5 horror movies based on real events

When horror movies make us so afraid that I want to close my eyes, it is advised to remember that everything that happens on the screen - an invention that actually none of this has never been, and most likely will not. It really can work fine, except when horror movies were indeed based on a true story.

The Exorcist (1973)

The film in its time caused such a stir that the UK even forbidden to release it on tape - the ban lifted only in 1999, when the film has become too "old fashioned" and kinopriemy used to it, no longer frighten the audience.

As the basis for the book Peter Blatt, of which later made a film "The Exorcist", history was taken, which was published in The Washington Post newspaper in 1949. The article was entitled "The priest Frieze of Mount Rainier freed the boy, whose possessed by the devil."

The article tells the story of a boy (his real name is not called, giving him a "general" Roland Doe's name), living at his aunt, who was fond evocation of spirits through the Ouija board. When my aunt died, the family began to complain that the house began to move by themselves, and even flying objects. The family turned to the pastor. The boy spent the night in the house of the pastor, then pastor advised the family to appeal to a Catholic priest, that he spent the exorcism rite.

At first, the boy was taken to Georgetown University and conducted an exorcism ritual there. Roland tied at while reading malt, but he was released and heavily wounded priest. Then we decided to hold a ceremony in the house of my aunt, as all of these events is associated with it. At this time, once we invited two priests - and both are told that during the reading of prayers bed, to which Roland was tied, shook things fly around the house, and Roland spoke to them not with his voice. After that, the boy was taken to hospital, and there is the same ritual attempted to have three priests. Bed bound by Roland shook, and the boy responded aggressively to any religious items, whether it is the Bible, a cross or holy water.

Allow the situation was only the fourth time, when the priests were gathered around the icon of the Archangel Michael and chanted prayers until Roland fell into a trance. boy simply said seven minutes later: "Everything he's gone." Upon awakening, Roland said he saw the archangel Michael fought with the devil and defeated him. No more strange things in the life of Roland did not happen - he lived a normal life, married, and named his son Michael (Michael) in honor of his rescuer.

Psycho (1960), The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (1973), Madness (1974)

Alfred Hitchcock on the film Psycho * *.

She steals a large sum from his boss and in an attempt to escape, stopped at a roadside motel, where it kills one in women's clothing. Later, here comes a guy a girl and her sister, trying to figure out what happened to her. My sister is in the basement of his mother's corpse, and the motel owner, dressed in the same clothes as the mother tries to kill his sister, but he is stopped by a guy.

A still from the movie * * The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (1973).

Two teenagers are concerned about rumors that in their hometown of someone spoils the grave, they invite their friends to go there and make sure everything is in order with the grave of their grandfather. On the way, they stop at the abandoned house, where one after the other killing maniac, wearing a mask on his face, made of leather.

Anthony Perkins as Norman Bates - killer in the movie Psycho * *.

Mother is a religious man fan, which forbids his son to associate with women. After her death, he starts killing women and destroying graves. Once she gets into his car and is in his house. There she finds a bedroom with a heap of corpses, and the man goes out to her in a mask made of leather ...

Ed Gin.

Plots of these three films based on the life of a real person - Ed Gina, a serial killer and kidnapper dead. Ed's father was an alcoholic, his mother - a religious fanatic. It does not allow any Ed nor his brother to make friends and categorically forbade lead anyone home. Every evening, the boys she read passages from the Bible and said that drinking alcohol - a sin, and all the women, except for her - is the embodiment of evil.

A police photo of Ed Gin, 1957.

His father died of alcoholism, brother Ed died of suffocation in a fire, and following this the mother had a stroke, so that she was bedridden for over a year. After her death, Ed began digging graves buried with just women, and then began to kill himself. When in the end the police came to his house, they found a whole collection of different body parts, as well as the mask and "dress", made of the skin of people. Gene confessed that he killed and dug those women who reminded him of his mother.

"The Amityville Horror" (1974)

The cutting from the newspaper - article about the house in Amityville.

The events in the film are tied to the terrible murder of an entire family - they killed a guy named Ronald, obeying the "voices". After a year in this house enters a new family, and the father of the family is also beginning to hear voices, become angry and aggressive. His wife happened to learn about the past of the house and sees that her husband is very similar in appearance to Ronald. That same night, he tries to kill his children, but his wife will save them. She was also unable to "reach out" to the consciousness of her husband, and together they leave the spooky house.

The house in Amityville, where the murder occurred.

Indeed, Ronald DeFeo, Jr. murder took place. He lived with his family in Amityville, and, following the voices in my head, once killed a father, a mother and her four siblings while they slept. After a year in this house is really like in the movie, Lutz family moved, but after 28 days they moved out to learn about the past of the house. Lutz spoke of the horrors that were happening to them while they lived there, and it is based on these records later writer Jay Anson wrote his novel, which became the basis for the film.

Much later a lawyer Ronald admitted that he developed the story from Lutz to later sell "sentimental story" affected family. History of the second family was an invention from beginning to end. What, however, can not be said about the murder committed by Ronald.