We all like a good horror movie. Maybe we are afraid of them, but we still like to watch and make ourselves feel strong and brave. Anyway, you may have seen a horror movie at some point in your life.
But you may not realize that the plots of some horror movies are derived from real historical events. Here are the stories behind some of the most popular horror movies. Please note: there will be spoilers.
10.The Exorcist "The Exorcist" 1973
"The Exorcist" tells the story of 12-year-old Reagan and her single mother Chrissy. After playing the psychic game, Reagan was possessed by the demon and began to show symptoms of anxiety and depression. The girl showed unusual behavior and even walked into her mother's room one night and insisted that her bed was shaking. It was not until Chris had witnessed these things with her own eyes that she realized that there was a problem with her daughter and sought medical help. However, the doctors lost confidence in Ruigen's condition and recommended exorcism as a form of treatment to break her mental disorder.
Later, Chris went home and found a man dead on her doorstep. Fearing that her daughter might be possessed by a demon, she found a priest and began to arrange an exorcism ceremony. The priest initially doubted whether the girl really needed an exorcism, but finally believed it and invited an exorcism expert. Both priests died in the process, and Regan was cured, but did not realize the damage she caused. Before Chris and Regan left the town, investigations could reveal the real cause of death.
"The Exorcist" (or the novel of the same name) is based on a story published in the Washington Post in 1949 about a 14-year-old boy named "Robby." Robbie lives in his grandmother's house, both of whom are psychic players. However, one night, Robbie claimed to hear some strange noises and went downstairs, and saw a religious idol (because he did not know his beliefs, so he replaced it with a "religious idol") moving, as if Something is hitting the wall behind it. A few days later, his grandmother passed away. After grandmother
died, Robbie began to experience the kind of supernatural activity described in the movie. The bed starts to shake and the object will float in the air. Finally, the family arranged an exorcism ritual, after which Robbie stayed in the mental hospital for a while, until the word "exit" appeared on him, and suddenly all supernatural activities ceased. Some people believe in supernatural phenomena and exorcism, while others criticized the story, believing that the boy was only extremely sad because of the loss of his grandmother, which led to unusual violence.
9.A Nightmare On Elm Street "Nightmare Street" 1984
"Nightmare Street" tells the story of four teenagers: Tina, Nancy, Glenn and Rod. At the beginning of the movie, a man is assembling weapons. This is a glove with a knife for nails. When Tina was wandering in the alley, he attacked her and digged her belly. However, all this was a dream, and Tina woke up. Nevertheless, her stomach was dug out from her dream. Tina continued to find that her friends had the same nightmare, and they organized an overnight party. However, when Tina was attacked in her dream, she was killed and her boyfriend Rod ran away because of fear. After the
incident, Rod was finally imprisoned and Nancy realized the seriousness of the dream. Soon after, Rod was killed by the dreamer in the cell, and Nancy asked her parents for help. They took her to the clinic, and finally she said the name of the person who attacked her, Freddy Krueger. At this moment, they discovered that Freddy Kruger was a serial killer. He slipped out of the prison and was killed by the people in the town. He is now back in the children's dream to avenge him. After Glenn was killed, Nancy showed a plan to bring Freddy out of her dream, and succeeded, but woke up before seeing her mother killed and found that the whole thing was A dream. In the end it was a happy ending. The children got in a car and were swallowed by Freddy Kruger, who also took Nancy's mother. The story of
was inspired by some stories published in the Los Angeles Times in 1981. The first is about Lao refugees who successfully arrived in the United States but died in their sleep. This case only happened to young men, and the autopsy report could not give any medical information on the deaths of 13 men.Explanation. Another article by
delves into the specific story of a Cambodian family. They were safely placed in the United States, but one of the boys always had nightmares repeatedly and was afraid of sleeping. After a few days of not sleeping, the boy finally fell asleep, which made his family breathe a sigh of relief. They thought the whole ordeal was over. Later, they were awakened by screams in the middle of the night, banging, but when they found the boy, he was already dead.
