Films/Movies is one of the many medias
of entertainment that almost everybody in the world
enjoys many people liked around the world. Out the many
movie genres, Horror is amongst the popular ones. Many horror movies are inspired from folklore,
fairy tales of the past and also myths,
but the most unique ones are those inspired from a true
story or actual events that actually happened.. The following list summarizes 5 horror movies based on
true stories or actual events:
1.
Audrey
Rose 1977
This horror movie is inspired by a creepy story that actually happened. The movie tells a story about
a girl named Ivy and her family that are
being terrorized by
a mysterious man who believes that Ivy is
the reincarnation of his daughter, Audrey Rose,
who died in a
car accident just a few minutes before
Ivy was born (after
getting the same answers
from two paranormals).
What follows is a
series of strange events (some
are very similar to that in 'The Exorcist'), including
the Ivy having horrific nightmares and
burned her hand on the window.
2.
An
American Hunting
This is a modern horror
movie that takes the story from the past. Beginning when John Bell forcibly takes
a part of land that belongs to Kate Batts, who is known to possess magic. After
the incident, Bell and his daughter starts experiencing supernatural events, and
the worst is when he finds his daughter severely injured and claiming to have been
raped by an unknown creature. In 1886, a historian has written stories about
Batts the witch, which became very popular in the Presidency of Andrew Jackson.
Allegedly, the existence of the Bell family is true.
3.
The Entity
This movie depicts the story of a housewife named Dorris
Bither, who lived with her teenage son
and two daughters. Throughout the
movie, she often experienced
misterious events such as hallucinations and physical
disorders. Brian Harris,
Bither’s teenage son, claims that he
heard his mother being slapped, beaten up and thrown
inside the room. He said that he also
seen bruises on
his mother’s thighs, which according to Bither, is because she was raped by the devil the night before.
The movie is inspired by a mother, Carmen
Reed, who was
interviewed on CNN about the
horror stories that she experienced.
Beginning in 1980 when Reed and her
family occupies an old colonial home
in Southington, Connecticut,
for the reason to be close to the
hospital where she and her
13 year old child
was receiving cancer
treatment. A while after, two of
her nephews joined them at their home.
The family later notices that the house was once a funeral
home, and Reed’s child begins telling the group about the voices he
hears, and a sighting of "a tall man, with thin and long black
hair" whom he often sees every
night.
Reed tried taking her son to a psychiatrist, but soon finds
that his condition gets worse and worse every day until finally he’s taken to a mental hospital.
4.
The
Exorcism Of Emily Rose
The Exorcism Of Emily Rose is a horror movie
that is fairly successful in terms of sales. The movie is inspired by the story
of a teenage girl named Annelise Michel, who was originally a normal teenage
girl. Strange events began to occur when she was 17 years old. In 1968, she
suffered a seizure and had her first epileptic attack in 1969. That was when
Annelise starts hallucinating about the devil whenever she prays. In 1975, she
was diagnosed to suffer from depression and often injures herself, and even
attempting to commit suicide several times.
The person who first diagnosed Annelisse
to have been possessed was an old woman who accompanied her when she made a
pilgrimage. She watched as Anneliese avoided walking past a particular image of
Jesus, and when Annelisse refused to drink water from the sacred spring. Later
on, an exorcist from a nearby town examined Anneliese and concluded that she
was possessed. After a number of failed medical treatments, finally the
decision to perform an exorcism ritual was made by the local Bishop.
At that time Annelise started hurting
herself and refusing to eat. Anneliese started making some very strange actions.
She licked her own urine off the floor and ate flies, spiders and coal. She bit
the head off a dead bird and crawled under a table and barked like a dog for
two days. She often heard shouting that comes form the walls for hours. She
also ripped her clothes off and urinates on the floor everyday that results in
her body and face being very terrible, that people around her almost did not
recognize her anymore. Annelise died on June 1976 resulting from dehydration
and malnutrition, and suffered form starvation for almost a year when the
exorcism ritual was performed.
5.
The
Amityville Horror
The Amityville
Horror movie starts off from a young drug abuser named Ronald DeFeo Jr. (aka "Butch")
who slaughtered his entire family in one night, 14 November 1974 with the use of
firearms, while his family members were all sleeping. He first shoots his
father and mother who was sleeping in their room, followed his younger brother.
According to police, DeFeo killed his entire family in order to gain some money,
but many issues were heard that DeFeo conducted the heinous murder because of
whispers from supernatural spirits in the house.
Few years later after the incident, the house were inhabited by the Lutz family.
During on of the nights, they find a secret room in the house that is believed
to hold a mystery of the DeFeo family murders and shortly after that, the Lutz family
fled from the house without no apparent reason.
