The Chuckie doll, the killer with the chainsaw and the cursed Amityville house - films with their participation tell us about the terrible events that took place in real life ...
The most unpleasant fact that one can learn about a horror film, blood-chilling scenes and frightening sounds is its realism. Damned houses, serial killers and strange disappearances of people do exist, but people learn about them only when the directors transfer another paranormal story to the screen.
1. Amityville Horror, 2005
The picture, which was released in July 2017 was the sequel "Amityville Horror: Awakening", based on the history of the mansion along Ocean Avenue No. 112 on the outskirts of New York. November 13, 1974, 23-year-old Ronald Defeo, who lived in the house with his parents, two brothers and sister, killed all of his relatives from the rifles stored in the house. To such a terrible act, he was pushed by voices that were heard from the cellar and simply begged him to commit massacres. Since then, the house has changed not one owner and each of them complained that he has strange attacks of aggression and intermittent voices when he is inside the house.
2. The Six Demons of Emily Rose, 2005.
Anna-Elizabeth Michel, was a student from Germany, who died on July 1, 1976, at the age of 24 from the fact that doctors refused to believe her and treated her for epilepsy, which she, as it turned out at autopsy, never suffered. Anna-Elizabeth realized that she was obsessed when she was 17 years old. The introduction into her body of the devil began with spontaneous inexplicable paralysis and visions, during which she described in detail the face of Satan.
Doctors refused to believe the results of her brain research, saying that she is healthy. Michel screamed curses in previously unfamiliar languages and physically could not touch the crucifix and drink holy water. Before her death, she renounced food and water, explaining her act by the fact that the sessions of exorcism carried out over her do not help and she must become a victim in the name of religion.
3. The girl next door, 2007
The police of the American state of Indiana name the crime that inspired the creators of the picture, "the worst crime against a man that can only be imagined." 16-year-old teenage girl Sylvia Likens parents because of a long trip left under the care of a friendly neighbor, Gertrude Baniszewski. Very quickly, a good housewife turned into a tormentor, who mocked Sylvia along with her sons and friends. Three months later, Sylvia died of hunger and numerous injuries.
4. The spell, 2013
One of the best horror movies, won many awards, tells the story of the real witch Batcheba Sherman. In 1971, in the house on Rhode Island, in which she had previously lived, the Perron family settled, whose family members began to die in turns under strange circumstances. In the city archives, they found evidence that everyone who settled in the house since Batcheba's death died a tragic death. The family called a married couple of Warren - psychics who also worked with the house in Amityville. The rites of exorcism helped to drive the witch spirit out of the house.
5. The casket of the curse, 2012
The box of Dibbuk (an evil spirit who dreams of settling into the body of a living person) is a real artifact that can be regularly seen on sale at online auctions. Its owners often replace each other, because every new buyer is faced with hallucinations, a series of failures and obsessions that come from the spirit that lives in the casket.
6. The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, 2003.
The sequels, the prequels and all sorts of new interpretations of the old story about the maniac Jason called "The Leather Face," hiding his face under the mask of human skin, is removed so much that any other horror franchise envies. His prototype was the serial killer Ed Gain, who from childhood was humiliated by his classmates, because of what he was embittered all over the world. Only in a mask, created from the skin of his victims, he could act fearlessly and recklessly.
7. Children's Games, 1988.
A series of films about the doll Chucky, obsessed with the spirit of a bloody maniac, scared more than one thousand children of the 90s. Chucky had a virtuoso ability to kill, it combined the thirst for blood and the innocence of a charming talking children's toy. A doll named Robert, who became his prototype, did not succeed in killing anyone, simply because they destroyed her in time. Robert lived in 1906 with the artist's son, whose name was Robert Eugene Otto. The boy had a nanny who was undeservedly fired, and she cursed the child in return. Since then, at night, his doll began to burst into an evil laugh and scold the child with foul language. On the advice of a fortuneteller who lives next door, Roberta was burned.
8. Snow city, 2011
Residents of the Snowy City in Australia from 1992 to 1999 existed in fear - each of them was afraid of sunset. At nightfall, John Bunting's gang came out, which could catch absolutely anyone to torture and kill him. In total, 11 people suffered from their actions, although the police persuaded their relatives for many years that they had simply fled the house. The reason for this were the notes thrown by the gang in the city post office, in which "runaways" are asked never to look for them.
9. Henry: a portrait of the serial killer, 1986.
The character of the maniac, suffering from a mental disorder and disorderly killing people, appeared in the script due to the existence of the murderer Henry Lee Lucas, whose hands killed more than 300 people. It is not known whether his words were true, but before the death penalty, he said that the first 30 of his victims were guilty of humiliating him as a child.
10. The fourth type, 2009
Milla Jovovich played the role of psychiatrist Abigail Tyler, who lived in Alaska in the mid-2000s. To her mass appeal to patients who told that at night they are abducted by aliens. Under hypnosis it was possible to find out that the advent of representatives of extraterrestrial civilization preceded the arrival of a white owl. Abigail had a scandal in the scientific community to complete a career after 10 of her patients were missing.