8.Psycho "The Cry" 1960
"The Cry" tells the story of Norman Bates, the owner of the Bates Motel. Marion stole $40,000 from the boss and checked into the hotel. Throughout the movie, Marion's fiance and sister are looking for her, while an investigator is also looking for stolen money. However, Marion seems to have been killed by Bates' mother. Investigators were also murdered. The
suspicion brought the fiancé and sister to the sheriff. They discovered that Mrs. Bates had poisoned her lover and herself in a murder and suicide incident ten years ago. Later, we discovered that although she did die of the poisoning, she died not in her own hands, but in the hands of her son. Her son’s guilt prompted him to put on clothes and act as his mother in order to While he kept her body in the basement, let her soul live. However, while playing his mother, he murdered Marion, investigators, and possibly more, and then returned as Norman to clean up the mess. The horror story of
(also a movie adapted from a novel) is based on the true story of Ed Gein, one of the most notorious murderers in the world. He has a notorious reputation, not only adding color to the story of "Scary", but also to "The Silent Lamb". He dug up corpses from the ground to make clothes and hung their heads on the wall of his house. He is completely insane.
When a trail of blood was found at the back door of a hardware store, Gaine was caught and he was recorded as the last person to shop. The police just went to interrogate him and faced the horror in his home. After being excluded from everyone, he developed a morbid fascination with his mother, which became more serious after her death. This is how Norman Bates' thought came into being.
7.The Conjuring "Conjuring" 2013
This horror film tells the story of a happy couple and their five daughters moving into a new home, which is full of supernatural horrors. When the dog was killed, one of the children showed unusual behavior, and the parents found several local experts to investigate the house. It was during this investigation that they discovered that the house once belonged to a lady who tried to kill her child before cursing the land and committing suicide. It was her demonic behavior that has been haunting any family in this house ever since. They soon discovered that the devil's intention was to possess the mothers of these families and use them to honor their daughters. After the mother almost killed two daughters, the expert conducted an exorcism. The investigators Ed and Lorraine Warren of the
film are supernatural investigators in real life. Although Ed died before the film was made, Lorraine was a consultant throughout the production of the film. Unlike in the movie, the family who moved into the Rhode Island farm lived there for 9 years, and finally had enough of the torture of the devil. Although the house is haunted and a communion made one of the evil spirits inhabit the mother, it has been carefully designed to make the movie more fascinating, including attempts to sacrifice and exorcism. Lorraine swears that she and her husband will never try to do something as dangerous as exorcism; they just do the sacrament.
6.Annabelle "Annabel" 2014
"Annabel" started with a couple, Mia and John Goldron, and they told Ed and Lorraine Warren about a haunted doll-Annabel. The name of this doll comes from the daughter of the neighbor, Annabelle, who killed her parents and committed suicide, releasing a demon soul living in the doll. The demon is determined to take away a soul and concentrate its energy on Gordon's daughter Leia. After
several incidents, it locked Mia outside the baby's room and began to attack. Evelyn, a neighbor in the couple’s apartment building, recently shared with Mia her guilt for the death of her daughter. She lives in an apartment with Mia. Therefore, when the demon insisted that it had to take a soul away before it would stop, Evelyn took suicide as a plan, and Evelyn tookWawa committed suicide as a plan to seek forgiveness for her late daughter.
In fact, there is a real Annabel doll in this world. However, the creepy wooden characters in this movie, heavy makeup, and notorious smiles are far from the original. The original doll was just a tattered doll with button eyes and red hair. It now lives in the Warrens Museum, where it is blessed twice a week by the priest and kept in a glass box. The supernatural activities surrounding the
doll began in the 1970s, when a mother bought the doll as a gift to her daughter, which led to several attacks, including a family friend who was almost strangled to death. It is said that a couple of years after the doll was put in the museum, a couple laughed at her, after which the couple drove a motorcycle and hit a tree on the way home. Afterwards, the Warrens were taken away from the museum. Are you brave enough to meet Annabel herself?
