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10 Horror Movies and The Depraved Acts That Inspired Them
10 Horror Movies and The Depraved Acts That Inspired Them
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Based on a True Story,’ or “Inspired by Actual Events”; are just two phrases that, when added to a cinematic production are guaranteed to raise eyebrows as well as ticket sales. Why; well it seems that when we see phrases such as these, our proverbial antennas rise and immediately we won’t know about the horrible tale that happened…
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01 - Johnny Ventura Y Su Combo - Guajira Con Soul 02 - Tito Puente And His Orchestra - Safari 03 - Eddie Palmieri & His Orchestra - Ay Que Rico 04 - The Killer Joe Orchestra - My Girl Sloopy (Cha-Cha Watusi) 05 - Willie Bobo - Spanish Grease 06 - Jack Constanzo & Gerry Woo - Jive Samba 07 - Azuquita Y Su Orquesta Melao - Guajiro Bacan 08 - Cheo Feliciano - Canta 09 - The Joe Cuba Sextet - Joe Cuba's Madness 10 - Joey Pastrana And His Orchestra - King Of Latin Soul 11 - Harvey Averne - Dynamite 12 - King Nando - Mama's Girl 13 - Roberto Roena Y Su Apollo Sound - Que Se Sepa 14 - Eddie Palmieri - Helado De Chocolate (Chocolate Ice Cream) 15 - Monguito Santamaria - Boogaloo Sabroso 16 - Orlando "Cachaito" Lopez - Mis Dos Pequenas 17 - Johnny Blas - Mas Azucar 18 - Francisco Aguabella Orchestra - Shirley's Guaguancho
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Horror Movies Based on True Events
Open Water (2003)
When a couple goes scuba diving in Open Water, their boat accidentally leaves them behind in shark-infested water. It’s based on something that really happened to American tourists Tom and Eileen Lonergan, who were left behind by a diving company off the Great Barrier Reef. By the time the mistake was realized two days later, it was too late, and they were never seen again. A shark attack seems not to have been the cause of death, however, as the couple’s dive jackets were eventually found. The jackets weren’t damaged, which suggested that the Lonergans likely took them off, “delirious from dehydration,” and drowned.
Borderland (2007)
When three friends head to a Mexican border town to have some fun in this movie, they get mixed up with a cult specializing in human sacrifice. The concept loosely stems from the life of Adolfo de Jesus Constanzo, a drug lord and cult leader who was responsible for the death of American student Mark Kilroy.
A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984)
The iconic baddie Freddy Krueger kills teenagers via their dreams in Wes Craven’s franchise-launching film. Craven told Vulture that the idea stemmed from an article he read in The Los Angeles Times about a family of Cambodian refugees with a young son who reported awful nightmares. “He told his parents he was afraid that if he slept, the thing chasing him would get him, so he tried to stay awake for days at a time,” said Craven. “When he finally fell asleep, his parents thought this crisis was over. Then they heard screams in the middle of the night. By the time they got to him, he was dead. He died in the middle of a nightmare. Here was a youngster having a vision of a horror that everyone older was denying. That became the central line of Nightmare on Elm Street.”
Black Water (2007)
Set in the swamps of Australia, this movie sees a group of fishers attacked by a humongous crocodile. It was inspired by an actual crocodile attack in the Australian outback in 2003 that killed a man named Brett Mann in an area that his friends said they’d “never, ever” seen a crocodile before.
Dead Ringers (1988)
In David Cronenberg’s movie, Jeremy Irons plays twin gynecologists who do messed up things with patients and ultimately die together in the end. Cronenberg adapted the movie from Bari Wood and Jack Geasland’s novel Twins, which was inspired by the lives of actual twin gynecologists Stewart and Cyril Marcus. TheNew York Times noted that the Marcuses enjoyed “trading places to fool their patients” and that they ultimately “retreat[ed] into heavy drug use and utter isolation.”
Deliver Us From Evil (2014)
The movie follows a cop and a priest who team up to take on the supernatural. It’s based on self-proclaimed “demonologist” Ralph Sarchie’s memoir Beware the Night, in which he tells supposedly true stories, such as the time he found himself “in the presence of one of hell’s most dangerous devils” possessing a woman.
Poltergeist (1982)
In Poltergeist, a family’s home is invaded by ghosts that abduct one of the daughters. The film was inspiredby unexplained events, such as loud popping noises and moved objects, that occurred in 1958 at the Hermanns’ home in Seaford, New York.
Psycho (1960)
Alfred Hitchcock’s essential film traces a woman who embezzles money from her employer and runs off to a mysterious hotel where she is (58-year-old spoiler alert) murdered by the man running it, Norman Bates. Bates is said to have been based on Ed Gein, a Wisconsin man who was convicted for one murder in the 1950s, but suspected for others. He also was a grave robber, and authorities found many disturbing results of that in his home, including bowls crafted from human skulls and a lampshade made from the skin of someone’s face.
Scream (1996)
The classic ‘90s slasher flick uses dark humor to tell the story of a group of teens and a mystery man named Ghostface who wants to murder them. But the real story ain’t funny. The movie was inspired by the Gainesville Ripper, real name Danny Rolling, who killed five Florida students by knife over a span of three days in August 1990.
The Conjuring (2013)
The movie stars Patrick Wilson and Vera Farmiga as ghost hunters helping out a family in a haunted 18th-century farmhouse. The hunters, Ed and Lorraine Warren, are real people, as is the Perron family that they assist. Lorraine was a consultant on the movie and insists that many of the supernatural horrors really happened, and one of the daughters who is depicted in the film, Andrea Perron, says the same. She recalled an angry spirit named Bathsheba to USA Today:“Whoever the spirit was, she perceived herself to be mistress of the house and she resented the competition my mother posed for that position.”
Annabelle (2014)
The creepy porcelain doll from The Conjuring gets her terror on in this spin-off of The Conjuring. The ghost-hunting Warrens have claimed that there was a real Raggedy Ann doll that moved by itself and wrote creepy-ass notes saying things like, “Help us.” The woman who owned it contacted a medium, who claimed that it was possessed by a seven-year-old girl named Annabelle who had died there.
The Disappointments Room (2016)
Kate Beckinsale stars in the movie as an architect who moves to a new home with a mysterious room in the attic that she eventually learns was previously used as a room where rich people would cast off disabled children. It was reportedly inspired by a Rhode Island woman who discovered a similar room in her house that she says was built by a 19th century judge to lock away his disabled daughter.
The Exorcist (1973)
Two priests attempt to remove a demon from a young girl in this box office smash. The movie was based on a 1949 Washington Post article with the headline “Priest Frees Mt. Rainier Boy Reported Held in Devil’s Grip.” Director William Friedkin spoke about the article to Time Out London: “Maybe one day they’ll discover the cause of what happened to that young man, but back then, it was only curable by an exorcism. His family weren’t even Catholics, they were Lutheran. They started with doctors and then psychiatrists and then psychologists and then they went to their minister who couldn’t help them. And they wound up with the Catholic church. The Washington Post article says that the boy was possessed and exorcised. That’s pretty out on a limb for a national newspaper to put on its front page… You’re not going to see that on the front page of an intelligent newspaper unless there’s something there.
