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Horror Movies Based On True Stories - How Real Are They?

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4 September 2015 at 12:30 am

The Girl Next Door (2007)

The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (1974)

The Exorcist (1973)

Deliver Us From Evil (2014)

The Conjuring (2013)

Wolf Creek (2005)

The Amityville Horror (1979)

The Devil Inside (2012)

The Exorcism of Emily Rose (2005)

The Blair Witch Project (1999)

Paranormal Activity (2009)

The Possession (2012)

The Rite (2011)

The Haunting in Connecticut (2009)

The Silence Of The Lambs (1991)

Snowtown (2011)

The Hills Have Eyes (1977)

Jaws (1975)

An American Haunting (2005)

Horror Movies Based On True Stories - How Real Are They?

The Girl Next Door (2007)

The Claim: Inspired by true events. The Movie Plot: The movie follows the unspeakable torture and abuses committed on a teenage girl in the care of her aunt….and the boy who witnessed and failed to report the crime. The Backstory: Based on the true events surrounding the torture and murder of Sylvia Likens by Gertrude Baniszewski in 1965. She was only 16 at the time of her death.

Horror movies that say they are based on true stories always seem ten times scarier, but how much truth is there to the claim "Based on a true story...?"