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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.”

#Horror Movies Based on True Events #horror #horror movies #paranormal #ghost and hauntings #ghost and spirits

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Freeday, or Lets RP

(Day4 of @lapamedotweek.)

As night fell in the forest, a shadow could be seen leaping from tree to tree though it never made a sound. It leaped down from a tree that marked where the forest ended and the civilized lands began.

“It's a purrrfect time to go out to hunt, for shinies!” The shadowed figure said they're eyes reflecting the light from the moon. Surveying the surrounding area to the left they see nothing but open field with odd shapes scattered throughout. With night vision they can tell the shapes are cows sleeping and other cowly things that cows do at night. To their right they see the tell-tale sign of people, lights, a bunch of them like tiny little bubbles of sunlight. There was a town.

“Let's get wrecked.” Shouted the figure dashing to the town.

Inside that very town, best described as a fusion of Magic, Nature and Technology. So think houses and building made of trees or nature augmented either magically or scientific-

“Laaaaame.”

“Amethy-st!” Whined a young chubby boy with curly black hair, he held a small notebook in his hand called Dungeon Master's Steven’s nefarious manual of dugenonly, masterly, nefarious things. He was sitting in the lap of Lapis while she sat on the porch floor.

“Come on, you already got to do your part. It's my turn now.” Peridot said clearly annoyed, couldn't she see that high stakes were about to had in their adventure if they could just get to the adventure. “Go on Steven continue.”

“Now where was I.” Steven said, as he put his hand to his chin in thought. “No, seriously, where was I?”

“You were explaining the town where Amethyst's character was going to meet Mine and Peridot’s.” Lapis said giving Steven a big hug.

“Thanks Lapis, but you better not be looking in the DMSNMDMNT.”

“I promise.”

Steven cleared his throat.

The town by day was full of travelers, but by night it belonged to the engineers. They were a group of dedicated citizens trained to take care of this town, they used the best of magic and technology to build, repair and upgrade the town. Each one was gifted with something special, a power or tech or combination of both. They were divided into smaller teams that worked on a rotating weekly schedule. Tonight, the last night of this team's shift they were finishing the task of updating the waterways and installing the recyclo-mana filters. They split off into groups of two's and three’s and headed to their locations leaving one all by their self.

“Clods.” Said Perina as she uses her special gift, a set of gauntlets that had magical floating fingers, to find her where her assignment is.

The location was an old model toadstool house on the edge of town. Perina hesitantly knocks on the door, she feels watched.

“Hello?”

There’s no response, but she hears a noise,almost like a splash,coming from behind the house.

“That's weird.” The young engineer says going to check out the sound.

As she's about to leave the front door suddenly opens and a old plump woman calls out. “Hello Dearie, sorry for taking so long these old bones aren't what they used to be.”

Perina turns back around to greet the lady of the house, as she does she feels her gauntlet vibrate. Frowning she tries to remember what that means.

“That's hogwash, I clearly rolled an eight.” Peridot whined, “I should know what the vibrations mean.”

“You didn't roll high enough babe, you needed at least a twelve.” Lapis said leaning over to pet Peridot's head.

“You are looking in my notebook.” Steven said, his face dropping. “Aww man now you know where the story is going.”

“She totally is Steven.” Amethyst said giving a Lapis a wink, which earned her a glare.

Still glaring at Amethyst Lapis spoke. “I am not, and I don't know anything. I wouldn't do that to Steven.” She nuzzled him and he giggled.

“Okay, well anyway Lapis it's your turn.” Steven said though now he kept the book close to his chest.

As the young engineer talks to the old woman unknown to them, they have an eavesdropper. Huddling next to the shadows of the house is a young woman with blue hair, if the area was lit one would see that the woman was wearing what looked like a bathing suit made of shimmering scales on her wrists were beautiful metal bangles. She sees the engineer and smiles, she doesn't know her but likes the way she looks. If only she could hear what was being said a little better.

As she slowly creeps up to get a better listening point, she has to stop midtrack as the woman is leading the engineer towards the back, she knows she can't be seen.

“I'm sure you have a lot of work tonight, this old toadstool hasn't been connected to the main water system.” The old lady says as she and Perina walk past the blue haired woman without noticing her. “I've gotten by, though this house has the only natural well left in this city. Do what you have to do to connect me to the main water system, but stay away from the well, it was my daughter's favorite and I'd hate to see something happen to it.”

The blue haired woman sighs in relief as the two move past her and go behind the house proper. Her glamour had worked. Seeing it as her chance the woman breaks away from the house and tries to run towards the city, only to be stopped as her bracelets began to glow and seemed to pull her backwards. Just then she see’s something move from underneath the shadow of a tree and stops struggling. “Hello?” She whispers not wanting to be caught.