The Girl Next Door (2007)
The movie follows the abuse of a teenage girl at the hands of her aunt, and it was inspired by the murder of Sylvia Likens in 1965. The 16-year-old girl was abused by her caregiver, Gertrude Baniszewski, Baniszewski’s children, and other neighborhood children, as entertainment. They ultimately killed her, with the cause of death determined as “brain swelling, internal hemorrhaging of the brain, and shock induced by Sylvia’s extensive skin damage,”
The Possession (2012)
Jeffrey Dean Morgan and Kyra Sedgwick star in the movie as a couple with a young daughter who becomes fascinated with an antique wooden box found at a yard sale. Of course, the box turns out to be home to a spirit. The flick’s “true story” basis came from an eBay listing for “a haunted Jewish wine cabinet box” containing oddities such as two locks of hair, one candlestick, and an evil spirit that caused supernatural activity. The box sold for $280 and gained attention when a Jewish newspaper ran an article about its so-called powers.
The Rite (2011)
In The Rite, a mortician enrolls in seminary and eventually takes an exorcism class in Rome, where demonic encounters ensue. The movie was based on the life of a real exorcist, Father Gary Thomas, whose work was the focus of journalist Matt Baglio’s book The Rite: The Making of an Exorcist. A Roman Catholic priest, Thomas was one of 14 Vatican-certified exorcists working in America in 2011. He served as an advisor on the film and told The Los Angeles Times that in the previous four years he had exorcised five people.
The Sacrament (2013)
In the movie, a man travels to find his sister who joined a remote religious commune, where, yep, bad things happen. It was inspired by the 1978 Jonestown massacre, in which cult leader Jim Jones led 909 of his followers to partake in a “murder-suicide ceremony” using cyanide poisoning.
The Shining (1980)
Stanley Kubrick’s horror masterpiece is about a man who is driven to insanity by supernatural forces while staying at a remote hotel in the Rockies. The movie Derives from Stephen King’s book of the same name, which was inspired by the Stanley Hotel in Colorado, where plenty of guests have reported seeing ghosts. The Stanley wasn’t actually used in the movie, however, because Kubrick didn’t think it looked scary enough.
The Silence of the Lambs(1991)
The Oscar-winning film tells the story of an FBI cadet who enlists the help of a cannibal/serial killer to pin down another serial killer, Buffalo Bill, who skins the bodies of his victims. FBI special agent John Douglas, who consulted on the film, has explained that Bill was inspired in part by the serial killer Ted Bundy, who like Bill, wore a fake cast. Ed Gein is also believed to be an inspiration, what with the whole skinning thing. And per Rolling Stone, 1980s killer Gary Heidnik was a reference for how Buffalo Bill kept victims in a basement pit.
The Strangers (2008)
Three killers in masks terrorize the suburban home of a couple (played by Liv Tyler and Scott Speedman) in this invasion thriller. Writer-director Bryan Bertino has said the film was inspired by something that happened to him in childhood. “As a kid, I lived in a house on a street in the middle of nowhere. One night, while our parents were out, somebody knocked on the front door and my little sister answered it,” he said. “At the door were some people asking for somebody that didn’t live there. We later found out that these people were knocking on doors in the area and, if no one was home, breaking into the houses.”
The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (1974 & 2003)
Ed Gein also reportedly inspired elements of The Texas Chainsaw Massacre and its remake. The movies are about groups of friends who come into contact with the murderous cannibal Leatherface. The original film memorably features a room filled with furniture created from human bones, a nod to Gein’s home.
The Town That Dreaded Sundown (1976 & 2014)
The original film follows a Texas Ranger as he tracks down a serial killer threatening a small town, and the 2014 sequel of the same name essentially revives the same plot. Both are based on the Texarkana Moonlight Murders of 1946, when a “Phantom Killer” took out five people over ten weeks. The case remains unsolved
Veronica (2018)
The recent Netflix release follows a 15-year-old girl who uses a Ouija board and accidentally connects with a demon that terrorizes her and her family. The movie’s based on a real police report from a Madrid neighborhood. As the story goes, a girl performed a séance at school and then “experienced months of seizures and hallucinations, particularly of shadows and presences surrounding her,” according to NewsWeek. The police report came a year after the girl’s death when three officers and the Chief Inspect of the National Police reported several unnatural occurrences at her family’s home that they called “a situation of mystery and rarity.”
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Our seventh episode of the molly BANG Jukebox is (was) out on Thursday the 25th, on @shadypinesradio at 11am! Please download the app - it’s free! This week we listened to tracks from the long forgotten Ultra Lounge: Leopard Skin Sampler. Here are some of the great songs you might hear on the mBJ this week:
1. Swamp Fire (Martin Denny)
2. Voodoo Dreams / Voodoo (Les Baxter)
3. Taki Rari (Yma Sumac)
4. Glow Worm Cha Cha Cha (Jackie Davis)
5. Holiday for Strings (The Voices of Walter Schumann)
6. Lonesome Road (Dean Elliot & His Big Band)
7. Melancholy Serenade (King Curtis)
8. More (Bobby Darin)
9. Girl Talk (Howard Roberts)
10. Go Slow (Julie London)
11. Search for Vulcan [From Thunderball] (Leroy Holmes)
12. Cha Cha Cha D' Amour (Dean Martin)
12. French Rat Race (The Double Six of Paris)
13. I Love Paris (Jack Constanzo)
14. So Nice [Samba De Verao] (Billy May)
15. Rockhouse (The Ernie Freeman Trio)
16. Bernie's Tune (Curley Hamner & Milt Buckner)
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Jack Costanzo – Latin Fever (2003)
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Jack Constanzo – Sax Con Ritmo (1:56) Jack Constanzo – Peanut Vendor (2:24) Jack Constanzo – Bajo Numero Uno (3:10) Jack Constanzo – Taboo (2:43) Jack Constanzo – Malaguena (7:38) Jack Constanzo – Latin Fever (2:59) Jack Constanzo – Cumbanchero (2:21) Jack Constanzo – Hornacopia (2:26) Jack Constanzo – La Paloma (2:03) Jack Constanzo – Oye Negra (2:24) Jack Constanzo – Mama Yo Quiero (2:27) Jack Constanzo – Drum-A-Mania (2:03)
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World Serial Killers - Gordon Kerr
World Serial Killers They Kill for the Thrill Gordon Kerr Genre: True Crime Price: $0.99 Publish Date: October 5, 2011 Publisher: Canary Press Seller: Canary Press eBooks Limited World Serial Killers investigates the fiendish crimes of butchers like Fritz Haarman selling human meat on the streets of Hanover, Germany, Edinburgh body-snatchers Burke and Hare and Alberto De Salvo, the notorious Boston Strangler. Read the accounts of deranged real-life monsters such as Charles Manson, Ted Bundy and Jack the Ripper as well as the stories of many other serial killers from around the world.   Contents:  Europe - Burke and Hare, Jack the Ripper, Henri Landru, Fritz Haarmann, Marcel Petiot, Peter Kürten, Peter Manuel, Joachim Kroll, Ian Brady and Myra Hindley, Fred and Rosemary West, Harold Shipman. North America –  H.H.Holmes, Albert Fish, The Lonely Hearts Killers,The Boston Strangler, Charles Manson, Ed Kemper, Ted Bundy, Son of Sam, The Hillside Stranglers, Clifford Olson, Henry Lee Lucas and Ottis Toole, Tommy Lynn Sells, Cary Stayner. South America – Pedro Alonso López, Luis Alfredo Garavito Cubillos, Adolfo de Jesús Constanzo, Juana Barraza. Australia – Eric Edgar Cooke, William the Mutilator Macdonald, Paul Charles Denyer, Ivan Milat, The Snowtown Murderers, John Wayne Glover, Peter Dupas, Catherine and David Birnie http://bit.ly/2LDfTxw
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Noticias de series de la semana: Grandes anuncios
Renovaciones
Amazon ha renovado The Boys por una tercera temporada
HBO ha renovado Perry Mason por una segunda temporada
Amazon ha renovado La jauría por una segunda temporada
Netflix ha renovado Outer Banks por una segunda temporada
Netflix ha renovado Sweet Magnolias por una segunda temporada
CBC ha renovado Burden of Truth por una cuarta temporada
Channel 4 ha renovado I Am por una segunda temporada
Netflix ha renovado How To Sell Drugs Online (Fast) por una tercera temporada
Starz ha renovado P-Valley por una segunda temporada
Channel 5 y PBS están en conversaciones para renovar All Creatures Great and Small por una segunda temporada
Cancelaciones
La quinta temporada de La casa de papel (Netflix) será la última
Noticias cortas
Maria Bello (Jacqueline 'Jack' Sloane) abandonará NCIS durante su decimoctava temporada.
