What are some scary movies based on true events?

Question

What are some scary movies based on true events?

Answer 1

Helter Skelter (1976)

The investigation of two horrific mass murders leads to the capture and trial of the psychotic pseudo-hippie Charles Manson and his "family".

In Cold Blood (1967)

After the brutal murder of a rural family, due to a botched robbery, two drifters elude police, in the end coming to terms with their own mortality and the repercussions of their vile atrocity.

In the Light of the Moon (2000)

The story of Ed Gein, who dug up the corpses of over a dozen women and made things out of their remains before finally shooting two people to death and butchering their bodies like beef sides.

Picnic at Hanging Rock (1975)

On a drowsy St. Valentine's Day in 1900, a party of girls from a strict boarding school in Australia goes on a day's outing to Hanging Rock, a geological outcropping not far from their school. Three of the girls and one of their teachers disappear into thin air. One of them is found a week or so later, but can remember almost nothing. The others are never found. This movie will freak you out to no end.

Answer 2

Exorcism of Emily Rose

Open Water

Answer 3

ils

Answer 4

texas chainsaw massacre, psycho, and silence of the lambs are all based loosely on the story of Ed Gein.

Answer 5

Texas Chainsaw Massacre

The Strangers

Answer 6

The strangers (2008)- On DVD October 21, 2008

Wolf creek

Zodiac

Henrey: The protrait of a serial killer

The Poughkeepsie tapes

The exorcist

The exorcism of Emily rose

Jaws

The shining

Answer 7

The Amityville Horror

The Strangers

The Excorsism of Emily Rose

Answer 8

Open Water

Texas Chainsaw Massacre

Dahmer

The Amityville Horror--debatable, since I've heard that this has been proved to be a hoax

Legend of Boggy Creek--also debatable, though I have a friend who grew up in the area and heard these stories as a child.

Cannibal the Musical

Cannibal

Philosophy of A Knife

Answer 9

Henry portrait of a serial killer

The Exorcist (loosely)

Gacy

Copycat (various copycat murders based on real serial killers)

Summer of Sam (not quite horror)

Zodiac