Today, we're gonna look some horror movies.
So get your popcorns ready.
Have you ever watched a really scary film, and thought to yourself?
Don't Worry, it's just a movie, it's not real.
Well, while some movies are based entirely on fiction, such as Guardians of the Galaxy or Lord of The rings, which is fun and creative,but many movies are actually based on true events or inspired by real life.
So in this list, we are going to look at the best horror movies based on true events.
Sometimes, the truth really is stranger, or shall I say scarier, than fiction.
From Hell.
In this movie, Johhny Depp, one of my favourite actors, plays an opium addicted investigator in a victorian era film about the hunt for the notorious Jack the Ripper.
This film is obviously based on unidentified serial killer called Jack The Ripper, who is connected to five different murders back in London during the 18th century.
He was given the terrible name Jack the Ripper, as his attacks mostly involved prostitutes who had their throats slit before having their bodies completely mutilated.
Their internal organs are also removed with surgical precision.
This fact left some people to speculate that he may have been a doctor or a surgeon with some kind of anatomical knowledge.
The true identity of Jack The Ripper, was never found.
The Girl Next Door.
This movie follows the unspeakable torture and abuse committed on a teenage girl as well as the boys who witnessed and failed to report the crime.
This film is based on what was called the worst crime in Indiana's history.
In 1965, 16-year-old Sylvia Likens and her sister Jenny was left in the care of their neighbor Gertrude Baniszewski.
Sylvia's parents were carnival workers and would send $20 every week as payment.
But When one of the payments ran late, the torture and abuse started.
Baniszewski would encourage her own children as well as other children in the neighborhood to torment Sylvia in wicked ways.
She would tie her up in the basement of the house and Extinguish lit cigarettes upon her skin, Burn her with scalding water and rub salt into her wounds.
She even forced the poor girl to eat feces and various other substances, causing her to vomit.
Sexual crimes were also committed which include forcing her to strip naked and shoving a coca-cola bottle up her vagina.
With no way to contact her parents, Sylvia eventually succumbed to torture and died of a brain hemorrhage, shock, and malnutrition at the young age of 16.
A nightmare on Elm Street
This film is a classic American Slasher film that was met with rave critical reviews and went on to make a very significant impact on the horror genre.
The plot revolves around a group of teenagers who are attacked and killed in their dreams by a horrible looking serial killer called Freddy Krueger.
While the plot makes for a very interesting movie, it is hardly conceivable that such an outrageous idea can actually happen in real life.
However, this movie was actually based on a true story reported in the newspapers.
In 1981, 18 Laotian refugees were all found dead in their sleep.
Medical experts couldn't explain why these otherwise healthy individuals would suddenly die without any symptoms of disease or foul play.
These Laotians were just sleeping peacefully in their beds when, in the early hours of the morning, they would cry out in extreme terror and suddenly die.
These deaths were attributed to the terror caused by nightmares, which they dubbed nightmare death syndrome.
In many cultures, people believe that spirits can attack you in your dreams and cause actual physical harm to your bodies.
So the next time you tell yourself, it's just a dream, well, you may not be as safe as you think you are.
Borderland
This Movie is about A trio of college buddies visiting a Mexican border town hoping for a break from the lawfulness of the States.
They're shortly kidnapped by a human-sacrificing cult who offer up 'gifts' to a voodoo god so they can smuggle drugs over the border.
What a Bummer.
This film was inspired by the true story of Adolfo Constanzo, a leader of a cult where human sacrifice was openly practiced.
Constanzo kidnapped and killed members of drug cartels when he was denied a share in the business.
He also famously kidnapped and killed an American medical student named Mark Kilroy, who was on a spring break vacation at a Mexican bar.
It is believed that Adolfo was looking for a superior brain for one of his weird rituals and mutilated the poor American boy.
Some of his killings are so brutal that I'd rather not mention it in this video.
Why don't you just go watch the movie.
The Silence of the lambs.
This Oscar winning movie is one of my favourite horror films of all time.
FBI trainee Clarice Starling played by Jodie Foster is in for the case of her life.
she is forced to work with Dr Lecter, a fearsome cannibal, a landmark role which defined Anthony Hopkins legendary career.
It's hard to imagine that such monsters exists in the world, but The creepy characters in the movie are actually based on real life killers.
Hannibal Lector was based on a doctor named Alfredo Trevino, who was convicted of murdering his gay lover.
In what was described as a crime of passion, the Mexican doctor sedated his lover And dragged his unconscious body into the bathtub, where he slit his throat and drained all his blood before methodically slicing up his victims body and shoving the chopped pieces into a box.
The Serpent and The Rainbow
An anthropologist goes to Haiti after hearing rumors about a drug used by black magic practitioners to turn people into zombies.
The film is inspired by Canadian scientist Wade Davis, who wrote a book in 1985 of the same name.
In the book, he wrote of his experiences with the process of zombification.
The island nation of Haiti, located in the Caribbean Sea, has a long tradition of real zombies, The zombies of Haiti were said to be corpses that were reanimated through black magic by powerful voodoo shamans, known as bokor, for various purposes but most commonly for manual labor.
It was said that zombies were routinely employed to do slave labor on farms and sugarcane plantations.
Wade Davis, a Harvard educated anthropologist discovered that voodoo priest routinely used some sort of special powders to turn their subjects into zombies.
Davis postulated that these zombie powders contained a powerful neurotoxin called tetrodotoxin.
In non lethal doses, this neuroptoxin can cause the so called zombiefication of their victims, inducing a death-like state characterized by a low body temperature, extremely reduced rate of breathing, and a very slow and faint, almost imperceptible heartbeat.
In such a state, the victim would appear to witnesses as dead and would then be buried.
The victim would later awaken when the poison wore off and then be administered a special drug, which has potent psychotropic properties and would keep them in a delirious, trance-like state vulnerable to mind control.
Eaten Alive
This 1976 film by Tobe Hooper takes place in an old, rundown hotel in Texas.
The owner of the hotel has a unique way of getting rid of anyone who pisses him off he feeds them to his pet crocodile.
Well, this crocodile lover is actually based on a real life serial killer called Joe Ball a.k.a The Alligator Man.
He built a pond that contained six alligators because he misunderstood the term corpus delicti, believing that a murder conviction without a body would be impossible.
Joe Ball figured that if he could just get rid of the bodies by feeding his alligators, he would never be held responsible by the the law.
He even charged people to view his pets, especially during feeding time; where he would feed his creatures live cats and dogs.
He is believed to have fed at least 20 women to his little pets.
People started noticing that women were disappearing in his town, including barmaids, former girlfriends and even his wife.
Two sheriffs deputies went to his house to question him but before they could get to him, Joe Ball shot himself in the head with a handgun.
So that's the end of our list.
How many of these horror movies have you watched?
Do you have any movie recommendations?
I love watching horror movies, especially those based on a true story so make sure you let me know in the comments below.
That's all the time we have today, hope you enjoyed this list.
Peace out.
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