Real-life horror movies: shocking tapes

Special attention of the viewer is undoubtedly attracted to horror films based on real events, among the huge variety of which films about maniacs occupy a significant part.

Probably because the viewer has the opportunity not only to tickle the nerves while watching a similar film, but also to be horrified by the realization that all the screen events were happening in reality. Horror stories based on real events seem to open the veil of brutal reality, allow you to touch the perverted essence of psychopaths, to penetrate their distorted consciousness. Usually, from the point of view of identity with the history of real maniacs, a little truth remains in the films, but this does not prevent the creators from conveying the whole essence and fullness of the emotions of what is happening. And the story, telling about the terrible hell on earth, cannot but touch the heart of the viewer.

Maniacs were, are and will be

Horror movies on real events, the list of which will be presented below, are just pictures telling about the notorious serial killers:

1. "Zodiac". The maniac with the same nickname kept San Francisco in fear for a long 25 years, then disappearing for a while, then reappearing. Moreover, he managed to reproach the authorities and the police for inaction in encrypted letters to the media.
2. "Silence of the Lambs". This film has been repeatedly recognized as the best thriller with cultural, aesthetic (!) And historical significance. The figure of Hannibal Lector became the prototype for many other cinema psychopaths.
3. "From hell". The story of the true embodiment of darkness and horror - Jack the Ripper, who plunged England into an atmosphere of fear.
4. The Boston Strangler. The main character in the surrounding area and in Boston himself before his arrest managed to kill and rape more than 11 women in two years (1962-1964).
5. "Evilenko." The film is about Andrei Chikatilo, the bloodiest maniac of the USSR era, aka “Rostov monster”. A real horror movie on real events.

In search of the inexplicable

Those moviegoers who are fed up with standard horror movies with rivers of blood and pieces of meat can plunge into the exciting atmosphere of mystical films. Today, mystical horror films are increasingly strengthening their position in the tabloids of popularity, showing stories based on real facts. Mystical horror films based on real events induce a veil of primitive inexplicable fear on the human mind. The following films can be classified in this category:

1. "The Blair Witch." The idea of ​​the film is quite commonplace, a group of students, armed with an amateur video camera, goes to the forest to find confirmation of a muddy local legend about a witch kidnapping unfortunate children. You can already expect the appearance of a dead old woman, but there it was. The guys are lost, and the events around them drive them crazy. Nothing criminal, only the mind suffers.
2. "The Six Demons of Emily Rose." A true story: in 1976, during a demon exile session, the obsessed dies. The exorcist priest who conducted the rite is accused of killing the unfortunate. Trying to find justice, he tries to prove to the public the fact of the existence of otherworldly forces.
3. "Ghosts in Connecticut." If you at least for a moment believe that the plot of the film is based on real events, you will not envy those people who have experienced such horror. The family moves closer to the clinic where their son is being treated for cancer. Soon, terrible things begin to happen in their new home. I can say that the creators did not stint on fake corpses, fake blood, so I achieved the desired effect.
4. The Phantom of the Red River. About the history of the plot of the film, 35 books have been written. Events took place in the United States in the 19th century. A curse falls on the Bell family, a ghost comes to their house, each time taking the life of one of its members.

This category should also include: “The Amityville Horror”, “They”, “Obsessed”, “The Secret of the Dyatlov Pass”. But the newfangled parts of the “Paranormal Phenomenon” arouses skepticism, although it seems to be taken from real stories as well. Horror movies based on real UFO events make you shudder. It’s one thing to tickle your nerves with the twists and turns of a fictional plot, and another to imagine for a moment that everything you see can really happen: “The Fourth View”, “Gloomy Skies”, “Close Encounters of the Third Degree”, “Being”, “Night Heaven”.