What is it about seeing the words "based on
a true story" flash across a movie screen that sends an
extra shiver down your spine? Even knowing that any "true story" used
in a scary
movie has been exaggerated and embellished within an inch of
its life doesn't take away from the terror we feel: Omg, this actually happened to
somebody! This could actually happen to me! But you know what's
really freaky? Sometimes one incredibly disturbing real-life person or event
can spawn several different horror flicks. Yikes! How messed-up is that? And
just wait till you find out which of your favorite frightening films
are based
on the same "true" story!
Everybody
knows the terrible tale of cross-dressing, knife-wielding mama's boy Norman
Bates - but not everybody knows the character was based on Ed Gein
of Wisconsin, who was arrested in 1957 for committing two murders and
"digging up the corpses of countless other women who reminded him of his
dead mother," which he then skinned to make everything from lamp shades to
socks to a full-body "woman suit" in hopes of becoming a woman. Gein
ended up dying in a mental institution (gee, ya think?!).
2. The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (1974):
Who can forget Leatherface and his cannibal kin? DAMN that movie scared the
crap out of me. Anyway, Ed Gein's skin-wearing ways inspired this one, too. (As
well as Hannibal Lecter, yes, in case you were wondering.)
3. The Amityville Horror:
Based on a book by George and Kathy Lutz about their supposed
real-life experience living in a house that was so freaking haunted they ran
screaming after only 4 weeks. (Lots of people say the Lutzes made it all up.
But considering there was a mass murder at the house before they moved in, who knows?)
4. The Serpent and the Rainbow:
(This one's for all you Walking Dead junkies.) Based on a book by a
scientist (Canadian Wade Davis) about the practice of
"zombification" in Haiti
involving a toxic powder which could place victims into a
"death-like" state, only to be revived/controlled by evil
zombie-masters.
5. The Hills Have Eyes:
Based on the on the 15th century Scottish legend of Alexander
"Sawney" Bean, the supposed leader of a 40-person
clan that lived in caves and killed/ate over 1,000 people over 25 years. (Most
historians think the story is a load of malarkey. Oh wait, that's Irish, not
Scottish. Anyway.)
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