HBO planea un reboot de In Treatment.
La décima temporada de The Walking Dead tendrá seis episodios más.
La revista Hollywood Weekly Magazine demandará a Netflix por el uso de la frase Tiger King.
Netflix ha cancelado su serie original turca If Only tras las presiones del gobierno para eliminar un personaje gay. Las autoridades se negaban a firmar la licencia de grabación.
Richard Flood (Cormack Hayes) y Anthony Hill (Winston Ndugu) serán regulares en la decimoséptima temporada de Grey's Anatomy.
Stefania Spampinato (Carina DeLuca) será regular en la cuarta temporada de Station 19.
Incorporaciones y fichajes
Miguel Ángel Silvestre (Sense8, Sin tetas no hay paraíso) y Patrick Criado (Águila Roja, Mar de plástico) se unen a la quinta y última temporada de La casa de papel.
Tiffany Boone (Hunters, Little Fires Everywhere), Michael Shannon (Boardwalk Empire, Waco), Asher Keddie (Stateless, Offspring) y Grace Van Patten (Maniac) serán Delilah, una empleada del resort; Napoleon, uno de los nueve desconocidos; Heather, la esposa de Napoleon;  y Zoe, una de los desconocidos, en Nine Perfect Strangers.
Emmy Raver-Lampman (The Umbrella Academy, Hamilton) prestará su voz a Molly en Central Park sustituyendo a Kristen Bell.
Dania Ramirez (Heroes, Devious Maids) se une a Sweet Tooth. Se cree que interpretará a Aimee, una pionera en medio de la distópica tierra de Estados Unidos y una carroñera solitaria en una ciudad abandonada que trata de reconstruir un hábitat para dar un hogar a los híbridos huérfanos.
Terence Stamp (The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert; Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children), Jade Anouka (Trauma, Cleaning Up) y Simone Kirby (Resistance, Rebellion) se unen a la segunda temporada de His Dark Materials. Serán Giacomo Paradisi, Ruta Skadi y Mary Malone.
Kim Coates (Sons of Anarchy, Godless), Ali Liebert (Harper's Island, Kyle XY) y Steve Bacic (Big Love, The Order) serán el conde Dalibor, marido de Olivia (Tricia Helfer); Nina, una vampiro relacionada con el pasado de Julius (Aleks Paunovic); y un vampiro salvaje que se esconde junto a un niño en una mina abandonada en la quinta y última temporada de Van Helsing.
Margot Bingham (Boardwalk Empire, She's Gotta Have It) estará en la undécima temporada de The Walking Dead. No se ha desvelado a quién interpretará, pero se da por hecho que será Stephanie, que conectó por radio con Eugene (Josh McDermitt), a quien puso voz en dos episodios de la décima temporada.
Parvesh Cheena (Crazy Ex-Girlfriend, Outsourced) se une como regular a Connecting. Será Pradeep, un padre que ama a sus hijos pero no acostumbra a estar mucho tiempo con ellos.
Pósters
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Stanley Tucci (Feud, The Lovely Bones), Álvaro Mel (La otra mirada), Ana Polvorosa (Aida, Las chicas del cable), T'Nia Miller (Years and Years, The Feed), Clarke Peters (The Wire, Treme), Karra Elejalde (Mientras dure la guerra, Ocho apellidos vascos), Manolo Solo (Tarde para la ira, B), Blanca Portillo (7 Vidas, Acusados) y Pedro Casablanc (Mar de plástico, Motivos personales) protagonizarán la limited series La fortuna, creada y dirigida por Alejandro Amenábar (Los otros, Mar adentro) e inspirada en la novela gráfica 'El tesoro del Cisne Negro' y emitida en Movistar+ y AMC.
Netflix encarga seis episodios de la precuela The Witcher: Blood Origin, limited series situada 1200 años antes de la historia de The Witcher, cuando los universos de los monstruos, los hombres y los elfos se unieron y apareció el primer Brujo. Escrita y producida por Declan de Barra (The Witcher, The Originals).
BBC One encarga tres episodios de The Pursuit of Love, adaptación de la novela de Nancy Mitford (1945) que sigue las aventuras y desventuras de la carismática y valiente Linda Radlett (Lily James; Downton Abbey, Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again) y su prima y mejor amiga Fanny Logan (Emily Beecham; Into the Badlands, The Village) entre la Primera y la Segunda Guerra Mundial. Consumidas por su deseo de amor y matrimonio, las dos chicas buscan al esposo ideal poniendo su amistad a prueba. Completan el cast Dominic West (The Wire, The Affair), Dolly Wells (Doll & Em), Andrew Scott (Fleabag, Sherlock), Emily Mortimer (Doll & Em, The Newsroom), Beattie Edmondson (Josh), Assaad Bouab (Call my agent, Messiah), Shazad Latif (Penny Dreadful, Star Trek: Discovery) y Freddie Fox (The Crown, Cucumber). Escrita y dirigida por Emily Mortimer (Doll & Em).
