22 horror movie based on real events and popular legends

Horror films marked "based on real events" are of particular interest among the audience. Some shrug their shoulders, called all fiction or fairy tale, while others believe in the authenticity of the event. Directors use this, and in fact often take stories from life, though adds a lot from him, to catch more terror.

Layfhaker collected 22 horror movie, the plot of which is based on real events or popular urban legends.

exorcism

1. Exorcist

The Exorcist

• USA, 1973.
• Horror.
• Duration: 122 minutes.
• IMDb: 8.

Regan, 12-year-old daughter of actress began to behave strangely. She unreasonable seizures occur, and the delicate child's voice sometimes turns into a stern male bass. Objects fly around the room, the bed goes to shake people around the die. Medical causes of behavior Regan is not like a logical explanation of the events. It seems that the appeal to the church and to conduct an exorcism rite - the last chance to save the baby.

"The Exorcist" in 1973 is based on the eponymous novel, which is based on a true story. In the late 40-ies in the newspapers, there were reports from anonymous sources, they wrote, that witnessed the exorcism on a boy under the pseudonym Roland Doe (or Robbie Mannheim). Conducted the rite priests claimed that the boy was shaking the bed, things were flying through the air, and the child said in an inhuman voice. Sessions are held in the hospital with the permission of the church, but the doctors were sure that Roland just

mentally ill.

Now films about exorcism have found their niche in the horror genre, but then motion picture created a furor. The story of the demon-possessed child called the scariest movie of its time, and people fainted after watching. The film received four "Golden Globe", four "Saturn", and was nominated for "Oscar" in 10 categories, but was awarded only two statuettes.

2. The Exorcism of Emily Rose

The Exorcism of Emily Rose

• United States, 2005.
• Drama, Horror.
• Duration: 122 minutes.
• IMDb: 6,7.

The priest tries to prove that it is not responsible for the death of Emily, who died at the time of a session of exorcism. He recalls the events of those days in detail, telling the judge and jury about the strange behavior of the girl. But doctors believe that Emily was epileptic patients, and not obsessed and died due to the negligence of a servant of the church.

Such a case actually occurred in 1976. Anneliese Michel died after a series of exorcism rites. The girl was diagnosed with epilepsy and marked symptoms of a mental disorder, but she and her family were convinced possessed by the devil. Anneliese spoke not with his voice in different languages, he could not touch the crucifix and called themselves the names of various demons. As a result, the priest accused of causing death by negligence, and parents - in a criminal omission. The court found guilty of all.

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3. rite

The Rite

• USA, Hungary, Italy, 2011.
• Drama, Horror, Mystery.
• Duration: 114 minutes.
• IMDb: 6.

A graduate of the seminary Michael Kovac lost faith and intends to renounce these earlier vows. But the abbot sure that the young person needs to go through training exorcism at the Vatican before drawing hasty conclusions. Michael agrees and travels to Rome, where he met with Father Lucas Treventom - experienced exorcist.

Movie with Anthony Hopkins in the title role is based on the works of Matt Begley "rite." Based on the true story of the book is about a young, lost his faith a priest from the United States, who went to study exorcism in Rome.

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4. Deliver us from evil

Deliver Us from Evil

• United States, 2014.
• Horror, Mystery, Thriller.
• Duration: 118 minutes.
• IMDb: 6,2.

Skeptical New York police appealed for help to the priest to reveal the mysterious crime, and possibly conduct an exorcism session.

Mystical thriller is based on the biographical book "Beware of the night» (Beware of the night) the former policeman from New York Ralph Sarchi. The author tells about the supernatural and demonic situations, which, according to him, had to face the line of duty.

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About maniac

1. Psycho

Psycho

• United States, 1960.
• Horror, Mystery, Thriller.
• Duration: 109 minutes.
• IMDb: 8,5.

A woman steals a large sum of money from an employer in a hurry and will run from the city. She stopped to spend the night in a motel, whose owner - a young and handsome man named Norman Bates. But he is not what he seems.