5. The Rite "Ritual" 2011
In this movie, the protagonist Michael Kovak (Michael Kovak) is tired of working with his father in the funeral home and enters a god The college plans to give up its pledge at the end and get a free university degree. However, while trying to resign, his superior, father Matthew, tried to stop Michael, resulting in a terrible car accident and a young woman died. Michael, wearing his priest's clothes, was asked to wash her sins because she was about to die and he reluctantly performed the ceremony. After seeing Michael's ability to deal with this situation, Father Matthew sent him to Rome for an exorcism class and agreed that even if he still chooses to drop out, the seminary will continue to pay for his university tuition.
In Rome, Michael witnessed a priest exorcise a girl who was pregnant with her father's child and started working with him to release the demon in the girl's body. But they failed, and the girl and her child died. In the conclusion, Michael realized that his mentor had been possessed by the demon who lived on the girl, leaving him alone to perform the exorcism. After success, Michael's regained his faith and he returned to the United States to complete his degree and become a pastor. The story of
is based on the story of Father Gary Thomas from the Sacred Heart Parish of Saratoga, California. He is one of only 14 well-trained exorcists in the world and the inspiration for the role of Michael Kovac. He got his certificate after a long and tedious stay in the "Pope City" (Athenaeum Pontificium Regina Apostolorum) in the Vatican in Rome. A journalism student recorded his journey there. His work was published in the form of the book "Rituals: The Making of Modern Exorcists", and the movie got its name. The story of the little girl holding her father’s child is actually a real experience that changed the life of father Gary. He spent a week advising the film to help improve the sequence of events.
4.The Haunting In Connecticut "The Mortuary Haunted Incident" 2009
"The Mortuary Haunted Incident" tells the story of Sarah and her son Matt, who has advanced cancer and is receiving treatment in a Connecticut hospital. Sarah was tired of driving Matt to and from the hospital, because it did not help his health, so after discussing with her husband, she started looking for a place to live near the hospital. Soon after, she dropped a "rental" sign on the ground and quickly discussed his interest in the place. The landlord told Sarah that the house has some history, and the landlord gave Sarah rent-free for the first month. Sarah was not sure at first, but in the end she rented it. Some ominous things happened after the family moved in.
After several weeks of hallucinations and nightmares, Matt finally confided the secret to his sister. They investigated the new home and discovered that a man who had lived there had held a surrender. In one of them, all the people present were found dead in the house, and only one person was missing. In recent years, these corpses have been dug up due to construction, and workers found that they had never been buried. Eventually, it was discovered that a soul was invading the body of the dying boy, trying to release the remaining soul in the house from the wall. In the last dramatic scene, Matt ran away from the hospital, broke the wall with an axe, found the missing body, and then he lit the body.When the soul left his body, his cancer disappeared.
"The Mortuary Haunted Incident" is based on a true family story. The Snyderk family moved with their daughter and three sons to an old house in Southington, Connecticut. When Carmen Snedeker's mother found some tools in the basement, their parents were exploring their new house. The tools were later identified as being used by a funeral director.
After their eldest son started seeing ghosts and had terrible nightmares, the family discovered that the house was once a funeral home. Finally, Carmen contacted the investigators we mentioned earlier, Ed and Lorraine Warren (Ed and Lorraine Warren), and they quickly noticed that the house was full of evil spirits and demons. Since then, the family has appeared on several talk shows to tell their story, claiming that the whole thing is true.
3.The Strangers "Strangers" 2008
"Strangers" tells the story of a couple named Christine and James, who went to James' parents' holiday house after their friends' wedding at midnight. They were interrupted by the knock on the door of a lady named Tamara. James didn't care and left Christine alone to buy cigarettes, where she was tortured by a man with a sack mask and a woman with a baby face.
