Wolf Creek (2005)
#11: The Exorcism of Emily Rose (2005)
#10: Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer (1986)
#9: Scream (1996)
#8: Poltergeist (1982)
#7: The Conjuring (2013)
#6: A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984)
#5: The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (1974)
#4: The Exorcist (1973)
#3: The Amityville Horror (1979)
#2: Jaws (1975)
#1: Psycho (1960)
The Strangers is the scariest movie I’ve ever seen.
How could you leave out The Town That Dreaded Sundown?! That was such a good movie based on the Texarkana murders. I even wrote my own sequel story for it. That’s just how good it is and how it should have been on this list
That was a great movie
All offense intended if taken, but some of these are outright hoaxes.
Like Ed Gein being an inspiration when he only killed 2 people and mostly robbed graves and never actually ate someone tht wasn't already dead
@@thedevilsrockstxr2309, yeah. The "published stories" were what inspired all those films and books, not the real case.
@thedevilsrockstxr2309 all three of the movies are somehow based off Ed. He was a loner, like Norman Bates. He made things out of human bodies like Texas Chainsaw and he made clothes as well just like in Silence of the Lambs.
@@friendsfan5, nods. But it is just like we are told in the movie *_The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance_* , the legend has become so ingrained.. people still "print the legend" at least on the internet and such. Gein absolutely deserved dying being locked up, that is for certain.. because he most likely would have been as bad as any of those characters he inspired.
@@friendsfan5 u think a society tht didn't even know how mental health worked could rightly say he was a mamas boy? No they can't, he robbed graves and they got cannibalism from tht, its okay bruh tobi was stupid
❤❤the mothman profacies is one of the BEST films EVER!!
The Girl Next Door killed my soul 😢
Some of these are my favourite films .
The Mothman Prophecies is my all time favorite movie and in my opinion is a underrated classic
I own 2 VHS tapes and 2 dvds of it
And the music is so good
My partner is a big fan of this movie. Not her favorite, but she does try to watch it at least once a year.
@@ebagentj It's really well done, and the bridge collapse scene is devastating.
I have a fun story about The Birds. During my grad school days I TAed for a professor from UC Santa Cruz who studied Pseudo nitzschia, a diatom responsible for domaic acid poisoning in birds and mammals, causing them to act erratic.
The strangers was horrifying
It was! To this day, it remains the scariest movie I’ve ever seen. I saw it in the theater and when the movie ended, I could barely stand up to walk out because my legs felt like jelly from being so anxious and startled for the last 90 minutes.
Stop telling people ghost stories are real or based in any sort of reality. Also the strangers is such a weak "based on true events" reason. It's based on an idea that could happen. That's how most fiction is written...
You missed one it it was based off of a killer called John Wayne gacy
"8213: Gacy House"?
Or the movie "Gacy"?
@@IanNason-qn9yw actually the movie it
Black Water, like the song by the Doobie Brothers.
No Candyman?
Nightmare on Elm Street is based on a true story
Weird update to the story of The Entity: the family now claims they weren't haunted by a ghost or a demon. Instead, they claim one of the family members, likely the teenage son, has telekinetic powers that were manifested by all the fighting and drama going on in the family at the time, and went away once the family managed to regain some peace.
So like Matilda? The book?
@@Dr.k0ckersmdPretty much, only with more SA accusations.
@@ebagentj ahhhh gotcha. Thank you
That doesn’t make sense, tho. Supposedly the woman was sexually assaulted by the entity… so what, her son used his powers to assault her?? That’s pretty gnarly 😮
Thank you for the update, WatchMojo..!! An American Haunting (2005) looks like a good horror movie to watch. 🥶
It is
The story about Jaws is that their where actually 2 shark's. A bullshark had made it's way up out of the ocean, and toward a lake or river. Where it attacked and killed a man and young boy. As for the real killer a young great white shark was caught and killed making it the real killer of the Jersey Shore.
My friend Colleen had nightmares from watching A Nightmare On Elm Street
This is amazing that the videos are longer
Wait what? Why was Estefania Gutierrez Lazaro trying to summon a FRIEND’S boyfriend lol? Why would she want to talk to someone else’s boyfriend?? That’s a little sus 😂
9:36 "Them" ( AKA "ILS" )The "S" is silent
What about candy man!
There is a possibility that Norman Bates they also been inspired by the by H H homes
Can see how that might be true. Imagine actually building a "hotel" constructed to hide a series of murders!