Diego Boneta (Luis Miguel, Scream Queens) producirá y protagonizará Brujo, limited series de HBO Max inspirada en Adolfo Constanzo, el asesino en serie, traficante y líder de secta cubanoamericano.
Elisabeth Moss (The Handmaid's Tale, Mad Men) protagonizará y producirá Shining Girls en Apple. Es un thriller metafísico basado en la novela de Lauren Beukes (2013) en el que un vagabundo descubre la forma de viajar en el tiempo pero, para ello, deberá matar a una serie de chicas especiales. Moss interpretará a una reportera de Chicago que sobrevive a una brutal agresión y, mientras descubre que su vida ha cambiado, se dedica a rastrear a su atacante. Escrito y producido por Silka Luisa (Strange Angel) y producido por Leonardo DiCaprio (The Wolf of Wall Street, Richard Jewell).
HBO ha encargado Somebody Somewhere, comedia inspirada en la vida de la actriz y comediante Bridget Everett (Unbelievable, Lady Dynamite) y protagonizada y producida por ella misma.
Amazon ha encargado Paper Girls, adaptación de la novela gráfica que sigue a cuatro chicas que reparten periódicos la mañana después de Halloween en 1988 y se encuentran en medio de un conflicto entre facciones en guerra de viajeros del tiempo que las envía a un viaje para salvar el mundo donde encontrarán a versiones futuras de ellas mismas. Escrita por Stephany Folsom (Toy Story 4, Star Wars: Resistance), Christopher Cantwell (Halt and Catch Fire) y Christopher C. Rogers (Halt and Catch Fire). Producida por los autores de la novela.
Luz verde directa en Apple TV+ a Echo 3, thriller en el que una brillante joven científica, el centro emocional de una pequeña familia, desaparece en la frontera de Colombia y Venezuela y su marido y su hermano, dos hombres con experiencia militar y pasado complicado, salen en su búsqueda en medio de una guerra secreta. Basada en la israelí When Heroes Fly. Escrito y producido por Mark Boal (The Hurt Locker, Zero Dark Thirty) y Jason Horwitch (Berlin Station, House of Cards), ambientado en Sudamérica y grabado en inglés y español. Diez episodios.
Netflix ha encargado dos temporadas, de ocho episodios cada una, de Splinter Cell, serie de anime adaptación del videojuego en el que un antiguo Navy SEAL es reclutado por la NSA para trabajar en una misteriosa división con misiones secretas. Escrita y producida por Derek Kolstad (John Wick, The Falcon and the Winter Soldier).
Steven Canals (Pose) escribe y produce 81 Words, limited series sobre el esfuerzo histórico de un grupo de profesionales médicos para eliminar la homosexualidad de la lista de enfermedades mentales en los 70. Basada en el episodio homónimo del programa de radio This American Life.
Miguel Bernardeau (Élite, Ola de crímenes) protagonizará Playa Negra (8 episodios), sobre un joven recién llegado a Lanzarote que pretende acercarse al que cree que es su padre y, mientras tanto, conoce a un grupo de surfistas con los que acaba descubriendo los secretos más oscuros de la isla. Escrita y producida por Susana Casares (Luis Miguel). De los productores de Narcos y los de Cuéntame cómo pasó.
Taraji P. Henson producirá un spin-off de Empire centrado en Cookie Lyon. Escrito y producido por Danny Strong, creador de la serie original; Stacy A. Littlejohn (Empire, Single Ladies) y Yolonda Lawrence (Empire, Single Ladies) y dirigido por Sanaa Hamri (Empire, Shameless).
Spectrum y Daniel Dae Kim (The Good Doctor) desarrollan una comedia basada en la vida del modelo, actor y activista Nyle DiMarco (This Close), el primer ganador sordo de America's Next Top Model. El propio DiMarco protagonizará y producirá la serie.
Bruna Papandrea (Big Little Lies, Gone Girl) ha adquirido los derechos de The Exiles, la novela de Christina Baker Kline (2020), para adaptarla para televisión. Sigue a tres mujeres, dos presas inglesas y una aborigen huérfana, en el siglo XIX en Australia. Producida por Papandrea y Kline.
Nina Dobrev (The Vampire Diaries) ha adquirido los derechos de la novela Woman 99 (Greer Macallister, 2019) para protagonizar y producir su adaptación televisiva. Es un thriller histórico que sigue a una joven que planea liberar a su hermana de un famoso psiquiátrico poniendo en riesgo su propia salud mental, su seguridad y su vida.
Sister producirá la adaptación de Mrs. Everything, novela de Jennifer Weiner (2019). Es la historia de dos hermanas de Detroit desde los años 50 hasta la actualidad con la guerra de Vietnam, los derechos civiles y la liberación de la mujer como telón de fondo. Producida por Weiner.
The CW desarrolla The Revelations of Becka Paulson, adaptación de la historia corta de Stephen King (1984) en la que Becca, tras dispararse accidentalmente en la cabeza con una pistola de clavos, es reclutada para ser la elegida para detener el apocalipsis.
Olvia Hetreed (Girl with a Pearl Earring) adaptará Song Of The Sun God, novela de Shankari Chandran (2017) sobre el conflicto de Sri Lanka centrándose en tres generaciones de una familia, en seis episodios.
Sony Pictures Television ha adquirido los derechos de 'Master of Ceremonies: A True Story of Love, Murder, Roller Skates & Chippendales', memorias de David Henry Sterry (2007), un antiguo stripper. Adaptación de Gordon Smith (Breaking Bad, Better Call Saul).
Showtime trabaja en una serie sobre la corrupción vista a través de los ojos de la mafia. Escrita y producida por Terence Winter (Boardwalk Empire, The Sopranos) y el periodista y guionista Nicholas Pileggi (Goodfellas, Casino).
Fechas
The Deceived se estrena en Channel 5 el 3 de agosto
La cuarta temporada de 3% llega a Netflix el 14 de agosto
Teenage Bounty Hunters llega a Netflix el 14 de agosto
La segunda y última temporada de Trinkets llega a Netflix el 25 de agosto
Julie and the Phantoms llega a Netflix el 10 de septiembre
The Third Day se estrena en HBO el 14 de septiembre
We Are Who We Are se estrena en HBO el 14 de septiembre
La undécima temporada de Archer se estrena en FXX el 16 de septiembre
Ratched llega a Netflix el 18 de septiembre
Filthy Rich se estrena en FOX el 21 de septiembre
The Simpsons (32T), Bless the Harts (2T), Bob's Burgers (11T) y Family Guy (19T) vuelven a FOX el 27 de septiembre
The Walking Dead vuelve el 4 de octubre con el episodio que tendría que haberse emitido en abril y que ya no servirá como season finale.