Legendary horror film by Alfred Hitchcock is familiar not only to fans of the genre. This motion picture has become a cult and has not lost its charm today. The prototype of the main antagonist of Norman Bates became a well-known American serial killer Edward Gene. He was a cruel mother, whom, in spite of everything, he was very fond. Gene was mentally ill. He unearthed old tombs, taking the remains of her home, and even sewed the costume of a woman's skin. Later, he was accused of the brutal murder of several women, for which declared insane maniac spent the rest of his life in a mental hospital.

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2. The Texas Chainsaw Massacre

The Texas Chain Saw Massacre

• USA, 1974.
• Horror.
• Duration: 83 minutes.
• IMDb: 7,5.

Sally, her brother and friends travel to a distant cemetery to test my grandfather's grave: Texas wielded by vandals. At the same time the company visits the farm and accidentally meets with neighbors. From creepy little family in the vicinity of the skin shivers run, and fear It is well founded.

Story about a maniac, known as Leatherface, the chainsaw that is killing people, will be continued and expanded in a series of eight individual films. The director of the original films Tobe Hooper took the case of Edward Gina, who became the prototype of Leather Face. Yes, it is the same culprit, whose image was the basis for the character of Norman Bates in "Psycho." However, Gene commit murder in Wisconsin, not in Texas.

In all there are eight feature films about Texas maniac Leatherface.

3. The city, which feared sunset

The Town That Dreaded Sundown

• USA, 1976.
• Crime, Drama, Horror.
• Duration: 90 minutes.
• IMDb: 6,1.

In a small American town at night for a couple of lovers maniac attacks. The victims managed to escape, but now the city in panic. Nobody used to this, people in fear waiting for a new killer attack. After a few weeks and takes place: under the same circumstances, the lovers are dead.

The plot of the film lay the real story of a maniac, nicknamed the Phantom, whose identity has not been disclosed. He wielded in the state of Texas in 1946 and sowed panic among the residents of a small town. He is credited with eight attacks, all of which occurred over the weekend.

4. eaten alive

Eaten Alive

• USA, 1976.
• Horror, thriller.
• Duration: 91 minutes.
• IMDb: 5,5.

Near the marshes of Louisiana stands an old hotel. Proprietor Judd got himself an unusual pet - a crocodile, who lives behind the hotel. Guests who break the rules, do not pay the fine. They go to feed the bloodthirsty reptiles.

Another Tobe Hooper film based on the stories of real maniac. Joe Ball, nicknamed Bluebeard of South Texas, was a serial killer in the 30s. He owned a bar on site which was a pond with alligators. According to legend, Ball fed the bodies of the victims to their students, although this has not been proven.

5. The Hills Have Eyes

The Hills Have Eyes

• USA, 1977.
• Horror, thriller.
• Duration: 89 minutes.
• IMDb: 6,4.

Carter Family travels to California across the country in a house on wheels. They were not lucky: Carters have an accident in a war zone. Kilometers around the desert and wait for help from anywhere. In addition to this they start hunting family cavemen.

The plot of the film is inspired by the history of Wes Craven Alexander Bean and his family, who lived in the XV century in Scotland. According to legend, Bean family and clan were murderers, cannibals, although reliable historical references on this subject no. Yet the story is popular in British folklore.

6. From hell

From Hell

• United States, 2001.
• Horror, Mystery, Thriller.
• Duration: 122 minutes.
• IMDb: 6,8.

Mysterious killer Jack the Ripper plunged England into fear. Police inspector Fred Ebberlayn must find it and return to the English mind. He is trying to solve the mystery, but it's not easy. Ebberlayn suspects that a serial killer - the fruit of a conspiracy Masonic Order and the Royal House.

Maniac, nicknamed Jack the Ripper, murdered prostitutes from the slums of London at the end of 1888. His identity has not been disclosed. He killed women monstrous way, gently remove the internal organs of the victims, for which he attributed to a deep knowledge in the field of surgery.

