Everyone seems love to watch horror movies, most especially when someone want some excitement, and wants to shout for nothing. In additional, according to different researches, watching horror movies is good for brain, increases one’s immunity, for brain secretes chemicals like dopamine, glutamate and serotonin which makes the mind alert, and it burns calories.
Who anyone in this world wouldn’t want to burn some fats? I think, nobody. However, some horror movies you watch aren’t like some kind of ‘imaginary’, because if you don’t know, a bunch of popular horror movies you’ve watch before are based from real life stories. Yes. Horror movies that are REALLY horror in real life.
I don’t think you’ll watch horror movies the same way again. But if want your brain to be alert as always, then these real-life-inspired terrifying movies is always good for you. If you want some fats to burn, just scroll down.
1. Psycho (1960)
The character in the said movie named Norman Bates was inspired by the serial killer Ed Gein, Wisconsin man 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. He skinned the bodies to make lamp shades, socks and a “woman suit” in hopes of becoming a woman. He was found to be insane and spent the rest of his life in a mental institution.
2. The Exorcist (1973)
This movie was inspired by the actual exorcism happened on a 13-year-old boy in Mount Rainier, Maryland in 1949.
3. The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (1974)
This was also inspired by the serial killer Ed Gein who made several accounts of murder in Wisconsin.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vs3981DoINw
4. Jaws (1975)
This movie was inspired by the shark attack happened in the New Jersey shore in 1916, where four people was killed by the seven-foot-long white shark. The shark was killed and its stomach was found to contain human remains.
5. Audrey Rose (1977)
This movie was from the book written by Frank De Felitta, who believed in reincarnation when he learned that his son Raymond who’d never taken any piano lessons played piano too well, and believed his talent as an ‘incarnation leak’, according to occultist Frank consulted.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VA472APep1k
6. The Hills Have Eyes (1977)
The movie was inspired by the legend of Alexander “Sawney” Bean, a Scottsman of the 15th or 16th century who reportedly headed a 40-person clan that killed and ate over 1,000 people, living in caves for 25 years before being caught and put to death.
7. The Amityville Horror (1979)
This movie was inspired by the true account happened to George and Kathy Lutz experienced during their four weeks in a house they bought, including disembodied voices, cold spots, demonic imagery, inverted crucifixes and walls “bleeding” green slime.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Yr6VbT8QcU
8. The Entity (1981)
In 1974, paranormal researchers Kerry Gaynor and Barry Taff investigated the case of a woman believed to be named Doris Bither. Bither lived in Culver City, California and claimed to have been physically and sexually assaulted by an entity. Gaynor and Taff witnessed objects move in her house, captured photos of floating lights and saw a humanoid apparition, but they never saw it assault the woman and never tried to capture it. Gaynor stated that the attacks diminished when Moran moved.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uKqh5bo-dFo
9. Dead Ringers (1988)
On July 19, 1975, the decomposing, emaciated bodies of 45-year-old twin gynecologists Stewart and Cyril Marcus were discovered in their apartment. The cause of death was extreme withdrawal due to an addiction to barbiturates. It’s unclear what led to their shocking state.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_xmheE3L19c
10. Gothic (1986)
In the rainy summer of 1816, Percy Shelley and Mary Godwin (soon to be Shelley) visited Lord Byron at his Swiss villa. Due to the rain, they stayed indoors discussing the animation of dead matter and reading German ghost stories. Byron suggested they each write their own supernatural tale, and Godwin came up with Frankenstein, while Byron wrote what would later be adapted by Polidori into The Vampyre.
11. Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer (1986)
This was inspired by the story of the serial killer Henry Lee Lucas, who had an accomplice named Ottis Toole and a romantic relationship with Otis’ young relative (his niece, Frieda Powell). However, the movie’s killing spree is based more on Lucas’ confessions than on actual fact. Lucas confessed to 600 murders, in part because the confessions led police to offer him improved conditions in jail. Most of his confessions were disproved, but Lucas was still convicted of 11 murders, including that of Powell, and spent the rest of his life in prison.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OHVHqOoQf5k
12. The Serpent and the Rainbow (1988)
The movie is an exaggerated adaptation of a 1985 book by Canadian scientist Wade Davis, a nonfiction account of his experiences with zombification in Haiti. He stated that a powder of natural toxins could be used to place a victim into a death-like state, to be resuscitated in a hypnotic trance by a controlling “master.” One notable case referenced was that of Clairvius Narcisse, who reportedly served as a zombie for two years in the 1960s. There remains a debate over the veracity of Davis’s claims.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kp5dW9SUvyg
13. The Mothman Prephecies (2002)
Reports of sightings of a large, unidentified winged creature — dubbed the Mothman — occurred in Point Pleasant, West Virginia for 13 months between 1966 and 1967. Then, on December 15, 1967, the Silver Bridge, connecting Point Pleasant to Ohio over the Ohio River, collapsed, killing 46 people.