James returned home and found her hiding in the bedroom, yelling at strangers to make them go away. At first James thought Christine was thinking about it. However, after a while, he also saw the baby-faced lady. His cell phone and car were damaged, so they decided to leave, only to find a third stranger. The group of strangers continued to torture them all night. The stranger eventually knocked the couple to the ground, tied them to a chair, and brutally killed them. The film's director Bryan Bertino (Bryan Bertino) derived his story from a series of real events. The first time was a personal experience in his childhood. At that time, his parents were not in the city. He and his little sister went to answer the door. A group of people knocked on the door to find someone who did not live in this house. It turned out that these people would go door to door to find out if anyone was home before breaking into the house. Another huge inspiration for the
story comes from the Manson family. They committed a murder, broke into a house, and found their husband asleep on the sofa and his wife asleep on the bed. They tied the two together and stabbed them one by one. They also stole as much money and valuables as possible. There are many conspiracy theories about the reason for the murder of the couple, but Bertino decided to combine his experience with the murder. This is the source of the slogan "Because you are at home". What would happen if someone broke into your house and found you there?
2.The Exorcism Of Emily Rose 2005
A little girl named Emily Rose died after Father Moore exorcised her . As a result, the priest was arrested after speculating on the cause of her death. Unfortunately, his attorney had little faith in God, so he didn't have much chance to convince the jury that his story was true. Through the film, he claimed that the first exorcism revealed the name of the demon who owned her. After that, she refused another exorcism and stopped taking antipsychotic drugs because she knew she was going to die, and she did. Although the movie is based on a court case, the exorcism story is told through flashbacks, adding to the horror of the movie.
Emily Rose’s exorcism ceremony originated from the story of Anne Lieser Michel, who was born in Bavaria in 1952. She comes from a family of four who often go to church. However, shortly after the age of 16, Michelle suffered from a particular type of seizure. The doctor finally prescribed medicine for her, which can stop her seizures, but also make her think of suicide and depression. Her condition deteriorated. She began to see something and was given more drugs to calm the schizophrenia she is now diagnosed with. She hated everything related to the church, which made her family think she was possessed. Therefore, they found a priest to exorcise their beloved daughter. After performing a total of 67 exorcisms, Anneliese Michel was found dead. The priest was questioned because of her death. He said the demon inside her won, but the autopsy reportShe was underweight, dehydrated, and suffering from pneumonia. Her parents and pastor closed the case for manslaughter.
1.The Possession "Evil Invasion" 2012
This story tells the story of a little girl. She went to the thrift market with her father Clyde and sister Hannah to buy an antique box. After finding and opening the box, she accidentally released a demon that could control her soul. Clyde quickly realized that something was wrong with his daughter, but no one seemed to take him seriously, which led to his ex-wife's new partner to obtain a restraining order against him.
He desperately went to help his daughter and asked a professor for help. The professor explained that the box his daughter got was an evil spirit box. This box could trap evil spirits and should never be opened. With this new discovery, Clyde found a Jewish community and asked the rabbi's son to help exorcise his daughter. Despite the twists and turns, the exorcism was successful, and the demon eventually returned to the box. The story of
was inspired by an old article in the Los Angeles Times. This article tells the story of a small wooden cabinet that was sold on eBay. In the box are two strands of hair, a piece of granite, a dried rose bud, a goblet, two wheat stalk pennies, a candle holder, and a Dubuque (the evil spirit in Yiddish folklore). This box is sold under the label "Haunted Jewish Wine Cabinet Box" and lists the history of its owners and the unusual supernatural activities surrounding these owners.
In the end, the box was sold to a university museum for $280. The traces left by the box include unexplainable strokes, hair loss, property damage and hallucinations, all of which are attributed to this particular box by the owner. Maybe this will make you think twice about what you take home from a neighbor's sale.