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7. pitfall

Wolf Creek

• Australia, 2005.
• Horror, thriller.
• Duration: 99 minutes.
• IMDb: 6,3.

Students go to Australia to find a crater, formed due to the fall of the meteorite. This mystical and mysterious place full of secrets. And now a group of friends at the epicenter of events.

The story is based on the history of the Australian backpacker murders maniac, killed tourists. He was caught and sentenced for life for their crimes.

8. The Girl Next Door

The Girl Next Door

• United States, 2007.
• Crime, Drama, Horror.
• Duration: 91 minutes.
• IMDb: 6,7.

Megan Susan and her sister after the death of his parents live in a house Chandler family. Their aunt Ruth's three sons, but the mother of it is not the best. She was cruel to the girls: beat, tormented and humiliated.

The film is based on the eponymous novel by Jack Ketchama, which, in turn, is based on a true story. Sylvia Likens in Indianapolis, Indiana, USA, has died aged 16 after a painful Gertrude Baniszewski torture, which the girl was left in care of her children and the neighborhood boys.

In the same year came another film based on the tragic story of a young Sylvia - "American Crime."

9. Over the edge of fear

Borderland

• USA, Mexico, 2007.
• Crime, horror, thriller.
• Duration: 105 minutes.
• IMDb: 5,6.

Students go on a trip to Mexico. They hope to have fun, relax and have fun in the glory, but the adventure turns into a living hell. Students are captured by drug lords, who are members of a satanic cult.

The film is a true story about the murder of a teenage drug lord, a satanist and other members of the cult in 1989 in Mexico City.

About ghosts, curses and evil houses

1. The Amityville horror

The Amityville Horror

• USA, 1979.
• Horror.
• Duration: 119 minutes.
• IMDb: 6,2.

Family with three children to buy a luxury home at a very competitive price. They do not know that the last owners died a horrible death within these walls. New guests are trapped in homes and witness the inexplicable and terrifying events.

The film is based on the novel by Jay Anson, which is based on a true story. Ronald DeFeo - Jr. killed his parents, two brothers and two sisters while they slept. Motives were obvious. Later in the house it was settled family Lutz, but for a long time she did not live there. Abandoning all their belongings, the hosts ran out of the house: they were pursued by voices and strange sounds scents at night, as well as unexplained mystical phenomena.

In 2005 he was shot remake, but in 2017 the story of the sinister house received a new interpretation.

2. Being

The Entity

• USA, 1982.
• Biography, Drama, Horror.
• Duration: 125 minutes.
• IMDb: 6,6.

Charles Moran was the victim of an invisible creature. She was raped and beaten when she was defenseless. Carl wants to understand what happened, and ask for help to the expert - parapsychology.

The film is based on the eponymous book by Frank de Felitto, inspired by the history of Doris Beazer from Los Angeles, California. In 1974, Doris claimed that she had been raped three ghosts of men.

3. A Nightmare on Elm Street

A Nightmare on Elm Street

• United States, 1984.
• Horror.
• Duration: 92 minutes.
• IMDb: 7,5.

Pupils from one school seeing the same nightmares: creepy man in a striped sweater with a charred face and a glove with five blades. The name of this nightmare - Freddy Krueger. Freddy is back to take revenge. It kills victims in a dream, but here's the problem: all died in his sleep died for real.

Directed by legendary horror Wes Craven he inspired story, which read in the Los Angeles Times. The article talked about a family that fled from Cambodia to the United States. Little boy was tormented by terrible nightmares, he was afraid to sleep and tried to stay awake all the time. Once, when the boy was still I fell asleepParents heard screams in the night. They ran into the room and found his son dead. He died during a nightmare.

The story about a serial killer Freddy Krueger will be continued and expanded into a franchise of nine films.

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4. Kids games

Child's Play

• USA, 1988.
• Horror, thriller.
• Duration: 87 minutes.
• IMDb: 6,6.