The Walking Dead: World Beyond se estrena el 4 de octubre
NeXt se estrena en FOX el 6 de octubre
La sexta temporada de Fear The Walking Dead se estrena el 11 de octubre
La tercera temporada de Star Trek: Discovery se estrena en CBS All Access el 15 de octubre
Tráilers y promos
Vikings - Temporada 6b y última
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We Are Who We Are
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The Comey Rule
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Utopia
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Star Trek: Discovery
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Truth Seekers
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His Dark Materials - Temporada 2
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Young Wallander
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Helstrom
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Pandora - Temporada 2
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The Right Stuff
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For All Mankind - Temporada 2
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The Fugitive
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Archer - Temporada 11
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Debris
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Teenage Bounty Hunters
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Filthy Rich
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Baby - Temporada 3 y última
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La Révolution
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Love in the Time of Corona
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CHILDREN — Andryana Vittoria Taylor Spencer (daughter; 1980-) — Ainsleigh Raffaela Taylor Cassadine (daughter; 1980-) — Lauralyn Brenda Lansing (daughter; 1986-) — Taylor Quartermaine (stillborn daughter; 1988) — Versace Taylor Quartermaine (son; 1991-) — Vogue Charlene Quartermaine Drake (daughter; 1991-) — Katson Alejandra Corinthos (daughter; 2002-) — Falconeri Aricelio Corinthos (son; 2009-) GRANDCHILDREN — Leighton Malcolm Scorpio (grandson; via Andryana; 1996-) — Zachariah Robin Scorpio (grandson; via Andryana; 2001-) — Lorenzo Gemmison Spencer (grandson; via Andryana; 2013-) — Ryana Barbara Spencer (granddaughter; via Andryana; 2015-) — Christopher James Spencer (grandson; via Andryana; 2018-) — Jordan Taylor Mikkosovich Cassadine (grandson; via Ainsleigh; 2017-) — Gemma Katherine Zacchara (granddaughter; via Lauralyn; 2001-) — Carolyn Reva Corinthos (granddaughter; via Lauralyn; 2006-) — Baby Zacchara (miscarried grandchild; via Lauralyn; 2011-) — Almah Celeste Quartermaine (granddaughter; via Versace; 2010-2013) PARENTS — Constanzo Raffaele Falconeri (father; 1939-) — Anabella Eliane Rizzoli Lansing (mother; 1938-) SIBLINGS — Andrya Constantine Rizzoli (maternal half-sister; 1955-1967) — Francesca Lauralyn Rizzoli Falconeri (maternal half-sister; 1961-) — Raffaela Eliane Falconeri-Zacchara (fraternal twin sister; 1963-) — Violetta Analilia Falconeri Cassadine (adoptive sister; 1965-) — Robin Daciana Falconeri Cassadine (paternal half-sister; 1969-) — Charlotte Amelia Falconeri Drake (sister; 1975-) — Khloë Alejandra Falconeri Ghirardelli (sister; 1987-) — Tennsyon Andreas Lansing (maternal half-brother; 2002-) — Jerome Raffaele Falconeri (paternal half-brother; 2010-) — Deacon Claudius Falconeri (paternal half-brother; 2012-) NIECES & NEPHEWS — Daciano Constantino Falconeri (maternal half-nephew; via Francesca; 1978-) — Mirabella Italia Falconeri Zacchara (maternal half-niece; via Francesca; 1978-) — Francesco Carmine Falconeri (maternal half-nephew; via Francesca; 1986-) — Katen Oliviello Falconeri (maternal half-nephew; via Francesca; 1989-) — Raffaele Brooklyn Falconeri (matenralhalf-nephew; via Francesca; 1994-) — Courtetta Chloë Falconeri (maternal half-niece; via Francesca; 2004-) — Rizzoli Coppola Falconeri (adoptive maternal half-nephew; via Francesca; 2010-) — Lanaura Alexis Falconeri (adoptive maternal half-niece; via Francesca; 2012-) — Kaelah Rose Zacchara (niece; via Raffaela; 1986-) — Braxton Antonius Zacchara (nephew; via Raffaela; 1988-) — Claudiana Marilyn Sinclair (niece; via Raffaela; 1994-) — Logan Murdoch Sinclair (nephew; via Raffaela; 1995-) — Constella Jayne Jacks (niece; via Raffaela; 1999-) — Jasper John Jacks, II. (nephew; via Raffaela; 2010-) — Milan Charlie Jacks (nephew; via Raffaela; 2010-) — Hazel Autumn Zacchara (niece; via Raffela; 2014-) — Aurèle Ronald Dimestico (adoptive nephew; via Violetta; 1984-) — Bellissa Kingsleigh Dimestico (adoptive niece; via Violetta; 1993-) — America Dimestico (adoptive nephew; via Violetta; 2001-2001) — Gwendolyn Charlotte Valentinovna Cassadine (adoptive niece; via Violetta; 2009-) — Madeleine Alexandra Valentinovna Cassadine (adoptive niece; via Violetta; 2009-) — Wyatt Niklaus Valentinovich Cassadine (adoptive nephew; via Violetta; 2015-) — Stonia Ainsleigh Cates-Lansing (paternal half-niece; via Robin; 1987-) — Bretagne Raffaela Webber (paternal half-niece; via Robin; 1996-) — Emiliana Grace Niklosovna Cassadine (paternal half-niece; via Robin; 2011-) — Scorpio Lucretius Niklosovich Cassadine (paternal half-nephew; via Robin; 2011-) — Maribeth Charley Niklosovna Cassadine (paternal half-niece; via Robin; 2014-) — Mikhail Alejandro Niklosovich Cassadine (paternal half-nephew; via Robin; 2017-) — Baby Drake (miscarriage; via Charlotte; 2009) — Baby Drake (miscarriage; via Charlotte; 2009) — Ameliana Cristina Drake (adoptive niece; via Charlotte; 2009-) — Baby Drake (miscarriage; via Charlotte; 2010) — Fallyn Spencer Drake (nephew; via Charlotte; 2012-) — Liberty Alexandrya Drake (niece; via Charlotte; 2015-) — Bailey Jean Drake (nephew; via Charlotte; 2016-) — Kaliyah Belle Ghirardelli (niece; via Khloë; 2010-) — Konner Domingo Ghirardelli (nephew; via Khloë; 2013-) — Kaye Ember Ghirardelli (miscarriage; via Khloë; 2015) — Kolby Frances Ghirardelli (nephew; via Khloë; 2016-) GREAT-NIECES & GREAT-NEPHEWS — (maternal-half great-niece; via Daciano; 2013-) — (maternal-half great-nephew; via Daciano; 2015-) — (maternal-half great-nephew; via Daciano; 2017-) — Vitalia Gracelyn Zacchara (maternal half great-niece; via Mirabella; 1996-) — (via Mirabella) — (via Francesco) — Raymond John Zacchara (great-nephew; via Kaelah; 2009-) — Delaney Braxton Zacchara (great-nephew; via Kaelah; 2015-) — Lilah Rafferty Zacchara (great-niece; via Kaelah; 2017-) — Coureigh Rosaela Zacchara (great-niece; via Braxton; 2009-) — Baby Zacchara (miscarriage; via Braxton; 2010-) — Braxtany Lila Zacchara (great-niece; via Braxton; 2012-) — Emerald Louise Zacchara (great-niece; via Braxton; 2012-) — Genevieve Constella Zacchara (great-niece; via Braxton; 2016-) — Sinclair Montague Zacchara (great-nephew; via Braxton; 2016-) — Maleigha Vincetta Dimestico (adoptive maternal half-niece; via Aurèle; 2014-) — Taviano Robin Dimestico (adoptive maternal half-nephew; via Aurèle; 2018-) — Tremaine Spencer Lansing (adoptive paternal-half great-nephew; via Stonia; 2001-) — Robin Giselle Genovese (paternal-half great-niece; via Stonia; 2004-) — Grace Kaelina Lansing (paternal-half great-niece; via Stonia; 2011-) — Stone Braxton Lansing (paternal-half great-niece; via Stonia; 2012-) — Roman Devane Lansing (paternal-half great-niece; via Stonia; 2013-) — Brennan Gale Lansing (paternal-half great-nephew; via Stonia; 2017-)
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Horror Movies Based on True Events  
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Open Water (2003) When a couple goes scuba diving in Open Water, their boat accidentally leaves them behind in shark-infested water. It’s based on something that really happened to American tourists Tom and Eileen Lonergan, who were left behind by a diving company off the Great Barrier Reef. By the time the mistake was realized two days later, it was too late, and they were never seen again. A shark attack seems not to have been the cause of death, however, as the couple’s dive jackets were eventually found. The jackets weren’t damaged, which suggested that the Lonergans likely took them off, “delirious from dehydration,” and drowned.
