Thriller removed based on real-life stories

1. "Wolf Creek»
"Wolf Creek" - is an Australian horror film about three tourists, who crossed paths with a serial killer Mick Taylor. It was a horrible monster that roamed the Australian outback in search of new victims to kill them and remove their skin.



All this is pretty scary, is not it?
However, the "pitfalls" there is a real basis: it is loosely based on the serial murders committed by a serial killer named Ivan Milat. Like its counterpart in the film, Milat hunting tourists in the Australian outback. He grew up there, was a hunter, and used his skills to do terrible things.

Unlike Taylor, Milat not skinned with their victims. But he was no less cruel. Milat denied involvement in the killings, even when it was discovered a few half-decomposed bodies. The bodies were discovered evidence that all these people died a horrible death. Many of his victims Milat stabbed with a knife into the base of the spine, causing paralysis. After that, he either shot motionless people, or beat, and then beheaded them. He just threw the body in the desert. From his grasp killed at least seven people. July 27, 1997-year Milat was sentenced to seven life sentences plus 18 years.



2. "The girl next door»
In the movie "Girl Next Door", based on the novel by Jack Ketchama, the story is told by David Moran, a banker on Wall Street. He reflects on a very difficult period of his childhood, when he met two sisters - Mack and Susan. After his parents died, they moved to live with aunt. Aunt, played by Blanche Baker, was a complete psychopath, who took Meg torment. What's worse, she began to encourage other children to participate in this.
The film was created based on the real murder of Sylvia Leykens, who lived in 1965 in Indianapolis, Indiana. Parents left Sylvia and her sister in the care of a nanny named Gertrude Banizhevski. Pay her $ 20 a week. Do not get one of the payments on time, Banizhevski transformed the lives of girls in hell, and Sylvia became the main target of bullying. Banizhevski encouraged their children and other children from the neighborhood torment Sylvia. First she blew out of her skin cigarettes, then came to blows and violence. In the end, Sylvia was locked in the house, as in a prison. Then Sylvia overheard Banizhevski says 14-year-old neighbor named Richard Hobbs about how she plans to leave the girl in the woods with a blindfold, for what she was trying to escape. Sylvia caught, tied, then Banizhevski using a sewing needle wrote on his belly girls letter «i».



Then she gave the needle Hobbs, which offers a cut on his chest girls phrase "I am a prostitute and proud of it." Sylvia died as a result of a strong blow to the head October 26, 1965-year. When police arrived, they found her body lying on a dirty mattress.



It was evident that her starved, whole body was covered with bruises, and it was more than 100 cigarette burns. Banizhevski, her son John, daughter of Paul, each Flooring Coy Hubbard and Richard Hobbs, were arrested on charges of murder. Banizhevski was convicted of first-degree murder. Paul was convicted of manslaughter. Teens also were found guilty of manslaughter, and their prison terms ranging from 2 to 21 years.



3. "The Exorcist»
One of the most shocking and genuinely scary movies - a film by William Friedkin's "The Exorcist". Released in 1973, the film tells about a 12-year-old girl named Regan, who became obsessed with an ancient demon. Two Catholic priests trying to exorcise a demon from the body of the girl.
The author of the novel on which the film is based, the idea arose to write it after the event, which occurred with a boy named "Roland Doe" or "Robbie Mannheim". He was born probably in 1936, and lived in Maryland with his family, and began to notice that the associated strange phenomena, such as spontaneously moving pictures and scratching sounds.
In 1949, two Catholic priests from St. Louis spent several rites of exorcism. When they did, the boy began to speak Latin, though he never knew the language. He also began to spit, and a rash on his skin suddenly changed, and out of it formed the words and figures.
Years later, Walter Helloran, one of the priests involved in the exorcism, he said that the boy may have just repeated the Latin, which he told the priests. He really spit, and it really was a red rash, but it did not take many forms.



4. "The Mothman Prophecies»
In the movie "The Mothman Prophecies" with Richard Gere life reporter John Klein turns into chaos when he and his wife get into a car accident. He is haunted by the image of a large creature with large red eyes and gray wings. This creature he saw before the accident. Then John is in Point Pleasant, West Virginia, while he does not remember how he got there. Once there, he begins an investigation of other cases, the observation of this mysterious creature. Soon Klein understands that there always appears before the tragedy.



In the trailer for the film said that "Mothman" is based on real events. Starting from 15 November 1966 to 15 December 1967, dozens of people in Point Pleasant reported that they saw a large creature looks like a giant mole, with large red eyes. All of these observations occurred on the eve of the bridge collapse Silver Bridge. He collapsed during rush hour, killing 48 people. According to some, the giant "mole" was sent to warn locals about the impending disaster. After the bridge collapsed, "moth" in Point Pleasant is no longer seen.



