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“It’s just a movie. ” At some point you have probably repeated this word to yourself every time you watch a specifically terrifying horror movie, to get out of an anxiety attack or ward off imaginable nightmares. But what happens when a movie is not just a movie? What if what you’re seeing had really happened? Of course, you may be able to convince yourself that filmmakers embellish facts for cinematic effect, and that’s usually true. . . but not always.
In those 15 scary videos based on real events, you might find an exaggerated truth, but the stories are too close to the truth to be comforting. But don’t panic: for you it’s still just a movie. Just stay in the brain that for someone else, this truth.
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Anyone with a passing interest in true crime knows the Zodiac Killer, who terrorized San Francisco with a series of still-unsolved murders in the 1960s. But David Fincher’s chilling masterpiece is less about the murders (well, it combines many of them with disturbing details) than it is about the rabbit hole that the killer opened with the maddening riddles and coded messages he spread through the press. The affair was fed entirely by political cartoonist Robert Graysmith, played by Jake Gyllenhaal, whose decades-long obsession with finding the identity of the Zodiac cost him his marriage. Since every few years a new theory emerges about who committed the murders, he is obviously far from the only one.
Driven through a marketing campaign that highlights the bona fides of its intent, this haunted space story has become a huge hit during the post-The Exorcist horror boom of the late ’70s. Based on the book by Jay Anson Array, it describes the supernatural harassment suffered by the Lutz family when they moved to an old area on Long Island that in the past had been the scene of a terrible mass murder. Of course, critics have long dismissed Anson’s e-book as a hoax, but that didn’t stop the film from becoming a horror classic, spawning minor sequels and inspiring a 2005 Michael Bay remake.
Ed and Lorraine Warren were semi-noted paranormal investigators before director James Wan turned their most famous case into a haunted space movie and made them perhaps the most famous ghost hunters in the world. Who else in their box can claim to have cheered to the maximum?An all-time successful horror franchise? The so-called “Conjuring Universe” has expanded in several directions now, adding the Annabelle films, but the first film is based squarely on the Warrens’ account of their investigation into supernatural activities in a ruined Rhode Island. Farm in 1971. He gleefully mixes many old horror tropes, adding masses of scares and proved that Wan, once known for the torture porn franchise Saw, can evoke more than just nausea.
Three years after The Amityville Horror, director Tobe Hooper renewed “Spielberg,” the popular haunted space movie, with the help of Steven Spielberg himself, who produced one and perhaps only directed one component, to make it a horror classic. And like Amityville, it’s fostered through genuine restlessness. In the 1950s, the curious case of Hermann House in suburban Long Island made national news after the family called in a paranormal investigator to diagnose activity, such as randomly exploding bottles and objects that moved on their own. However, space ultimately did not disappear into an interdimensional portal.
The incident that encouraged this undefined mystery did not end with death or involve any bloodshed, but it is nevertheless deeply disturbing, and not without torture. In 2004, a guy pretending to be a police officer called a fast-food restaurant in rural Kentucky and managed to convince the responding worker to strip naked and look for his colleague, the first of a series of indignities that followed. Multiply. Craig Zobel’s claustrophobic drama doesn’t exploit the humiliation of what turned out to be an incredibly fucked-up joke, but it does use it as a springboard to explore American loyalty to authority.
John Christie is perhaps second only to Jack the Ripper as London’s most famous serial killer, an unassuming postman who in the 1940s and 1950s strangled at least eight women, including his wife, and hid their bodies inside the walls of his Notting Hill apartment. Richard Fleischer’s account of his killing spree is a hidden gem of the true crime genre, with a truly chilling lead role from Richard Attenborough, which the actor says haunted him for a long time.
It’s one of those situations that your subconscious generates the moment you wake up from sleep: wouldn’t it suck to miss the dive and get stuck in the middle of the ocean? Americans Tom and Eileen Lonergan experienced this nightmare in 1998, when the boat taking tourists to explore the Great Barrier Reef accidentally ran out of them. Oops! It is not clear how long they “lived”; Their bodies were never found. But filmmaker Chris Kentis has an idea of what happened to them and it’s a horde of hungry sharks. Watching a helpless couple about to become meat sandwiches doesn’t really sound like a movie premise, but Kentis, who filmed in the real ocean, using real sharks, gives the incident an incredibly troubled authenticity that helps maintain stomach upset. sufficiently adhered for 80 minutes.