Borderland (2007) When three friends head to a Mexican border town to have some fun in this movie, they get mixed up with a cult specializing in human sacrifice. The concept loosely stems from the life of Adolfo de Jesus Constanzo, a drug lord and cult leader who was responsible for the death of American student Mark Kilroy.
A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984) The iconic baddie Freddy Krueger kills teenagers via their dreams in Wes Craven’s franchise-launching film. Craven told Vulture that the idea stemmed from an article he read in The Los Angeles Times about a family of Cambodian refugees with a young son who reported awful nightmares. “He told his parents he was afraid that if he slept, the thing chasing him would get him, so he tried to stay awake for days at a time,” said Craven. “When he finally fell asleep, his parents thought this crisis was over. Then they heard screams in the middle of the night. By the time they got to him, he was dead. He died in the middle of a nightmare. Here was a youngster having a vision of a horror that everyone older was denying. That became the central line of Nightmare on Elm Street.”
Black Water (2007) Set in the swamps of Australia, this movie sees a group of fishers attacked by a humongous crocodile. It was inspired by an actual crocodile attack in the Australian outback in 2003 that killed a man named Brett Mann in an area that his friends said they’d “never, ever” seen a crocodile before.
Dead Ringers (1988) In David Cronenberg’s movie, Jeremy Irons plays twin gynecologists who do messed up things with patients and ultimately die together in the end. Cronenberg adapted the movie from Bari Wood and Jack Geasland’s novel Twins, which was inspired by the lives of actual twin gynecologists Stewart and Cyril Marcus. TheNew York Times noted that the Marcuses enjoyed “trading places to fool their patients” and that they ultimately “retreat[ed] into heavy drug use and utter isolation.”
Deliver Us From Evil (2014) The movie follows a cop and a priest who team up to take on the supernatural. It’s based on self-proclaimed “demonologist” Ralph Sarchie’s memoir Beware the Night, in which he tells supposedly true stories, such as the time he found himself "in the presence of one of hell's most dangerous devils" possessing a woman.
Poltergeist (1982) In Poltergeist, a family’s home is invaded by ghosts that abduct one of the daughters. The film was inspiredby unexplained events, such as loud popping noises and moved objects, that occurred in 1958 at the Hermanns’ home in Seaford, New York.
Psycho (1960) Alfred Hitchcock’s essential film traces a woman who embezzles money from her employer and runs off to a mysterious hotel where she is (58-year-old spoiler alert) murdered by the man running it, Norman Bates. Bates is said to have been based on Ed Gein, a Wisconsin man who was convicted for one murder in the 1950s, but suspected for others. He also was a grave robber, and authorities found many disturbing results of that in his home, including bowls crafted from human skulls and a lampshade made from the skin of someone’s face.
Scream (1996) The classic ‘90s slasher flick uses dark humor to tell the story of a group of teens and a mystery man named Ghostface who wants to murder them. But the real story ain’t funny. The movie was inspired by the Gainesville Ripper, real name Danny Rolling, who killed five Florida students by knife over a span of three days in August 1990.
The Conjuring (2013) The movie stars Patrick Wilson and Vera Farmiga as ghost hunters helping out a family in a haunted 18th-century farmhouse. The hunters, Ed and Lorraine Warren, are real people, as is the Perron family that they assist. Lorraine was a consultant on the movie and insists that many of the supernatural horrors really happened, and one of the daughters who is depicted in the film, Andrea Perron, says the same. She recalled an angry spirit named Bathsheba to USA Today:“Whoever the spirit was, she perceived herself to be mistress of the house and she resented the competition my mother posed for that position.”
Annabelle (2014) The creepy porcelain doll from The Conjuring gets her terror on in this spin-off of The Conjuring. The ghost-hunting Warrens have claimed that there was a real Raggedy Ann doll that moved by itself and wrote creepy-ass notes saying things like, “Help us.” The woman who owned it contacted a medium, who claimed that it was possessed by a seven-year-old girl named Annabelle who had died there.
The Disappointments Room (2016) Kate Beckinsale stars in the movie as an architect who moves to a new home with a mysterious room in the attic that she eventually learns was previously used as a room where rich people would cast off disabled children. It was reportedly inspired by a Rhode Island woman who discovered a similar room in her house that she says was built by a 19th century judge to lock away his disabled daughter.
The Exorcist (1973) Two priests attempt to remove a demon from a young girl in this box office smash. The movie was based on a 1949 Washington Post article with the headline “Priest Frees Mt. Rainier Boy Reported Held in Devil's Grip.” Director William Friedkin spoke about the article to Time Out London: “Maybe one day they’ll discover the cause of what happened to that young man, but back then, it was only curable by an exorcism. His family weren’t even Catholics, they were Lutheran. They started with doctors and then psychiatrists and then psychologists and then they went to their minister who couldn’t help them. And they wound up with the Catholic church. The Washington Post article says that the boy was possessed and exorcised. That’s pretty out on a limb for a national newspaper to put on its front page… You’re not going to see that on the front page of an intelligent newspaper unless there’s something there.
