‘Slender Man’ and 12 Other Horror Movies Inspired by Disturbing True Events

THE Slender man hits theaters this Friday, August 24, introducing a new paranormal threat to the horror film genre.

This is not an original concept, however, but rather an Internet meme that first appeared on the Something Awful forums in 2009.

The Supernatural Child Stalker was developed by forum members who were asked to turn Slender Man into real photos to make them paranormal and upload them to the site.

THE Slender man the film is not the first to draw inspiration from the fictional legend; both from 2013 Entity and 2015 Always watching featured a similar character.

Here are 12 more horror films inspired by true events.

Psychology (1960)

Reality: Norman Bates’ character, the shower-stalking mama’s boy, was based on Ed Gein, who was arrested in 1957 for the murder of two women – and for digging up the corpses of countless others – which reminded him of his Dead mother. A man with problems we suspect. The real Gein is below, accompanied by two US Marshals.

The Exorcist (1973)

Reality: The film is inspired by the last known Catholic exorcism in the United States, in which priests tended to a 13-year-old boy after his parents complained about his aggressive behavior. THE the facts are a bit murky, so while there may be some truth to the reports that the boy spoke with a demonic accent and moved objects with his mind; he almost certainly didn’t turn his head fully, levitate, or speak gibberish.

But what is called is even scarier. Exorcist curse that befell the film crew. Depending on who you ask, between four and nine people involved in the film died either during filming or shortly afterward; while filming was repeatedly delayed by a series of mysterious fires and serious accidents on set.

Freddy (1984)

Reality: We s Craven based his film’s wonderful MacGuffin on a real-life condition known as sudden nocturnal death syndrome (SUNDS). This problem was seen in Cambodian refugees who suffered from recurring nightmares, after which they refused to sleep, fearing death if they did. Some were even right since they died shortly after.

Conspiracy (2013)

Patrick Wilson and Vera Farmiga play the Warrens in the Conjuring series

Reality: The characters of Vera Farmiga and Patrick Wilson are based on paranormal investigators Ed and Lorraine Warren (she is with Farmiga, below) from Amityvillefame. The events of the film are based on the 1971 Perron affair, which saw the family home in Harrisville, Rhode Island, haunted by a “witch”. The land the house was built on was apparently cursed by a 19th century woman named Bathsheba Sherman, so that anyone who lived there would die in one way or another.

Silent house (2011)

Reality: This independent horror film from Open Water duo Chris Kentis and Laura Lau is a remake of the 2010 film. movie, The muda house (The silent house), which, in turn, is said to have been inspired by a similar incident that allegedly occurred in a village in Uruguay in the 1940s, although this remains to be verified.

Annabelle (2014)

Reality: This follow-up of Conspiracy focuses on the terrifying evil doll from the first film. Once again, we’re sorry to report that Annabelle is REAL. She is based on the abomination below: a Raggedy Ann doll purchased for a woman named Donna by her mother in 1970. Some of the doll’s real-life antics include changing positions and rooms at night and leaving behind cryptic messages like “Help us” written on parchment. it wasn’t even in the room. And one day, blood mysteriously appeared everywhere.

The Warrens (see Conspiracy) suspected that the doll was inhabited by the ghost of a seven-year-old girl called Annabelle Higgins, who died in a car accident. You can always go visit it in their museum… if you dare.

The girl next door (2007)

Reality: The film is based on Gertrude Baniszweski’s murder of Sylvia Likens, her daughter Paula, and four other children in Indianapolis, Indiana, in 1965. Likens was left with Baniszewski by her Carnival worker parents, along with her sister, but after having been in arrears on the part of the father, she carried out three months of torture and abuse until the death of the 16-year-old girl.

Border country (2007)

Reality: This Mexican-American horror film is loosely based on the true story of Adolfo de Jesús Constanzo, a drug lord and leader of a religious sect, called the Narco-Satanists, who kidnapped and murdered Mark J. Kilroy, a student at the University of Texas. in 1989.

The Amityville Horror (1979)

Reality: haunted house movie Amityville is based on the real-life experiences of the Lutz family, who had just overcome real estate agents, movers, and endless reams of bubble wrap before discovering that the house they moved into was haunted.

Like in the movie, a mass murder had taken place in their new neighborhood, which perhaps explains how, for four weeks, they experienced cold spots, inverted crucifixes, and walls covered in green slime. That’s if they hadn’t invented everything, which many suspected…

The Exorcism of Emily Rose (2005)

Reality: Scott Derickson’s 2005 film was based on the life of Annelise Michel, a devout Catholic who underwent 67 exorcisms between 1975 and 1976 but sadly died on July 1. His parents and the priest who performed the exorcisms were charged with criminally negligent homicide. They were ultimately sentenced to six months in prison with three years of probation after being convicted of involuntary manslaughter.

Wolf Creek (2005)

Reality: Writer-director Greg McLean wrote the script in 1997 but reworked it after learning more about the murders of Ivan Milat and Bradley John Murdoch. Milat was a sadistic killer who murdered seven people in New South Wales between 1989 and 1993, while Murdoch murdered British tourist Peter Falconio and attacked his girlfriend Joanne Lees in the Northern Territory in 2001.

The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (1974)

Reality: The film played a lot on its “based on a true story” schema. But while the events themselves were entirely fictional, the chainsaw-wielding cannibal character Leatherface was another character based on Gein (see psychopath) who also skinned his victims in order to make a bodysuit from human flesh.

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