The little boy Andy Barclay is confident that his doll is alive. And it's true: a harmless toy possessed by the evil spirit of the murderer. The child, of course, no one believes, but the doll continues to kill.

At the beginning of the XX century the little Robert Eugene Otto gave the doll, which the boy called his name. He was inseparable from a new toy, but parents worry. They had heard that the room where their son was playing with a doll, heard two different voices. Someone did and claimed that the doll moves. Toy has created many urban legends, and now adorns the shelf of the museum in Florida.

5. Man-moth

The Mothman Prophecies

• United States, 2002.
• Drama, Horror, Mystery.
• Duration: 119 minutes.
• IMDb: 6,5.

Journalist John Kline lost his wife two years ago. Before her death, she told him about a strange creature, but she did not believe. The woman found a brain tumor, which was the cause of death. Will the fate of John is in the small town of Point Pleasant, where learns about strange creatures that live in the neighborhood. It turns out that it is very similar to that which was possessed by his wife.

This mysterious story was born in 1966 in the town of Point Pleasant, West Virginia, USA. Many people claimed to have seen a strange creature the size of a man with wings and glowing red eyes. It was widely reported in the press, and in 1975 the American journalist John Keel, known for his theories about UFOs, wrote a book about the Mothman, on which the film was shot.

5. The Phantom of the Red River

An American Haunting

• UK, Canada, Romania, USA, 2005.
• Drama, Horror.
• Duration: 83 minutes.
• IMDb: 5.

Bell family is respected in society, but she still has detractors. Didst send a curse on it, and the evil spirit does not leave you alone until you will achieve the death of one of Bell.

Bell family lived on a farm in Tennessee in the XIX century and was quite rich. In 1818 the head of the family, John Bell began to see images that did not exist in reality, the house began to happen strange things appear and eerie sounds. A whole year's family suffered from the attacks of the ghost until John died. Whose hands this was the case, it remains a mystery.

6. The Haunting in Connecticut

The Haunting in Connecticut

• USA, Canada, 2009.
• Drama, Horror, Mystery.
• Duration: 102 minutes.
• IMDb: 5,9.

The family moved into a new house, close to the clinic, where the son is being treated for cancer. Home stores terrible secret and full of ghosts.

The plot of the film is inspired by the story really existed Snedeker family. In 1986 the family settled in a house in the state of Connecticut, to be closer to the hospital where was treated for cancer son. It turned out that the house was formerly a funeral parlor. When Snedekery learned about it, they began to notice a strange and terrible things.

But in the film, of course, all very much exaggerated. And evidence of the presence of evil spirits in the house, except the words of family members there.

7. paternoster

The Conjuring

• United States, 2013.
• Horror, Mystery, Thriller.
• Duration: 112 minutes.
• IMDb: 7,5.

Edd and Lorraine Warren doing paranormal investigations. They asked the family, which became the object of torment evil spirit. Spouses must defeat the demon and save the family.

Series of spouses Warren movies based on true stories. Edd and Lorraine really investigate the paranormal with '50s: the house of "The Amityville Horror," Annabelle doll, a nun from the Church of Borley and many, many others. However, skeptics believe that the findings do not deserve Warren trust.

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8. Winchester. The house, which was built by ghosts

Winchester: The House that Ghosts Built

• Australia, USA, 2018.
• Biography, fantasy, horror.
• Duration: 99 minutes.
• IMDb: 5,4.

Heiress Sarah Winchester arms company lives in a luxurious mansion with a bizarre architecture. Inside the house, and so like a maze, but the hostess and then it rebuilds something and erects new walls. On everything there is a reason: because Sarah is trying to catch the ghosts trap eager massacre of native Winchester.

The film is based on the true story of the widow's son Oliver Winchester, the inventor of the famous rifle. The hostess, in consultation with the medium, is really to rebuild his house many times to the ghosts of lost and could not find it. Do ghosts really were? Perhaps, but the real proof of this still does not.

The legendary house is located in San Jose, California, USA, and to this day attracts tourists and fans to tickle nerves.

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