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What are some horror movies based on true stories?#horror

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The Texas Chain Saw Massacre

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Jim WoehrThe 1974 film centered on chainsaw murderer Leatherface is loosely inspired by the life and crimes of killer Ed Gein, also known as “the Butcher of Plainfield” or “Plainfield Ghoul,” in the 1950s. Gein exhumed corpses from graveyards and made keepsakes from their bones and skin. Gein also had a history of wearing women’s clothes as Leatherface does in the original film.

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Scream

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Jim WoehrThe 1996 original slasher film that would spawn a franchise was inspired by the Gainesville, Florida, mutilations in which several young people were murdered in the Florida community. After screenwriter Kevin Williamson watched a television special on the Gainesville murders, the story inspired what would be a script about a knife-wielding killer.

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Poltergeist

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Jim WoehrThe 1982 classic co-written by Steven Spielberg tells the story of a family whose home was built on a burial ground and plagued by its violent spirits. The premise of the story was based on the Hermann family, who claimed that their Long Island, New York, home was haunted by a poltergeist due to objects mysteriously flying around the house. The family, who eventually moved, believe the events were due to the home being near a Native American burial site.

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Annabelle

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PixThe story is based on the real Annabelle doll, which is said to be possessed and is currently housed in Warren's Occult Museum.

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The Strangers

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The Birds

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Jim WoehrDaphne du Maurier’s The Birds short story may have been an inspiration for Alfred Hitchcock’s 1963 film The Birds, but the film was reportedly based on real-life events. The film centers on a Californian coastal town that was terrorized by a flock of birds. In 1961, birds in the Monterey Bay area reportedly acted disoriented and rammed into people’s houses due to an unknown cause. In 2011, it was reported that researchers found a toxin-making algae in the birds that cause amnesia, disorientation and seizures.

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The Conjuring

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PixIt is inspired by the true story of paranormal investigators Ed and Lorraine Warren, who investigated claims of disturbing supernatural occurrences in a Rhode Island farmhouse.

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Zodiac

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The Amityville Horror

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Winchester

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Jim WoehrHelen Mirren stars as heiress Sarah Winchester in the supernatural thriller directed by Michael and Peter Spierig. The 2018 film Winchester is based off the true story of the Winchester Mystery House, a historic landmark in San Jose, California, and the residence of the late Sarah Winchester. The house has remained a mystery for its renovations and paranormal activity reportedly taking place there. After Winchester’s infant daughter died of a childhood illness and her husband from tuberculosis, she moved to San Jose, where she began renovation on an eight-room farmhouse that continued up until her death in 1922. As detailed on the Winchester Mystery House’s website, the house has “160 rooms including 40 bedrooms, 40 staircases, 13 bathrooms, 6 kitchens, 10,000 window panes, 2,000 doors, 52 skylights, 47 fireplaces, three elevators, two basements and just one shower.” Tours are available to visitors

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Open Water

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Jim WoehrA couple left behind in the open ocean after their scuba diving group left without them isn’t just the premise of Open Water, but the real story of Tom and Eileen Lonergan. The Lonergans were tourists visiting Australia’s Great Barrier Reef when they were left behind Jan. 25, 1998. Experts doubt that the Lonergans shared the same fate as the characters in the film, but the couple was never found.

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Child's Play

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The Exorcist

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Psycho

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The Amityville Horror

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PixThis movie is based on the real-life experiences of the Lutz family, who claimed they were terrorized by paranormal phenomena in their Amityville home.

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A Nightmare on Elm Street

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Jim WoehrWes Craven’s 1984 slasher film centers on a killer who stalks his prey while they’re sleeping. In an interview with Vulture for the film’s 30th anniversary, the late Craven shared that the film’s premise was inspired by newspaper articles from the Los Angeles Times about young male Southeast Asian refugees who died in their sleep. Many men would reportedly refuse to sleep because of the nightmares that they feared would lead to death, with a total of 26 men, dying in their sleep in 1981.

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Deliver Us from Evil

Thriller

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Jim WoehrEric Bana portrays real New York cop Ralph Sarchie, who encountered paranormal activity while working on crimes in the city. This is director Scott Derrickson’s second film based on real events.

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The Possession

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The Rite

Drama

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Jim WoehrColin O’Donoghue stars as Michael Kovak, whose experiences are inspired by the real-life Father Gary Thomas, “one of 14 Vatican-certified exorcists working in the U.S.” While studying in Rome, Thomas met journalist Matt Baglio, who wrote about Thomas’ journey in The Rite: The Making of a Modern Exorcist. Thomas helped supervise the making of the film.

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The Haunting in Connecticut

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Jim WoehrIn 1986, the Snedeker family rented a home in Connecticut that turned out to be a former mortuary. Well-known demonologists Ed and Lorraine Warren declared the home to be overrun by demons. The experiences of the Snedeker family provide the inspiration for what happens to the Campbell family in The Haunting in Connecticut

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Stuck

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Jim WoehrAfter committing a hit-and-run where the victim becomes lodged in the windshield, a young nursing assistant named Brandi (Mena Suvari) tries to figure out her next course of action. Brandi is based on Chante Jawan Mallard, a Texan woman who hit Gregory Glen Biggs — a homeless man — and left him embedded in her windshield until he died. She was convicted and sentenced to 50 years in priso

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Borderland

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Blackwater

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Things Heard & Seen

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Jim WoehrIn the Amanda Seyfried starrer Things Heard & Seen, a Manhattan couple moves to a historic hamlet where they discover that their marriage has sinister secrets involving their new home’s history. The film was based on the 2016 novel All Things Cease to Appear by Elizabeth Brundage. The novel and film are loosely based off alleged supernatural experiences in a home Brundage and her husband rented

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The Fourth Kind

Mystery

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Megalomaniac

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The Entity

Horror

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Fire in the Sky

Science Fiction

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Communion

Drama

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Romasanta: The Werewolf Hunt

Action

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Abigail BakerI didn't realize this was based on a true story until the credits rolled. It made it a lot more harrowing.

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Jeepers Creepers

Horror

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Get Out

Mystery

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Tales from the Hood

Horror

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Wolf Creek

Horror

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The Girl Next Door

Thriller

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The Dentist

Horror

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Silent House

Horror

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The Toolbox Murders

Horror

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Toolbox Murders

Mystery

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The Sacrament

Horror

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The Deliverance

Horror

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The Exorcism of Emily Rose

Crime

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PixThis film is inspired by the case of Anneliese Michel, a young woman who underwent numerous exorcism rites in the 1970s.

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