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08 Horror Movies Based On True Stories.

Movies based on real stories are the most exciting scenes and the enthusiasm for watching may double when it’s a horror movie.

By InfomancePublished 3 years ago 4 min read
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This is a list of 11 horrifying and scary movies, based on real stories.

The Amityville Horror (2005)

Trailer >> https://youtu.be/4xHJOG03eDE

The movie is about a couple with three children moving into a new home. The cost of this house was very low, because of the horrific death that killed the former owners of the house, but the newly inhabited family did not know about it. The family notices strange things happening, which makes them suspect that there is something disastrous they do not know.

The Serpent and the Rainbow (1988)

Trailer >> https://youtu.be/LNRnOcW5yqs

The story is about an anthropologist from Harvard University, traveling to Haiti to get a mysterious powder, whose job is to suppress the human spirit and curb any human engine.

The real story: The events of the movie are based on a book by the author Wade Davis entitled «The Serpent and the Rainbow». Davis himself faced horrifying scientific stories from centuries ago. In his book, he listed his amazing experiences in identifying the process of turning humans into zombies or mutants.

The Mothman Prophecies (2002)

Trailer >> https://youtu.be/bXcpwJbXT7o

The story is about journalist John Klein and his wife, who decide to buy a new home. But they are in a car accident after visiting a house for sale. After the incident, the wife claims that she saw a strange creature.

The real story: The movie is based on a book by the author John Keel . John studied witness accounts of the so-called “moth-man” and came up with research he had prepared himself. The last time this creature was seen before the collapse of the Silver Bridge, which killed 46 people.

Monster (2003)

Trailer>> https://youtu.be/vq70brIQP40

The story revolves around a “prostitute” named Aileen Wuornos , who is beaten and raped by one of her agents, killing him in self-defense, with a gun that hides in her bag. After that incident, Elaine decided to kill all her clients she thought deserved to die. It follows its laws and does not kill those who seem to be good, not bad.

The true story: The story of the movie is indeed true, and embodies the life of Ellen, who was sentenced to six death sentences and executed on 9 October 2002.

An American Haunting (2005)

Trailer >> https://youtu.be/ehMuG2ZF5k8

The story revolves around the happy Bell family that everyone respects, but a curse for the family. She is visited by a ghost who wants to kill a family member.

The True Story: 35 books tell of this family, attacked by a mysterious spirit. There was something supernatural that tortured the family and exhausted its members, and turned their lives into an unbearable hell for many years. So this mysterious thing killed a family member. The murder of John Bell is the only case in American history that has been listed as a ghost murder.

An American Crime (2007)

Trailer >> https://youtu.be/sXyBaKL1FlE

The story is about the parents of Sylvia and Jenny, who decide to leave the daughters in the house of a woman named Gertrude Baniszewski . They left the house in search of money. Banezowski decided to punish the girls.

The real story: The murder of the girl, Sylvia Lickens and her sister, is the most terrible of the crimes in Indiana. It is difficult to imagine that there are people who are capable of carrying out such crimes in the first place since the perpetrators of the crime were the children of Banezowski, who beat and tortured the girls. Most disgusting is that the neighbors knew what was happening and no one tried to intervene to save the girls.

Changeling (2008)

Trailer >> https://youtu.be/57_t2BFZaK8

The story goes on in the 1930s. It tells the story of the disappearance of Walter Collins, the son of a woman named Christine. Police found a boy, but the woman knows he is not her son. Christine is desperate to ask reporters for help, but her city government is not interested until people claim the woman is a mad mother.

The true story: The movie captures the details of the so-called “Winneville Chicken Coop Killings,” a series of kidnapping and murder crimes committed against male children in Los Angeles. The perpetrators used lime to dispose of the bodies, and the rest were buried on a farm. The remains of some of the bodies were later found, probably one of them belonging to Walter Collins.

Shadow People (The Door) (2013)

Trailer>> https://youtu.be/wonDpBTzqcI

The story is about a terrified man calling a radio talk show to tell them about the shadows of people he sees coming to kill others at night.

The real story: The events of the Movie are based on a phenomenon called «black shadows». Which can be scientifically interpreted as visual hallucinations. Scientists noted in one research that during the electrical stimulation of the brain of an epileptic patient, she saw someone behind her repeating her movements. When doctors asked her to read something on a card, she told them that there was a ghost trying to hijack the card.

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