The Girl Next Door (2007) The movie follows the abuse of a teenage girl at the hands of her aunt, and it was inspired by the murder of Sylvia Likens in 1965. The 16-year-old girl was abused by her caregiver, Gertrude Baniszewski, Baniszewski’s children, and other neighborhood children, as entertainment. They ultimately killed her, with the cause of death determined as “brain swelling, internal hemorrhaging of the brain, and shock induced by Sylvia's extensive skin damage,”
The Possession (2012) Jeffrey Dean Morgan and Kyra Sedgwick star in the movie as a couple with a young daughter who becomes fascinated with an antique wooden box found at a yard sale. Of course, the box turns out to be home to a spirit. The flick’s “true story” basis came from an eBay listing for “a haunted Jewish wine cabinet box” containing oddities such as two locks of hair, one candlestick, and an evil spirit that caused supernatural activity. The box sold for $280 and gained attention when a Jewish newspaper ran an article about its so-called powers.
The Rite (2011) In The Rite, a mortician enrolls in seminary and eventually takes an exorcism class in Rome, where demonic encounters ensue. The movie was based on the life of a real exorcist, Father Gary Thomas, whose work was the focus of journalist Matt Baglio’s book The Rite: The Making of an Exorcist. A Roman Catholic priest, Thomas was one of 14 Vatican-certified exorcists working in America in 2011. He served as an advisor on the film and told The Los Angeles Times that in the previous four years he had exorcised five people.
The Sacrament (2013) In the movie, a man travels to find his sister who joined a remote religious commune, where, yep, bad things happen. It was inspired by the 1978 Jonestown massacre, in which cult leader Jim Jones led 909 of his followers to partake in a “murder-suicide ceremony” using cyanide poisoning.
The Shining (1980) Stanley Kubrick’s horror masterpiece is about a man who is driven to insanity by supernatural forces while staying at a remote hotel in the Rockies. The movie Derives from Stephen King’s book of the same name, which was inspired by the Stanley Hotel in Colorado, where plenty of guests have reported seeing ghosts. The Stanley wasn’t actually used in the movie, however, because Kubrick didn’t think it looked scary enough.
The Silence of the Lambs(1991) The Oscar-winning film tells the story of an FBI cadet who enlists the help of a cannibal/serial killer to pin down another serial killer, Buffalo Bill, who skins the bodies of his victims. FBI special agent John Douglas, who consulted on the film, has explained that Bill was inspired in part by the serial killer Ted Bundy, who like Bill, wore a fake cast. Ed Gein is also believed to be an inspiration, what with the whole skinning thing. And per Rolling Stone, 1980s killer Gary Heidnik was a reference for how Buffalo Bill kept victims in a basement pit.
The Strangers (2008) Three killers in masks terrorize the suburban home of a couple (played by Liv Tyler and Scott Speedman) in this invasion thriller. Writer-director Bryan Bertino has said the film was inspired by something that happened to him in childhood. "As a kid, I lived in a house on a street in the middle of nowhere. One night, while our parents were out, somebody knocked on the front door and my little sister answered it,” he said. "At the door were some people asking for somebody that didn't live there. We later found out that these people were knocking on doors in the area and, if no one was home, breaking into the houses."
The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (1974 & 2003) Ed Gein also reportedly inspired elements of The Texas Chainsaw Massacre and its remake. The movies are about groups of friends who come into contact with the murderous cannibal Leatherface. The original film memorably features a room filled with furniture created from human bones, a nod to Gein’s home.
The Town That Dreaded Sundown (1976 & 2014) The original film follows a Texas Ranger as he tracks down a serial killer threatening a small town, and the 2014 sequel of the same name essentially revives the same plot. Both are based on the Texarkana Moonlight Murders of 1946, when a “Phantom Killer” took out five people over ten weeks. The case remains unsolved 
Veronica (2018) The recent Netflix release follows a 15-year-old girl who uses a Ouija board and accidentally connects with a demon that terrorizes her and her family. The movie’s based on a real police report from a Madrid neighborhood. As the story goes, a girl performed a séance at school and then “experienced months of seizures and hallucinations, particularly of shadows and presences surrounding her,” according to NewsWeek. The police report came a year after the girl’s death when three officers and the Chief Inspect of the National Police reported several unnatural occurrences at her family’s home that they called “a situation of mystery and rarity.”
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Horror Movies Based on True Events
Open Water (2003)
When a couple goes scuba diving in Open Water, their boat accidentally leaves them behind in shark-infested water. It’s based on something that really happened to American tourists Tom and Eileen Lonergan, who were left behind by a diving company off the Great Barrier Reef. By the time the mistake was realized two days later, it was too late, and they were never seen again. A shark attack seems not to have been the cause of death, however, as the couple’s dive jackets were eventually found. The jackets weren’t damaged, which suggested that the Lonergans likely took them off, “delirious from dehydration,” and drowned.
Borderland (2007)
When three friends head to a Mexican border town to have some fun in this movie, they get mixed up with a cult specializing in human sacrifice. The concept loosely stems from the life of Adolfo de Jesus Constanzo, a drug lord and cult leader who was responsible for the death of American student Mark Kilroy.
A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984)
The iconic baddie Freddy Krueger kills teenagers via their dreams in Wes Craven’s franchise-launching film. Craven told Vulture that the idea stemmed from an article he read in The Los Angeles Times about a family of Cambodian refugees with a young son who reported awful nightmares. “He told his parents he was afraid that if he slept, the thing chasing him would get him, so he tried to stay awake for days at a time,” said Craven. “When he finally fell asleep, his parents thought this crisis was over. Then they heard screams in the middle of the night. By the time they got to him, he was dead. He died in the middle of a nightmare. Here was a youngster having a vision of a horror that everyone older was denying. That became the central line of Nightmare on Elm Street.”
Black Water (2007)
Set in the swamps of Australia, this movie sees a group of fishers attacked by a humongous crocodile. It was inspired by an actual crocodile attack in the Australian outback in 2003 that killed a man named Brett Mann in an area that his friends said they’d “never, ever” seen a crocodile before.
Dead Ringers (1988)
In David Cronenberg’s movie, Jeremy Irons plays twin gynecologists who do messed up things with patients and ultimately die together in the end. Cronenberg adapted the movie from Bari Wood and Jack Geasland’s novel Twins, which was inspired by the lives of actual twin gynecologists Stewart and Cyril Marcus. TheNew York Times noted that the Marcuses enjoyed “trading places to fool their patients” and that they ultimately “retreat[ed] into heavy drug use and utter isolation.”
Deliver Us From Evil (2014)
The movie follows a cop and a priest who team up to take on the supernatural. It’s based on self-proclaimed “demonologist” Ralph Sarchie’s memoir Beware the Night, in which he tells supposedly true stories, such as the time he found himself “in the presence of one of hell’s most dangerous devils” possessing a woman.
Poltergeist (1982)
In Poltergeist, a family’s home is invaded by ghosts that abduct one of the daughters. The film was inspiredby unexplained events, such as loud popping noises and moved objects, that occurred in 1958 at the Hermanns’ home in Seaford, New York.
