Scariest Horror Movies Based On Real Crimes
Nathan Johnson
Published
10/06/2016
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And you thought these were just Innocent movies. Psycho, Texas Chainsaw Massacre, Zodiac Killer, they are all here.
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Psycho – The granddady of real-life horror monsters would have to be Ed Gein, the small town serial killer who partly inspired novelist Robert Bloch to write the novel that eventually became Alfred Hitchcock’s Psycho. -
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The Texas Chainsaw Massacre – Gein was also a big point of inspiration for the Psycho of the 70s. -
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Deranged – Ed Gein once again inspired this 1970s horror film, leading one to wonder if anyone in his family ever tried to sue for royalties. -
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The Girl Next Door – Unlike Psycho or TCM, The Girl Next Door hews to a real-life case relatively closely, that of the murder of Sylvia Likens. -
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The Strangers – Most home invasion thrillers probably draw from real life at some point, this one in particular was inspired by probably the most famous home-invader of them all: Charles Manson. -
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Eaten Alive – Tobe Hooper’s follow-up to The Texas Chainsaw Massacre was based on another real-life Texas killer: Joe Ball, aka The Alligator Man. -
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Wolf Creek – As frightening as it is, Wolf Creek is indeed based on real crimes committed by Ivan Milat and Bradley John Murdoch. -
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B.T.K. – Arguably the scariest serial killer of recent vintage is the BTK (short for Bind, Torture, Kill) Killer Dennis Rader, the inspiration for the horror biopic B.T.K. -
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Curse of the Zodiac – More respectable films have been inspired by the serial killer known as Zodiac, but this is the grimy horror movie answer to the Fincher movie. -
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Gacy – Crimes don’t get much more tailor-made for horror movies than those committed by notorious killer clown John Wayne Gacy. -
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Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer – The crimes and delusional fantasies of Henry Lee Lucas were the primary source of inspiration for this lastingly infamous horror movie. -
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The Black Dahlia – Much of Brian De Palma’s 2005 film is devoted to a fictional detective plot, but the case at the center of it all – the still-unsolved murder of Elizabeth Short – is all too real. -
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The Dentist – Allegedly based on a real dentist-turned-serial-killer (or is that vice versa?), this is a movie to avoid if you’re already afraid of the dentist. -
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Borderland – Real-life cult leader Adolfo de Jesús Constanzo and the human sacrifices performed by his cult were the inspiration for this 2007 movie. -
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The Strangers – Most home invasion thrillers probably draw from real life at some point, this one in particular was inspired by probably the most famous home-invader of them all: Charles Manson.
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