The nightmares came true
I just watched strangers for the first time don't know how I missed it, that would not be a fun situation to be in! Bunch of psychos in the woods invading your home is kind of terrifying
My parents took me to the drive in when I was very young (1976 maybe?) to see The Exorcist and apparently I thought it was hilarious. I giggled at all the antics. But it was when my mom took me to the movie theater to see Poltergeist that I really freaked out. The scene of the guy’s face melting off was too much for an elementary school kid. I didn’t watch anymore horror films until I saw A Nightmare on Elm Street at a sleepover in middle school. I’ve been a horror movie buff ever since. Can’t say any of it truly scares me, but I’ve never been able to bring myself to see Poltergeist again (though I enjoyed watching the sequels). Maybe it’s time - just celebrated my 50th birthday and I think it’s time to try it again. 🤣
My family members love the movie, "Psycho (1960)" the number one Horror Movie inspired by true events
It makes my blood boil that this child was abused like this and I've seen in other voices you can still apparently hear screaming coming from the basement it's awful and sad someone would want to do that to a child she did nothing to no one 😢
Yeah, what they did to Sylvia is appalling. And to think, the whole thing was started simply because one of the attackers was jealous of how pretty Sylvia was. To know that the ones that did that, they didn't get life in prison. They got 20 years, that's all.. They even got released from prison. Knowing about the case, that'll piss you off the most.
The Birds isntba true story, It is a novel written by Daphne de Maurier first published in 1952.
based upon a "what if" scenario
According to Hitchcock's daughter, the event did in fact happen in California
I've only seen "Open Water", "The Strangers", "The Exorcist", and "The Conjuring"!
And "The Exorcism of Emily Rose"!
And "Scream"!
And "A Nightmare on Elm Street"!
Not one word about the movie Silence of the Lambs?
The Amityville Horror haunting was poltergeist phenomena.
We need to talk about Kevin was a horrible movie it was heartbreaking. Its a must see movie for everyone
Was the background music really necessary? Kinda hard to hear some of the explanations
What, no Blair Witch Project and Cujo? They sound like movies inspired by true events too.
There was a killer in Texas who killed missionaries with a bandsaw. That was the basis for "The Texas Chainsaw Massacre". The "Leatherface" character was based on Ed Gein.
Why is it that Hollywood always likes to give sharks a hard time? Sharks actually attack very, very, very few people. More people are killed by falling vending machines than by sharks. Also, some species are harmless, such as nurse sharks. Did you know that the number of sharks that were hunted went up after the release of “Jaws”, due to people seeing and treating them as scary movie monsters rather than sentient animals that did nothing to them? Also, whereas only a very minor number of people are killed by sharks each year, millions of sharks are killed by people, especially for their fins (for shark fin soup). The sharks are caught, have their dorsal fins lopped off and are then thrown back alive! 😢 🦈
If sharks could make horror movies, they would probably star humans as the scary villains!
The made for TV movie Duel was allegedly based on an actual event. As the story goes, the person who wrote the screen play for the movie drew inspiration from a somewhat terrifying encounter with a truck driver while driving back to Los Angeles from somewhere up in northern California. He apparently cut a truck driver off on the freeway. The driver of the truck apparently took offense to this and stocked the man in his car for a considerable distance. In an attempt to lose the truck once and for all, the man suddenly pulled off the freeway and into the town of Tulare, at which time the truck followed suite and pulled off with him. He was finally able to shake the driver by turning sharply down a narrow alleyway the truck was too big to access, thus ending the terrifying ordeal. Once he emerged from the other side of the alleyway, he quickly pulled back on to the south bound freeway (Highway 99) and continued on his way to Los Angeles and never encountered the driver or the truck again. This frightening ordeal was allegedly the basis for the very famous TV movie directed by a them unknown Steven Spielberg.
And "Jaws"!
And "Psycho"!
The Birds is a short story by Daphne du Maurier. Adapted by Alfred Hitchcock into the movie.
And yet, somehow no one has gotten around to putting Carl Panzram in a film. I get it though: I don’t know how you could depict him any more than you could film “Blood Meridian.”
the strangers is also based on the keddie cabin murders, you left that out
Slightly weird loud background music going on there guys
fun fact about Jaws the writer Peter Benchley regrets his role when it came to the negativity it brought to sharks and actually became an advocate for marine life and worked to change people's view on sharks
I can tell the narrator is from Jersey based on the way he says “harrar”
We should get one based on Tohoku Earthquake and Tsunami
And Twister.
You forgot to mention The Possession, the devil inside. I also thought ' I spit on your grave' was a true story same as devil due, village of the damned.
My all time favorite movie is "Jaws." I'm so happy to see it rated so high. Great list to recommend for horror movie fans. Every film is a gem in it's own right.👍
For my mom and dad, it’s The Exorcist. My dad was a kid and my mom was a teenager. They were both scared. Gave them nightmares BIG time.
My dad saw the whole thing and he HATED it.
My mom couldn’t go through it, when she lifted, she turned off the TV
That movie terrifies me til this day
In the mothman prof the reporter was not sent to investigate the incidents he was redirected there on his way to interview a politician it’s never clearly explained what, why, or whom sent him there
When i was a kid my older sister told me chucky lived in the woods our bus went through on our way to school and i spent a solid year staring out the bus window in fear
Out of all the films I've ever seen, The Strangers is still the one to give me paranoia. That one scared the hell outta me.
I'm surprised that no one has made a horror movie based on H.H.Holmes.
Chucky made me throw away every doll I had that was bigger than a Barbie
the only horror movie I watch is Stay alive bout a game in the movie based on the real Elizabeth Bathery crime
Why the music? Overall, great content.
Black Water, like the song by the Doobie Brothers. (1976)
You forgot HOSTEL.