Psycho (1960)
Alfred Hitchcock’s essential film traces a woman who embezzles money from her employer and runs off to a mysterious hotel where she is (58-year-old spoiler alert) murdered by the man running it, Norman Bates. Bates is said to have been based on Ed Gein, a Wisconsin man who was convicted for one murder in the 1950s, but suspected for others. He also was a grave robber, and authorities found many disturbing results of that in his home, including bowls crafted from human skulls and a lampshade made from the skin of someone’s face.
Scream (1996)
The classic ‘90s slasher flick uses dark humor to tell the story of a group of teens and a mystery man named Ghostface who wants to murder them. But the real story ain’t funny. The movie was inspired by the Gainesville Ripper, real name Danny Rolling, who killed five Florida students by knife over a span of three days in August 1990.
The Conjuring (2013)
The movie stars Patrick Wilson and Vera Farmiga as ghost hunters helping out a family in a haunted 18th-century farmhouse. The hunters, Ed and Lorraine Warren, are real people, as is the Perron family that they assist. Lorraine was a consultant on the movie and insists that many of the supernatural horrors really happened, and one of the daughters who is depicted in the film, Andrea Perron, says the same. She recalled an angry spirit named Bathsheba to USA Today:“Whoever the spirit was, she perceived herself to be mistress of the house and she resented the competition my mother posed for that position.”
Annabelle (2014)
The creepy porcelain doll from The Conjuring gets her terror on in this spin-off of The Conjuring. The ghost-hunting Warrens have claimed that there was a real Raggedy Ann doll that moved by itself and wrote creepy-ass notes saying things like, “Help us.” The woman who owned it contacted a medium, who claimed that it was possessed by a seven-year-old girl named Annabelle who had died there.
The Disappointments Room (2016)
Kate Beckinsale stars in the movie as an architect who moves to a new home with a mysterious room in the attic that she eventually learns was previously used as a room where rich people would cast off disabled children. It was reportedly inspired by a Rhode Island woman who discovered a similar room in her house that she says was built by a 19th century judge to lock away his disabled daughter.
The Exorcist (1973)
Two priests attempt to remove a demon from a young girl in this box office smash. The movie was based on a 1949 Washington Post article with the headline “Priest Frees Mt. Rainier Boy Reported Held in Devil’s Grip.” Director William Friedkin spoke about the article to Time Out London: “Maybe one day they’ll discover the cause of what happened to that young man, but back then, it was only curable by an exorcism. His family weren’t even Catholics, they were Lutheran. They started with doctors and then psychiatrists and then psychologists and then they went to their minister who couldn’t help them. And they wound up with the Catholic church. The Washington Post article says that the boy was possessed and exorcised. That’s pretty out on a limb for a national newspaper to put on its front page… You’re not going to see that on the front page of an intelligent newspaper unless there’s something there.
The Girl Next Door (2007)
The movie follows the abuse of a teenage girl at the hands of her aunt, and it was inspired by the murder of Sylvia Likens in 1965. The 16-year-old girl was abused by her caregiver, Gertrude Baniszewski, Baniszewski’s children, and other neighborhood children, as entertainment. They ultimately killed her, with the cause of death determined as “brain swelling, internal hemorrhaging of the brain, and shock induced by Sylvia’s extensive skin damage,”
The Possession (2012)
Jeffrey Dean Morgan and Kyra Sedgwick star in the movie as a couple with a young daughter who becomes fascinated with an antique wooden box found at a yard sale. Of course, the box turns out to be home to a spirit. The flick’s “true story” basis came from an eBay listing for “a haunted Jewish wine cabinet box” containing oddities such as two locks of hair, one candlestick, and an evil spirit that caused supernatural activity. The box sold for $280 and gained attention when a Jewish newspaper ran an article about its so-called powers.
The Rite (2011)
In The Rite, a mortician enrolls in seminary and eventually takes an exorcism class in Rome, where demonic encounters ensue. The movie was based on the life of a real exorcist, Father Gary Thomas, whose work was the focus of journalist Matt Baglio’s book The Rite: The Making of an Exorcist. A Roman Catholic priest, Thomas was one of 14 Vatican-certified exorcists working in America in 2011. He served as an advisor on the film and told The Los Angeles Times that in the previous four years he had exorcised five people.
The Sacrament (2013)
In the movie, a man travels to find his sister who joined a remote religious commune, where, yep, bad things happen. It was inspired by the 1978 Jonestown massacre, in which cult leader Jim Jones led 909 of his followers to partake in a “murder-suicide ceremony” using cyanide poisoning.
The Shining (1980)
Stanley Kubrick’s horror masterpiece is about a man who is driven to insanity by supernatural forces while staying at a remote hotel in the Rockies. The movie Derives from Stephen King’s book of the same name, which was inspired by the Stanley Hotel in Colorado, where plenty of guests have reported seeing ghosts. The Stanley wasn’t actually used in the movie, however, because Kubrick didn’t think it looked scary enough.
The Silence of the Lambs(1991)
The Oscar-winning film tells the story of an FBI cadet who enlists the help of a cannibal/serial killer to pin down another serial killer, Buffalo Bill, who skins the bodies of his victims. FBI special agent John Douglas, who consulted on the film, has explained that Bill was inspired in part by the serial killer Ted Bundy, who like Bill, wore a fake cast. Ed Gein is also believed to be an inspiration, what with the whole skinning thing. And per Rolling Stone, 1980s killer Gary Heidnik was a reference for how Buffalo Bill kept victims in a basement pit.
The Strangers (2008)
Three killers in masks terrorize the suburban home of a couple (played by Liv Tyler and Scott Speedman) in this invasion thriller. Writer-director Bryan Bertino has said the film was inspired by something that happened to him in childhood. “As a kid, I lived in a house on a street in the middle of nowhere. One night, while our parents were out, somebody knocked on the front door and my little sister answered it,” he said. “At the door were some people asking for somebody that didn’t live there. We later found out that these people were knocking on doors in the area and, if no one was home, breaking into the houses.”
The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (1974 & 2003)
Ed Gein also reportedly inspired elements of The Texas Chainsaw Massacre and its remake. The movies are about groups of friends who come into contact with the murderous cannibal Leatherface. The original film memorably features a room filled with furniture created from human bones, a nod to Gein’s home.
The Town That Dreaded Sundown (1976 & 2014)
The original film follows a Texas Ranger as he tracks down a serial killer threatening a small town, and the 2014 sequel of the same name essentially revives the same plot. Both are based on the Texarkana Moonlight Murders of 1946, when a “Phantom Killer” took out five people over ten weeks. The case remains unsolved
Veronica (2018)
The recent Netflix release follows a 15-year-old girl who uses a Ouija board and accidentally connects with a demon that terrorizes her and her family. The movie’s based on a real police report from a Madrid neighborhood. As the story goes, a girl performed a séance at school and then “experienced months of seizures and hallucinations, particularly of shadows and presences surrounding her,” according to NewsWeek. The police report came a year after the girl’s death when three officers and the Chief Inspect of the National Police reported several unnatural occurrences at her family’s home that they called “a situation of mystery and rarity.”
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