The shadow stops and hesitates, before answering back. “Hello, I'm was just uhh taking a stroll.” The shadow moves a little closer but stops as a breeze blows towards them carrying the other woman’s smell. It hisses and takes a step back reaching for something in it's pocket. “Vampire!”

“Shhhh, please don't yell, she'll hear you.”

“Who'll hear me? You're master.”

The vampire shakes her head the bracelets are starting to heat up and glow brighter as smoke can be seen coming from her wrists. “No my mother. Please just help me get unstuck.”

The shadow moves forward but pauses again. “Why should I help you? What if it's a trap?”

“I have no actual powers, my mother bound me. Which is clear by the glowing bracelets that are keeping me stuck here.” The vampire tried to pull away but was held in place.”See.”

Just then a voice was heard drawing closer from the back. “Foolish child, how many times will it take before you learn I'll always know when you try to escape.” It was the old woman, her scent on the breeze carries the smells of power and something else.

“Please.”

The shadow sighed, before moving forward. “You're lucky, you're so pretty. So what do I do?”

“I don't know, she normally uses a type of spell to remove the binding.”

“I don't know magic, I'm a thief.”

Both parties stop and look at each other. “I mean uhhh…I was just going for a walk.”

“Whatever. If you help me, I'll give you the most valuable thing in this house.”

The thief drew closer at the offering of a reward. “I may have just the thing, but this reward better be worth it.” They drew out a small blade and the vampire drew back hissing and baring their fangs. The thief almost dropped the knife but recovered quickly. “Hey, you want my help or not. Hold still.”

Just as she was about to slide the knife underneath the bracelet she was hit with something invisible and causing her to jerk and then crumple to the ground. The knife cut through the bracelet sending a jolt of power through the vampire who went limp.

“Hey Steven are you ready to see the movie?” A young girl's voice broke everyone out of the game.

“Connie!” Steven said as he jumped from Lapis’ lap and ran to his friend. “Games over guys for now. We'll continue later.”

“But what about the part where I rescue Lapis and Amethyst from what I can only assume was a big bad witch.”

Lapis who looked down to find Steven’s book in her lap and snorted. “What makes you think you were gonna be the one to rescue us?”

Because you two were unconscious.”

“According to Steven's book you were knocked unconscious as soon as you went around the back.”

“You clod, you're not supposed to read the DM’s notes.”

Lapis smiled at Peridot mischievously and leaned in to tease her“You want to be my hero that badly?”

“Of course I do. I'm your girlfriend. “ Peridot said bluntly. “I will be there to help you out of trouble be it fictional or real.”

Lapis blushed and tried to come up with something to say. Amethyst roared in laughter .

“Peri that was smooth as all hell.” Amethyst said punching her girlfriend playfully in the shoulder. “I should be careful or you'll have me swooning like Lapis over here.”

“I'm always smooth.” Peridot said with a nasally cackle, breaking her spell over Lapis.

“Not really, but you have your moments.” Lapis said giving her girlfriend a kiss.

“Don't I get one too? After all I was promised a reward for helping.”

“Your character was promised a reward, but if you behave until later tonight you'll get a reward.” Lapis grinned and winked.

“I want the reward too.”

“It's the kind of reward you're usually not interested in Peri.”

“Yeah the physical kind.”

“Gross, can we change the subject to like, how the hell are we going to escape the witch?”

“Well I have Steven notes.”

“I couldn't betray Steven’s trust like-”

“I can.” Amethyst shifted to lean against Lapis to get a better look at the book as her older girlfriend wrapped an arm around her. “You joining Pear?”

“Fine.” Peridot said scooting into Lapis’ lap. “Only because you're both doing it.”

They spent the next hour pouring over the book and laughing as they prepared strategies for their next rp session. When they got to the last page they laughed harder. In Steven's handwriting was one final note, ‘Perina, Purpur Crystal, and Lapis will only get through this quest with the power of love. I hope they all say yes to the coupling ceremony, which would kick off the beginning of the next campaign, Love is a battlefield.”

#lapamedot week 2017 #lapamedot #day 4 #lapithyst #amedot #lapidot #bond over a burn

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Horror Movies Based on True Events

Lots still not mentioned

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.”

#Horror Movies Based on True Events #paranormal #ghost and hauntings #ghost and spirits

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myhauntedsalem · 5 years

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Horror Movies Based on True Events

Open Water (2003)

Borderland (2007)

A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984)

Black Water (2007)

Dead Ringers (1988)

Deliver Us From Evil (2014)

Poltergeist (1982)

Psycho (1960)

Scream (1996)

The Conjuring (2013)

Annabelle (2014)

The Disappointments Room (2016)

The Exorcist (1973)

The Girl Next Door (2007)

The Possession (2012)

The Rite (2011)

The Sacrament (2013)

The Shining (1980)

The Silence of the Lambs(1991)

The Strangers (2008)

The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (1974 & 2003)

The Town That Dreaded Sundown (1976 & 2014)

Veronica (2018)

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