5. "Child's Play»
In this horror film serial killer voodoo practitioner named Charles Lee Ray, killed in a toy store. His soul is moved to a nearby doll and doll then falls into the hands of a 6-year-old boy Andy. Doll called Chucky, and she begins to kill the soul killer, enclosed in it, trying to take possession of the body of Andy.
Robert Doll / © Wikimedia

It sounds crazy, but the prototype was Chuckie - real doll named Robert. In 1903 a 3-year-old Robert Eugene Otto received a doll from the servants of the Bahamas. Otto doll named after himself, and since then they have been inseparable. Shortly thereafter, the parents, Otto began to hear two voices coming from the bedroom of the boy. One voice belonged to Otto, the second - no. Whenever parents come into the room, everything was in order. Otto grew up, married, but never got rid of his dolls. She was sitting in his room in a house in the West Keys, Florida. Passing by the house kids swore that sometimes the doll looks at them from the windows, with out different. In the mid 70s, Otto and his wife died, and the house where Robert was, moved new tenants. They argue that from time to time hear the giggles and doll face has changed dramatically. In 1994, Robert was transferred to the Museum of Key West, and was placed under a glass case, where it can be seen today.



6. "Open Sea»
This low-budget film of 2003, based on a terrible story. What happens if you scuba dive in the midst of the sea, and the boat, with which you were diving, will leave without you? But that is what happened to a married couple from Baton Rouge, Louisiana.
January 25, 1998-year, 34-year-old Tom Lonergan and his 29-year-old wife, Eileen joined the group of divers to the reef otpravivshisya St. Crispin, a part of the Great Barrier Reef in Australia. Boat with divers went before Lonergan surfaced. No one noticed that the couple was gone, they are remembered only two days later, when the boat they found a bag. After that was launched a search operation, but no trace of the pair was found. They are believed to have drowned in the sea.



7. "Strangers»
In this film, a young couple is in an isolated house. Their terrorizes a group of strange people in masks, with the clear intention to kill. In the promotional movie trailer claimed that it was based on real events. One of the real prerequisites for this movie served as the Manson Family murders, and the parallels with their history is well traced in the film: the Manson Family stabbed seven people broke into their home.

Nevertheless, the basis for the film and serves as one more, no less horrific crime, which is known as the "murder in a hut Teddy».
In 1981, in the Sierra Nevada, California, Sue Sharp and five of her children for two months rented a small house in the popular resort Caddy. Sue morning of April 12, her 16-year-old son and his 17-year-old friend was found bound with tape and wires. All were killed on the bodies showed signs of severe beatings. All the furniture in the room was broken, the walls of the room were traces of blood. Discovered the body of 14-year-old daughter, Sue, who was sleeping in the night of the murder in another house. To date, this murder is still unsolved.



8. "The Lost»
The second film, released in 2006, the year, and also based on the novel by Jack Ketchama called "Lost." It tells the story of a psychopath and charismatic teenager named Ray Pye (Marc Senter). Pai - 20-year-old man of small stature, is popular among teenage girls. One night, during a hike with friends Pai kills two innocent girls from a nearby campsite, and makes his friends to help him cover up the crime. A year later, friends still did not talk about his crimes, but the mentality of the Unit can not withstand, and he goes crazy.

The prototype of Ray Pye served Charles Schmid, popular and rich 22-year-old young man, who lived in Tucson, Arizona, in 1964. Schmid also was short, and wore high boots soles to look taller. And he put on the face makeup to hide a birthmark.
May 31, 1964-year girlfriend Schmid named Mary French and her friend John Saunders introduced him to 16-year-old Eileen Roe. After a while Schmid raped Row, and then scored her to death and dumped the body with a high cliff. Then the French and Saunders helped him bury the body of the murdered.
A year later, the body Rowe still has not been found, and no one knew where to look, but Schmid admitted his new girlfriend, Gretchen Fritz, that he killed Rowe. In August of 1965 Schmid was going to break up with Gretchen, but when he tried to do it, she said it will go to the police and tell about the murder. Schmid strangled Gretchen Fritz, and then killed and her 13-year-old sister, Wendy. Their bodies were then buried it in the desert. Once Schmid showed burial site to a friend, who contacted police. Schmid was sentenced to life imprisonment, and three times tried to flee. March 20, 1970-year Schmid was killed in prison.



9. "The Town That Dreaded Sundown»
"The Town That Dreaded Sundown" - a film category «B», which takes place in a small town in Arkansas. The story tells of how a man dressed in a white hood, killing random people for four months.
The film was based on the killings that took place in 1946 in Texarkana for 10 weeks. Man using gun caliber 0, 32, shot to 8 people. Only three of them survived. Two of the survivors said that "Phantom" was wearing a mask of white cloth with holes for the eyes. All these murders remain unsolved.

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