14. Open Water (2004)
In January 1998, married couple Tom and Eileen Lonergan disappeared off Australia’s Great Barrier Reef after a diving company accidentally left them behind in the water. It took two days — when a bag containing a wallet and passports was found — for the crew to realize that they’d left the couple behind. A search was conducted, but their bodies were never found.
15. The Exorcism of Emily Rose (2005)
This was inspired by Anneliese Michel, a 16-year-old German girl who, in 1968, began displaying symptoms of demonic possession. For years, she suffered paralysis, self-abuse, starvation and demonic visions until 1975, when two priests performed exorcisms of what was believed to be several demons over 10 months. During that time, Anneliese barely ate, and she died of starvation in July 1976. Her parents and the priests were tried and found guilty of manslaughter. They were sentenced to six months in jail.
16. Wolf Creek (2005)
Greg McLean originally wrote the script as fiction, but upon learning of two real-life Australian killers who attacked travellers, he edited the story to reflect the real cases –- namely, Bradley John Murdoch, who killed a British tourist and tried to abduct another in July 2001, and Ivan Milat, who picked up hitchhikers and took them into the woods to torture and kill them during the ’90s. Both Murdoch and Milat were captured and sentenced to life in prison.
17. An American Haunting (2006)
The movie is based on the legend of the Bell Witch, a tale that originated in Tennessee in the 1800s. It is believed by many to be a work of fiction, although the characters in the story were real. According to the tale, John Bell was poisoned by the ghost, and although the film’s marketing declared that it is “validated by the State of Tennessee as the only case in US history where a spirit has caused the death of a human being,” there is no such validation on record.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nQ-54JULVeI
18. Primeval (2007)
The story is based on Gustave, a 20-foot-long crocodile living in Burundi that is believed to be the largest crocodile on record on the African continent. It is rumored to have killed 300 people, although that number is almost certainly inflated.
19. Them (Ils) (2007)
Supposedly, the film is based on the “true story” of an Austrian couple who were murdered by three teenagers while vacationing in the Czech Republic, but no concrete evidence has emerged to prove this tale.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z9Djvi1-k0s
20. The Haunting In Connecticut (2009)
The film’s inspiration was the Parker family, who moved to Connecticut in 1986 to be close to the specialists treating their 14-year-old son, Paul, for cancer. In the basement, where Paul slept, they discovered embalming equipment that implied that the house had been a funeral home. They reported encountering unexplained phenomena, like bloody floors, disembodied voices and shadowy figures. Paul became possessed by a force that caused him to attack his family. Eventually, an exorcism was performed to cleanse the house.
21. Child’s Play (1988)
This movie was inspired by the possessed doll named Robert who was once owned by a Florida painter named Robert Eugene Otto. Much like Chucky, Robert is said to have the ability to speak, and Eugene’s parents would often hear him having conversations with the doll, up in his bedroom.
22. Ravenous (2009)
The film revolves around cannibalism in 1840s California and some elements bear similarities to the story of the Donner Party and Alferd Packer who was believed to be cannibals.
23. Dahmer (2002)
This was inspired by the story of Jeffrey Lionel Dahmer, also known as the Milwaukee Cannibal, an American serial killer and sex offender, who committed the rape, murder and dismemberment of 17 men and boys between 1978 and 1991, with many of his later murders also involving necrophilia, cannibalism and the permanent preservation of body parts—typically all or part of the skeletal structure.
24. The Zodiac (2005)
This was inspired by the serial killer known as the ‘Zodiac Killer’ who murdered 7 people in Northern California.
25. The Silent House (2010)
This is based on an actual incident that occurred in a village in Uruguay where a young woman and her father (Laura (Florencia Colucci) and her father, Wilson (Gustavo Alonso), begin work on renovating a sleepy country cottage, which hides a dark secret.
26. Borderland (2007)
It is very loosely based on the true story of Adolfo de Jesús Constanzo, the leader of a religious cult that practiced human sacrifice.[1][2] Costanzo and his followers kidnapped and murderedUniversity of Texas junior, Mark J. Kilroy, in the spring of 1989.
27. The Possession (2012)
The story is based on the allegedly haunted dybbuk box, a wine cabinet which is said to be haunted by a dybbuk, a restless, usually malicious, spirit believed to be able to haunt and even possess the living.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0gBeG31fX40
28. A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984)
This was inspired by a story of a group of Cambodian immigrants all died while having nightmares.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jdb_HSvf2Zk
29. The Girl Next Door (2007)
This comes from the real life case of Sylvia Likens, who was left with a family friend, Gertrude Baniszewski, while her circus performer parents traveled. Gertrude terrorized Sylvia similar to the events in the film, ultimately leading to Sylvia’s death. Prosecutors on the case called it “the most terrible crime ever committed in the state of Indiana.”
30. From Hell (2001)
This film was also inspired by Jack the Ripper murders.
31. Black Water (2007)
The film was inspired by the true story of a crocodile attack in Australia’s Northern Territory in December 2003.
32. Dark Water (2005)
This was inspired by the Japanese novel Floating Water, a short story by Koji Suzuki.
33. Compliance (2012)
