{"id":290617,"date":"2024-02-17T03:30:17","date_gmt":"2024-02-17T08:30:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/15-scary-movies-inspired-by-real-world-horrors-now-giving-us-nightmares"},"modified":"2024-02-17T03:30:35","modified_gmt":"2024-02-17T08:30:35","slug":"15-scary-movies-inspired-by-real-world-horrors-now-giving-us-nightmares","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/15-scary-movies-inspired-by-real-world-horrors-now-giving-us-nightmares","title":{"rendered":"15 Scary Films Impressed by Actual-World Horrors, Now Giving Us Nightmares"},"content":{"rendered":"


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What’s scarier than a scary movie? It’s a scary movie based on actual events. Seeing fictionalized horrors unfold is one thing, but knowing that real individuals experienced these terrible things adds a new level of terror.  We rounded up 15 scary movies that are based on true events.<\/p>\n

1. The Entity (1982)<\/h2>\n
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The 1982 film starring Barbara Hershey and Ron Silver is based on a 1974 case in which a woman contacted a parapsychologist with claims that she had been repeatedly attacked and assaulted by multiple unseen entities in her home in Culver City, California. In real life, the parapsychologist did find evidence of paranormal activities.<\/p>\n

2. Open Water (2003)<\/h2>\n
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The tragic story of Tom and Eileen Lonergan was the premise of the 2003 movie Open Water<\/em>. In January 1998, the couple embarked on a tourist group dive of the Great Barrier Reef off the coast of Australia. The company in charge of the dive unintentionally left the Lonergans behind, not realizing they were missing until two days later. The pair were never found and are presumed to have drowned at sea.<\/p>\n

3. The Exorcism of Emily Rose (2005)<\/h2>\n
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A German woman named Anneliese Michel underwent an exorcism that resulted in her death, and criminal charges were brought against her parents and the priests who performed the ritual. Years later, her experience was loosely adapted for the film The Exorcism of Emily Rose<\/em>.<\/p>\n

4. Monster (2003)<\/h2>\n
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The life of female serial killer Aileen Wuornos is depicted by actress Charlize Theron, who won an Academy Award for her gritty portrayal. Wuornos killed seven men before she was convicted and executed for her crimes in 2002.<\/p>\n

5. Scream (1996)<\/h2>\n
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1996\u2019s Scream<\/em> and the highly successful movie franchise came to pass after screenwriter Kevin Williamson was inspired by the horrific 1990 serial murders of five college students in Gainesville, Florida.<\/p>\n

6. Poltergeist (1982)<\/h2>\n
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Steven Spielberg\u2019s blockbuster about a family who unwittingly moves into a house built on top of a cemetery and is subsequently menaced by the angry spirits of the dead has real-life origins. Like the fictional Freelings, the Hermann family was run out of their Long Island, New York home due to supernatural activity, which they suspected was built adjacent to a Native American burial ground.<\/p>\n

7. The Mothman Prophecies (2002)<\/h2>\n
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A creature known as the Mothman was spotted in West Virginia in the 1960s. Other unexplained supernatural happenings were also reported. The story of the Mothman was recorded in the 1975 book before being made into a movie. Today, the Mothman is one of the most famous cryptids in America<\/a>.<\/p>\n

8. The Amityville Horror (1979)<\/h2>\n
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The real-life Lutz family lasted 28 days in their Amityville, New York home before being run out of it by evil spirits. The residence had been the site of a mass murder the previous year, in which the eldest son, Ronald DeFeo Jr.,  murdered his entire family. The Lutz saga was the basis of several books and movies.<\/p>\n

9. A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984)<\/h2>\n
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Wes Craven\u2019s classic horror movie<\/a> about a serial killer haunting young people in their sleep was based on newspaper stories from 1981. The story is about 26 young Southeast Asian refugees who inexplicably died in their sleep after expressing fears that their nightmares would cause them to die.<\/p>\n

10. The Haunting in Connecticut (2009)<\/h2>\n
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The fictitious Campbell family in the movie represents the Snedeker family in real life. When the Snedekers moved into a rental home previously operated as a funeral home, they found themselves harassed by demons.<\/p>\n

11. Stuck (2007)<\/h2>\n
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In 2001, a homeless man named Gregory Glenn Biggs was the victim of a hit-and-run accident in which he became stuck in the driver\u2019s windshield. The driver, Chante Jawan Mallard, left him to die in her car rather than summon help. The 2007 film is based on this incident, except the victim in the movie manages to turn the tables on his assailant.<\/p>\n

12. The Strangers (2008)<\/h2>\n
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This movie about a nightmarish extended home invasion is based on a quadruple home invasion homicide that occurred in the director\u2019s neighborhood when he was a child and the Sharon Tate murders carried out by the Manson family in 1969.<\/p>\n

13. The Haunting of Sharon Tate (2019)<\/h2>\n
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The Haunting of Sharon Tate<\/em> is based on the true and horrific story of Charles Manson and his group killing the pregnant Sharon Tate. Played by Hilary Duff in this retelling, the low-rated movie is a dramatization of the murder of Tate back in 1969.<\/p>\n

14. Jaws (1975)<\/h2>\n
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According to the author of the book Jaws<\/em>, the story isn’t based on a real series of events, but a lot of people draw a lot of similarities to the 1916 New Jersey shark attacks that killed four people. While there might not be an exact story the book and film are based on, there are enough real shark attacks that make us wary when talking about Jaws.<\/em><\/p>\n

15. The Hills Have Eyes (2006)<\/h2>\n
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2006’s The Hills Have Eyes<\/em> — a remake of Wes Craven’s 1977 film of the same name — is apparently based on the chilling story of a Scottish clan who lived in the 16th century and cannibalized more than 1,000 people over a 25-year period. <\/p>\n


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