Is it imaginable that a movie seems too real? In its account of the so-called “barrel murders” that ravaged a suburb of Australia in the 1990s, Snowtown coexists with Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer as a film that brings audiences too close to the darkest corners of humanity to be described as “entertainment. “Over the course of seven years, a four-man organization, led by John Bunting, committed a series of gruesome murders, basically targeting pedophiles and suspected homosexuals. Director Justin Kurzel focuses specifically on how Bunting recruited an abused teenager to help him and forgives him. few details. No, it’s not something that comes to mind casually during a boring night. But if you’re ever forced to look straight through the human psyche, there’s arguably no darker portal in the movies.
Unlike virtually everything else in his work, whose influence has only grown with time, Alfred Hitchcock’s most ridiculous film becomes increasingly absurd with age, more akin to The Blob or Day of the Triffids than to Psycho. But the story is rarely just about a strange flash of inspiration he had after a pigeon stole his lunch: In 1961, birds in the coastal town of Capitola, California, suddenly began bombing houses and cars and vomiting. mediocre. digested vomit. food. It took years for scientists to discover that his mania was caused by poisonous algae, and not by any of the more metaphorical theories Hitch seemed to suggest: nature opposing man, female sexual repression, etc. of the state of the seagulls is vaguely threatening.
If the story of two gynecologists mired in a common drug-related psychosis hadn’t happened, David Cronenberg would still have made it up. But it wasn’t necessary: In 1975, Stewart and Cyril Marcus were discovered dead in their garbage-strewn New York apartment, most likely from an overdose of barbiturates, an incident covered by Esquire and New York magazine. Of course, being Cronenberg Cronenberg, he greatly embellishes the details, adding hallucinations of malformed genitalia, alien surgical instruments, voluntary disembowelment, and a central arc involving blatant sexual coercion, making an already disturbing story even more egregious, as is his way.
The children of the 90s do not forget Alive, the heartbreaking story of a Uruguayan rugby team that had to eat its dead teammates after a plane crash in the Andes. The children of the 90s, in fact, do not forget that bombshell in the workplace. , the other true cannibal story of the decade. Well, that’s true: yes, Guy Pearce’s character, Captain John Boyd, is based on Alfred Packer, a prospector who ate five members of his own party after getting caught while crossing the Colorado Mountains in 1874. No, he didn’t become a flesh-thirsty madman after being saved. Packer’s life also encouraged another, even more made-up pseudo-biopic: Cannibal!The Musical, from 1993, directed by former South Park co-creator Trey. Parker.
In the late 1980s, the Mexican border state of Tamaulipas was terrorized by an organization of so-called “narco-Satanists,” a sprawling family of occult drug traffickers who practiced ritual human sacrifices to aid their associated cartel. This independent and de facto horror film dramatizes the events surrounding the cult’s most notorious crime, the kidnapping and subsequent murder of a University of Texas medical student in 1989. While the film embellishes the details, much of it is more objective than you might think: a terrible idea.
In ultra-religious circles, exorcisms are, of course, a very genuine and not old-fashioned practice (even The Exorcist is loosely based on a genuine incident), but The Exorcism of Emily Rose is more explicit in its inspiration. In 1975, a young German woman named Anneliese Michel began to suffer from seizures and hallucinations. At the request of her Catholic parents, two local priests began dozens of exorcism rites until she died of malnutrition. Her parents were later charged with negligent homicide. Director Scott Derrickson combines those facts with a dash of liberal fiction, creating an engaging mix of mental suspense, demonic horror, and legal drama.
Obviously, a movie about alien abductions stretches the definition of “true story,” but former lumberjack Travis Walton has never stopped insisting that on November 5, 1975, he was sucked into an alien spacecraft, violently probed, and then thrown onto his side. . . from an Arizona highway. Whatever the actual event, the depiction of Walton’s kidnapping in this atmospheric refrigerator turns out to be real. It’s an eerie tactile experience: you see his captors in terrifying close-ups, you can almost taste the substance they put in his mouth, and the less he communicates about the climatic “eye test,” the better.
It’s not a wonderful movie, not even with Helen Mirren in the lead role, but it’s a wonderful story. According to legend, after the sudden death of her husband, gun maker William Winchester, his widow, Sarah, began making extensions to their Northern California mansion (piles of extra rooms, random doors, stairs that led nowhere) supposedly at the behest of the spirits. of those killed with his rifle of the same name. It’s usually trash: renovations were usually the result of hasty maintenance after the 1906 San Francisco earthquake. But hey, by choosing between myth and reality, I filmed the myth.
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