Best 'Based On fact Horror Movie'??

[PeaSoupintheye]

Although I haven't thought for any particularly length of quality time on this I was wondering what others views on the best supposedly 'based on fact' horror movie was. I have listed a loosely compiled list of my fave 5 ( only faves I can think of currently)

1. The Exorcist
2. The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (Original)
3. the Amityville Horror (Original)
4. The Entity
5. Deranged

I do need to spend more time thinking about this but am more interested to see if there are any hidden gems out there that others may I have seen that I have missed?

[urgeok]

Independance Day
King Kong
Lord of the Rings.

[Despare]

Probably The Exorcist, but even those films based on fact are soooo exaggerated it's as if the movie's fake anyway. Take Lord of the Rings. In reality a group of friends found a ring, some weird shit started happening so they were like; "Dude, we gotta destroy this.". But then their midget friend (who had some very odd facial hair) told them not to destroy it but to sell it. So they pawned it at Gollem's Hock.

[urgeok]

i always choke on the 'based on fact'

it pisses me off actually so i always have to watch these films with a grain of salt (whatever that means exactly)

there is no such thing as truth in story telling, be it a movie or a biography.


a general rule is that the book will probably be 30% truth ...
the movie will be about 5%

[PeaSoupintheye]

Yep - ok, ok I see your point. However even if they have just a 5% of truth in them - surely that makes them more terrifying than something purely made up?

For me watching the exorcist for the first time (I was 13) absolutely terrified me - I remember thinking about it constantly for weeks afterwards. Just wondered if the fact that these films are supposedly based on fact played on anyone elses minds etc.

thanks for the comments though!

[Despare]

Posession is a very terrifying concept and The Excorsist did a good job scaring the bejebus out of people because if that. The fact that there have been so many records of posessions alone is creepy then mix that movie in with it and it's really spooky. I think if the concept is based on something that could be true it's just as effective as something "based on real events".

[urgeok]

since i dont believe in anything supernatural whatsoever .. to me those films are 100% malarky so I cant find them frightening in the least ..

[Despare]

When you were younger you already had your beliefs set in stone and movies didn't fighten you?

[urgeok]

when i was about 13 i realized there was nothing supernatural ..

before that lots of stuff scared me .. but i wasnt watching the exorcist when i was earlier than 13 ..

back in the day parents actually gave a shit about what kids watched ..

since then - a couple of good jump out scenes have startled me .. but nothing scares me - except for the news and evangelists.

[Despare]

I don't think I'll find a "scary" movie nowadays as there's really nothing that scares me either (and I believe in the unexplainable). Nothing really shocks me either... just entertains.

[ShankS]

The only 'based on' film I bothered to read a bit on and watch news footage archives after I'd seen the film, was 44 Minutes: The North Hollywood Shoot-Out with Michael Madsen.

The scenes were pretty convinving, and the camera shooting style came off pretty well.



I'm with urge aswell... most of the 'based on' horror films around get hashed up and most of the facts get distorted.

[urgeok]

yep,

i dont need a scare-o-meter to be entertained either ...

i just need a good story, decent acting, good sound and music and effective editing ...


and thats why it's damn hard to find a decent movie in the genre !

[The Flayed One]

I liked Citizen X, based on the story of Andre Chikatilo.

[The_Return]

Ive always liked The Mothman Prophecies. Sure, it's got to be one of the hardest to believe, but I thout it was a very well made movie, interesting and well acted, even had a few creepy moments. Used to be one of my favourites, and I still go back to it from time to time.

[Posher778]

dawn of the dead! the true story of the dawn of hollywood... a truly terrifying movie.

[The_Return]

Originally posted by Posher778
dawn of the dead! the true story of the dawn of hollywood... a truly terrifying movie.

Speaking of the dawn of Hollywood, Ghosts of Edendale has some facts mixed in. [Anyone get the little joke there?:p]

[Firemedic]

Well, if you want to get technical, the Texas Chainsaw Massacre really wasnt based on fact. They just got some ideas from what Ed Gein did in the 50's. They then made up a whole story around it. And if you really, really want to get down to it, Ed Gein really only killed one person, and that was with a gun.

[PeaSoupintheye]

But Gein was the 'inspiration' for many horror films we all know and love, from Psycho, Silence of The Lambs, Deranged to as you say the loosely based TCM.

I always thought that it wasn't particularly the one murder that captured writers imaginations more the fact of the macabre way he lived his life. The depressing state of his kitchen, the obsession with dead bodies and female genetalia, the love of his over powering, over bearing mother. The 'dressing up' and trying to be 'like his mother' and none more so than the various human body parts around his hovel of a home made him an icon in horror history.

In-fact I would say I don't know of any other killer that has been as 'influential' in horror.

[slasherman]

..wasnt "The Entity" based on fact....not my favorite but lets sum up all the horror movies that are based on fact....first...then pick out the best...but please not another tournament :p

[The Mothman]

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